two mosquitoes get together and the next thing you know you have a human being...
...several hundred million years later.
Wesley: Perhaps the whole point of this experiment is hair. Gunn: I vote he's not in charge.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
Tom Scola - Feb 24, 2009 7:25:34 am PST #8070 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Gudanov - Feb 24, 2009 7:26:39 am PST #8071 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Well I think that it's just, and science is more and more documenting this, is that there are real "chinks" in the armor of evolution being the only way we came about.
I wonder what science he is talking about. The fossil evidence is really good, but the newer DNA and molecular biology evidence is incredible.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2009 7:29:53 am PST #8072 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.
More from Sanford (economics this time):
Sanford Offers Unemployed South Carolina Resident ‘Prayers’ Instead Of Stimulus Funds
Following the lead of a number of his fellow Republican governors, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) has given some indication that he will not accept some of the money slated for South Carolina in the $787 billion economic recovery bill President Obama signed into law last week. “At times it sounds like the Soviet grain quotas of Stalin’s time,” Sanford said yesterday on Fox News.
On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, Sanford received a call from a Charleston resident who said he lost his job because he has been taking care of mother and sister, both of whom have serious illnesses. The caller told Sanford he is “wrong” to decline the money. “A lot of people in South Carolina are hurting. And if this money can come and help us out we need it.” In response, Sanford could offer him only his prayers:
CALLER: I hope you all are not playing politics with this. People in South Carolina are hurting. You know how unemployment rates are high right now and going up higher. We are running out of money in the unemployment bank — we need money for that, the people that need help. And I’m one of them, I can’t get no help. […]
SANFORD: Well I’d say hello to Charleston because its home and I’d say hello to this fellow this morning and say that my prayers are going to be with him and his family because it sounds like he is in an awfully tough spot.
eta:
Sanford offered no other alternative solution for his constituent and instead argued that the state could not accept money to extend unemployment benefits because “increasing the tax on unemployment insurance” would negatively “impact the caller’s family” (although he didn’t say how).
So prayer can replace money. Awesome! (Because if money comes from a Democratic president, it's communistic.)
Tom Scola - Feb 24, 2009 7:35:09 am PST #8073 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Aww, fuck! [link]
A NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere failed to reach its orbit during launching Tuesday morning, scuttling the $278 million mission.
Gudanov - Feb 24, 2009 7:35:43 am PST #8074 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
To be fair to Sanford, there is a bit of a poison pill in the federal funds for extended unemployment benefits. I believe it mandates enacting permanent legislation for extended benefits past the point at which the federal government provides funds.
Cashmere - Feb 24, 2009 7:36:37 am PST #8075 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Urban Decay's 24/7 eyeliner is made of AWESOME.
I want a BLT made with Baconaise.
I forgot to pack my Super-ego when I went to Vegas.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 24, 2009 7:42:12 am PST #8076 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Baconaise is wrong on so many levels.
Signed,
Hates Mayo aka the Devil's condiment
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 24, 2009 7:45:47 am PST #8077 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
Right there with you Frank. I accept that some amount of mayo is necessary for tuna salad and chicken salad, but the only thing I can stand it with separately is pickle loaf.
megan walker - Feb 24, 2009 7:50:14 am PST #8078 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan, just out of curiosity, what does your roommate do? I'm looking for a career change anyway, so if there's one that comes with free Kindles, I should consider it.
He does programming for Amazon Search (i.e., he works for one of the many "not-Amazon" companies in Silicon Valley that are actually Amazon but provide enough cover that Amazon has "no business presence" in California). Kindle is actually produced at a sister company in SV.
ETA: This is also the reason I have Amazon Prime for free, which is made of awesome.
Emily - Feb 24, 2009 7:56:19 am PST #8079 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Sometimes it involves teaching Emily how to accept drinks from conventioneers
This was quite a new skill for me. Witness my worried, "We're not going to sleep with them, right?" Apparently you don't have to plan to sleep with them to accept a drink!
(Er, obviously accepting a drink doesn't mean you HAVE to sleep with them. I just always thought it would be wrong to accept the drink if I wasn't even considering it.)