But the more you lick your fingers, the more orange goop sticks to them. It's like a vicious circle of numiness....
Which is AWESOME.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Steph L. - Feb 19, 2009 3:41:09 am PST #6971 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tom Scola - Feb 19, 2009 3:44:47 am PST #6972 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Note to self: never borrow one of Teppy's keyboards.
Steph L. - Feb 19, 2009 3:47:18 am PST #6973 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Note to self: never borrow one of Teppy's keyboards.
That is an eminently wise idea. I fully admit that they are NASTY. Particularly my work one, just because I've had it for so long. But my laptop keys are mungy, too. Although I regularly lift up the keyboard and get rid of the crud under it.
Jessica - Feb 19, 2009 4:01:28 am PST #6974 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
A pub downtown has started serving a drink called "the Sully" in honor of the pilot who safely landed a plane in the Hudson.
"The Sully," which consists of two shots of Grey Goose vodka and "a splash of water." Carla Iny of Brooklyn tells the Post, "It's a classy drink for a classy man. It's cool and smooth—like Sully."
(The second comment on that post is in really poor taste, but I laughed anyway.)
Steph L. - Feb 19, 2009 4:56:02 am PST #6975 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
(The second comment on that post is in really poor taste, but I laughed anyway.)
Heh. Me too.
sarameg - Feb 19, 2009 5:42:00 am PST #6976 of 30000
Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission's risk of a "catastrophic impact" beyond NASA's usual limits, Nature's Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse.
Um, the odds didn't change just because something finally did crash into something else....
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 19, 2009 5:43:28 am PST #6977 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
I thought the debris cloud from the collision threw a lot more shrapnel into low orbit than had been there before? And more importantly, they haven't had time to fully map out new orbits of the larger pieces yet?
sarameg - Feb 19, 2009 5:51:06 am PST #6978 of 30000
Read the Nature article, which does make that assertion plain (though the Wired one doesn't. Bad writing.) Odds have gone up.
Connie Neil - Feb 19, 2009 6:03:38 am PST #6979 of 30000
brillig
You'd think they could create a giant magnetic sweeper or something to clear paths.
Of course, it may be part of our government's sooper-sekrit plan to defend us from alien invasion. A big mess of nail-equivalents sticking up on the global front porch to keep visitors from getting too close.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 19, 2009 6:06:28 am PST #6980 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
I think the ever-expanding wave front of 1960s radio from when "It's a Small World" was playing in heavy rotation should be all the defense we'll ever need.