Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?

Xander ,'Get It Done'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Daisy Jane - Mar 02, 2010 9:18:45 am PST #12603 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

DJ, that's so sad about the fire. Y'all are very kind to try and get the servers shifts like that

Jon is in the biz, and I spent enough years in it and now around it that it really hits home. I really think it's given Jon a nervous breakdown. He called me bawling a bit ago.

I think I'm going to leave after my 3 o'clock.


tommyrot - Mar 02, 2010 9:22:17 am PST #12604 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.

We need (and by we I mean the royal we) a topic index for B'cracy.

I suppose you (and by you I mean the royal you - wait, that doesn't make sense) could graph the number of posts in Bureau per day - that way you could at least tell when a new controversial topic begins.


Jesse - Mar 02, 2010 9:24:30 am PST #12605 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

From having just read the article (about them, not by them) "experimental sad mood induction" means they played "Requiem" for the test subjects on a gray rainy day. In another case, they showed the test subjects a video about cancer and death before the task was performed.

Holy crap.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2010 9:24:31 am PST #12606 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I swear, it feels like all controversy all the time, but I barely remember to check the date stamps.

We're creating Minearverse now. Closing down Atlantic Canadians was just a flutter. Due South and PPO still exist, for the nonce.


Beverly - Mar 02, 2010 9:27:11 am PST #12607 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Lines up to cockpunch the NYT for printing that wankass article, and the writer for actually writing it.

I suspect that there are buffistas still posting* who are not what their pixels claim. But it's the internet. It happens.

It's true. I am a nineteen-year-old man. This means I was ...nine, or ten, when I started posting in Agnes Bertiz. The masquerade has been difficult to maintain with those of you who have "met" me.

Daisy, I'm so very sorry. And fate is being exceptionally unkind with the double whammy in one day. You have all my sympathies today.

Oy, flea. May it get simpler and more betterer from here on.


beth b - Mar 02, 2010 9:27:34 am PST #12608 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

So sorry DJ.

I'm feeling sad about my cat's health today. This not well and slowly slowing down is wearing me down more than the cat is wearing down. I'm not against going to work, but I don't really want anything beyond the formality of yoga pants.


Jesse - Mar 02, 2010 9:27:35 am PST #12609 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had to stop reading for real when we were hammering out the Processes and Procedures.


Burrell - Mar 02, 2010 9:28:17 am PST #12610 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Life is too short to read articles on crappy science I say!

I have a quick hivemind question. My student is writing about anime. My butt tells me that Simba the White Lion and Speed Racer were both anime series. Were there earlier anime series on American tv?


Tom Scola - Mar 02, 2010 9:29:09 am PST #12611 of 30001
hwæt

Were there earlier anime series on American tv?

Gigantor.


Beverly - Mar 02, 2010 9:31:57 am PST #12612 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Battleship/star something? The one with Voltar/tron? I know there were contemporary series with Speed Racer.