My non-working speedometer actually got me out of a ticket, because I got pulled over after it was fixed and still had the receipt in my car. I said "Officer, it must be broken again."
Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.
'Lessons'
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.
Dana - Jul 13, 2009 3:48:36 pm PDT #28954 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Laura - Jul 13, 2009 3:51:24 pm PDT #28955 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My Volvo's speedometer broke but we didn't fix it because it also caused the mileage to stop and that helped resale value.
Calli - Jul 13, 2009 3:58:06 pm PDT #28956 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
If I wanted to find a list of Caribbean HIV-related NGOs, is there some sort of directory/resource I could use?
Sorry--I was too swamped at work today to come to b.org.
Anyway, I don't know of a directory for Caribbean HIV-related NGOs, but there's The AIDS Alliance. (My NGO has a very small subcontract with them.) Their focus is mostly in the Eastern Caribbean.
There's a WHO-related organization called CAREC, or the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre. It's for all communicable diseases, but it has an HIV/AIDS section.
Over at idealist.org they have a search by location area, but it lumps Latin America and Caribbean together, so you have to separate jobs in Panama from those in Trinidad.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 4:10:53 pm PDT #28957 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.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing: Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
I knew 9 of the 10 (didn't know the last one).
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 13, 2009 4:23:48 pm PDT #28958 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Wow, I can't believe I got good 401k news today... like mine rebounded about 1/3 of the ground it previously lost in this latest quarter. Did we have a big stock market recovery and no news outlets covered it?
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2009 4:25:52 pm PDT #28959 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ooh, thanks, Calli! That idealist especially dovetails into the second half of the searches she's having me do.
dcp - Jul 13, 2009 4:31:36 pm PDT #28960 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Has anyone ever had their speedometer stop working?
Happened to my '94 Saturn about four years ago. If the problem is at the sender end the fix can be fairly quick and easy and cheap. If the problem is at the display end, like mine was, they generally have to replace the whole instrument cluster. It's not hard to do, probably no more than a couple hours' labor, the difficulty is finding the parts.
Cashmere - Jul 13, 2009 4:40:33 pm PDT #28961 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Wow, I can't believe I got good 401k news today... like mine rebounded about 1/3 of the ground it previously lost in this latest quarter. Did we have a big stock market recovery and no news outlets covered it?
Ours regained a third, too.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 4:45:13 pm PDT #28962 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Huh. We're showing gains for the year. That's new.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2009 4:46:04 pm PDT #28963 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The markets went up a little today, but nothing crazy, as far as I know.
ION, aw -- remember that show Buffy?? [link]