There was ice in Western Fairfax this morning. More slushy on the streets, but it took me several minutes to get the ice off the windshield.
And yet traffic was so light, I still made it to work on time.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Fred Pete - Dec 31, 2009 6:50:14 am PST #28306 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
smonster - Dec 31, 2009 6:56:59 am PST #28307 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hi Moonlit! Good to see your pixels.
Dude, that NYT feature got the Brokeback quote wrong. Dur.
Corgi vid very cute. I still find them adorable, despite our family's 12-year adventure with a very cranky specimen.
Kat - Dec 31, 2009 7:02:33 am PST #28308 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just heard the word "counter-radicalization" on the BBC. I've never heard it before and I can't imagine what it might entail. Reverse brain washing?
Today has been a DAY and it isn't even 10:00 yet. I finished all but two college recs. One is written, but I'm not sure how to get it to the student who didn't give me the address of where to send it and the other is for a former student in her application to a special program at her university and requires more thought.
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2009 7:03:37 am PST #28309 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That NYT feature does make me want to watch Brokeback Mountain again.
And movies by mail are not a fad. They are a way of life. Well, until superseded by streaming rentals, anyway.
Liese S. - Dec 31, 2009 7:07:49 am PST #28310 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Is radicalization considered brainwashing?
Lee - Dec 31, 2009 7:09:20 am PST #28311 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
FCM:
Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, Ross Geller
Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer
Phoebe Buffay, Monica Geller, Rachel Green
Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston
tommyrot - Dec 31, 2009 7:10:07 am PST #28312 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
2010: Twenty-Ten, Not Two-Thousand-And-Ten
When you first exclaim "2010" out loud, as you ring in the New Year later tonight, say "twenty-ten" not "two-thousand-and-ten."
Why?
Because the former is two words shorter than the latter, as the web site Twentynot2000.com points out. In our shortening, 140-character tweeting vernacular, brevity matters.
According to the site:
Say the year "1810" out loud. Now say the year "1999" out loud. See a pattern? It's been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just ended) instead of saying the number the long way. However, many people are carrying the way they said years from last decade over to this decade as a bad habit. If we don't fix this now, we'll be stuck saying years the long way for the next 89 years. Don't let that happen!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 31, 2009 7:11:16 am PST #28313 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Chances are the person officiating didn't know diddly about the departed, and is just making up platitudes. It seems more dis than respectful.
We had that happen when my great aunt died shortly after my grandmother (her sister). My grandmother lived with us and knew our minister fairly well (he and my folks were good friends), but he didn't know my great aunt. My grandmother's funeral was the first time the whole extended family had been together in years, so the wake was a kind of boisterous family reunion, and when we had the second funeral a couple months later the reverend conducted the service in that spirit with jokes and levity rather than the somberness that the occasion required.
Kathy A - Dec 31, 2009 7:12:30 am PST #28314 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My boss's boss is letting us out a bit early if we want. Since I got in at 7:00, I'll be leaving at 2:00 (an hour early), so I can run some errands and still get home in time to take a brief nap before going out to a NYE party.
Amy - Dec 31, 2009 7:16:09 am PST #28315 of 30001
Because books.
Oooh, Perkins is at it again. I'm going to stick to characters.
F Joey, C Ross, M Chandler.
F Rachel, C Monica (sadly, because I'm fond of Monica!), M Phoebe (because at least I'd never be bored).