Is it just me, or does this look like it was designed to fight Daleks?
It looks to me like it's designed for the person to be serving ice cream.
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Frankenbuddha - May 11, 2010 10:17:09 am PDT #28831 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
tommyrot - May 11, 2010 10:17:20 am PDT #28832 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.
The frustrating thing about the oil leak is that there's so little that can be done. It's just too deep.
Although some have claimed that an atomic bomb would seal things right up....
Jesse - May 11, 2010 10:17:26 am PDT #28833 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hi you guys! I got all of the technology policies and they said you can have "reasonable" personal internet use! Although they caution that your definition of reasonable may not be the same as your supervisor's, and you should go with what the supervisor says...
Also amusing that both Kagan and Obama smoke (or maybe she quit, but it was a thing during the tobacco cases).
My people! That's probably how they got to be friends....
Jesse - May 11, 2010 10:17:27 am PDT #28834 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
oops, double-post. I need to learn how to work a Mac.
sumi - May 11, 2010 10:17:35 am PDT #28835 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I know - plus, I may be wrong, but I keep getting the feeling that BP just didn't plan for this eventuality. They seem so ill prepared to deal with this sort of failure.
Theodosia - May 11, 2010 10:17:45 am PDT #28836 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
And also, so very many of the Katrina "whiners" were old and/or poor and/or disabled and quite often all three -- the people who needed help the most and given very little.
I bet, just as a for-instance, that no one in Nashville was prevented, at gun point, from walking out to an unflooded area.
§ ita § - May 11, 2010 10:18:20 am PDT #28837 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse, I totally think you're not being reasonable.
Dana - May 11, 2010 10:20:40 am PDT #28838 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I bet, just as a for-instance, that no one in Nashville was prevented, at gun point, from walking out to an unflooded area.
Or, you know, shot by the cops.
Gudanov - May 11, 2010 10:27:37 am PDT #28839 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I know - plus, I may be wrong, but I keep getting the feeling that BP just didn't plan for this eventuality. They seem so ill prepared to deal with this sort of failure.
The plan was that the failsafe valve wouldn't fail. Really, it's hard to imagine being able to do much past that at that depth.
Theodosia - May 11, 2010 10:32:23 am PDT #28840 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Remember the controversy about VP Cheney meeting with oil execs to set US energy police, early in Bush II's first term? Evidently one of the policies they decided on was to skip on requiring a $.5m extra-safety valve for deep wells of this type.