It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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.


WindSparrow - Oct 21, 2009 4:02:19 am PDT #27304 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Much health~ma to Sparky and baby, and smonster, and Seska, and anyone else who may need it.


Nora Deirdre - Oct 21, 2009 4:12:59 am PDT #27305 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Now's the time when I completely blank on TomW's hair colour.

HA! He's a ginger. But it was an actual cat I was referring to upthread.

email me with your wish list, and I'll let you know what he says about places and possible availabilities.

Ooh, I will definitely do this once we know what's what.

Ugh, Sparky. I hope you feel better soon and that K doesn't catch what you have.


Lee - Oct 21, 2009 4:34:32 am PDT #27306 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Feel Better, Sparky!

Nora! I missed most of the talk about you moving here (silly work), but I needed to add my YAY.

You mentioned working at Stanford and living in/near Oakland though--that would be a hell of a commute. You should move to this part of the bay instead.


Aims - Oct 21, 2009 4:38:20 am PDT #27307 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I am now convinced I have hand tourettes.

J, one of my co-workers that I adore, said, "Hey - I'm going to send you another work order, that cool?" It was, so I went to give the thumbs up.

And flipped her off.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME??


Nora Deirdre - Oct 21, 2009 4:59:48 am PDT #27308 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

You mentioned working at Stanford and living in/near Oakland though--that would be a hell of a commute. You should move to this part of the bay instead.

Yeah, I considered that. Which part of the bay are you at, again?


Sparky1 - Oct 21, 2009 5:09:03 am PDT #27309 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

that would be a hell of a commute

My DH did the commute for a year from Berkeley to Palo Alto, and it was 2 hours each way on public transportation. He wasn't much better off in a car.


Shir - Oct 21, 2009 5:16:03 am PDT #27310 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Dear God, so much ~ma to everyone around. Really.

J, one of my co-workers that I adore, said, "Hey - I'm going to send you another work order, that cool?" It was, so I went to give the thumbs up.

And flipped her off.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME??

Nothing, IMHO. It's also can be interpreted as a good thing. I think.

And now: why the hell every time I quote the claim that there can't be great richness if there ain't great poverty people think I'm referring to zero-sum, and not to the law of conservation of energy?

Sigh. And they call themselves professors.


Lee - Oct 21, 2009 5:17:31 am PDT #27311 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Which part of the bay are you at, again?

I am in Belmont, which is roughly half way between SF and Palo Alto. If you are thinking Silicon Valley for jobs, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Mateo or Redwood city would be good. A fair number of people who work in my office live in SF as well.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 21, 2009 5:29:29 am PDT #27312 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

And now: why the hell every time I quote the claim that there can't be great richness if there ain't great poverty people think I'm referring to zero-sum, and not to the law of conservation of energy?

I know the latter is a law of physics and the former something to do with economics, but then I'm stumped (I was never very good at either subject). What were you referring to in this discussion with your professor(s)?


Shir - Oct 21, 2009 5:38:13 am PDT #27313 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

What were you referring to in this discussion with your professor(s)?

A bunch of things. That doesn't really matter, actually. I see why they think I might be talking about the zero sum (the "result" of a game stays the same - kind of like the average. I don't know, I just Googled it yesterday after too many people dismissed me with that statement), but I'm talking about something a lot more basic than economics, dammit.

I'm talking about physics. The scale of value and the value of the value may differ over time, but the energy won't. So I'm not claiming that it'll be zero sum game, but that if a process suddenly "ceased" of being, it didn't really disappeared - the energy of it just went somewhere else.

I just don't have any idea why suddenly people think I know something about economics. If I had have, I'd wear nicer cloths, God dammit.