Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.

'Serenity'


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 25, 2008 5:47:32 pm PST #5618 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

ION, scrabulous people. isn't that what Fri night is for?

Jesse just played PENIS.

There aren't enough Js for vajayjay.


Jesse - Jan 25, 2008 5:51:07 pm PST #5619 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hey, you've got to work with what you've got!


sarameg - Jan 25, 2008 6:22:14 pm PST #5620 of 10001

Birth photos are tricky things--you're inevitably going to capture "too much" but you can always crop that stuff out.

I was taking video! I think I caught the boy crowning, I don't know. I honestly was in autopilot/immediate witness mode, just hanging the camera up high and largely ignoring it. But that is really personal, you know? Lord, where it aimed.

This all harkens back to my personal prudity. I taped stuff I wouldn't have if it were me. But it seems welcome, for which I was glad.


Laura - Jan 25, 2008 6:38:54 pm PST #5621 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

The most hysterical part of watching my son's birth video is DH looking every few minutes for progress. The camera was on a tripod unattended. The doctor that delivered was a tiny woman likely not 5' and she and Brendon were a mighty cute combo delivery team.

The geeks would appreciate DH watching the monitors and telling me when I was having a contraction. "Yes dear, I know."


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2008 8:20:05 pm PST #5622 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

Reminds me of that Murphy Brown episode where Murphy is hooked up to the machine that monitors and predicts her contractions and Jim yells "She's going to blow!"

I need a good name for it, though. iBob was the name of the last one. Any suggestions?

iMike?


aurelia - Jan 25, 2008 8:39:44 pm PST #5623 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

iMike?

The one-armed iPod.

Shrift, sorry your trip home was sucky. Looks like we were in intermission by the time you got home.

I arrived home to learn that my building has been sold.


lori - Jan 25, 2008 9:12:19 pm PST #5624 of 10001

That doesn't seem right, aurelia.

Fight Science on National Geographic this weekend

Hee! And I think I will be in places with cable access, too!


meara - Jan 25, 2008 11:12:47 pm PST #5625 of 10001

Heh. Well, even when I was making next to no money, in college doing work-study, or after college temping, somehow I have never lived paycheck to paycheck. Honestly, I don't even budget, really...I mean, I know that my actual bills (rent, insurance, utilities) are less than my pay, and I guess I just...spent less when I made less? I dunno. I think I never bought clothes in college. These days I buy lots more clothes.

But thinking about that and feeling oddly guilty about it and then reading the "go send Buffistas money" means I just did. :) Yay guilt!


Theodosia - Jan 26, 2008 1:36:38 am PST #5626 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Ooh, thanks for the heads up, ita! I shall watch, or rather, set the TiVo up to do it's magic stuff.


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2008 2:22:44 am PST #5627 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I keep telling the higher ups at krav that they have to sell the fact that it works for smaller women. *I* know it works for the smaller sex, but I never viewed it skeptically or with fear. Or for self defense, honestly.

They tend to show off with the biggest guys. Why in gods name would I be convinced by a fight system this guy finds effective? I wager he finds everything, up to and including badminton effective self defense. I am more interested in what she can use.

Did they take what I said to heart? Tune in this weekend to be sure, but it's basically an escalating arms race (no pun intended). Some nice arms, though.