In more amusing news, I am not qualified for this job, nor do I want a job in Philly, but how much do I want to work for these people??? [link]
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2008 8:19:46 am PDT #8206 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
hippocampus - Sep 11, 2008 8:24:50 am PDT #8207 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
Jesse, that looks cool! (come to Philly - we don't bite!)
Emily - Sep 11, 2008 8:25:21 am PDT #8208 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Until it's cool to be be educated in this country, and not an aw-shucks good ol' boy, we're going to have problems with "those smart people are trying to bamboozle you! They're not like us!"
This is the thing. Every once in a while I feel like a Yankee ambassador in a foreign country here, and I'm trying my darnedest to be visibly Not Elitist and all in all Just Like Real People.
Hil R. - Sep 11, 2008 8:25:58 am PDT #8209 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
They actually stopped regularly attending the church they'd been going to for several years once he became President because they felt the security was disruptive to the congregation (I know someone who was in it at the time) and would rotate between several in the area.
Up in Maine, they go to St. Ann's Episcopal. [link] (Which I mostly link to for the "Lookit the pretty!" factor. You can't see it in those pictures, but right behind the church, where you see the break in the trees in the first picture, is a cliff overlooking the ocean. And the design of the inside of the church is just neat.)
Dana - Sep 11, 2008 8:28:27 am PDT #8210 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
OMG, Jesse, that job is awesome.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2008 8:28:41 am PDT #8211 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, that looks cool!
It's called OMG! OMG!!!
I mean, aside from the part where it is genuinely interesting.
OMG!
Toddson - Sep 11, 2008 8:30:31 am PDT #8212 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
That is spiffy. I'd be tempted to apply (I'm not afraid of Philly!) if I were even remotely qualified.
Toddson - Sep 11, 2008 8:31:38 am PDT #8213 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Oh, and in regard to the Segways - I'd contacted "Fox 5 Investigates" (yes, I went over to the dark side) and was intervied two weeks ago ... for a piece which may never air.
I'm thinking of hitting other news outlets - ABC has a pretty good consumer advocacy feature. sigh
Jesse - Sep 11, 2008 8:32:06 am PDT #8214 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What an incredible PITA, Toddson.
Ginger - Sep 11, 2008 8:42:57 am PDT #8215 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
the Segway tours that are running wild on the sidewalks.
I am cherishing my vision of feral Segways, terrorizing people for access to an electricity outlet, then emerging to knock down passers-by and rolling away beeping hysterically.