Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

Oz ,'Beneath You'


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.


Jesse - Jan 13, 2010 8:33:15 am PST #1262 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had a weird episode of Jump Around in my head recently, too! Huh.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2010 8:36:58 am PST #1263 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can barely process the Haiti scope. PMM linked to this list of news and donation resources on LJ.

I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions

I just read about one of those yesterday and I don't remember where--where did you see it?


DavidS - Jan 13, 2010 8:37:41 am PST #1264 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't remember where--where did you see it?

Wikipedia.


megan walker - Jan 13, 2010 8:40:04 am PST #1265 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

this list of news and donation resources on LJ

Note: MSF/DWB does have a Haiti-specific donation page.


P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2010 8:41:27 am PST #1266 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 can barely process the Haiti scope

Me neither.


P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2010 8:42:03 am PST #1267 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

Note: MSF/DWB does have a Haiti-specific donation page.

IIRC, it's linked in the comments -- it mightn't have been up when the original post was made.


Steph L. - Jan 13, 2010 8:53:18 am PST #1268 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I can barely process the Haiti scope

Me neither.

One of the pictures in the NYT slideshow is a view from above a neighborhood, and all the houses -- 40 or so -- are just timbers on the ground. I can't even get my mind around that, much less how big the whole thing is.


Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2010 9:00:47 am PST #1269 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

One of the pictures in the NYT slideshow is a view from above a neighborhood, and all the houses -- 40 or so -- are just timbers on the ground. I can't even get my mind around that, much less how big the whole thing is.

Photo #38 from the boston.com link I posted above. Seeing how tiny the people are in that picture is disconcerting.


Steph L. - Jan 13, 2010 9:03:58 am PST #1270 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Photo #38 from the boston.com link I posted above.

That's the one. It's shown much smaller on the NYT site, and I didn't even realize there were people in the photo.

(I'm not clicking too many links, because I just can't handle it.)


Ginger - Jan 13, 2010 9:05:21 am PST #1271 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions (sudden eruptions of CO2 from lakes that asphyxiate everything nearby).

You clearly have not been reading enough weird science.

Poor Haiti sometimes seems like a great cosmic experiment in misery.