We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.

Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'


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.


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.


tommyrot - Jan 13, 2010 9:14:53 am PST #1272 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.

San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake, Now In Color

Photos were taken 6 months after the earthquake.


Kathy A - Jan 13, 2010 9:15:26 am PST #1273 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

This is fascinating--the Chicago Reader has newspaper clips from a rash of testicle-removing assaults that happened in Chicago in 1922. The papers didn't actually call them "testicles," though; they used the term "gland" instead. Having two balls cut off was a "double gland" theft.


msbelle - Jan 13, 2010 9:22:34 am PST #1274 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

work is annoying me. I am researching trips for my 40th birthday next year.


smonster - Jan 13, 2010 9:24:32 am PST #1275 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I will likely donate to MSF/DWB.

"if you can smell what the rock is cookin'" RANDOM and now Jump Around is stuck in my head.

You've transformed into my ex-girlfriend!