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Dr. Walsh ,'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 5:51:00 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.

You might like this:

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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.


zuisa - Mar 11, 2011 6:14:23 pm PST #27807 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I hate that I keep being in places where my family has to worry about my whereabouts re: natural disasters, but we are still in Australia, not due to hit Japan until the 30th. It's so scary, though. There was a trivia game in the crew bar last night but we all kept being distracted by the news coverage of the earthquake and the tsunami. I hope all this extreme weather calms down soon, but judging from how things have been going I highly doubt it.

I hope everyone here is well!! I'm just fine otherwise. I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Darwin, Australia, and we'll be in Brunei in a few days! I'm super excited about that.


Lee - Mar 11, 2011 6:15:02 pm PST #27808 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I didn't have to have radiation today because the treatment center was having a computer upgrade, so I decided to celebrate by taking the car in for routine maintenance, which somehow evolved into two new tires too.

As soon as I finish doing the laundry I need for tomorrow, there's going to be wine.


Sue - Mar 11, 2011 6:18:45 pm PST #27809 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I switched browsers from Firefox to Chrome on my netbook, and when I imported my bookmarks from Firefox, I found a bunch of random pages that I don't remember even looking at, let alone bookmarking. Including this: [link]

I'm wondering if the cats are trying to tell me something.


Ginger - Mar 11, 2011 6:22:32 pm PST #27810 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Thanks, le nub. Somehow the news always manages to find the Union for Concerned Scientists but not MIT.