This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


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.


Pix - Mar 11, 2011 5:27:39 pm PST #27792 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Poor Mister Kitty!

I have 65 comments to write before I fall asleep Sunday night, and we LOSE A FRIGGIN HOUR this weekend. So unfair.


javachik - Mar 11, 2011 5:30:44 pm PST #27793 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Pix, I wish you could farm out your work to us!

Cass, yes, to everything you've said about Japan's engineering, preparedness, and infrastructure. Like Julia Sweeney says, "and then God says "ha!"


sarameg - Mar 11, 2011 5:31:08 pm PST #27794 of 30001

Just had a protest poop.

Pretty much sums up my week, no?


le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 5:34:52 pm PST #27795 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Just had a protest poop

are you referring to yourself or the cat?

or...both?


§ ita § - Mar 11, 2011 5:36:03 pm PST #27796 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."


Cass - Mar 11, 2011 5:37:17 pm PST #27797 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.

"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."

Fizzy water out of my nose.


Amy - Mar 11, 2011 5:37:47 pm PST #27798 of 30001
Because books.

Happy birthday a little late, tommy!

"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."

Oh god, that commercial cracks me up.


sarameg - Mar 11, 2011 5:41:36 pm PST #27799 of 30001

You guys are just upping my week FAIL. MK protest poop, damnit!


Ginger - Mar 11, 2011 5:44:48 pm PST #27800 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I need to stop reading about the nuclear plant, because many people are wrong on the internet. Also, right now people are wrong on ABC. There is no China syndrome. Putting Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in the same sentence is insane. Chernobyl had no containment. Chernobyl was graphite-moderated, an early technology not used in the West. Graphite burns. Also, it was being operated by insane people who deliberately turned off the safety systems.

This is extremely minor, but irritating. CNN.com says:

Potentially dangerous problems in cooling radioactive material appear to have cropped up there, as well as at another of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s nuclear plants. Both plants are named Fukushima Daiichi and both have nuclear reactors, but they are separate facilities.

Uh, no. There are two plants in Fukushima prefecture, Fukushima Daiichi (I), a six-unit plant, and Fukushima Daini (II) a four-unit plant. It's a little hard to tell, but it looks like Fukushima Daiichi units 3-6 were already shut down for a scheduled outage and units 1-3 were affected by the loss of power. Unit 1 is the one in the most trouble.


Cass - Mar 11, 2011 5:51:00 pm PST #27801 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.

because many people are wrong on the internet

They really, really are.

There was a guy who was being histrionic-ish on BBC. I Googled his org and realized he was not News, he was Public Relations. But really I only checked because he was so wrong on the tv. A lot of people might believe him talking about China syndrome, which, yes, he said was possible in Japan...