Ok yes, I'm jealous, a little.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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.
hippocampus - Mar 09, 2011 12:53:20 pm PST #27334 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - Mar 09, 2011 12:53:46 pm PST #27335 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I actually meant to give msbelle the Big Ups, but then I got distracted. Oops?
billytea - Mar 09, 2011 1:07:22 pm PST #27336 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.
I have slept the sleep of the meara:
Work advice: I have a coworker who touches me.
Oh hells no. Any suitably firm variation on "Don't touch me", possibly up to and including "What the hell is wrong with you, I specifically evolved language so lower primates wouldn't keep trying to groom me" seems appropriate.
If it helps at all, "La tilmasni" is Arabic for "Don't touch me".
It never occurred to me to rate a song in iTunes!
Me either! Now I'm wondering if it's worth it, I'm learning a lot from this conversation.
I really wanted to punch the hipster couple in the basement stacks of City Lights who were writing down titles to go order online later.
I'm more likely to do it the other way around - check it out online where I can look through the reviews, then go buy it in a store where I don't have to pay for shipping.
yeah, Gud's building a trebuchet for squirrels now. What do you shoot squirrels at?
I once saw a report on different means to thwart the squirrels. The only one that worked was a pressure sensor that detected if something weighing more than a bird was on the feeder, at which point the entire unit would spin rapidly and the squirrel would get flung off in a random direction. It was simply awesome.
It's the zombies that kill the plants.
Oh, wow. There's a bunch of tropical and sub-tropical plants with large flowers that smell of rotting flesh. They're pollinated by flies and carrion beetles rather than bees. Anyway, Rafflesia would be perfect for diverting the zombies. I wonder if they'd actually try to eat the flower, or just get confused and bump into it. Judging by the behaviour of the carrion beetles, I'm going with 'confused'.
That's one way to make sure the iPod Touch becomes yours and yours alone.
It becomes the i-nappropriate Touch, is what it becomes.
Cass - Mar 09, 2011 1:10:59 pm PST #27337 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I was thinking BadTouch.
possibly up to and including "What the hell is wrong with you, I specifically evolved language so lower primates wouldn't keep trying to groom me"
billytea, were we not on different continents, incompatible, unable to legally wed owing to polygamy laws and lots of other things, I would marry you.
beth b - Mar 09, 2011 1:16:11 pm PST #27338 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
good for you msbelle. Everything I have done has given me more work.
ION, I love my town. a near by road has been declared a scenic highway - and now caltrans is taking down trees talking about widening and making it 'safer'. the widening will make it possible for larger trucks to go through and for people to drive faster -- the two biggest factors in accident - trucks and speed....
ther e have been protests, letters, outrage, phone calls and investigation. Caltrans called a meeting - last minute for a wednesday at 11am , outside of niles. The room was full.
Fremont might be a bedroom suburban community , but you just can't mess with Niles. Niles saved their post office - the postmaster general had never seen such mail - this could be interesting.
aurelia - Mar 09, 2011 1:24:44 pm PST #27339 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
A musical interpretation of Pi to 31 decimal points. [link]
Neat!
Scrappy - Mar 09, 2011 1:44:14 pm PST #27340 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I once saw a report on different means to thwart the squirrels. The only one that worked was a pressure sensor that detected if something weighing more than a bird was on the feeder, at which point the entire unit would spin rapidly and the squirrel would get flung off in a random direction.
We just ordered one of these! Can't wait for the Flying Squirrel Follies!
billytea - Mar 09, 2011 1:45:59 pm PST #27341 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.
We just ordered one of these! Can't wait for the Flying Squirrel Follies!
This is the sort of thing proponents of the free market should be touting. Flying squirrels could be the new face of globalisation! (If you fling them hard enough.)
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2011 1:53:12 pm PST #27342 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love that when I ask the developer if they can make the change Sunday morning, the answer is no. But when I ask the salesperson, somehow it happens.
Looks like if I can get home and be cogent by 10 or so, I can visit the ER my normal night. Thank dog.
javachik - Mar 09, 2011 2:02:59 pm PST #27343 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Is it wrong that I think squirrels are cute? There is a big fat one that regularly contorts around one of my bird feeders and I just laugh and laugh. I get a lot of birds, too.
Also, may I just share that I made my first rootbeer soda using my new Sodastream? I love it but I could do without the giant fart sound it makes on the third push? It scares the dogs although I think it serves them right.