All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Jessica - Mar 05, 2009 8:46:01 am PST #9249 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

"We found that religious people or even people who simply believe in the existence of God show significantly less brain activity in relation to their own errors. They're much less anxious and feel less stressed when they have made an error."

Interesting!


§ ita § - Mar 05, 2009 8:52:27 am PST #9250 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They're much less anxious and feel less stressed when they have made an error.

That is very interesting indeed. I wonder if that spools out into behavioural differences.


megan walker - Mar 05, 2009 8:55:10 am PST #9251 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Part of the mystery is solved. The Calfiornia Bar Association is housed in the next building over.

What they are boycotting is still a mystery, but, man, that guy has strong lungs.


Jessica - Mar 05, 2009 9:13:57 am PST #9252 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Trader Joe's stops selling King Arthur flour, so King Arthur flour creates recipe for Candy Cane Joe-Joe's.


sarameg - Mar 05, 2009 9:24:16 am PST #9253 of 30000

So. We were being gaslighted. Lit. Whatever.

Someone had been running something in the background that was in direct competition to our system.

Now to try AGAIN.


Steph L. - Mar 05, 2009 9:37:03 am PST #9254 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Trader Joe's stops selling King Arthur flour, so King Arthur flour creates recipe for Candy Cane Joe-Joe's.

Am I crazy, or does that entry not have the measurements for the ingredients in the recipe?


amych - Mar 05, 2009 9:46:13 am PST #9255 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Recipe is here: [link]

The King Arthur blog always does a long writeup/walkthrough, with a link to the recipe on their recipe site. Annoying as heck, although I love their baking pron.


tommyrot - Mar 05, 2009 9:56:45 am PST #9256 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.

Excellent Time magazine article on the current health-care system in the US: The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home

Might be good to forward to people who think the current system is fine, and that Obama wants to "ration" health care (as if it's not rationed now)....

When we talk about health-care reform, we usually start with the problem of the roughly 45 million (and rising) uninsured Americans who have no health coverage at all. But Pat represents the shadow problem facing an additional 25 million people who spend more than 10% of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs. They are the underinsured, who may be all the more vulnerable because, until a health catastrophe hits, they're often blind to the danger they're in. In a 2005 Harvard University study of more than 1,700 bankruptcies across the country, researchers found that medical problems were behind half of them — and three-quarters of those bankrupt people actually had health insurance. As Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law professor who helped conduct the study, wrote in the Washington Post, "Nobody's safe ... A comfortable middle-class lifestyle? Good education? Decent job? No safeguards there. Most of the medically bankrupt were middle-class homeowners who had been to college and had responsible jobs — until illness struck."


tommyrot - Mar 05, 2009 10:00:18 am PST #9257 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.

An update of the classic "Rosie the Riveter" image "We Can Do It!" on a t-shirt: We Can Do It! Michelle Obama Shirt


Jesse - Mar 05, 2009 10:07:50 am PST #9258 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

msbelle, do you have a skirt made of ties? [link]