Bwah! Kathy, thank you for the link. That is priceless.
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Pix - Mar 12, 2008 9:35:01 am PDT #4555 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Susan W. - Mar 12, 2008 9:37:23 am PDT #4556 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan, that's a nice, elegant but workmanlike sword.
It's a standard French infantry officer's sword from 1803 or so. (My character is English, but he's also not its first owner.) And I liked it for the exact reason you describe--it's graceful and elegant-looking without being overly showy or otherwise impractical.
Jesse - Mar 12, 2008 9:38:02 am PDT #4557 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys are so smaht!
Meanwhile, my boss just asked if I'm secretly getting married this weekend, because my nails are so fancy.
Laura - Mar 12, 2008 9:40:03 am PDT #4558 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
You would invite us if you were getting married, right?
My mom is going to freak - Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run [link] She thinks he is the devil on earth.
Tom Scola - Mar 12, 2008 9:40:51 am PDT #4559 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The air vent that is blowing directly down on my cube seriously needs to stop now.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 9:43:49 am PDT #4560 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Like iron ore is some compound containing iron that you have to chemically extract the iron from.
Precisely. Which is why the Iron Age (around 1200 BC) was even later than the Bronze Age, ALTHOUGH there was some free meteoric iron, which is why some Egyptians had iron daggers around 3000 BC which were known as "Daggers from Heaven." Apparently.
So yes, metals found free as -t described include gold, copper, tin, silver, and meteoric iron, versus ores, which, er,
Ore minerals are generally oxides, sulfides, silicates, or "native" metals (such as native copper) that are not commonly concentrated in the Earth's crust or "noble" metals (not usually forming compounds) such as gold. The ores must be processed to extract the metals of interest from the waste rock and from the ore minerals.
says Wikipedia. Honestly, I know nothing, but the little bit I do know seems cool! I always thought "iron ore" meant, like, there was a vein of pure iron sort of threading through the ground, but it actually means some kind of oxide mixed with "gangue" -- rock, clay, sand -- from which you have to gradually and with some difficulty extract first the ore and THEN the iron!
Laura - Mar 12, 2008 9:44:15 am PDT #4561 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I should stop reading news and get back to work. But, Mary Ann is a stoner. [link] eta: she looks damn good for 69 - must be the pot
Jesse - Mar 12, 2008 9:44:50 am PDT #4562 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You would invite us if you were getting married, right?
But of course.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 12, 2008 9:46:59 am PDT #4563 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Meanwhile, my boss just asked if I'm secretly getting married this weekend, because my nails are so fancy.
I did my nails this weekend, and everyone thought I had a hot date.
Ginger - Mar 12, 2008 9:48:15 am PDT #4564 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
She thinks he is the devil on earth.
So Congress is where he belongs.
she looks damn good for 69 - must be the pot
My first thought when I saw that yesterday was that she had done much better in the mug shot department than most arrested celebrities.