Also, I can kill you with my brain.

River ,'Trash'


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.


Cashmere - May 20, 2011 1:23:21 pm PDT #9007 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Awesome? Or Awful?


aurelia - May 20, 2011 1:25:46 pm PDT #9008 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Until The End Of The World - U2
The End Of The World - The Cure
It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM
The End Of The World - Laurie Anderson
Until The End Of The World - Julee Cruise
Yawny At The Apocalypse - Andrew Bird
Everything's Fine - Surfing Brides
(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World - Nick Cave
Last Night On Earth - U2
Last Man In Space - Violet Sedan Chair
The Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits


DebetEsse - May 20, 2011 1:31:44 pm PDT #9009 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Sophia, what I would do, which may or may not be helpful, would be to assign each of the rankings a color (ideally along a spectrum, like 1=blue, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=orange 5=red....only with twice as many, and then do a bar graph where you have a column for each item with the colors it got in the survey (kind of like [link] but each bar would be the same height.) That way, you have all the data on display, but you can look and get a quick sense of the popularity of each option by its color-spread.

Cash, I think it would really depend on the wearer's hairstyle.


Scrappy - May 20, 2011 1:32:41 pm PDT #9010 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

For a derby chick? Awesome.


Hil R. - May 20, 2011 1:34:15 pm PDT #9011 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Sophia, I'm not sure if there's one standard way of analyzing that kind of data. I've taught courses that had a few weeks focused on different methods of ranking a list of things from that sort of survey, and there's no one best method -- every method has advantages and disadvantages.


DavidS - May 20, 2011 1:36:09 pm PDT #9012 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

All Gone, All Gone - Palace Songs
The World is Gone - Peter Thomas Sound Orch. (this one is great because there's a raving maniac yelling the title)
End of the World - Herman's Hermits
My World's Ending - Tallulah Gosh
White Trash Apocalypse - Pleasant Gehman (a spoken word piece)
Sign of Judgement - Marianne Faithful
Rapture - Blondie
Goodbye Cruel World - Shakespear's Sister


Cashmere - May 20, 2011 1:37:58 pm PDT #9013 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Scrappy, that's what I was thinking. I totally need one.

My friend in China has said he's already there and The Rapture totally isn't happening.


§ ita § - May 20, 2011 1:40:23 pm PDT #9014 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My friend in China has said he's already there and The Rapture totally isn't happening.

Maybe China is full of infidels.


Cashmere - May 20, 2011 1:41:56 pm PDT #9015 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Maybe China is full of infidels.

He said he'd know when he got on the bus to go to work.

I need to get ready for practice.


Liese S. - May 20, 2011 1:56:33 pm PDT #9016 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Argh.

The SO is sick. He called me joking from the office supply store. I called him back to ask him to pick up some local eggs on his way home and he was cranky. In the space of 5 minutes, he got hit with major backaches, muscle aches, fever and chills. He texted me to get the sickroom ready, so I dashed around for a bit and got the media room all sickie friendly.

But blargh. Timing could not be worse. We're breaking in the new potential worship band leader tonight. Next week is completely packed, events pretty much every night. And then we drive across the country, preach, visit family, and have eight weeks of running around with camp kids, talking about our work multiple times a day.

There is no room for sick in that schedule! And definitely not for us both to be sick, which is usually the case. All y'all better keep reminding me to wash my hands this week.