Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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.


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2010 1:52:24 pm PST #824 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.

I love the site Hack a Day, but can people see what's wrong with this paragraph?

[Sean_Carney] build this clock that tells the weather instead of the time. The two hands display the current conditions and the temperature. Forty below zero seems amazingly cold if you’re on the Fahrenheit scale but [Sean's] from Winnipeg so he’s operating on the Celsius side of things.

Weather clock

eta: Possibly intentionally wrong....


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2010 1:56:33 pm PST #825 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't get how -40°C isn't devastatingly cold--isn't it about the same as Fahrenheit?


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2010 1:58:34 pm PST #826 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.

Yeah. -40 is the one temp that's exactly the same for F and C.


Jesse - Jan 11, 2010 2:01:18 pm PST #827 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Liu, she said, typically tells them to retake their seats and to call him John after the first formal greeting each day.

That's even more bonkers. Every day he tells people they can call him John??

And msbelle, I said my prior comment so maybe you don't have to have that as an added to-do item, unless there's something distinctly wrong with the afterschool place.


Strix - Jan 11, 2010 2:02:18 pm PST #828 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Holy crap, that's narcissistic!


Jesse - Jan 11, 2010 2:05:36 pm PST #829 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, I forgot to mention the Very Buffista Book I got for Christmas -- it's called Literally, the Best Language Book Ever. It's about pet peeves.


bon bon - Jan 11, 2010 2:07:44 pm PST #830 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

This is a guy that shows up at more unnecessary photo ops than Chuck Schumer and always tried to have a hand in political things that didn't involve his district or constituency. Liu transparently wants to be mayor. Nice start on that, Mr. Comptroller!


shrift - Jan 11, 2010 2:11:19 pm PST #831 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Holy carp, y'all. Old Navy had some super cheap clearance prices, so last night I ordered a bunch of exercise clothes and colorful underpants ($1.49/pair!), and they've shipped already.

I guess the universe really wants me to give yoga a try. And to rock some sassy pants.


msbelle - Jan 11, 2010 2:14:05 pm PST #832 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

His afterschool is ridic unstructured and my guess chaotic. Last year, yes things got bad at afterschool also, but he wasn't on meds then and it was centered on the end of school. This all feels much more generalized. He needs to be in specialized care actually, but there is precious little of that in NYC.


§ ita § - Jan 11, 2010 4:06:31 pm PST #833 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

Gies refused to read the papers, saying even a teenager's privacy was sacred. Later, she said if she had read them she would have had to burn them because they incriminated the "helpers."

That's some pretty powerful stuff.