Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


Sparky1 - Jan 13, 2011 5:38:42 am PST #16682 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Downton Abbey: Entailment explained

Oh, I loved my property law class - so much fun!

brenda is me w/r/t shoes at the office. It's there I require variety; at home I'm either chasing a dog or a child.


Gudanov - Jan 13, 2011 6:00:11 am PST #16683 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Fantasy Novels with improved titles.

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Miracleman - Jan 13, 2011 6:23:11 am PST #16684 of 30001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Fantasy Novels with improved titles.

BWAH! My favorite is Robert Jordan's "Characters Show Up."


SuziQ - Jan 13, 2011 6:26:39 am PST #16685 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Gud - what kind of surgery? CJ's ortho said he will likely need jaw surgery to correct a severe underbite. He wouldn't get it done until his early 20's since they would want to wait for him to be past his growing phase, but that insurance may cover it if we make a case for sleep apnea.


sj - Jan 13, 2011 6:26:49 am PST #16686 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

WTF, Off The Map?

Yeah, it was not good in many ways, but I will probably give it at least a couple more episodes if only because Caroline Dhavernes is in it.


Gudanov - Jan 13, 2011 6:29:39 am PST #16687 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

He wouldn't get it done until his early 20's since they would want to wait for him to be past his growing phase, but that insurance may cover it if we make a case for sleep apnea.

Same sort of thing. He was less encouraging about insurance coverage though, he said he's only had one case of insurance covering it since he started his practice. Apparently, it's pretty much a standard exclusion.


Gudanov - Jan 13, 2011 6:35:40 am PST #16688 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

BWAH! My favorite is Robert Jordan's "Characters Show Up."

It's funny because it's true. I liked the first three books, but then came the realization these storylines weren't going anywhere anytime soon and that his female characters were all very similar.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2011 6:37:40 am PST #16689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I tried to pick back up Wheel Of Time after a long gap, and dear god, is it insensible. You can't tell the characters apart, and there just keep getting to be more and more of them.

My favourite was the Xanth one. That dawning realisation was pretty much where I gave up reading and sold my stash.


lisah - Jan 13, 2011 7:07:15 am PST #16690 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I have my annual review at 2 and I'm anxious! I think I did a good job this year. I certainly did A. Lot. I hope my supervisor acknowledges that. I reminded him that me doing all that stuff meant he didn't have to!


Liese S. - Jan 13, 2011 7:16:13 am PST #16691 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Technically I am not supposed to use prefab firelogs but it turns out real wood spits like a demon sucking salt and what it spits is, you know, ON FIRE.

Also, what kind of wood are you burning? Spitting and such usually comes from wood that is wet. The first part of the burn is the water evaporating, and then the nice calm warm burn is the wood burning, and then the gases burning. Ginger is right in that fireplaces are generally inefficient and glass doors will improve that. If you get properly seasoned wood, you will get less hissing and spitting.