I just had someone use "five by five," a la Faith, in everyday conversation. That's never happened to me before.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Susan W. - Mar 26, 2008 12:27:48 pm PDT #7422 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
SuziQ - Mar 26, 2008 12:43:11 pm PDT #7423 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I use "foamy" a lot and have caught K-Bug using it too.
Glamcookie - Mar 26, 2008 12:46:38 pm PDT #7424 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Offensive bumper sticker of the day:
Gas, ass, or grass: No one rides for free
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2008 12:58:01 pm PDT #7425 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.
Offensive bumper sticker of the day:
That one's very old. (Dates back to the early '70s?)
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2008 1:01:14 pm PDT #7426 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.
Awesome collection of mid-20th century science art: [link]
What the surface of Venus might look like
Children being attacked by giant grasshoppers!
§ ita § - Mar 26, 2008 1:27:51 pm PDT #7427 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dragonflies. Kenneth Heurer was on crack.
So where is our science fiction art these days? Does anyone even bother anymore?
Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2008 1:51:37 pm PDT #7428 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Allyson - Mar 26, 2008 1:56:26 pm PDT #7429 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Make. The. Day. Stop.
Also, my neighbors made dinner reservations for me. I'm exhausted. I don't want to go to dinner. I want to get a movie and takeout and chill. If I were going to celebrate, I'd be with the LAistas. I'm not celebratey.
I feel like it's a birthday hijacking. And oddly, I don't feel ungrateful. Mad. But not ungrateful. I sat in a meeting for 6 hours straight on intellectual property, and am now picking nits on the reactivity of hydrofluoric acid 48%.
Seriously. I don't have the energy to be magnanimous.
§ ita § - Mar 26, 2008 2:06:39 pm PDT #7430 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can you ask them to postpone, Allyson? Sounds like you've had a long-assed day.
Chemistry question. In the compound shown here, why is the nitrogen bit drawn like that? Shouldn't it be 1 link from the carbon atom to the nitrogen atom and then 2 separate links to hydrogen instead of one bent line?
Also, while I'm reliving high school (please let this stop short of maths), it would seem to me that an online simulator of the electronics kits that seemed so cool when I was a young teen would be pretty simple to put together. I'd love to play with one, and see if I can grasp concepts now I never got then.
sarameg - Mar 26, 2008 2:08:17 pm PDT #7431 of 10001
Happier birthday?!
One of my physics professors used to do paintings (and troubleshoot the science) for scifi writers, as a consultant.