Gah, Sara. That's awful.
The Angry Birds reference reminds me: I got this delightful poetry filk in the Yuletide fic exchange.
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Anne W. - Jan 11, 2011 8:00:34 am PST #16200 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
SuziQ - Jan 11, 2011 8:03:17 am PST #16201 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Yikes, Sara. Yes, retail therapy and swimming are good.
I bought tickets, through Living Social, to the Spy Museum in DC. I had glanced through the deal information and hadn't had an expiration date jump out at me. I figured March shouldn't be an issue, so I bought them. Today I got the deal certificates and they expire March 14th. About a week before we will be out there. Any DC-istas want them?
Took me a couple of hours, but I got the rent situation worked out. I wasn't able to get them to remove all the fees, but they did cut some of them. I'm most upset that this got termed NSF when that wasn't the issue. The money was there, just not accessable through electronic transfer. Their system accepted the account information, so I assumed all was ok. Grrrrrrrr.
sarameg - Jan 11, 2011 8:06:27 am PST #16202 of 30001
I really hope I don't have to spend the next year feeding safestores UDOs into jukeboxes to restore the entire HST, Kepler, FUSE and countless other mission's data to new hardware.
That's worst case.
sarameg - Jan 11, 2011 8:10:17 am PST #16203 of 30001
People kept stopping me to see if I was ok, I guess I looked that bad. All of us did who heard the system go and know exactly what it means.
OK, need to go do something else, or I'll never get off this jagged adrenaline rush.
erikaj - Jan 11, 2011 8:12:49 am PST #16204 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I have seen both sanish-looking and bugfuck looking photos of Loughner but I will agree that his most recent photo is one of the few where the subject looks as crazy as he seems.
tommyrot - Jan 11, 2011 8:17:26 am PST #16205 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.
Some Chicago news:
A 38-year-old man was running around with only socks in the frigid wintry weather this morning in Lakeview when he was arrested with a crack pipe and marijuana in his possession, Chicago police allege.
Police responded to a disturbance a little before 11 a.m. in the 2900 block of North Broadway when they encountered the man carrying the pipe, police said.
Police eventually found his clothing -- with the marijuana inside them -- nearby, police said.
brenda m - Jan 11, 2011 8:29:13 am PST #16206 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Heh. That's around the corner from my old apartment.
tommyrot - Jan 11, 2011 8:35:37 am PST #16207 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.
That's around the corner from my old apartment.
More from the article:
Witnesses state the suspect was asking, "Where's brenda?"
OK, I made that up.
Ouise - Jan 11, 2011 8:38:47 am PST #16208 of 30001
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
I will agree that his most recent photo is one of the few where the subject looks as crazy as he seems.
For me, the ultra-disturbing part is how much it looks like pictures of my father. Including the crazy look, which in my father's case is a result of trying not to blink.
tommyrot - Jan 11, 2011 8:46:45 am PST #16209 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.
One scary-ass video: Cars Get Swept Away in Australian Flash Flood (The One)
Massive flash flooding earlier this week in Queensland, Australia has reportedly left 10 people dead and over 70 missing, but the eyewitness testimonies of "huge wall[s] of water" over a kilometer wide are pretty hard to imagine until you see videos like this.
YouTuber whitelightbringer recorded the flooding as it hit the Chalk Lane parking lot in Toowoomba, Queensland yesterday, January 10, and it's amazing how quickly the water goes from looking like an innocent muddy river to completely flooding the parking lot and dragging cars away in the current.