Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.

'Safe'


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.


§ ita § - Dec 12, 2007 9:46:26 am PST #6879 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why does Office Depot feel housing pain? My elevator shouldn't force me to google.


msbelle - Dec 12, 2007 9:51:18 am PST #6880 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Ahhh, I am already feeling the benefit of giving notice. I got out of a meeting on a new project. WHEE!


sarameg - Dec 12, 2007 9:51:40 am PST #6881 of 10001

I've always found UTEP's architecture to be striking: [link]

Too bad it is in such an ugly city (nice geography, El Paso is just ugly.)


Emily - Dec 12, 2007 9:53:24 am PST #6882 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I just don't see what's so wrong with brick. When you've got building after building of concrete, yuck. But brick... it may not be pretty, but it doesn't approach the sheer ugliness of concrete.


Cashmere - Dec 12, 2007 10:10:50 am PST #6883 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I can't believe Ball State didn't get included in the ugliest colleges. The modern buildings on campus are all built to resemble their symbols--the library is built like a stack of books, the auditorium is shaped like a piano, the archeture building is like a art table--it's all very weird.


Ginger - Dec 12, 2007 10:15:39 am PST #6884 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I think my alma mater belongs on that "most beautiful" list [link] It's been declared a national arboretum. An obsessed 19th biology professor planted every tree native to Tennessee, plus a collection of rare oak trees, on campus and his widow endowed a fund to put information signs on each tree. Whatever else you might learn there, you do walk away knowing the scientific names of many trees. It could replace Mercer, which is really nothing special.


Cashmere - Dec 12, 2007 10:24:05 am PST #6885 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Here's my uni's fugly library.

Dark chocolate covered almonds are of the yum!


-t - Dec 12, 2007 10:32:49 am PST #6886 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The modern buildings on campus are all built to resemble their symbols--the library is built like a stack of books, the auditorium is shaped like a piano, the archeture building is like a art table--it's all very weird.

That sounds fantastic!


Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2007 10:33:15 am PST #6887 of 10001
brillig

Here's my uni's fugly library.

I like the color--though that may just be the lighting--and it would look terrific in the middle of a desert as a pueblo type thing.


aurelia - Dec 12, 2007 10:38:36 am PST #6888 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Here's my uni's fugly library.

That's not fugly so much as geographically misplaced.