Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

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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.


Dana - Mar 07, 2008 8:06:49 am PST #3528 of 10001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

hungry hungry hungry hungry


Sophia Brooks - Mar 07, 2008 8:10:46 am PST #3529 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The same woman who was telling you she's a 20? Is her notion of "size" something that you pick out of a hat and write on with a Sharpie?

No.... this is another woman at the start of the conversation! I work with a whole bunch of size obsessed people, right next to a "Nutrition and Weight Management Center."


amych - Mar 07, 2008 8:12:57 am PST #3530 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

No.... this is another woman

Oh, phew -- obnoxious and size-obsessed is one thing, but wildly delusional is a scarier thing to have to deal with at work.


Dana - Mar 07, 2008 8:15:54 am PST #3531 of 10001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Pancakes! nom nom nom nom


Kathy A - Mar 07, 2008 8:18:03 am PST #3532 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I was just surfing for restaurant suggestions for a Chicago-ista/MFNLaw get-together on Sunday, and have now made myself really hungry for everything from Swedish pancakes to barbecue to Persian stews.

And all I have here is chicken salad--feh.


Jesse - Mar 07, 2008 8:21:15 am PST #3533 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Slight debate we're having at work: Is a doctor an entrepreneur? I say yes, because she has her own office, staff, etc. Coworker doesn't get it.


§ ita § - Mar 07, 2008 8:27:52 am PST #3534 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's nothing intrinsic in doctor that makes them an entrepreneur--some are and some aren't.

Truck accidents from the site tommy linked to above--no corpses or anything, just cars and trucks in weird places. Some have to be manips or results of pranks.


amych - Mar 07, 2008 8:28:10 am PST #3535 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Is a doctor an entrepreneur?

I'd agree with the co-worker, and note that it sounds like we've got different definitions of "entrepreneur" -- what you're describing, to me, is "small business owner", which isn't in any doubt. "Entrepreneur" connotes something more like innovation, new ventures, and the like.


Jesse - Mar 07, 2008 8:34:29 am PST #3536 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ah, amych, I think you're right. I tend to think anyone who's started a business is an entrepreneur. And actually, I think that's how we've tended to define it as an organization. Hm.


shrift - Mar 07, 2008 8:36:10 am PST #3537 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

No.... this is another woman at the start of the conversation!

Yeah, I was about to say, "OMGWTF anorexic ideation?!"

I am so bored. So bored!