Thanks, everyone! I'm going to cross my fingers, send it certified, and hope it gets there.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
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.
Stephanie - Mar 18, 2009 5:25:44 am PDT #11252 of 30000
Trust my rage
Calli - Mar 18, 2009 5:31:20 am PDT #11253 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
For example, not a single sexy babe was involved in the Battle of Midway.
No, just no female sexy babes. Quite possibly a lot of sexy male babes. All those fit young men sweating under the south Pacific sun. In and, if it was hot enough, maybe a little bit out of uniform. Mmmmmmm.
Gudanov - Mar 18, 2009 5:38:41 am PDT #11254 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
And how is "UFO Hunters" an appropriate show for the History Channel?
Dude it's about the aliens that have visited us not the aliens that will visit us.
I saw a couple of "UFO Hunters" shows, but the hilarity could not beat out the stupidity. I do remember one in which they were trying to decide if aliens or secret government operatives were slicing up cattle. I don't have enough treadmill TV time to spend on shows just to enjoy the unintentional humor.
Theodosia - Mar 18, 2009 5:41:05 am PDT #11255 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"
L. Sprague de Camp had an awesome article, listing the achievements of a "hitherto unknown" civilization like calendars and higher mathematics and extensive canals/irrigation and a complex writing system and so on - and getting more and more excited, only to reveal at the end that it was the Maya he was talking about, and that everything he'd mentioned was very well documented... and why the hell do people prefer to speculate about Atlantis when this is in their own backyard?
Emily - Mar 18, 2009 5:45:02 am PDT #11256 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
The same reason that even scifi shows tend to invent "Ancients," I think -- you'd like to think somebody knows everything! If it's just humans (or known aliens), well then that's just... stuff that happened, not part of the big plan!
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 5:46:46 am PDT #11257 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
OMG, Theo - ATLANTIS IS IN MY BACKYARD?!?!?!?!!
Gudanov - Mar 18, 2009 5:47:37 am PDT #11258 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
A bill is being introduced to provide a $5,000 voucher for people who turn in old cars (at least 8 years) to get new more efficient ones. Germany already has a program like this.
A have a 15 year old Honda Civic, but finding a relatively inexpensive new car with better fuel economy doesn't leave a lot of selection.
Gudanov - Mar 18, 2009 5:49:03 am PDT #11259 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
OMG, Jessica - You live in New York and you have a backyard!
Theodosia - Mar 18, 2009 5:49:24 am PDT #11260 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"
In the future, perhaps the History Channel will be known as HyFy.
If I were in charge of UFO Hunters they'd be going out each week and mostly busting those sort of incidents, at least getting them down to the level of "well, no radar showed activity, and nobody else in the vicinity seems to have seen anything in the sky" and so on.
For that matter, I DO believe in UFOs -- that there are unexplained flying objects (or at least sky phenomenon) that are out there. I just don't believe they're aliens.
Theodosia - Mar 18, 2009 5:55:04 am PDT #11261 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"
Heh. Given the number of Mexican/Central American immigrants in NYC, there could indeed be Mayans in Jessica's backyard. Or picking up her garbage or manning the fast food counter down the street, or driving trucks or whatever. Face it, she's surrounded by the living descendants of Atlantisthe Mayan Empire.