Giles, help! He's going to scold me!

Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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 - Dec 15, 2008 8:39:33 am PST #6222 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Leather computer keyboard: [link]

Not only is the keyboard case covered in leather, but each individual key as well.


beekaytee - Dec 15, 2008 8:43:39 am PST #6223 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

good lord. what did I do? I looked at the code and it was just a regular link.

Sorry about that.

Oddly enough, my mouse stopped working at the same time.

Evil techno demons.


Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2008 8:53:16 am PST #6224 of 10002
brillig

Oh, that keyboard looks yummy. No letters on the keys, I'd feel so smug with my Mad Touchtyping Skillz.


tommyrot - Dec 15, 2008 9:03:16 am PST #6225 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Retro-gamer cat toys

Etsy seller GEEKitty makes handmade, retro-gaming-themed catnip-filled cat-toys. They'll even do custom plush dope-filled dice, Game Boys, NES controllers and related gamer kipple.

Here's the actual Etsy site: [link] My fave is the d20 DIE for gamer kitties

Pictured above is the d20 die, beloved by RPG gamers for centuries. Give your cat a fighting chance to save vs squirt-bottle next time he jumps on the counter! You'll find all your favorite numbers from 1 through 20 on this toy, made from dark blue felt with yellow DMC floss numbers. The toy measures about 6" in diameter.


msbelle - Dec 15, 2008 9:05:37 am PST #6226 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

my motivation has left the building.


Cashmere - Dec 15, 2008 9:06:41 am PST #6227 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

I put Owen on the bus and Liv just fell asleep (All Praise the Wonderful Benedryl). I'm going to take a nap.


Emily - Dec 15, 2008 9:09:50 am PST #6228 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I had two separate Obama-related dreams this weekend. In the words of John Stewart, give us our damn bike already!


sumi - Dec 15, 2008 9:19:32 am PST #6229 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Website for the breeder of Biden's pup.


tommyrot - Dec 15, 2008 9:34:36 am PST #6230 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yay! Scientists have figured out the purpose of life!

The Purpose Of Life

Although the researchers don’t speculate on the specific chemical reactions that created life, they explain that the molecules involved most likely underwent a series of more and more complex reactions to minimize mutual energy differences between matter on Earth and with respect to high-energy radiation from Sun. The process eventually advanced so far that it cumulated into such sophisticated functional structures that could be called living. “The most important idea in our study is that there is no distinction between animate and inanimate,” Arto Annila told PhysOrg.com. “Processes of life are, in their principles, no different from any other natural processes.” In this sense, life is a very natural thing, which emerged simply to satisfy basic physical laws. Our “purpose,” so to speak, is to redistribute energy on the Earth, which is in between a huge potential energy difference caused by the hot Sun and cold space.

So we're just here to do the entropy thing....

Source article:

Why Life Originated (And Why it Continues)


Jessica - Dec 15, 2008 9:40:52 am PST #6231 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

When Hustle meets real life...:

In what has been described as one of the biggest heists in American history, the Empire State Building was reportedly stolen this week by a New York City newspaper in less than 90 minutes.

The New York Daily News drew up fake documents, created a bogus notary stamp and filed paperwork with the city and successfully took ownership of the $2 billion property on Monday.

The heist illustrates what it descibes as a gaping loophole in the city system that doesn't require clerks to actually verify information.

The office of the city register, upon receipt of the phony documents prepared by the newspaper, transferred ownership of the 102-story building from Empire State Land Associates to Nelots Properties, LLC. Nelots is "stolen" spelled backward.