You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Sparky1 - Feb 10, 2009 5:55:13 am PST #5941 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

Wait, isn't natural selection part of OUR argument?

I suspect this person thinks that natural selection means humans (white, christian humans, preferred) at the top of the righteous heap and doesn't understand that success for any animal is only the ability to reproduce itself.

::looks down at expanding abdomen::

Hey! I'm a success!


Dana - Feb 10, 2009 5:56:14 am PST #5942 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Ugh. This morning is stupid.


Liese S. - Feb 10, 2009 6:02:32 am PST #5943 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

but treehouse camp sounds unbelievably cool. Is it as excellent as its name?

It is truly excellent. Although the treehouses do not, in fact, require actual climbing of the trees, but are cabins on stilts nestled in the trees. Nomenclature issues aside, it is seriously fun. Lots of nature stuff, hiking, fishing, teaching the kids how to identify plants, animal tracks. Then all the usual camp stuff, as they're on the same campus as the other summer camps, just way off in the woods. But it's way chill compared to them, lots of hanging around the fire and shooting the breeze. I always love teaching the girls survival skills stuff. They come out of there so jacked up about it all.

With your assurance, I am unworried.

Hee. I didn't meant that to come out unduly snarkily. It does have a specific meaning, albeit one that is difficult to capture all the nuances, as often is the case with slang. Generally, feeling "somehow" means something along the lines of unease, discomfort you can't place, uncertainty.

We get skeeters in our house here and it sucks, but it's nothing like either Hawaii or Ohio.

Testify. We are pretty blissfully free of most bugs here. You can sit comfortably on your deck without getting eaten alive. Hey, Kat, did you guys use mosquito punks to repel the little suckers in Hawaii? I have some pretty vivid memories of watching that coil burn down out on my grandmother's lanai.


Emily - Feb 10, 2009 6:05:09 am PST #5944 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Ahem. What post?

Oh damn. This is not my week for posting, is it?


Theodosia - Feb 10, 2009 6:10:46 am PST #5945 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"

Liese, yeah, for the most part the bugs are few and far between, but then there's scorpions and bonus rattlesnakes to consider.

I've gotten to blacklight for scorpions twice, which was utterly cool. I've decided I'm not scared of bugs AS LONG AS I CAN SEE THEM and can deftly avoid touching them. Then I'm all "Coool!"


Jessica - Feb 10, 2009 6:27:00 am PST #5946 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Really cool video - On a sushi conveyor belt


Connie Neil - Feb 10, 2009 6:58:54 am PST #5947 of 30000
brillig

My favorite bugs are the meat-eating wasps around us. Hubby and I like to go to friends' cook-outs and put out a slab of steak or whatever, then watch the wasps come up and start stripping the meat. They very tidily snip off a sliver of meat, roll it up, then carry it away. Our friends' invariably freak out, then settle down to watch. We've spent hours feeding the meat-eating wasps.

I once got a dramatic 9-year-old to stop freaking out about bees by pointing out that they're only flying around her because they want to see if she has pollen, and if she lets them sniff her without panicking, they'll see she's not a flower and go about their business. After a bit she very proudly sat still while three bees examined her then flew off. Of course, her mother ruined it by running up and flapping at the bees, shrieking. But the girl gave me a look of "My mom is over-reacting, isn't she," and I nodded. So at least one girl was hopefully spared from incipient Fluffbrain.


tommyrot - Feb 10, 2009 7:02:26 am PST #5948 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.

xpost with tech:

A million blogs have linked to this, so I finally watched it:

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

Pretty damn funny, but NSFW due to all the swearing....


Kathy A - Feb 10, 2009 7:12:41 am PST #5949 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I think I'm waaaay overdue on taking my eye prescription over to LensCrafters--computer reading is causing my eyes to really water today, as if someone is constantly blowing smoke into them. I have to wait until payday to buy glasses anyway, but constantly wiping my eyes is already a pain.


Sue - Feb 10, 2009 8:27:50 am PST #5950 of 30000
hip deep in pie

It's two hours since I've had lunch and I am hungry again. Also, today needs to move faster.