Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.

'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Jessica - Jan 13, 2009 4:18:19 am PST #1055 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hat trick!

In case my office doesn't turn all the TVs we have to the inauguration ceremony, where would be the best place to watch it online, do you think?


Cashmere - Jan 13, 2009 4:21:28 am PST #1056 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

c-span.com?


Sue - Jan 13, 2009 4:23:26 am PST #1057 of 30000
hip deep in pie

CNN are webcasting it with some application that interfaces with Facebook:

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Jesse - Jan 13, 2009 4:26:05 am PST #1058 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yesterday, I was saying to a coworker that I hoped we would put the TV on in the conference room for the Inauguration, and just as I walked out of her office, we got a meeting request for that very thing! Good times.


Jessica - Jan 13, 2009 4:26:49 am PST #1059 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm pretty sure our TVs will all be showing it, but I want to have a backup in case I have actual work to do at the same time!


Kat - Jan 13, 2009 4:33:36 am PST #1060 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think the real question here is, did you know the word spondee before? (Like a dog with a bone, I am.)

Yes, but I teach poetry and poetic meter. And while we are on that topic, let's give a little love to anapest, dactyl and trochee!


Theodosia - Jan 13, 2009 4:38:44 am PST #1061 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Is it my imagination, or have there been any Inaugurations during the TV era that were basically all-day Special News Events before this one? Or was the fact that I was basically hiding under my bed moaning during the last two making this one seem so much different?


erikaj - Jan 13, 2009 4:46:56 am PST #1062 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

I've wondered the same.


Jessica - Jan 13, 2009 4:57:19 am PST #1063 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

From the "crime makes you stupid" files (bold mine):

Police have arrested a Greenfield man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat.

Police said they only learned of the deal after the 36-year-old man went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised. The man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of human trafficking.

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Theodosia - Jan 13, 2009 5:02:44 am PST #1064 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

The big Inaugural Foofooraw has a bonus side -- it has to be a poke in the eye to Bush that all of America seems so exciting about the New Guy.

I'm not sure if the most fitting exit for him would be a last-helicopter-out-of-Hanoi departure for his administration or else maybe just an old-fashioned tar, feather, and riding out of town on a rail for him and Cheney.