Have any of you ever read Sharp Teeth? Werewolves!
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Kat - May 18, 2010 8:39:16 am PDT #88 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Polter-Cow - May 18, 2010 8:39:19 am PDT #89 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But I don't want to watch Grey's Anatomy in a jungle.
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 8:40:41 am PDT #90 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.
Tom Scola - May 18, 2010 8:42:03 am PDT #91 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
For those of you keeping score:
Genre NBC ABC Spy 2 Superhero 1 1 Cop 2½ 3½ Lawyer 1½ 1 Doctor 2½
bon bon - May 18, 2010 8:43:49 am PDT #92 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
People already said it, but here's a study on digestive enzymes adapting to the diet: [link] From the abstract:
It thus appears that altering the amount of starch intake leads to a parallel change in the activity of all the enzymes involved in the sequential hydrolysis of the dietary carbohydrates.
Steph L. - May 18, 2010 8:44:38 am PDT #93 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
You might be victim to that thing (ask bon for details) where when you get off gluten, gluten is mean to you when you try it again. It's why I'm never going off.
As I recall, this is the problem with going off a lot of types of foods, and the risk of any kind of elimination diet.
Like, I'm totally convinced my mother-in-law would have fewer food issues if she hadn't gone on as many as she has. And my Dad never had problems with lactose until he went off milk when he was on Atkins.
I'm not sure my current problem is gluten as much as my innards are just so perpetually irritated that anything other than water is just adding to the irritation.
Which would be fine, because gluten-free is expensive!
But I don't want to watch Grey's Anatomy in a jungle.
You live in a jungle?
I mean, just go watch it at someone's apartment....
Jesse - May 18, 2010 8:44:41 am PDT #94 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Caroline Dhavernas! Back on television! In a medical drama. Boo.
With Enrique Murciano! Yay.
Sparky1 - May 18, 2010 8:49:24 am PDT #95 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Awww, the National Zoo has a new lion cub (and, of course, a new lion cub cam): [link]
§ ita § - May 18, 2010 8:50:19 am PDT #96 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Disney's Princesses Reimagined As Comic Book Heroines
Disney's princesses reimagined as sluts. That's NSFW where I work.
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 8:51:31 am PDT #97 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.
A Computer Algorithm That Can Detect Sarcasm
Crap. I was planning on using sarcasm as my primary weapon during the robot rebellion....
To create such an algorithm, the team scanned 66,000 Amazon.com product reviews, with three different human annotators tagging sentences for sarcasm. The team then identified certain sarcastic patterns that emerged in the reviews and created a classification algorithm that puts each statement into a sarcastic class.
The algorithms were then trained on that seed set of 80 sentences from the collection of reviews. These annotated sentences helped the algorithm learn what sorts of words and patterns distinguish sarcastic remarks – those that mean the opposite of what they literally convey, or that convey a sentiment inconsistent with the literal reading.
But I like how they used Amazon product reviews as a source of sarcasm....