Yup, Jen. Into tomorrow. eta: ice pelleting right now. Noisy.
Anya: Are you stupid or something? Giles: Allow me to answer that question with a firing.
'Sleeper'
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.
sarameg - Jan 21, 2010 5:09:22 pm PST #3387 of 30001
Lee - Jan 21, 2010 5:15:03 pm PST #3388 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
And catching up from the day:
I hope you are feeling better, ita.
PUPPIES
Cindy McCain has come out in support of same-sex marriage.
She did that a while ago on an interview on the Daily Show. She also refused to talk about Sarah Palin, and was funny about not talking about her.
Holiday Inn in London now offers "human bed-warmer" service:
Totes agree with the ewwwww
Hot Geek Girl FCM time! FCM: Felicia Day, Rosario Dawson, or Natalie Morales
Tough one, but F Natalie, C Felicia, M Rosario
I need to watch the Guild, don't I?
JGL for the win!
mmmmm
DAMN, the About a Boy boy grew up to be gorgeous. Wow.
mmmmmmm
The new computer I was supposed to get today is now supposed to be in place before I get into work tomorrow.
I predict not doing much again tomorrow.
Also, I am really really really ready for it to stop raining.
Also also, I am drinking Magic Beer.
P.M. Marc - Jan 21, 2010 5:23:09 pm PST #3389 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 need to watch the Guild, don't I?
Yes. It may make you change your answer.
DavidS - Jan 21, 2010 5:23:21 pm PST #3390 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seriously, when I was in SF, Hec was teaching me about Tom Waits and Swordfishtrombones and these like, curio box type things and it led to a strange way that I listen to music now.
Really? Well, Cornell boxes are a good way to view a lot of things. (They're a key plot point in Wm. Gibson's Count Zero too.)
Incidentally, I saw the Cornell show in SF with our own Joe Boucher.
Olivia's friend's mom has gone around the bend. She is the one who is turning a fairly common toddler event into a Traumatic Scarring Thing.
Lee - Jan 21, 2010 5:28:00 pm PST #3391 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yes. It may make you change your answer.
You should remind me of that at some point.
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2010 5:29:50 pm PST #3392 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, Perkins.
What's the weather like up there? Still dumping down here. I'm really hoping it quits soon. I might have an umbrella, but I can never remember to have it handy.
My sister just saw her first Petrellicest video. She sent me an email in confusion wondering what relation the guys were--she knew it was something that made it wrong, but she really couldn't work out why they'd possibly be touching so much. Brothers both explained it and didn't make it better.
billytea - Jan 21, 2010 5:31:34 pm PST #3393 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.
A couple of thoughts as I checked out what you guys talked about while I was sleeping:
1. Sloths are really quite cool. I like the whole "don't get eaten by an eagle" mission statement thing. Of course, the primary reason they're so slothful is that they live on leaves, which are not nutritious. Curioiusly, "don't get eaten by a jaguar" doesn't seem to be as highly prioritised. Even if they defecate only once a week, why climb all the way down to the ground for it? Why not just let gravity do the work? That's pretty much their most vulnerable moment.
2. Emigrating to New Zealand: one thing to note is that Australia and New Zealand have reciprocal arrangements which make it very easy to move from one to the other. (Not surprisingly, the number of Aussies moving to NZ is far outweighed by the number of Kiwis coming to Oz. There are currently over 400,000 Kiwis in Australia, i.e. about 10% of their total population. There are about 40,000 Australians living in NZ.) So, if you really want to move to New Zealand, try coming to Australia first and taking out citizenship.
Note too, although NZ may have restrictive rules governing immigration, it (like Australia) is a relatively high-immigration country proportional to their population. Around 20% of New Zealand residents were born overseas, compared to 24% for Australia and around 10% for the US.
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2010 5:34:18 pm PST #3394 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
bt, what's with your country's colour sense? Why are the ballgirls and boys at the Open wearing pepto abysmal pink?
Lee - Jan 21, 2010 5:35:43 pm PST #3395 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What's the weather like up there?
totally gross. We didn't even get any neat lightening storms today.
billytea - Jan 21, 2010 5:40:27 pm PST #3396 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.
bt, what's with your country's colour sense? Why are the ballgirls and boys at the Open wearing pepto abysmal pink?
I can only assume it's to try to make the players' fashion choices look more acceptable.
Incidentally, this is the first Oz Open in yonks that I recall being played in bearable weather. It's a warm one today, but they've mostly been getting termperatures in the 20s. Forecasts for the next week are also in the 20s, except Australia Day.