Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


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.


Cass - May 04, 2011 1:59:07 pm PDT #6843 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.

If I reviewed my dentist on Yelp, I'd need an editor and sanity check. Because I get all anxiety ridden and have my mouth topically numbed for the cleaning and have my iPod playing soothing music (Danger Days!) and then a pretty, pretty man fixed my problem with only minimal freaky noises and no pain.

Given that Dr. G already smoking hot, I am kinda duckling imprinted on him right now and I think my eyes are just throbbing hearts. Or that's the allergies talking.


billytea - May 04, 2011 2:03:02 pm PDT #6844 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.

If I reviewed my dentist on Yelp, I'd need an editor and sanity check. Because I get all anxiety ridden and have my mouth topically numbed for the cleaning and have my iPod playing soothing music (Danger Days!) and then a pretty, pretty man fixed my problem with only minimal freaky noises and no pain.

You are braver than I. I can see no good way to combine sharp implements in my mouth with the degree of bouncing around that is reliably prompted by "Planetary (GO!)".


askye - May 04, 2011 2:04:11 pm PDT #6845 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

re: names of Mariah Carey's kids.

I read somewhere that Monroe is for Marilyn Monroe and Moroccan is for some architectural detail where Nick proposed to her.


Cass - May 04, 2011 2:07:03 pm PDT #6846 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.

I honestly skipped Planetary. Cause it's all bouncy and you have to bounce and that'd be ... bad.

But Sing is amazing when you are quelling fear. I went back to Sing for the bits that included grinding and polishing . Sing made me strong. Or made me not cry. Which translates to strong enough today.

Dr. Death Defying is also pretty soothing.


JZ - May 04, 2011 2:07:47 pm PDT #6847 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.

Jilli, if it's not a ginormous PITA you may want to look at eBay for selling rare books. I've sold about a dozen rare books on there, and I got nearly as much for each individual book as I did for an entire box of similar rare books that I'd sold to a local bookstore about a year earlier.

It took ages - I photographed the hell out of every one, including the dents and warts, and researched fair market value and checked Amazon and ABEbooks.com and blah blah blah, probably 2-3 hours' work for each title - but the results were much, much better.


hippocampus - May 04, 2011 2:11:23 pm PDT #6848 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

Minnesota GOP leader declares war on Neil Gaiman: [link]


§ ita § - May 04, 2011 2:22:27 pm PDT #6849 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Tipping question:

Meal delivery tips: %age, or flat fee + degree of difficulty?


Dana - May 04, 2011 2:23:21 pm PDT #6850 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Another secondspin question: does the disk surface have to be absolutely pristine?

Not pristine, but you probably don't want to push it too far. They'll send back stuff if it doesn't meet their standards.


Sue - May 04, 2011 2:33:58 pm PDT #6851 of 30001
hip deep in pie

ita, I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks. Maybe less if I am paying for delivery, maybe a little more if I making him deliver in miserable weather.


DavidS - May 04, 2011 2:42:23 pm PDT #6852 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

ita, I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks.

Ditto.