I drove by the courthouse where the Sandusky trial is, and there are locals getting the media people to pose for photos. (Cameras aren't allowed inside, so most of the media people are just hanging around most of the day, so that they can film stuff before and after the trial times.)
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
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.
Hil R. - Jun 22, 2012 10:35:09 am PDT #10822 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Amy - Jun 22, 2012 10:36:21 am PDT #10823 of 30001
Because books.
I go do this
Heh.
Ren Faire/Rocky Horror schism
If I had to choose one, it would be Rocky Horror, but I'd rather have both.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2012 10:36:38 am PDT #10824 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.
I go do this,
Heh.
Will no one think of the children doors?
Tom Scola - Jun 22, 2012 10:49:02 am PDT #10825 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
We just had a huge thunderstorm, then the temperature dropped from 90° to 75°. Ahhhhh...
Amy - Jun 22, 2012 10:52:02 am PDT #10826 of 30001
Because books.
Please let that thunderstorm be coming this way.
smonster - Jun 22, 2012 10:54:30 am PDT #10827 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Ren Faire/Rocky Horror
Now that's a mashup waiting to happen.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2012 11:03:48 am PDT #10828 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The manager was working out (coming up from the ground to the 12th floor) and sweaty and tired as shit, so maybe he wasn't paying attention. He looks great now--I think I'd still be shaking. It's very sad.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2012 11:18:57 am PDT #10829 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.
This is cool, awesome and scary (can it actually work?):
Find out why NASA engineers call the upcoming Mars landing "Seven Minutes of Terror"
Stop what you're doing and watch this. Invite whoever you're with to watch it, too. In just 44 days, NASA will attempt the most amazing planetary landing in the history of space exploration. It's a plan so remarkable, so technically impressive, so very different from anything ever attempted, that even the Agency's engineers have been known to call it crazy. Not because they don't believe in its design, but because it is that mind-numbingly awesome.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2012 12:07:02 pm PDT #10830 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there Lori? There should be Lori.
I can't get away with watching video at work--spoil me.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2012 12:19:43 pm PDT #10831 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.
Well, it uses a heat-shield to enter Mars's atmosphere. Then it deploys a supersonic parachute and drops the heat-shield. Once it slows to 200 mph, it drops the parachute and uses retrorockets to slow to a hover over the landing site. Then the skycrane (the part with the retro-rockets) lowers the rover part on a tether onto the surface of Mars. Once the rover is on the surface, the tether is cut and the skycrane flies away so it won't crash onto the rover.
A million things have to go right for it to work, and since Mars will be 14 light-minutes away from Earth, the whole thing is automated.