Perhaps not suitable to be Buffista Island
Well it's not an all-season island. (Okay, technically the island does exist year-round. But that cabin doesn't look winterized to me. We'd have to buy a fleet of Buffista Snowmobiles.)
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'Sleeper'
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 - May 22, 2009 7:28:55 am PDT #20731 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jessica - May 22, 2009 7:32:41 am PDT #20732 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For Buffista Island, may I suggest this one?
Kathy A - May 22, 2009 7:32:45 am PDT #20733 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Amarna is currently sprawled out on the couch, glaring at me--oops, no, now she's asleep. She started scratching at it a bit already, but I'm hoping she'll only do that as much as she did the old couch, which isn't too much and didn't leave a mark at all.
tommyrot - May 22, 2009 7:33:23 am PDT #20734 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.
From Jeremy Clarkson's review of the Honda Insight for the London Times:
Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid
The biggest problem, and it’s taken me a while to work this out, because all the other problems are so vast and so cancerous, is the gearbox. For reasons known only to itself, Honda has fitted the Insight with something called constantly variable transmission (CVT).
It doesn’t work. Put your foot down in a normal car and the revs climb in tandem with the speed. In a CVT car, the revs spool up quickly and then the speed rises to match them. It feels like the clutch is slipping. It feels horrid.
And the sound is worse. The Honda’s petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3 that, at full chat, makes a noise worse than someone else’s crying baby on an airliner. It’s worse than the sound of your parachute failing to open. Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.
A fun read, as he trashed the car thoroughly.
To be fair about the CVT, that's how they work. From what I've read, driving one can be disconcerting, but they work that way because it's more efficient.
megan walker - May 22, 2009 7:34:32 am PDT #20735 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, assignments came out today. I have 3 projects over the next two years and my lame-ass counterpart has 1.
WTF Tino?
Kathy A - May 22, 2009 7:37:36 am PDT #20736 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Goddamn Tino!!
Does this mean job security, megan?
megan walker - May 22, 2009 7:42:07 am PDT #20737 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, I'm not so much worried about job security. Which, don't get me wrong, is a good thing, but the fact that I would need a 50% raise to make the median income in San Francisco does make me wonder if it's worth staying here.
Theodosia - May 22, 2009 7:48:31 am PDT #20738 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"
Sounds like your counterpart is Wally from the Dilbert strip, megan.
Sue - May 22, 2009 7:48:38 am PDT #20739 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I think we need two Buffista islands: one cool weather, one hot. Then we need someone to develop a teleportation device between the two.
Theodosia - May 22, 2009 7:51:12 am PDT #20740 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"
Sue -- or a bi-yearly migration, where we drive the cats over the mountain passes, and ford the rivers.