My favorite current headline (on the NYT website about former rep Massa):
Congressman Admits Tickle Fight, Nothing More
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
Dana - Mar 09, 2010 1:21:38 pm PST #15069 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 1:25:51 pm PST #15070 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got to tell the two developers in the meeting today that they were engaging in a "geek spiral." I felt all Eliot for a second. Leverage jokes, party of one...
Hil R. - Mar 09, 2010 1:27:37 pm PST #15071 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Interesting graphic, showing the US nutritional recommendations compared to subsidies. [link] (Basically, recommendations are to eat mostly grains, fruits, and vegetables. Subsidies go almost entirely to meat and dairy, some to grains, and almost nothing to fruits and vegetables.) There's also a chart showing how prices of different foods have changed since 1978 -- soda and meat have consistently gone down, fresh produce has consistently gone up.
sarameg - Mar 09, 2010 1:28:10 pm PST #15072 of 30001
Both my public radio stations are in pledge week. Ahrg.
Arm is slowly getting better.
People are just odd.
Lee - Mar 09, 2010 1:33:08 pm PST #15073 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
AH! I caught the honeymilk reference when it happened, but I forgot.
Sheryl - Mar 09, 2010 1:36:04 pm PST #15074 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Congrats Connie!
brenda m - Mar 09, 2010 1:39:21 pm PST #15075 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Busted again for doodling during meetings. But I have an awful "Carry On My Wayward Son" earworm, and I thought drawing Winchesters would at least get the stupid look off my face.
If it helps, I am drinking a beer and, well, reading buffistas on my current conference call. Go team WFH!
billytea - Mar 09, 2010 1:48:27 pm PST #15076 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.
Congressman Admits Tickle Fight, Nothing More
So he's trying to put the kibosh on those "Ticklepocalypse" rumours?
Amy - Mar 09, 2010 1:53:36 pm PST #15077 of 30001
Because books.
This amateur video take on Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" filled me with all kinds of happy.
Connie Neil - Mar 09, 2010 1:54:22 pm PST #15078 of 30001
brillig
re: changing prices of produce--I wonder how much of that is tied to people plowing under fields and orchards to put up crappy subdivisions? There are a depressing number of McMansion settlements around here with the unironic name of Orchard Acres or Applewood Estates or such to memorialize what the land used to be used for.