I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Ginger - Mar 28, 2011 8:19:31 am PDT #650 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Just shows that people are happy to think France is arrogant and selfish as a nation without needing any actual proof.

Freedom fries!

There was a local news story this morning about finding radiation from Japan in some water, but not enough to matter, and not in the drinking water reservoirs.

I heard the same thing here, with a promo saying "Concern rises as radiation spreads farther than expected." Detectable isotopes are expected to spread over most of the world. Tiny, tiny amounts, but detectable. It's like Jayne's "Ten percent of nothing is — let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin'. Carry the nothin'..."


hippocampus - Mar 28, 2011 8:21:34 am PDT #651 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

Ginger, you would be horrified to learn that my local listserv is freaking out because they just learned that Walter Reed had a (medical) nuclear reactor on site (decommissioned in 1972), and you know we cannot trust the gov't to tell us the truth about these things, and no one is thinking of the children.

Sparky, you have an uncle who would be pleased to speak to these people and ease their concerns about ... ok he'd be pleased to be all superior. Plus he needs a hobby.


Jesse - Mar 28, 2011 8:24:35 am PDT #652 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I heard the same thing here, with a promo saying "Concern rises as radiation spreads farther than expected." Detectable isotopes are expected to spread over most of the world. Tiny, tiny amounts, but detectable. It's like Jayne's "Ten percent of nothing is — let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin'. Carry the nothin'..."

Yeah, it just feels to me like, how you say? Not news.


Lee - Mar 28, 2011 8:57:45 am PDT #653 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

How much do I love that Ginger can not only keep us informed about the radiation (non-)threat, but use Firefly quotes to do it?

SO VERY MUCH!


§ ita § - Mar 28, 2011 9:02:17 am PDT #654 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We're "at time," people. Please end the meeting. I have another one.


Jesse - Mar 28, 2011 9:05:28 am PDT #655 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Did you tell them you have a hard stop??


tommyrot - Mar 28, 2011 9:30:04 am PDT #656 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

ION, Cthulhu Emoticon

It's this:

(;,;)


Daisy Jane - Mar 28, 2011 9:31:42 am PDT #657 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I have/had a guy on my friend list (I will probably delete him now) who seems to have read that WSJ Gandhi book review because this is his status.

Reading about Gandhi and what a dick! Racist, hate-monger who thought he was above others. I wish he was still alive so I could punch him in the mouth.

I was going to ignore it, but I don't think I can. When we went to Gandhi's house in Mumbai it was...I don't know, transformative. It feels really cliche saying that, but just the excerpts posted on the walls in hindi and english got me choked up, and then seeing his room with the simple bed, loom and sandals was incredible.

I had to call the dude an asshole, and be done.


Steph L. - Mar 28, 2011 9:33:30 am PDT #658 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Cthulhu Emoticon

That is awesome.


Tom Scola - Mar 28, 2011 9:35:14 am PDT #659 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I like this one, using the Euro sign:

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