Anya ,'Showtime'
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.
It's the other America that listens to Rush Limbaugh and knows who Snookie is that I have issues with.
Hee. NCIS had David McCallum's character deliver a great line in their most recent ep, talking about fame: "We've gone from Socrates to Snookie," in the most cutting tone available to the British accent.
Speaking of paying for them, how naive am I? I'm getting more and more startled at what you now have to pay for on planes. $50 for an exit row seat? I have to pay to be in a position to save your fucking life?
Pillow and blanket? Sheeit. I don't care if I get to keep them. I'm not going to tote that shit around, and your plane is cold and uncomfortable. I now realise how lucky I was when the flight attendant gave me a set for free when I puked at LAX, but I didn't realise I should have kept it.
I got a good giggle today. My boss's boss is having his 30 year anniversary with the company this week, so they had a surprise party for him with people dropping in from around the company. One of those who came by was a former coworker of mine who is also a personal trainer on the side and who ran an aerobics (Tae-bo) class about ten years ago during lunch, which I took. I waved him over and gave him the update on my weight loss, and he smiled and said, "People are going to start hating you around here!" in a teasing way.
I had run into him a few weeks ago near the bathrooms, and in chatting with him started to mention the surgery, only to have him say that he knew because "word had gotten around."
I think I've worked here too long, if I've got contacts in most departments who'll talk about me to contacts in other departments. Nineteen years at one place will do that.
From the Washington Post:
Earthquake in Pakistan, with a magnitude of 7.4, felt from Dubai to Delhi
By Melissa Bell
An earthquake has hit southwest Pakistan with a magnitude of 7.4, CNN reports. Twitter lit up with the news that people felt the earth move from Dubai to the outskirts of Delhi.
Reuters reports the quake struck 34 miles west of Dalbandin at 1:23 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The Pacific Tsunami Center said the onshore quake had not triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Me and Tom. It's a keeper. Yay, Tom!
Yikes, that's a big earthquake.
Fantastic picture of you and Scola, ita.
Governor: Only Christians are my brothers
Robert Bentley, the new Republican governor of Alabama, delivered an oddly exclusionary message on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Birmingham News (via Political Wire) reports:
''I was elected as a Republican candidate. But once I became governor ... I became the governor of all the people. I intend to live up to that. I am color blind."
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''But if you have been adopted in God's family like I have, and like you have if you're a Christian and if you're saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister."
Bentley added, ''Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother."
That is just creepy as hell.