Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

'Get It Done'


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.


DavidS - Oct 16, 2010 9:47:47 am PDT #67 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

couldn't you get most of tcm via netflix?

I value finding things I wasn't looking for.

Like, the difference between a great song coming up on the radio and just punching it up on your iPod?

Similar to what I like about going into a bookstore and browsing. It's a form of thinking for me, a kind of meditation. I get the same thing from scrolling through the listings of upcoming TCM movies and marking them to record then watching them.


Jessica - Oct 16, 2010 9:51:46 am PDT #68 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

The few times I've been cable-less and watching shows online instead, the picture quality just depressed me. Maybe we shouldn't have bought such a nice TV when we upgraded everything to HD!


Polter-Cow - Oct 16, 2010 9:52:03 am PDT #69 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I value finding things I wasn't looking for.

Like, the difference between a great song coming up on the radio and just punching it up on your iPod?

Me too.

Similar to what I like about going into a bookstore and browsing. It's a form of thinking for me, a kind of meditation. I get the same thing from scrolling through the listings of upcoming TCM movies and marking them to record then watching them.

Yeah, I did scale down my cable and lose TCM, but I do miss that a little. Not enough to pay fifteen or twenty bucks a month, but a little.


DavidS - Oct 16, 2010 9:53:22 am PDT #70 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For Jesse!

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake with the Roots do the History of Rap.


msbelle - Oct 16, 2010 9:56:37 am PDT #71 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I enjoy those thing too, just not enough to pay for the difference of Netflix vs. cable. $9.80 vs. $80.00/month. Plus, I can browse the movies on Netflix and build a ridiculously long queue to surprise me.


Spidra Webster - Oct 16, 2010 10:03:44 am PDT #72 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Bleagh. I'm already losing the oomph to get on pubtrans to Echo Park for this life drawing session.


javachik - Oct 16, 2010 10:08:07 am PDT #73 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah, I already got rid of all premium channels and don't miss them at all. Next I need to see what the channel line up on Oakland Comcast is if I scale down to the cheapest plan possible. Once Hulu is available on Roku, I'll be thrilled (some shows I love, such as "Modern Family", aren't on video on demand).

I am very lucky in that I don't pay for Tivo (friend gave me her series 2 with lifetime service). But I am more and more tempted to upgrade to the HD Tivo (the one that replaces the cable box) - just for sports! Maybe before next baseball season...

Sorry if this belongs in tech thread.


Liese S. - Oct 16, 2010 10:34:28 am PDT #74 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Whew! Checked into hotel number 2. So you guys need to know the minutia of my day, right?
 
I bought that pizza last night so I could skip breakfast and sleep in. Which was awesome. So I sauntered out of the hotel at 11:30 or so. Went to the dry cleaners I`d google mapped. And they only do hour cleaning for a few random hours. Reader, I went to six cleaners, missing each one by literally minutes. At the last one I surrendered and just got it pressed. So Perkins` dress looks pretty even if it isn`t actually clean.
 
To reward myself I drove all the way to the mall at the north side of town where there was a) Barnes & Noble, b) mango smoothie at Haagen Daaz, and c) Sephora! Where I realized that yes, the smashbox shadows are the colors I want.
 
It was super packed and yes, with Asians, so I didn`t get done up, but I did get advice which should be helpful.
 
So although it didn`t go the way l`d planned, Ima call it a qualified success. Now to work on my presentation and maybe get a quick shower in before tonight`s missions dinner.


Jessica - Oct 16, 2010 10:42:18 am PDT #75 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Other than pickling for banh mi, what I can I do with daikon?


§ ita § - Oct 16, 2010 10:44:02 am PDT #76 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, dear. Trauma. I've been needing to get refit for bras for awhile, it's true. I just...didn't expect to go down a band size, and in my family going up a cup size or three is always fodder for trauma. My sister was very unsympathetic.

Somehow, getting pretty bras should soften the blow, but MFery, that shit was expensive. Maybe I should have stuck with the Wacoal nursing-looking bras. Ah well, too late.