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'Out Of Gas'


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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.


Theodosia - Oct 21, 2009 4:22:42 am PDT #14588 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

It's not like the schools are going to have meat-sniffing dogs roaming the halls looking for ham sandwiches.

Although, it's pretty much true that all dogs are meat-sniffing dogs.


sarameg - Oct 21, 2009 4:23:03 am PDT #14589 of 30001

It's dark at 7 am. sobs

I wish I knew what apocalyptic thing happened at 7:15 such that I could hear sirens throughout my whole shower. It was crazy.

I'm overhearing IT discussions that lead me to believe I'm going to get blown off, at which point I'm going to get slightly catty and point out that the impact to my project is much greater than their inconvenience (in fixing something THEY broke.)

My stocking is shredding.


Vortex - Oct 21, 2009 5:24:33 am PDT #14590 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I hate our IT department, but it's kind of unjustified, which I hate more. They don't have a lot of people, and the people they have are underqualified because the pay is such crap. So, I can't get them to do ordinary things and respond to questions because they're too busy keeping the infrastructure from collapsing.


Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 5:28:45 am PDT #14591 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Baltimore public schools have instituted "Meatless Mondays" for school lunches. The American Meat Institute says "students are being served up an unhealthy dose of indoctrination." Lou Dobbs says it's "a political storm in the making."

I pretty sure some commie idea like that wouldn't fly in my school district. They determined the President's address to students wasn't appropriate.


sarameg - Oct 21, 2009 5:53:14 am PDT #14592 of 30001

If they sell it as saving money, rather than vegetarian...which is one of the ideas behind a lot of the changes BCPS made wrt their food service plan.


Dana - Oct 21, 2009 5:54:37 am PDT #14593 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

And during Lent, Fridays were also meatless, though they'd sometimes have fish.

Well, that's okay, as long as Jesus is involved.


Kat - Oct 21, 2009 6:24:04 am PDT #14594 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Okay, random question... is IVR-148 the same as the pandemic swine flu?


Jesse - Oct 21, 2009 6:28:58 am PDT #14595 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am seriously going to stab someone today.


flea - Oct 21, 2009 6:29:50 am PDT #14596 of 30001
information libertarian

Kat, sources say no. It is in the seasonal flu vaccine, and is an H1N1, but isn't the same as the current pandemic strain. [link]


Allyson - Oct 21, 2009 7:08:42 am PDT #14597 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

So I went to the Science of Zombies panel last night. They showed the new Romero flick followed by a mathematician who does modeling of disease spread, and a neurobiologist who discussed lower and higher brain functions, and which parts of a zombie brain are affected by disease.

Romero looked smitten at the whole thing.

Weirdly, when we got there, Kristen said, "hey isn't that Colin?"

And it was, in the row behind us.

Amazingly good panel.

Also, a zombie outbreak (with Ottawa as ground zero) would wipe out humanity in ten days.