Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


P.M. Marc - Nov 12, 2007 11:41:09 am PST #1959 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It's wash and wear.

Plus it, like, fell behind the dryer and was missing for almost three years.

Shrift, I'm keeping myself awake by reading old Pete Wentz interviews. I think my heart grew three sizes when he talked about CMM being hot.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 12, 2007 11:45:44 am PST #1960 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Happy Birthday Jessica!

Are Chicago folks familiar with Gage's on Michigan Ave.? I ate there Saturday with the co-workers and had a bite of what was probably the tastiest hamburger I've ever encountered.


shrift - Nov 12, 2007 11:47:57 am PST #1961 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I think my heart grew three sizes when he talked about CMM being hot.

Not to mention Josh Hartnett and Ryan Phillippe! I need to buy a pink glitter pen. And you know, I don't think the "Invisible World" special that aired on Fuse is ever going to be deleted from my TiVo because it is PRECIOUS.


msbelle - Nov 12, 2007 11:56:56 am PST #1962 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I haven't been great about sharing mac pics - here are some including Halloween costume: [link]


P.M. Marc - Nov 12, 2007 12:02:17 pm PST #1963 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

He's BatMac!

Such a smile, that one.

Not to mention Josh Hartnett and Ryan Phillippe! I need to buy a pink glitter pen. And you know, I don't think the "Invisible World" special that aired on Fuse is ever going to be deleted from my TiVo because it is PRECIOUS.

Clearly, I must see this.

I've switched to Patrick interviews now for balance.


lisah - Nov 12, 2007 12:04:14 pm PST #1964 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I haven't been great about sharing mac pics - here are some including Halloween costume:

I LOVE the one of him in the middle of the Serious Girls in Pink! Adorable!


sumi - Nov 12, 2007 12:05:31 pm PST #1965 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Mac's smile is amazing.


sarameg - Nov 12, 2007 12:06:31 pm PST #1966 of 10001

Boy loves his capes! And his action figures!

I kept thinking "oh, I love the series of.." and came to the conclusion that it was all of them. Except the surgery ones. That made go OW POOR NOODLE.


shrift - Nov 12, 2007 12:11:57 pm PST #1967 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Clearly, I must see this.

You really, really do.


tommyrot - Nov 12, 2007 12:15:21 pm PST #1968 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Experiments you can conduct on your baby:

How do children learn to count?

How do children learn to count? You could imagine that numbers are words, and children learn them like any other word. (Actually, this wouldn't help much, since we still don't really understand how children learn words, but it would neatly deflect the question.) However, it turns out that children learn to count in a bizarre fashion quite unlike how they learn about other words.

If you have a baby and a few years to spend, you can try this experiment at home. Every day, show you baby a bowl of marbles and ask her to give you one. Wait until your baby can do this. This actually takes some time, during which you'll either get nothing or maybe a handful of marbles.

Then, one day, between 24 and 30 months of age, your toddler will hand you a single marble. But ask for 2 marbles or 3 marbles, etc., your toddler will give you a handful. The number of marbles won't be systematically larger if you ask for 10 than if you ask for 2. This is particularly odd, because because by this age the child typically can recite the count list ("one, two, three, four...").

Keep trying this, and within 6-9 months, the child will start giving you 2 marbles when asked for, but still give a random handful when asked for 3 or 4 or 5, etc. Wait a bit longer, and the child will manage to give you 1, 2 or 3 when asked, but still fail for numbers greater than 3.

This doesn't continue forever, though. At around 3 years old, children suddenly are able to succeed when asked for any set of numbers. They can truly count.