Already watching NASA TV here. All digits crossed and ~ma headed towards Mars for a sweet landing.
Yea! I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes to watch these! I adore the geek-joy!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
quester - May 25, 2008 3:56:09 pm PDT #8965 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
aurelia - May 25, 2008 4:01:47 pm PDT #8966 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
shrift, sounds like they bought a CD from the dollar bin at Target.
I'm going to a cookout tomorrow (don't wanna hear about thunderstorms). What should I bring.
shrift - May 25, 2008 4:12:42 pm PDT #8967 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think it is the excessively obnoxious patriotism rather than the drunken revelry that is making me want to call the police.
It's not the Fourth of July, motherfuckers! And even professional singers slaughter our national anthem, so why can't they do what my friends usually do when they get uproariously drunk, and sing some goddamn Poison? At least that would be entertaining!
Sophia Brooks - May 25, 2008 4:24:02 pm PDT #8968 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Poor shrift...
I hope my downstairs neighbor has gotten used to my Joni Mitchell sing a longs...
Jesse - May 25, 2008 4:41:02 pm PDT #8969 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What should I bring.
Hot dogs and a six-pack. If you're lazy like me and/or know that the party throwers are over-planners like my cook-out throwing friends.
Otherwise, potato salad.
dcp - May 25, 2008 4:55:04 pm PDT #8970 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
NASA-TV reports images received from the Phoenix lander on Mars! Yay!
Images at the U. of Arizona web site: [link]
meara - May 25, 2008 5:08:03 pm PDT #8971 of 10001
Patriotic drunk jackholes?
That's really strange. I don't think I've ever heard drunk people singing patriotic songs...I mean, maybe one? On July 4th? But...many? In a row? On Memorial Day? I mean, I suppose it's not inappropriate. Memorial Day is...in memoriam. But...odd nonetheless.
§ ita § - May 25, 2008 5:21:16 pm PDT #8972 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I almost want to see Mission Control slash, where they kiss....
Someone's been around fandom a touch too long.
Or just long enough.
I'm writing essays for reapplying for my job (they're making the position permanent)
Is it more than going through the motions? I mean, you don't actually have to compete, do you? That sounds evil.
Friday I went to my boss to tell him my workload was a bit light and to find out if there was anything else I could help out with. I so hope I don't come to regret it. But it was true, and there's too much shit to be done for our big deadline that I might was well get some of it onto my reasonably roomy plate.
OMGWTFMIGRAINE. Trying to work out whether or not to go in. I was just there! And they always make me feel like such an idiot.
Liese S. - May 25, 2008 5:40:28 pm PDT #8973 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Whohoo, Phoenix! I feel so...connected! We were on the road, so no NASA tv for us. We listened to the XM satellite radio broadcast of the CNN coverage. It was still breathtaking. And then I got to come see all y'alls cute geek watch-n-post.
Now we're at a hotel which at least has good wifi, because the rest of it is rife with problems.
meara - May 25, 2008 5:43:12 pm PDT #8974 of 10001
OK, reading the NYTimes. I'm all for being able to customize your browser, and I quite like Firefox, which I currently use, but...WTF is is this person thinking, when trying to say this as a POSITIVE??
"“Sitting at somebody else’s computer and using their browser is going to become a very awkward experience,” said Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation."