Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jessica - Sep 26, 2011 6:24:35 am PDT #28327 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I just realized my cell phone contract was up TWO WEEKS AGO! I can go get an iPhone!

Hold off another month if you can - supposedly iPhone 5 is coming in October. (So even if you don't get a 5, the 4 will probably be coming down in price as stores are trying to get rid of them.)


sumi - Sep 26, 2011 6:25:47 am PDT #28328 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Closest relative to the elephant.


Cashmere - Sep 26, 2011 6:31:53 am PDT #28329 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Hold off another month if you can - supposedly iPhone 5 is coming in October. (So even if you don't get a 5, the 4 will probably be coming down in price as stores are trying to get rid of them.)

I don't know if I can hold off any longer. I was with Alltel until they were bought out by Verizon last year--then a local company who owned all the towers in the area pulled a fast one and demanded all the Alltel customers in their area and formed a new company. The service has been a disaster--over 8,000 people were without cell service for weeks. The past seven months has been a nightmare of PRL updates, replaced phones and devices and lack of customer service.

I went into this company to ask for a roller derby sponsorship and things were so bad there they had to have a security door put in--you have to have an appointment to even get into their corporate offices. Apparently, customers were banging on the door demanding to be released from their Alltel contracts. The new provider refused. Hundreds of people have been turned over to collections in the area and a record number of complaints have been filed with the Wisconsin Consumer Protection Department as well as the BBB.

Even AT&T can't be THAT bad! I was with AT&T for 7 years and then switched when we moved up here.


Fred Pete - Sep 26, 2011 6:46:09 am PDT #28330 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Happy Birthday, Matilda!


Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2011 7:00:48 am PDT #28331 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Happy Birthday Matilda!

I think I would like to be a Rock Hyrax (sumi's link).


Cashmere - Sep 26, 2011 7:02:08 am PDT #28332 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Poverty simulation game.


JZ - Sep 26, 2011 7:08:25 am PDT #28333 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Closest relative to the elephant.

I cannot ever show that link to Matilda, because then she will NEVER STOP CRYING over the fact that she can't have a rock hyrax as a pet (actually, I probably shouldn't look at it again myself or I'll start blubbing a bit myself).

Five years ago this very minute the anesthesiologist was flooding me with numbing meds to stop the hideous neck spasm that had clutched me up at exactly the wrong moment (in midair, mid-transfer from hospital bed to OR bed) and Hec was babbling to me about New Orleans memories to distract me from everything about to happen on the other side of the drape. And about seven minutes from now, Matilda was out in the world for the very first time.


Hayden - Sep 26, 2011 7:09:57 am PDT #28334 of 30001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Happy birthday, Mathilda!

And thanks, Billytea and Liese!


Burrell - Sep 26, 2011 7:10:01 am PDT #28335 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Happy birthday Matilda!

Isaac loved being 5 so much that there were tears the night before he was to turn 6. I had to promise him he could still be 5 for as long as he wanted. I think I told you folks this story before? Right before he fell asleep I asked him how old he was going to be in the morning. "Six."


billytea - Sep 26, 2011 7:15:01 am PDT #28336 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 think I would like to be a Rock Hyrax (sumi's link).

Hyraxes are surprisingly nimble in the trees. They open the arboreal ep of David Attenborough's Life of Mammals.