Woo hoo, msbelle.
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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 - Jun 01, 2010 4:59:17 am PDT #2966 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Jun 01, 2010 5:00:10 am PDT #2967 of 30001
Glad that step is done!
In other news, my coworkers need to stop all taking vacation at once such that I'm backup for 3 people. It's happening far too frequently of late when I am in the middle of crunch time with my own work and it is really pissing me off. I try very hard NOT to do that to people. We've got a pretty liberal vacation approval policy, but this is getting ridiculous. I'll note I haven't had a vacation in 5 months.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 01, 2010 5:00:12 am PDT #2968 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OK, Alka Seltzer consumed. I hope that does something for the residual queasiness.
msbelle - Jun 01, 2010 5:04:17 am PDT #2969 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The real feeling of all this got much much realer. It was just announced to management of our department.
tommyrot - Jun 01, 2010 5:09:53 am PDT #2970 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.
Ancient painting of the giant bird that roamed Australia 40,000 years ago
This is perhaps the oldest painting on the continent of Australia. It depicts the Genyornis, a giant bird that went extinct 40,000 years ago. And it's one of the only snapshots we have of the ancient creature.
Scientists discovered the red ochre painting two years ago, and at first thought it might be an emu. Now they're convinced it really is the Genyornis, which would mean this painting is older than 40 thousand years.
When did Neanderthals go extinct? 40-50 thousand years ago? I wonder if there are any cave painting of them. Probably none that have been found so far....
tommyrot - Jun 01, 2010 5:15:19 am PDT #2971 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.
Connie Neil - Jun 01, 2010 5:22:19 am PDT #2972 of 30001
brillig
I would have gone with Footloose. Epic soundtrack, young Bacon and SJP, Dianne Wiest in Supportive Wife role #32, Chris Penn, tractor chicken... What's not to love?
Plus, Hubby as Sleeping Guy in Church and the City Council Meeting! With his shrew of an ex-wife next to him. You can get paid extra for sleeping when you're an extra.
billytea - Jun 01, 2010 5:30:21 am PDT #2973 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.
When did Neanderthals go extinct? 40-50 thousand years ago? I wonder if there are any cave painting of them. Probably none that have been found so far....
Not in Australia, certainly. I don't think there's any evidence the Neandertals ever got there. (The fact the Aborigines did pretty much indicates that they were at that time the most technologically advanced people on earth, to manage a sea voyage of that length.) I don't think we've yet found cave paintings old enough anywhere else either. (Note too, it may be that the Genyornis pictures mat not be that old either; it may be that we're wrong about when it went extinct.)
Kathy A - Jun 01, 2010 6:02:07 am PDT #2974 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I don't think Neaderthal got much further east than central Asia.
smonster - Jun 01, 2010 6:03:52 am PDT #2975 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Congrats, msbelle.
Plus, Hubby as Sleeping Guy in Church and the City Council Meeting! With his shrew of an ex-wife next to him. You can get paid extra for sleeping when you're an extra.
O rly? I'll have to look for him next time I watch it.
Liese, I empathize with your cold-induced suffering. I haven't had much coughing, but the snot has been epic. Keeping my fingers crossed I don't get a sinus infection.