Sex with robots is more common than most people think.

Spike ,'Lineage'


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.


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.


sarameg - May 04, 2011 2:43:52 pm PDT #6853 of 30001

My dentist isn't hilarious but he is nice and he's smoking hot.

I read that as smoking pot and was a little concerned. Which sums up my mental state.

Work is trying to kill me. They moved the transition up a week because we can't be down the following week. There's a massive scramble to transition auxiliary code, and that's turning up new cross mission issues that are...thorny. And we don't have part of the database licenses yet. And chief database miracleworker had to leave for a family emergency today.

And I have jury duty monday, and this is supposed to start tuesday. And no one is telling me where on the test server to install my code that I need to test.

There are just too many moving parts to do this on the fly, and that's exactly what we're doing.

In a word, clusterfuck.


Jesse - May 04, 2011 2:44:06 pm PDT #6854 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do 15-20% on delivery, but that's usually $2-3, so.


Dana - May 04, 2011 2:50:09 pm PDT #6855 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

OH MY GOD I'm so hungry I could knock over a small child to get to food.


DavidS - May 04, 2011 2:53:58 pm PDT #6856 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

OH MY GOD I'm so hungry I could knock over a small child to get to food.

But are you hungry enough to eat the small child?

What if there was jerk sauce involved?