In less whiny news, I managed to score a pair of earrings because Steph mentioned that she'd managed to score a pendant from the seller: [link]
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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.
shrift - May 14, 2009 4:57:18 pm PDT #19589 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
sarameg - May 14, 2009 5:09:59 pm PDT #19590 of 30000
Oooh, pretty!
I've rarely bought my own jewelry. Mom and dad have me figured out and pretty much everything is from them and I love it. I've got a coworker who has similar taste and loves my earrings. I've promised to bring something for her from Nepal and Bhutan. Which means I need to convince my parents to pick stuff out for me that isn't for me.
Typo Boy - May 14, 2009 5:11:32 pm PDT #19591 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of sunburn. First Ozone damage does make a difference. Secondly I think most of the damage is done when you first burn. So if you stay outside all the time and develop a tan and never lose it - you get a lot less damage than someone who tans or burns, gets pale again, tans or burns again. If you get dark and stay dark that minimizes the dammage. Not eliminates it cause a white persons tan is not ultra high SPF but minimizes it.
beth b - May 14, 2009 5:19:39 pm PDT #19592 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
That makes a lot of sense Typo Boy. I burn now, but didn't as a kid. And as I kid I rarely lost my tan completely over the winter. And now, My feet don't burn -- but that is because I wear sandals most of the time.
sarameg - May 14, 2009 5:27:23 pm PDT #19593 of 30000
I love my house.
Lee - May 14, 2009 5:39:37 pm PDT #19594 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
awww
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billytea - May 14, 2009 5:42:32 pm PDT #19595 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm not sure how you tell raccoons from cephalopods, there. Here's a good place to start, though.
Some other appearances of the raccoon and cephalopod neighbours: [link] [link] [link]
I'm thinking that people's skin reactions haven't necessarily kept pace with the last 500 years of migration patterns. I seem to recall reading that Caucasian Australians had some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, because a bunch of people whose skin was fine for, say, Dublin, found themselves in a much sunnier environment.
This is true. It also means that we're world leaders in treating skin cancers, IIRC.
New York and Madrid being the same is what always surprises me.
It's the Gulf Stream that makes the difference in climate. Europe's Atlantic coast gets Caribbean weather ported to it via ocean current. (One of the reasons global warming is better described as climate change - it has the potential to disrupt the Gulf Stream, which would be pretty devastating for Europe's climate.)
sarameg - May 14, 2009 5:45:06 pm PDT #19596 of 30000
Wait until the second floor plumbing gives up the ghost.... Then it will be OTHELL.
Migration really went speedio the last 500 years. Fucks up everything.
Jesse - May 14, 2009 5:46:31 pm PDT #19597 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh no. My father joined Facebook.
Kat - May 14, 2009 5:46:49 pm PDT #19598 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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hahahahahha! So true and so cute.
I had dinner with Alibelle and saw her newish place. It's wee but adorable.