Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.

'The Message'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

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.


Allyson - Jan 01, 2008 6:03:59 pm PST #311 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Hey, I'm all about Gracie. She LIKES me.


§ ita § - Jan 01, 2008 6:05:04 pm PST #312 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Couldn't a simple statistical analysis of ER treatments have revealed this years ago?

Someone's gotta care first. I mean, not that there was a big disregard--just that I guess it hadn't occurred to anyone to slice it that way.

Is there a simple way to back up a DVD movie onto my Mac?


Kat - Jan 01, 2008 6:12:10 pm PST #313 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Do you have Toast, ita?


Steph L. - Jan 01, 2008 6:21:53 pm PST #314 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

ita, MacTheRipper is freeware that works pretty well to gank a DVD's contents onto your Mac.


Trudy Booth - Jan 01, 2008 6:33:47 pm PST #315 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

Someone's gotta care first. I mean, not that there was a big disregard--just that I guess it hadn't occurred to anyone to slice it that way.

Well why would they? Everyone knows that racism in America ended one bright day in 1969.


§ ita § - Jan 01, 2008 6:41:09 pm PST #316 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks for the rec, Steph. Ripping stuff from my filmmaker cousin right now. And playing Upwords. And watching Bug. Losing at Upwords. Weirded out by Bug.


tommyrot - Jan 01, 2008 7:13:52 pm PST #317 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.

ION, Whiskipedia is live!


BigDuluth - Jan 01, 2008 7:15:49 pm PST #318 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"

Having now caught up on a couple hundred Natter posts...

Happy Birthday Susan!

Welcome e_c! Good to have another bookista here.
ETA:

Geek Squad won't be able to install and hook up for two weeks but I'm fairly excited about it.

Eh they must be really booked or really understand if they need two weeks to take care of something that maybe'd take an hour max.


aurelia - Jan 01, 2008 8:24:15 pm PST #319 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

tommyrot - [link]

I love this shelter. Among the recently adopted kittens are Pax, Shiloh, Zahara and Maddox. And Baez, Hendrix and Clapton.


Beverly - Jan 01, 2008 8:37:42 pm PST #320 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Belated Natal Day Felicitations, Susan!

I can handle Granny in tiny chunks.

Um. I don't know whether to go in the direction of the dog's dinner, or possibly Sweeney Todd.

To my ear, it actually sounds more like "Er Er ERRRRRRR!"

Peter Pan!

"I gotta crow,
Er-er Er-errrr!
I just can't hide it 'cause
deep down inside it just
tickles me so, that I gotta let go
and crow! Er-er, er, er-er, er-errrrr!"

Okay, how do I clear that out of that corner of my brain?

Allyson, I'm sorry. I know how rough it can be.

My mother is no longer embarrassing me with the terminology she learned in the 1910s at her mother's knee. She now addresses everybody, including me, as "Hey, hon!" Which, while it makes me terribly sad, is also a little bit of a relief in a way.