Sure, Cook's Illustrated. I'll get right on that.
ita, I had the same reaction.
But what I really came to post was PRETTY PRETTY SNOW! YAAAAAAAAAY SNOW!
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
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.
Jessica - Dec 13, 2007 6:28:07 am PST #7091 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims - Dec 13, 2007 6:30:02 am PST #7092 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I wish I had taken to day off for the wedding. My sister's home, my mom and dad are home, my brother's on his way home. And I'm stuck at work, with a boo-boo lip, being pouty, with only my ramen to look forward to.
Maybe I'll go have a smokey-treat and make a list of something.
Nutty - Dec 13, 2007 6:30:41 am PST #7093 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Of all the MSCM crazinesses, the War On Christmas may just be the one that makes me go "Whuh?" the most.
Also, I mean, Christmas is not that major a Christian holiday! Go fight a frelling war on Easter, would you?
Gudanov - Dec 13, 2007 6:32:31 am PST #7094 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Of all the MSCM crazinesses, the War On Christmas may just be the one that makes me go "Whuh?" the most.
Hey it's just "Happy Hollidays" now, but let that go unchecked and the next thing you know it will just end up all commercialized.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2007 6:32:41 am PST #7095 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.
I assume it was some sort of updraft off the mountains, but I sometimes picture the pilots acting like something out of a Farside cartoon.
Yeah, wind blowing over mountains causes turbulent air downwind.
My fave story is when a jet hit turbulence and the captain put on the seatbelt sign. A woman got up to use the bathroom. She was told to take her seat and she refused. She got verbally abusive with the flight crew and continued to the bathroom. Then the plane hit some monster turbulence, and she was thrown up against the ceiling and back to the floor. She broke her leg badly.
She sued the airline. (Dunno what happened.)
Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2007 6:40:51 am PST #7096 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The snow is already changing to rain.
Susan W. - Dec 13, 2007 6:43:00 am PST #7097 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I have little plane fear since I figure I will die if things go wrong, and I can't save myself.
See, this is exactly why I fear planes more than cars. If I'm at the wheel, I have at least some control over the outcome. Also, while I'm hardly an automotive expert, I at least know enough to judge if my car is running well or not, and I know when it got its last tune-up and so on. With planes, I don't have any of that. And that Alaska Air crash destroyed a lot of my trust in the system. It's a loss of control, and I hate that.
Trudy Booth - Dec 13, 2007 6:45:17 am PST #7098 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The snow is already changing to rain.
We still have snow by the UN
Aims - Dec 13, 2007 6:47:34 am PST #7099 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The rain'll get there. It's stuck in a jam at Lexington and 3rd.
megan walker - Dec 13, 2007 6:56:41 am PST #7100 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As I was waiting in line at Wal-mart last night, the clerk wished the person in front of me "Happy Holidays," and she responded with "Merry Christmas. I know you're not allowed to say that here." She followed up with something about how it might make sense in, say, California, but my godness, who would be offended here?
I think this is hysterical since I get a much more "Christmas" vibe here than I ever did in NY.