ma~to you friend and her mother , DJ
happy new cousin, shir.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Sep 17, 2009 3:25:38 am PDT #23509 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 17, 2009 3:52:41 am PDT #23510 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I have twenty cousins-once-removed. (Cork families. Big.) We called them second cousins for ease of distinction between them and the two first cousins. I lost count of how many second cousins I have once it went past forty.
Yay for both the new cousin, and the gay cousin coming out, Shir!
Sushi for lunch. Mmm.
Jessica - Sep 17, 2009 4:22:44 am PDT #23511 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED THE CONVERSATION ABOUT SF AND ALIENS.
My biggest pet peeve SF trope is when aliens are fascinated by humans and humanity because we're all such beautiful unique snowflakes, or when a problem is unsolvable only until Humanity swoops in and applies our patented Creative ThinkingTM to the situation and saves the day.
If we live in a world where we are only one of several sentient space-faring species, then we ARE NOT THAT FUCKING SPECIAL.
Alastair Reynolds sidesteps the problem quite nicely by having all the aliens extinct by the time humanity takes to the stars, except for one or two really out-there intelligences like the Pattern Jugglers who are basically superintelligent colonies of algae.
Laura - Sep 17, 2009 4:26:41 am PDT #23512 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
The Irish side of my family had very large families a generation back 11/12/13 kids. The cousins are plentiful.
Laura - Sep 17, 2009 4:30:39 am PDT #23513 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My biggest pet peeve SF trope is when aliens are fascinated by humans and humanity because we're all such beautiful unique snowflakes, or when a problem is unsolvable only until Humanity swoops in and applies our patented Creative ThinkingTM to the situation and saves the day.
But you have just eliminated about 83% of the saves the day storylines! Apparently my love for science fiction hasn't been affected by the @@. So many of my beloved series and movies are filled with oh puhleeeeze moments.
Daisy Jane - Sep 17, 2009 4:42:03 am PDT #23514 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Thanks for the kind thoughts for K, y'all.
Will they be able to reconstruct the damaged parts?
I don't know. I didn't get to talk to her. My phone works for crap in my house, so I had one of our friends (there's like 6 of us) on fb chat while she was on the phone with K relating the conversation, which I was then pasting into a message for another one.
Technology makes worrying about your friends over long distances so much easier!
You know what'll really ruin your morning? Sitting next to a table of racist blowhards at weekly breakfast with hubby.
Barb - Sep 17, 2009 4:49:55 am PDT #23515 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Ugh, DJ, that sucks.
IOmeN, I've got a wicked upset tummy today. Dunno why, exactly, since I haven't eaten anything that should've done this to me. Hope I'm not getting some form of plague. That would be VERY bad right now.
Daisy Jane - Sep 17, 2009 4:56:03 am PDT #23516 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
They seriously pulled out the "Yeah. That's really a place where you don't use (the n-word)."
What? Somewhere people might recognize you for the racist you are?
We've sat next to that table before and while they're usually talking politics of the "They're all bums/waste of my tax dollars/I haven't really thought of the policy implications of this, but it sounds like something Ron White would say/Aren't I pragmatic and clever if only people would listen to my glib one-liners we'd all be better off"-type, this was just head-exploding.
If you have to say that you can't say something because people might think you're a racist? It's because you're racist.
Calli - Sep 17, 2009 4:58:29 am PDT #23517 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Goodness, Fred, how worrisome. Much kidney~ma to Rigatoni.
Gudanov - Sep 17, 2009 5:01:05 am PDT #23518 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
If we live in a world where we are only one of several sentient space-faring species, then we ARE NOT THAT FUCKING SPECIAL.
Hang on, there are some special things about Humanity. For one, our computer operating systems interpenetrate will all alien computer operating systems. Obviously we have a special talent for computer science.