Sara, I'd look on your local freecycle or craigslist. I have seen free vcrs and cheap dvd players. I got my tivo for free, but then you have to pay for the service.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
msbelle - Oct 13, 2008 4:09:46 pm PDT #4420 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Steph L. - Oct 13, 2008 5:07:01 pm PDT #4421 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Latin??? Seriously??? FAIL.
My mother loved Latin.
I should clarify; I wasn't dissing Latin, or the study of same; I just think that if the NYT wants to hang on to any illusion it has about being The Paper of Record, it should be accessible to a lot more people, and I just don't think pretentious, self-congratulatory op-eds partially in Latin are the way to do that.
It was a new type of tl;dr for me.
§ ita § - Oct 13, 2008 5:10:29 pm PDT #4422 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Too Latin, didn't read?
quester - Oct 13, 2008 5:19:37 pm PDT #4423 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Happy birthday, Matt!
Happy birthday, Cashmere!
Happy birthday, megan walker!
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
My mother tried to get my two older sisters and I to do a puppet show version of the Latin Pooh. I was Christopher Robin. I don't remember too much except it was one of Mom's weirder tangents.
billytea - Oct 13, 2008 5:24:00 pm PDT #4424 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I should clarify; I wasn't dissing Latin, or the study of same; I just think that if the NYT wants to hang on to any illusion it has about being The Paper of Record, it should be accessible to a lot more people, and I just don't think pretentious, self-congratulatory op-eds partially in Latin are the way to do that.
That reminds me, there was an article on the CNN website about why Obama isn't hurting in the polls despite being a giant nerd. [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 13, 2008 5:51:58 pm PDT #4425 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
Happy Birthday megan!
Happy Birthday Cashmere!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes, everybody.
If anyone's a fan of blues, I cannot sing the praises of Roaring Forties highly enough. I mean, we're talking "Nessun Dorma" quality singing.
They use magic in making that cheese. It tastes just as good as cabrales without the overpowering smell of wet feet.
sarameg - Oct 13, 2008 5:53:02 pm PDT #4426 of 10001
Shitfucker. Mister Kitty's always had a wheeze, but now he is gagging when he eats tonight after a puking episode this morning (sometimes happen.) Not sure if it is related or not. Anyway. He's a 15+ year old cat, these things worry the fuck out of me. He'll eat treats, but still gags after, though has so far kept them down. He got a lot because with the insulin, he can't afford not eating. Damnit. Doesn't help that I was just reading about pet cremation options. NOT ANYTIME SOON GODDAMNIT.
msbelle, that's one option.
shrift - Oct 13, 2008 5:58:09 pm PDT #4427 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In high school, I translated swatches of Julius Caesar’s “The Battle for Gaul” from Latin to English while nibbling cheese crackers.
I took four years of Latin in high school and belonged to the Junior Classical League; I translated Catullus in my spare time while crunching on Cool Ranch Doritos and sipping a cold Mountain Dew, but only because it was homework and some of those poems were dirty.
Allyson - Oct 13, 2008 6:25:15 pm PDT #4428 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
ooooh, i want cool ranch doritos.
DavidS - Oct 13, 2008 6:31:14 pm PDT #4429 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ooooh, i want cool ranch doritos.
Not unless you're reading dirty poems in Latin.