Heh. Reminds me of a recent business trip where a co-worker urged us to socialize some evening so we could talk about ourselves instead of work. With significant others present. Gee, an opportunity to take turns revealing personal details about ourselves to an entire group, including spouses that we don't know from Adam. Where do I sign up?
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 26, 2008 2:18:22 pm PDT #7440 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2008 2:22:04 pm PDT #7441 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.
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.
Heh. A year ago I was looking for the same thing. I found some that you had to pay for... I don't remember if I ever found any free ones.
Not too long ago I was looking at a simple circuit, and I suddenly comprehended (in a way I didn't in grade school/high school) how/why the voltage at various points would vary. I mean, in high school physics I memorized the formulas, but they didn't make complete intuitive sense to me....
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2008 2:22:52 pm PDT #7442 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.
Is it just me, or is posting at b.org very slow today?
Allyson - Mar 26, 2008 2:24:36 pm PDT #7443 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
I just texted back to please cancel because I'm so tired.
I don't know why I find this so irritating. I think maybe it was the assumption that I don't have friends.
Beverly - Mar 26, 2008 2:28:13 pm PDT #7444 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I tempt fate often enough, I have no desire to become shark bait.
"Ooh-ah-ah!" Sorry. Kneejerk.
Allyson, my birthday wish for you is that you get to do exactly what you want this evening. And that the coming year is filled with getting to do what you want when you want to. Many felicitations!
beth b - Mar 26, 2008 2:34:15 pm PDT #7445 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
not just the assumption that you have no friends, but just that you have no plans.
I often spend the day of my birthday alone. by choice. I go shopping, I go wandering, doing what I feel like. DH once happened to mention to someone that I was spending my birthday alone - luckily when that person called me, they understood that I wanted to be alone.
Kristen - Mar 26, 2008 2:41:19 pm PDT #7446 of 10001
not just the assumption that you have no friends, but just that you have no plans.
We always ask each other. Some years, I want to go out. Some years, I don't or can't. No one ever pressures me into doing something if I'd rather not.
ETA: Okay. Except for my mother. But she's the one who actually labored on the day of my birth so she's allowed.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2008 2:45:28 pm PDT #7447 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Allyson, my birthday wish for you is that you get to do exactly what you want this evening. And that the coming year is filled with getting to do what you want when you want to.
Good one. I share this wish!
§ ita § - Mar 26, 2008 2:54:25 pm PDT #7448 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't remember if I ever found any free ones.
I think I've found some. SPICE seems to be a simulator model of some sort. But the list of free apps is over ten years old. So I have a little more poking left to do.
JZ - Mar 26, 2008 2:58:40 pm PDT #7449 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I third Beverly's wish! Which I think makes it official; so you may now curl up with Ruby, the book/movie/teevee show of your choice, and a sweet or savory treat (or both; it's your birthday, after all) and enjoy yourself without guilt or neighborly recriminations.