Happy equinox! It's Fall! (Except for you tosspots in the Southern Hemisphere, who get Spring.)
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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.
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2008 6:44:49 am PDT #9901 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
megan walker - Sep 22, 2008 7:07:17 am PDT #9902 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So in my obsessive tracking of polls and the electoral map, some encouraging news from Electoral-vote.com. For the first time since I've been looking, Obama has the 270 he needs.
We have eight presidential polls today. They confirm what is rapidly becoming the conventional wisdom: Florida and Virginia are very close and Iowa is going to be a blowout for Obama. Minnesota, normally a blue state, is surprisingly close today, but most polls this year have shown Obama way ahead there.
Four national polls all show that the Republicans' postconvention bounce has faded, as it always does. All four polls show Obama in the lead again, as he was before the two conventions. The polls are Gallup (Obama +4), Hotline (Obama +1), Rasmussen (Obama +1) and Research 2000 (Obama +7).
And this was also interesting to me:
Newsweek did some detective work and found out how many cars John and Cindy McCain have: 13. Some are foreign cars and some are American made. Barack and Michelle Obama have one car, a Ford Escape hybrid.
CNN hasn't updated their map since Friday.
Shir - Sep 22, 2008 7:09:03 am PDT #9903 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Meh. It's unethical to cancel a CouchSurfer on a day's notice, is it? But my best friend wants to sleepover at my place!
Oof. I can have them both, but I want to spend time with my friend. She didn't come here in the past two months, and we have a lot to talk about.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2008 7:30:14 am PDT #9904 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy fall/spring!!
I have been thinking about the Emmys, and have decided I'm the most happy about Zeljko Ivanek winning, and I've never seen Damages!
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2008 7:54:13 am PDT #9905 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An excellent article on how we got into this sub-prime mortgage mess: [link]
Gudanov - Sep 22, 2008 8:21:46 am PDT #9906 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah, deregulation of banking institutions has not had the most optimal of track records.
tommyrot - Sep 22, 2008 9:05:35 am PDT #9907 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This book looks cool: Corrupted Science: the history, cause, effect and state of bad science
This part of the review stands out:
After this delightful and enervating overview, Grant moves on to different social causes of fraud: ideological scientists who fooled themselves (for example, the discoverers of "menstrual rays" and other improbable phenomena)
Huh? Menstrual rays? WTF? Google was of no help - two of the three matches were to reviews of this book....
Maybe "menstrual rays" were conjectured to cause womens' periods to sync?
Burrell - Sep 22, 2008 9:15:31 am PDT #9908 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Barack and Michelle Obama have one car, a Ford Escape hybrid.
Ha! First reaction is amusement at the "of course it's a hybrid!" and the one car, one house, how much more normal can you get? Second reaction is how do you manage those two lives with one car?
Burrell - Sep 22, 2008 9:17:46 am PDT #9909 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Huh? Menstrual rays? WTF?
Yeah, I believe that was the super power of the 50 foot woman.
Ginger - Sep 22, 2008 9:20:14 am PDT #9910 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I believe that was the super power of the 50 foot woman.
I thought that was the super power that brought down the 50-foot woman.