Brilliant.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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 08, 2010 8:25:36 am PST #182 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Jan 08, 2010 8:25:59 am PST #183 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A New Kind of Truth. Specifically about videogames, applicable to many media.
§ ita § - Jan 08, 2010 8:26:31 am PST #184 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can only imagine Conan is pissed. The idea of him keeping Leno down to half an hour is something, but at the expense of an earlier show somewhere else?
At my company they had a drill where we were supposed to get under our desks. Except no one told me the drill was coming or what I was supposed to do. It was quite surreal.
tommyrot - Jan 08, 2010 8:29:04 am PST #185 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.
When I was in college I had a job delivering intercampus mail in a panel truck. One day the tornado sirens went off in the city. Dunno what I was thinking, but I kept on driving. Someone asked me what the siren was for and I said, "I think it means you're supposed to seek shelter." But I just kept on working, watching for traffic and tornadoes as I went....
Ginger - Jan 08, 2010 8:37:02 am PST #186 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Neither work NOR public school was cancelled by our dusting of snow, though half the state seems to be closed (to be fair, they seem to have actually gotten some precipitation on the roads elsewhere - ours were dry.)
There was a 29-car pileup on I-285 this morning and police in my county worked more than 120 wrecks overnight. I got about an inch, and it's not going anywhere. I'm trying to decide if I should try to do something about the sheet of ice at the bottom of my driveway before I have to go out this afternoon.
So to sum up, the siren means either tornado, nuclear attack or move your car.
The sirens were also set off when the Sox won the '59 pennant.
P.M. Marc - Jan 08, 2010 8:45:06 am PST #187 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 did not know that!
I knew that, oddly enough.
Gudanov - Jan 08, 2010 8:49:29 am PST #188 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Recent events seem to suggest Twitter.
In a bit of techy trivia, Ford is going to add a Twitter client to its cars.
sarameg - Jan 08, 2010 8:51:28 am PST #189 of 30001
I'm losing the network in 10 minutes because they fucked it up. I really need more warning than that. It's gonna crash stuff horribly.
Gudanov - Jan 08, 2010 8:53:48 am PST #190 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
So to sum up, the siren means either tornado, nuclear attack or move your car.
At least it'll only mean the second one once.
shrift - Jan 08, 2010 9:28:48 am PST #191 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
So I guess I'm seeing Avatar at the IMAX for free in 30 minutes.