Gudanov, both. I was once a committed lurker, and recently realised I'd missed the goings-on here. Also that pressing the 'post' button was not going to destroy the universe. Probably.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 24, 2009 6:27:01 am PDT #16638 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2009 6:30:20 am PDT #16639 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Well then welcome to the world of the posting! Always great to have another poster!
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2009 6:30:44 am PDT #16640 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Another lurker bites the dust! Welcome, Seska!!
Amy - Apr 24, 2009 6:31:37 am PDT #16641 of 30000
Because books.
Also that pressing the 'post' button was not going to destroy the universe. Probably.
That's what we want you to think.
Kidding, of course. Welcome!
NOT clicking the bedbug links.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 24, 2009 6:44:26 am PDT #16642 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
That's what we want you to think.
I can entirely believe this. *wibble*
Thanks for the welcome!
The full story of my de-lurkage actually involves two postgraduate students (including me) with a love of all things fandom, one too many beers, a sad deconstruction of life without a forum on which to discuss said things of fandom, and fellow grad student's reminder that this place is still buzzing away with intelligent conversation. Also other types of conversation.
Plus, I'm trying to write a paper on research ethics. Distraction is delightful.
Amy - Apr 24, 2009 6:45:43 am PDT #16643 of 30000
Because books.
Distraction is delightful.
We are SO good for that.
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2009 6:46:32 am PDT #16644 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Plus, I'm trying to write a paper on research ethics. Distraction is delightful.
If there is one thing we can do, it's facilitate procrastination.
X-post
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2009 6:48:44 am PDT #16645 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's an exterminator that advertises on cable in NY that uses a DOG to sniff out the bedbugs, which he then freezes to death.
Yes, dogs are very good at sniffing out bedbugs. The service is expensive, though - as is the freezing.
Did you know that bedbugs can live up to a year and a half without food? Just one of the many exciting facts I've learned recently.
Extreme cleaning guy will be here soon to give me an estimate.
Oh, and hi, Seska!
Glamcookie - Apr 24, 2009 6:54:34 am PDT #16646 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Hello and welcome, Seska!
Bedbugs. t shudder
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2009 6:54:45 am PDT #16647 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, I am just totally man-crushing on Andrew Sullivan for his anti-torture posts.
James Taranto who fully backed a president who claimed the right to suspend the First and Fourth Amendments, habeas corpus, the Geneva Conventions and domestic law against torture, and who seized an American citizen without charges on American soil and tortured him, now offers his view as to the small possibility of prosecuting the perpetrators of war crimes. Drum roll, please:
What Obama is offhandedly contemplating, then, amounts to a step toward authoritarian government.
No, you couldn't make this up.
Just one of many excellent posts recently....