I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.

Oz ,'Him'


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.


shrift - Mar 04, 2010 8:44:18 pm PST #13391 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

You were too busy setting up Farscape fic archives, and running the quotes generator.

Yeah, also I was either still on dial-up or getting yelled at for my internet usage at work prior to moving to Chicago.

BTW, I'm watching Archer and laughing my ass off at it.


§ ita § - Mar 04, 2010 8:46:27 pm PST #13392 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Of course, Clay didn't mention the "makes sane people crazy on contact" part of it. I never ever guessed I could read that stuff for fun.


DavidS - Mar 04, 2010 8:47:15 pm PST #13393 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It's funny too but I forgot the main reason we were talking about voting was that we were tired/annoyed with trying to come to a bullshit consensus on the same issues.

We wanted a way to stop talking about certain things.


DavidS - Mar 04, 2010 8:47:55 pm PST #13394 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

BTW, I'm watching Archer and laughing my ass off at it.

I could definitely see you working at ISIS.


DavidS - Mar 04, 2010 8:50:47 pm PST #13395 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Also it took a while for me to realize that the "Supreme Court Thread" I keep referring to is what became Lightbulbs.


Hil R. - Mar 04, 2010 8:51:53 pm PST #13396 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

This conversation made me start clicking through the BRQG, and I found this:

DavidS: Now, if you'd read my book you'd know that was a song written by a gay, alcoholic dwarf for a dim and lumpy rentboy.

and I must know, what song was this in reference to?


DavidS - Mar 04, 2010 8:53:35 pm PST #13397 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The song in question is "My Funny Valentine."

Oooh, another choice bit from Clay Shirky:

We had every bit of technology we needed to do weblogs the day Mosaic launched the first forms-capable browser. Every single piece of it was right there. Instead, we got Geocities. Why did we get Geocities and not weblogs? We didn't know what we were doing.

One was a bad idea, the other turns out to be a really good idea. It took a long time to figure out that people talking to one another, instead of simply uploading badly-scanned photos of their cats, would be a useful pattern.


javachik - Mar 04, 2010 8:55:39 pm PST #13398 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I browsed through some of the bureau threads but so much was referring to things going on in other threads that it was very confusing. Seems like all y'all have really mellowed. But I think you've been allowed to mellow, for all of the reasons Hec and that article discuss. I guess we are always better with a bit of structure, and confidence that asses can generally (and formally) be shown the door.


Hil R. - Mar 04, 2010 8:57:47 pm PST #13399 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Huh. I'm taller than Lorenz Hart.


Burrell - Mar 04, 2010 9:28:52 pm PST #13400 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Thanks ita. My memory was just that he instigated a group huff-off. I repressed all the acrimony.