rainpocalypse has started here. Other people in my office seem very nonchalant about what sounds to me like a tree branch banging against the side of the building.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Natter 57 Varieties
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 10, 2008 7:59:38 am PDT #4001 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:08:16 am PDT #4002 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.
Funny yet informative guide to the subprime mortgage mess: [link]
Jesse - Mar 10, 2008 8:30:32 am PDT #4003 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So he had his wife knit him a sweater, with the graph knitted on it, as part of the sample, and wore it for the lecture.
That is awesome.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:30:47 am PDT #4004 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.
Giant killer harmless robot to go into space tomorrow....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a "monstrous" two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who are scheduled to blast off in the wee hours of Tuesday, less than three weeks after the last shuttle flight.
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With 11-foot arms, a shoulder span of nearly 8 feet and a height of 12 feet, the Canadian Space Agency's Dextre — short for dexterous and pronounced like Dexter — is more than a little intimidating, at least for astronaut Garrett Reisman.
"Now I wouldn't go as far to say that we're worried it's going to go run amok and take over the space station or turn evil or anything because we all know how it's operated and it doesn't have a lot of its own intelligence," Reisman told The Associated Press last week.
"But I'll tell you something ... He's enormous and to see him with his giant arms, it is a little scary. It's a little monstrous, it is."
Sue - Mar 10, 2008 8:32:13 am PDT #4005 of 10001
hip deep in pie
shrift - Mar 10, 2008 8:36:51 am PDT #4006 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am so bored. It is only 12:30.
Dana - Mar 10, 2008 8:37:24 am PDT #4007 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am so bored. It is only 12:30.
I KNOW. What the hell, march of time?
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:40:22 am PDT #4008 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.
Picture of Ginormous crater on Mars, with ice at the bottom: [link]
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Frankenbuddha - Mar 10, 2008 8:40:30 am PDT #4009 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts
Well, at least if he's a killer robot he'll only kill other killer robots.
shrift - Mar 10, 2008 8:41:02 am PDT #4010 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I KNOW. What the hell, march of time?
I HAVE DONE ALL MY WORK. I am faced with documentation to update, and I don't wanna. The internets are not dancing for my amusement.