Recent MIT hacks: [link]
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'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.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2009 3:03:35 pm PDT #382 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Jul 22, 2009 3:10:42 pm PDT #383 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, that first one with the cannon makes me all nostalgic. What a nice homage.
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2009 3:16:19 pm PDT #384 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Me too - I'd assumed it was anti-Semitic. But it's not! So I can say it!
Shyster shyster shyster shyster shyster shyster shyster!!!
That one's kind of iffy for some people. It doesn't have antisemitic origins, as far as I know, but it's been used in an antisemitic way often enough that some people will bristle at pretty much any use of it now.
Scrappy - Jul 22, 2009 3:30:25 pm PDT #385 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
bounces into thread
Just got two tickets to see Neil Finn perform at Largo, a 200-seat venue! The show hasn't been publicized yet but I was in the know because I am a member of the Crowded House fan club.
I got the email last night. I am lucky that my husband understands fannish glee, because he didn't bat an eye when I suddenly started hyperventilating and waving my hands about while saying "He's coming to town! We have to go see him!" J, bless him, just said "Who?" and when I explained said, "Oh, THAT him" and got right on the phone to order tickets.
billytea - Jul 22, 2009 3:51:37 pm PDT #386 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Just got two tickets to see Neil Finn perform at Largo, a 200-seat venue!
Ooh, good stuff. I have a recording of him doing an acoustic version of Billie Jean. It's quite good.
P.M. Marc - Jul 22, 2009 3:58:04 pm PDT #387 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
Lucky Scrappy!
Cal Tech had, like, volumes devoted to pranking. When we all met up first break after going away to college, my friend Jeff brought some up to share with us.
Evergreen didn't do pranks so much. I mean, we had no grades, our motto and fight song were all about the Latin double entendres, and our mascot was the geoduck.
Sort of takes the fun right out of things.
Kat - Jul 22, 2009 4:41:49 pm PDT #388 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Huh. I got into an argument with a friend who insisted the handbrake thing was only if you were learning stick and otherwise shouldn't be used, whereas I said it was a good technique to use on steep hills even if you were experienced at driving stick.
I have never ever done a handbrake start and I'm not even sure I'd know how. And I used to drive through San Francisco up and down Divisidero. That said, I like balancing the clutch and the accelerator, though I have been rear-ended by a rocket scientist who was like, "Your brake lights weren't on!" Yeah, moron. But I also wasn't actually moving, hence the rear-ending.
Kat - Jul 22, 2009 4:42:33 pm PDT #389 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Evergreen didn't do pranks so much. I mean, we had no grades, our motto and fight song were all about the Latin double entendres, and our mascot was the geoduck.
Sort of takes the fun right out of things.
Or everything already felt like a goof on the establishment?
Laura - Jul 22, 2009 4:50:38 pm PDT #390 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Despite my love of driving stick and having owned many varieties over the last 35 years I fail at teaching the skill. I tried with my son a number of times and a few hundred stalls later, fail. My mother says he needs a non-parent teacher. I don't understand why he doesn't get it. I need to find someone else to give it a try.
Love good pranks. Didn't do any of it in school, but IRL plenty.
Gudanov - Jul 22, 2009 4:55:36 pm PDT #391 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Didn't do many pranks in college. In high school we did a few things to cars. Wrapped one in plastic wrap, covered one in ice, carried a couple into improbable locations though not anything like into a building.