So interesting! I hope your students appreciate getting to learn this stuff, Emily.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'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.
-t - Mar 12, 2008 11:24:12 am PDT #4601 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ginger - Mar 12, 2008 11:24:17 am PDT #4602 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Damascus steel: [link]
It's made by folding and forging and folding and forging twhttp://www.powning.com/jake/commish/progress1.shtmlo different types of steel. It can be made into elaborate patterns [link] [link]
Why did we bother having an Iron Age, then?
They used up all the easily mined tin and copper, and iron was cheaper. Wrought iron is more brittle than bronze and neither keeps an edge particularly well. Then steel was developed, which was much better than both them.
-t - Mar 12, 2008 11:25:05 am PDT #4603 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I. Am. IRON MAN.
Watch out for Bronze Man. I hear he could totally take you.
Susan W. - Mar 12, 2008 11:26:50 am PDT #4604 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I. Am. IRON MAN.
Watch out for Bronze Man. I hear he could totally take you.
Biting back on a really-o truly-o LOL because it would be too hard to explain to the coworkers...
Miracleman - Mar 12, 2008 11:27:30 am PDT #4605 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Watch out for Bronze Man. I hear he could totally take you.
Isn't that Doc Savage?
sarameg - Mar 12, 2008 11:28:28 am PDT #4606 of 10001
Having sat on the Stupidest Case Ever with no evidence but testimony, and inconsistent testimony at that, this article [link] saying that city prosecutors are dropping fewer pre-trial cases (due to better investigations supposedly) doesn't fill me with confidence. In 2006 (when I think I had the stupidest case ever) they were throwing out 1 in 3. And THAT one got through? Sheeit.
Aims - Mar 12, 2008 11:29:59 am PDT #4607 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Who wants to write a letter for me?
My company is canvassing a neighborhood this weekend to gather support for a zoning variance on a building we just bought. It's been boarded up and vacant for two years and it is in a commercial district, but it's in a Named Neighborhood. We figure better the place inhabited even if it will be apartments (four at most, three if left as is) than just sitting there, forlorn and graffitied.
I'm to write a letter for each resident that is home on Saturday to sign saying they support our efforts and think the zoning board should grant us a use variance. Go! Write! I have smokey treat now.
Vortex - Mar 12, 2008 11:30:58 am PDT #4608 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I need a little more.
sumi - Mar 12, 2008 11:31:36 am PDT #4609 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I just got (another) call asking when Homecoming is. . . I told them that the Football office hadn't told us yet.
And then she complained that it was getting LATE.
So what? WE DON'T SET THE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE.
Take it up with the Football Office, the NCAA and ESPN, people.
Aims - Mar 12, 2008 11:31:44 am PDT #4610 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Whatcha need?