I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2009 5:42:09 am PST #9197 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I was catching up on Dinosaur Comics, and stumbled upon (more) evidence that dinosaurs are buffistas: [link]


lisah - Mar 05, 2009 5:50:21 am PST #9198 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

My god, the stupid, it burns. And drowns, if I'm near liash's work.

hah! it is a very Baltimore thing to do!


Gudanov - Mar 05, 2009 5:53:17 am PST #9199 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

It seems to me part and parcel of a lot of conservative policy -- legislating (or educating) for the world the way you wish it was, rather than the world the way it is.

Like wishing the financial markets were really self regulating.


Trudy Booth - Mar 05, 2009 5:56:56 am PST #9200 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

The thing that makes me craziest about abstainance only education is that its not EDUCATION. It's the refusal to educate.

I'm fond of saying we shouldn't have sex ed at all in schools. We should teach comprehensive biology, hygene, and epidemeology and if the little buggers figure out how their bodies work in the process, well that's just the risk you take when you educate people, huh?


§ ita § - Mar 05, 2009 5:59:44 am PST #9201 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was catching up on Dinosaur Comics, and stumbled upon (more) evidence that dinosaurs are buffistas: [link]

Typographically that issue is a bitch to read, and the error in the final panel made me dizzy because I thought I was misreading it.


sarameg - Mar 05, 2009 6:11:10 am PST #9202 of 30000

Today is not going well. Not going well at all.


Gudanov - Mar 05, 2009 6:19:20 am PST #9203 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Sorry your day suboptimal sarameg.

Last night we bought shin pads and cleats for the kids. My wife is still coming to terms with the fact that she is now actually a soccer mom. Telling her that she now belongs to a politically important swing demographic doesn't seem to help.


Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2009 6:24:03 am PST #9204 of 30000
brillig

To all the folks east of Utah: I'm sorry about the snow storm you're going to get. It started with rain, which turned to ice, and ended with two inches of snow. Fortunately, the sun's out and the weirdly warm weather is already melting it. I fear other areas aren't having conveniently warm weather, though.


§ ita § - Mar 05, 2009 6:35:57 am PST #9205 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The book I'm reading, Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter, says that most people can't draw both sorts of typewritten "a"s or both "g"s. I give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was true when he wrote it, but do you think it's the true now, with so many more people interacting with type?

I have to exclude myself from the sample pool because I spent a lot of time hand-copying alphabets as a (very well-adjusted) kid.


tommyrot - Mar 05, 2009 6:37:11 am PST #9206 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.

I spent a lot of time hand-copying alphabets as a (very well-adjusted) kid.

Did you have a system of different-colored pens?