I assume this is already posted in the Supernatural thread, but Amazon's deal of the day is Seasons 1-4 for $70.
She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.
Spike ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Oct 22, 2010 5:20:05 am PDT #1219 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2010 5:20:44 am PDT #1220 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.
Oh, and the universe began on this day, 6014 years ago. (Or if there wasn't a year 0, then it began 6013 years ago.)
Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.: Universe Usshered In
4004 B.C.: It’s the beginning of time, according to 17th century Irish bishop and theologian James Ussher — and not just any old moment on that fateful date, but “on the beginning of the night.”
Ussher’s calculations, published in the Annals of the Old Testament, Deduced From the First Origins of the World, strike most modern sensibilities as absurd. Except for a few Young Earth Creationists, believers and nonbelievers alike agree that if a supernatural entity created the universe, it happened about 13.75 billion years ago.
sumi - Oct 22, 2010 5:21:55 am PDT #1221 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Huh, I thought that X in Spanish was from Mexico. From Mixtec or something.
zuisa - Oct 22, 2010 5:25:21 am PDT #1222 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Ussher's calculations always make me think of the beginning of Good Omens where we learn that he was in fact wrong by about a quarter of an hour, or something like that.
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2010 5:30:33 am PDT #1223 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.
Now I'm wondering - was there a year zero?
Although I think we discussed this on or about Jan 1, 2000....
billytea - Oct 22, 2010 5:34:32 am PDT #1224 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.
Now I'm wondering - was there a year zero?
There was not. The calendar goes straight from 1 BCE to 1 CE.
Gudanov - Oct 22, 2010 5:35:26 am PDT #1225 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Amy, unless there's another author with the same name, my library has a bunch of your books. I thought maybe I should check the next time I went there, but then I realized, Internet, duh. I just did a search.
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2010 5:37:41 am PDT #1226 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 calendar goes straight from 1 BCE to 1 CE.
And everybody born in year 0 never got any birthday presents ever.
ION, Live crab vending machine
his live hairy Shanghai crab vending machine keeps the crabs at 5° C, at which temperature the poor crustaceans go into hibernation. If you give it some money and it dispenses a dead crab, the machine's owner will give you three free live crabs by way of compensation. The machine is in Nanjing, and represents a major push in the always-complex business of live-crab vending.
Theodosia - Oct 22, 2010 5:49:52 am PDT #1227 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"
I just watched one of those Monsters Inside Me programs on Animal Planet, and there was a guy who got a really gross infestation from eating live crabs at a sushi restaurant. So watch out!
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2010 5:50:48 am PDT #1228 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.
Did they at least give him a t-shirt that says, "I caught the crabs at [dining establishment name]"?