"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."
Fizzy water out of my nose.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'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.
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.
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...
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 5:51:12 pm PST #27802 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger,
units 3-6 were already shut down for a scheduled outage and units 1-3 were affected by the loss of power
This is consistent with the careful reporting I have read.
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Kat - Mar 11, 2011 5:58:09 pm PST #27803 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pix, I have 8 paper sets now. Seriously... I'd say let's get together except I am proctoring tomorrow (a practice AP exam).
Pix - Mar 11, 2011 6:01:48 pm PST #27804 of 30001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Kat, let me know if you do want to meet at any point this weekend. I will be writing comments nonstop until the sun sets Sunday. I've only finished 4 of 68 as of now, and each one takes me roughly 8 million years to write. To be fair to myself, I did finish grading a set of quizzes and doing a bunch of other lose ends from the quarter earlier today, so it's not like I completely slacked off, but I seriously want to go to bed now, and that is just not an option. I was supposed to do 22 today. I've done 4.
§ ita § - Mar 11, 2011 6:06:11 pm PST #27805 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am watching the original Tran. Because the tumblr feeds I follow are either Tron, Sherlock, Inception, or Supernatural. And A LOT OF TRON. I didn't remember shit from the first time round. It's kinda gay. I see why it's tearing up. It's very shiny. And gay. And Shiny. HE just derezzed in his friends hands, man. That was sad. That CLU.
Kat - Mar 11, 2011 6:14:10 pm PST #27806 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pix, definitely maybe for a meetup? Probably not long and dependent on how much I get done tomorrow.