Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


Zenkitty - Jun 19, 2012 5:01:40 pm PDT #10408 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Ah, Loki

Trick!

I seriously think the Avengers DVD is going to push me to buy a BluRay player.

Ha! I already did, and that is exactly why. Haven't hooked it up and watched anything yet. Now I'm scared of the dejuddering.


Amy - Jun 19, 2012 5:06:11 pm PDT #10409 of 30001
Because books.

My favorite new stress relief is correcting the grammar and word choice of people on TV, out loud, in a really snotty voice. Sad, but it works.


§ ita § - Jun 19, 2012 5:06:35 pm PDT #10410 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It doesn't look like that to me!

I mean, it did at the start--I hated it and wanted my old TV back, but I love how it looks now, so the only solution is for bon to put in a catheter and hunker down in front of the beast. After a day or two of solid watching, she'll be rewired appropriately.

I mean, I actually went through the blur and judder settings--it has a demo where it's on auto for half the screen and off the other, but once I'd acclimated to it, I couldn't se the difference.

But I'm also the sort who can't tell the difference between flicker rates on monitors, so my eyes are just slutty.


bon bon - Jun 19, 2012 5:18:29 pm PDT #10411 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I could skip the catheter and turn motion smoothing off, just spitballing here.


Kat - Jun 19, 2012 5:27:02 pm PDT #10412 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

wanted my old TV back

We still have one of your old TVs!

Okay, random question. Sentence diagramming: love it or hate it?


smonster - Jun 19, 2012 5:30:25 pm PDT #10413 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

This is where we talk about crazy house/mortgage stuff, right?

After Katrina, my boss and a couple of friends bought a house. They then took a 2nd mortgage out on one of the friends' houses and paid the just-bought house (hereafter the JBH) off. Now, my boss wants to sell the JBH to one of his employees - but there's a mortgage on it in default. The guy who sold them the JBH in 2006 apparently had a mortgage out on the house, and continued making interest payments for a while. If I read the legal papers right, the guy even refinanced the loan *this year*.

So now my boss (and friends) can't sell the house until they deal with this $120K mortgage that they didn't take out, and they have ten days to pay a certain amount or the house will be foreclosed on. I mean, WTF. They can't figure out how the existing loan didn't come to light when they bought the house originally.


Aims - Jun 19, 2012 5:30:54 pm PDT #10414 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

LOVED IT. It's been awhile so I would need a refresher, but I loved it when we did it in middle school.


Amy - Jun 19, 2012 5:31:25 pm PDT #10415 of 30001
Because books.

I don't remember how to properly diagram sentences.


Kat - Jun 19, 2012 5:33:02 pm PDT #10416 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Aimee and Amy: [link]

I never teach it because I'm not convinced of its utility. But I do enjoy it.


askye - Jun 19, 2012 5:33:42 pm PDT #10417 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

I vaguely remember having fun diagramming sentences in middle school but I can't remember how to do it now.