Spike/Harm ,'Help'
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.
Well, I finally saved up enough to go to Bed, Bath, & Beyond and buy the quilt and pillowcases I've been lusting after for months. And then stopped on the drive home and bought 20 Omaha steaks for $20 off the back of a truck.
If I go silent this week, can somebody stop by my apartment with a stomach pump?
Wow, that's kind of brave Matt. But I've always had a sensitive system so...
Dana, if you're flying first class both ways, bring the small suitcase on the way there, and bring a duffel bag or buy another suitcase in Europe for the souvenirs! And then check them both on the way back!
I went to see Harry Potter, on a date. I think it was a date. I'm pretty sure. I like her a lot, but...just in a friend way, I think. Sadly. She's super awesome. But I feel no desire to jump her bones, damnit. Argh. I am hoping this works out conveniently, because, see "super awesome".
Sophia, it sounds like an awesome plan to me, but I can see how with the history, it would need to be a careful approach.
The cheap European suitcase strategy sounds best. You can put all the precious/fragile things in the good suitcase and all the dirty clothes, et cetera in the cheap one.
Sophia, your plan sounds really good. Mom may be a hard sell, because I've seen with my Mom and others that giving up a house can be emotionally fraught. Maybe if you can create a spreadsheet, showing what duplex houses are going for, what the mortgage would be, depending on downpayment, and like that. Having seperate units will be key, I think. Also, don't mention the car except in passing, like if you can get a property with a driveway or especially a garage.
Timelies all!
Waiting to hear from friends. We're going to meet up with them for dinner and stuff. (We have much-belated birthday gifts for two of them)
I am sorting through CDs, and continue to be shocked at how many I had never put into iTunes. Maxwell, really?? I am going to be super excited to have all of this "new" music.
In daylight (and dry) the paint job doesn't look so terrible.
OMGWTFFurniture!
The Oops Awards are the brainchild of designer Andrej Statskij, given annually for the excellence in bad product design. The categories are “ugliest”, “silliest”, and “most useless”.
A whole bunch of awesome science tattoos: [link]
I love this coelacanth tat: [link]
And this guide to squid anatomy: [link]
And this mantis: Feminism and Cannibalism
I am a soil scientist and entomologist. My favorite insects/arthropods are praying mantises, psuedoscorpions and spiders. I am also a big time feminist. I find praying mantises to be so fascinating, and while they are extremely adept killing machines, they are also one of the oldest insects around! This tattoo is a metaphor for my independance and tribute to my mantis friends.From Wikipedia: Sexual cannibalism is common among mantids in captivity, and under some circumstances may also be observed in the field. The female may start feeding by biting off the male’s head (as with any prey), and if mating had begun, the male’s movements may become even more vigorous in its delivery of sperm. Early researchers thought that because copulatory movement is controlled by ganglion in the abdomen, not the head, removal of the male’s head was a reproductive strategy by females to enhance fertilisation while obtaining sustenance. Later, this bizarre behaviour appeared to be an artifact of intrusive laboratory observation. Whether the behaviour in the field is natural, or also the result of distractions caused by the human observer, remains controversial. Mantises are highly visual creatures, and notice any disturbance occurring in the laboratory or field such as bright lights or moving scientists. Research by Liske and Davis (1987) and others found (e.g. using video recorders in vacant rooms) that Chinese mantises that had been fed ad libitum (so were not starving) actually displayed elaborate courtship behavior when left undisturbed. The male engages the female in courtship dance, to change her interest from feeding to mating. Courtship display has also been observed in other species, but it does not hold for all mantises. So in fact, the common assumption that all females cannabilize their mates either during/after copulation is debated because most observations of this were in a lab, where the mantis was likely highly aware of her captors. I have a magnet on my fridge with a woman in a wedding dress that says…”Marriage? No…I don’t mate well in captivity!”