Newsflash! Some airborne particles pose more dangers than others.
In other breaking news, drinking poison poses more dangers than drinking water, and Scientific American needs a new headline writer.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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 - Dec 17, 2009 9:49:54 am PST #25798 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Lee - Dec 17, 2009 9:59:03 am PST #25799 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
msbelle - Dec 17, 2009 9:59:13 am PST #25800 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
HA!
smonster - Dec 17, 2009 10:00:52 am PST #25801 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
My desk is geeky, but it's girl geeky: [link]
Glam, I love your flair wall! I have a black button that says "this is my piece of flair." But I also have lots of buttons at home that are languishing for lack of a good display venue.
Random note for fellow webinar participant: the verb is "adhere:" "adhesive" is a noun.
In other breaking news, drinking poison poses more dangers than drinking water, and Scientific American needs a new headline writer.
And cigarettes are bad for you.
smonster - Dec 17, 2009 10:02:21 am PST #25802 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Already in the right order.
F: Famke Janssen C: Fay Wray M: Felicity Huffman (bring it, Macy!)
Jessica - Dec 17, 2009 10:13:28 am PST #25803 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Plane passenger accidentally activates ejector seat
The novice flier instantly shot through the jet's perspex canopy and was blasted 100 metres into the sky by the rocket-powered emergency chair.
Experts said the man was lucky to escape unharmed following the bizarre incident, which happened on Wednesday in South Africa.
It is thought he activated the ejector seat after lurching forward during an aerobatic manoeuvre and accidentally pulling on the black and yellow emergency handle between his legs.
The lever is fitted as standard in the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II jets to allow pilots and their passengers to eject from the aircraft in the event of an emergency.
As soon as it was activated, the ejection sequence activated two rockets attached to the back of his chair.
The man, who has not been named, later floated back down to Earth on a parachute which opened automatically.
South African Airforce bosses scrambled a helicopter to pick up the passenger after the blunder near Langebaanweg airfield, 80 miles north of Cape Town.
The incident happened shortly after he took off for a joyride with an experienced pilot from South Africa's Silver Falcons air display team.
P.M. Marc - Dec 17, 2009 10:14:38 am PST #25804 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm just going to second Smonster.
F: Famke Janssen C: Fay Wray M: Felicity Huffman (bring it, Macy!)
I could totally take Macy!
Trudy Booth - Dec 17, 2009 10:16:04 am PST #25805 of 30001
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
Alicia Keys mentioned that she had been on the Cosby Show when she was four. Someone over at TWOP linked to the clip--it was the leg-riding ep! I had no clue that little kid was Alicia Keys!
If I still read Salon I'm sure I'd find that clip linked to with a breathless declaration of, "Bill Cosby smacks Alicia Keys on Bottom!!!!" and 400 nasty letters.
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2009 10:21:04 am PST #25806 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
F C M
Daniel Craig Daniel Radcliffe Daniel Dae Kim (doll!)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan Javier Bardem Robert Downey Jr
Erid Dane Ed Norton (strange ew, but he photographs well) Enver Gjokaj
Famke Jansen Fay Wray Felicity Huffman
PERSONALLY, I think they need a bigger sample size than 215 students. Speaking as a woman who has a Fullmetal Alchemist action figure, a ninja duck, and a DRD on her desk.
IIRC, none of them were comp sci students, so it's biased right off the bat. I don't decorate my desk much--in offices where I'm more out and people are younger I tend to accumulate geeky stuff as gifts. I don't feel like I can decorate here though, as a consultant. But before I've had quite the LotR fest at my desk.
Dana - Dec 17, 2009 10:22:30 am PST #25807 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The panels with Kate Mulgrew at DragonCon were full of women who told her that her character inspired them to go into science.