The captions totally make these cute lizard pictures! (Make sure you read the hovertext on each pic.)
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Kathy A - Feb 12, 2009 12:52:12 pm PST #6251 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
sarameg - Feb 12, 2009 12:52:23 pm PST #6252 of 30000
When you are ops, you need to be in full contact, or make people aware when you are not going to be. I adore some of these people, but I've had to find them to tell them to read their fucking email because we've got an emergency.
I'm done for today. So done.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2009 12:58:53 pm PST #6253 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.
Was it in Natter where we talked about writing one's landlord to ask for cheaper rent? Here's an example of such a letter: Reduce Your Rent with This Simple Letter
Sheryl - Feb 12, 2009 1:08:38 pm PST #6254 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Kristin and Maria!
Heading to Boston tomorrow for Boskone, which means I need to pack tonight.
Tom Scola - Feb 12, 2009 1:08:47 pm PST #6255 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Beverly - Feb 12, 2009 1:08:56 pm PST #6256 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective. Everything — from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels — is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history.
In his Cosmos tv series, back in the Pleistocene, Sagan made the point that if you look at the history of the earth--not the universe, not the solar system, just the earth itself--as a year, one-tenth of the last second of the last minute before midnight would represent all of human history. That's always given me some perspective.
Happy Birthday, PixKristin and Mfnlaw!
Kathy A - Feb 12, 2009 1:16:29 pm PST #6257 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Huge layoffs today at lots of law firms across the country.
Ouch. That will impact my company (law firms' libraries are big clients of ours).
aurelia - Feb 12, 2009 1:42:21 pm PST #6258 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2009 2:11:18 pm PST #6259 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Shouldn't there be an air traffic control-equivalent for satellites?
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2009 2:14:50 pm PST #6260 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.
Shouldn't there be an air traffic control-equivalent for satellites?
There sorta' is. At least the US Air Force has an excellent system for tracking all satellites and all orbital debris above a certain size. Occasionally the Space Shuttle or the ISS has to adjust its orbit due to warnings they receive.