She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.

Wash ,'War Stories'


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) - May 05, 2009 3:19:52 am PDT #18005 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Mmmm. Corn bread. Very hard to get hold of over here. I miss it. Also corn muffins.


tommyrot - May 05, 2009 4:19:48 am PDT #18006 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.

Just in case you've got nothing better to do than read about why Obama is the Antichrist: [link]

Here's some evidence:

Why is it That... On the day of Barack Obama's Inauguration, the media made reference to the fact that Barack Obama's Presidential Car has been nicknamed "The Beast ...........Is this a sign that the Masonic Conspirators behind the New World Order are purposely playing with those who have an understanding of end time prophecy?

Yeah, calling his "car" (actually, an SUV) "the beast" has nothing to do with its size, weight, armor, etc.

OK, and this is the best logical argument ever found on the Internets:

Why is it That... in 2008 were there over 3 million searches on the keywords "Obama Antichrist" and "Obama Messiah"?.......Does Barack Obama have an apocalyptic role given the global financial circumstances in which he has risen to power. Is he a man divinely appointed or an agent of the New World Order objective?

It's true because people googled it!


Jessica - May 05, 2009 4:22:26 am PDT #18007 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Why is it That... in 2008 were there over 3 million searches on the keywords "Obama Antichrist" and "Obama Messiah"?.......Does Barack Obama have an apocalyptic role given the global financial circumstances in which he has risen to power. Is he a man divinely appointed or an agent of the New World Order objective?

Oh internet crazies! Never go away!


tommyrot - May 05, 2009 4:37:21 am PDT #18008 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.

This is cool if you like looking at pictures of giant machinery and lasers and what-not: Energy of the Future: Igniting a Star With Laser Light

LIVERMORE, California – It may look like one of Michael Bay's Transformers, but this mass of machinery could soon be the birthplace of a baby star right here on Earth.

Using 192 separate lasers and a 400-foot-long series of amplifiers and filters, scientists at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) hope to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction like the ones in the sun or the explosion of a nuclear bomb — only on a much smaller scale.

Sci-fi-inspired End of Days jokes may follow this historic undertaking like they did for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, but the science behind this advanced laser system is profoundly serious.

"Completion of the NIF construction project is a major milestone for the NIF team, for the nation and the world," said Edward Moses, the facility's principal associate director for NIF and photon science. "We are well on our way to achieving what we set out to do — controlled nuclear fusion and energy gain for the first time ever in a laboratory setting."

The hope is that this reaction will release more energy than the lasers put into the target isotopes and perhaps redefine the global energy crisis in the process.

But I discovered a major mistake in their laboratory:

Throughout the entire NIF facility, emergency shutdown panels listing the status of the laser (using both text and light) provide a level of safety for the hapless scientist or technician who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time before a firing of the lasers.

Photo of control panel with big red "Emergency Shutdown" button: [link]

How is a scientists supposed to get trapped inside the reaction chamber and turned into StarMan? What ever happened to the safety feature of running the experiment off a timer that can't be stopped, with a door that closes automatically and can't be opened once the timer starts?


tommyrot - May 05, 2009 4:46:06 am PDT #18009 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.

Awesome cephalopod tat: Weird people with strange obsessions


Gudanov - May 05, 2009 4:48:54 am PDT #18010 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Why is it That... in 2008 were there over 3 million searches on the keywords "Obama Antichrist" and "Obama Messiah"?

Or maybe he's both....bum..bum..bum.


Steph L. - May 05, 2009 4:49:13 am PDT #18011 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Awesome cephalopod tat

Okay, the sword is overkill. A cephalopod doesn't need a weapon to fuck you up.


Jesse - May 05, 2009 4:57:57 am PDT #18012 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, why is a coworker talking to me about her colonoscopy?!?! I wish we were a little bit closer, so I could write back, "TMI."


msbelle - May 05, 2009 5:15:25 am PDT #18013 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

wow. that is not on.

I need to get going on my work, so far I had a meeting and then just the internets. bad worker.


Theodosia - May 05, 2009 5:31:41 am PDT #18014 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"

Note to self: watching The Mist first thing in the morning is not the best thing to do, emotion-wise. Perhaps wait until nighttime to watch the rest of it, when it's not all misty out?