Last night I made marinated chicken kabobs, rice, and Greek salad for dinner. I also had store bought pita bread and hummus. Definitely not good hummus, good enough to eat and all, but very mediocre. Also, I clearly need to find a recipe and make my own pita bread.
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 61*
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.
Gudanov - Sep 29, 2008 8:08:33 am PDT #1262 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Dana - Sep 29, 2008 8:10:37 am PDT #1263 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
God, I miss Chik-Fil-A.
sarameg - Sep 29, 2008 8:11:17 am PDT #1264 of 10001
Wait, I don't get it, sara--it broke, so they're going to DELAY sending people to fix it? Huh?
The stuff that is going to be fixed on the servicing mission is not what broke. What broke was the thingie that communicates to and from the instruments. The servicing mission will put in 2 new instruments, attempt to fix 2 others, replace batteries, gyros, a sensor and install new insulation. Oh, and hang a grabber thing on it for when the time comes to deorbit it.
Doesn't matter if they do all that and can't talk to the instruments.
Astronauts spend years practicing the maneuvers (screwdrivers in space are a pain in the ass.) They can't just shove the replacement part under someone's seat on the shuttle and pop it in when they get there, unfortunately.
Scrappy - Sep 29, 2008 8:11:45 am PDT #1265 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
ION, Junk Foods That I Think Have Crack In Them:
M&Ms
McD's Fries
Maltesers
hippocampus - Sep 29, 2008 8:19:04 am PDT #1266 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
M&Ms
McD's Fries
Maltesers
brain went straight to FCM. I've known you all too long.
Trudy Booth - Sep 29, 2008 8:20:19 am PDT #1267 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
ION, Junk Foods That I Think Have Crack In Them:
M&Ms
McD's Fries
Maltesers
I'm pretty sure crack has Mc Donald's fries in it.
brenda m - Sep 29, 2008 8:21:28 am PDT #1268 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
F: Malteasers
C: M&Ms
M: McDonalds' Fries
Steph L. - Sep 29, 2008 8:23:58 am PDT #1269 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm a space geek too, but more of the 60s variety.
We went to an astronomy program last night, and because the weather was so perfect (cloudless, virtually no humidity), we saw a shitload of stars (and one planet): Jupiter and 3 of its moons; the M13 globular cluster in Hercules; the M11 open cluster (called "Flying Duck"); the double star Albireo; a double-double star that I'm almost sure was Epsilon Lyrae (I can't remember for sure); Lyra; Vega (within Lyra); the M57 ring nebula within Lyra (it looked like a green donut!); and Andromeda.
One of the volunteers, while pointing out Arcturus with the naked eye, told us how the light from the star was used to activate the lights of the 1933 World's Fair, which is pretty fucking cool.
The observatory has, among other telescopes, a Clark telescope that's over 100 years old.
juliana - Sep 29, 2008 8:26:03 am PDT #1270 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
ION, Junk Foods That I Think Have Crack In Them:
Popeye's biscuits.
Burrell - Sep 29, 2008 8:30:28 am PDT #1271 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So there are too many smart women who cannot find mates? In theory this would eventually be a self-correcting problem. In the short term I suppose there are three solutions, make fewer smart, ambitious women, make more smart, ambitious men, or more gay women.
Gud, you truly are an evil genius.
We're also a space geek family. Isaac's fascination with all things outer space has been going on for about a year now. He's still my Rocket Boy.