You guys are making me REALLY hungry. I hope this imaginary food can be gotten online.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
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.
Jessica - Mar 24, 2008 6:56:08 am PDT #6926 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Typo Boy - Mar 24, 2008 6:56:33 am PDT #6927 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Kathy, really sorry. Peace to her memory.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 24, 2008 6:58:56 am PDT #6928 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Kathy, I am so sorry.
lisah - Mar 24, 2008 6:59:09 am PDT #6929 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
oh, Kathy, I'm so sorry.
tommyrot - Mar 24, 2008 6:59:44 am PDT #6930 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.
Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5
The unsettling thing about living in a surveillance society isn't just that you're being watched. It's that you have no idea.
That's what struck me about a story told last week by a border agent at a meeting of 200 San Juan Islanders. He was there to explain why the federal government is doing citizenship checks on domestic ferry runs.But near the end, while trying to convince the skeptical audience that the point is to root out terrorists, not fish for wrongdoing among the citizenry, deputy chief Joe Giuliano let loose with a tale straight out of "Dr. Strangelove."
It turns out the feds have been monitoring Interstate 5 for nuclear "dirty bombs." They do it with radiation detectors so sensitive it led to the following incident.
"Vehicle goes by at 70 miles per hour," Giuliano told the crowd. "Agent is in the median, a good 80 feet away from the traffic. Signal went off and identified an isotope [in the passing car]."
The agent raced after the car, pulling it over not far from the monitoring spot (near the Bow-Edison exit, 18 miles south of Bellingham). The agent questioned the driver, then did a cursory search of the car, Giuliano said.
Did he find a nuke?
"Turned out to be a cat with cancer that had undergone a radiological treatment three days earlier," Giuliano said.
He added: "That's the type of technology we have that's going on in the background. You don't see it. If I hadn't told you about it, you'd never know it was there."
About all I can say is: Wow. Wow that the government now has the ability to detect radiation in a cat inside a car going by at 70 miles per hour. And wow at this world we live in, where we feel compelled to sniff, at random, inside the traffic coming out of Bellingham.
Sparky1 - Mar 24, 2008 7:00:02 am PDT #6931 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Kathy, that has to be really difficult to process. Peace.
Now I want to have a Buffista dinner party and make burriot. When's the next time we have a DC visitor?
-t will be here in a couple of weeks.
tommyrot - Mar 24, 2008 7:01:16 am PDT #6932 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.
I'm so sorry, Kathy....
Steph L. - Mar 24, 2008 7:05:37 am PDT #6933 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Kathy, I'm so sorry.
msbelle - Mar 24, 2008 7:13:09 am PDT #6934 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Allyson, can you make lists and organize things by priority while at work - I am trying to do that with life stuff and it seems to be helping me.
Kathy A - Mar 24, 2008 7:16:40 am PDT #6935 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Thanks, everyone.
Her family wants a small, private funeral, so we're just taking money for flowers/donation. They haven't said if there'll be a wake, but I doubt it.
I just can't believe she won't be at her desk anymore.