Shut UP!!!
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 05, 2012 2:28:05 pm PDT #16986 of 30001
hwæt
aurelia - Aug 05, 2012 2:35:47 pm PDT #16987 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
No way.
hippocampus - Aug 05, 2012 3:01:16 pm PDT #16988 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
That's awful, Brenda.
Jesse, and anyone interested in the Readercon conclusion - the author involved has posted a very good final post on the topic: [link]
Jesse - Aug 05, 2012 3:04:18 pm PDT #16989 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks, Sox.
My mother gave me a ride to the T, but it was raining even harder when I got out! Luckily, I live one block from the station.
In my head, I'm totally walking to and from my parents', but it was too hot earlier and too raining just now.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2012 3:46:24 pm PDT #16990 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy crap, I forgot how fast a gas stove heats up and cools down, after 2.5 years with electric.
Amy - Aug 05, 2012 3:48:38 pm PDT #16991 of 30001
Because books.
I miss a gas stove so much. We have one of the electric ones with the flat top, and I hate it.
We had a big thunderstorm with lightning and wind, and we're the only people on the block with power now. For some reason, we're the only house attached to another grid (the one behind us). It's been about three hours now, and I'm beginning to feel guilty about the lights when every other house is still dark.
Zenkitty - Aug 05, 2012 3:51:06 pm PDT #16992 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Funny, seems I'm the only person who prefers electric to gas stoves. Gas makes me nervous.
Amy - Aug 05, 2012 3:52:49 pm PDT #16993 of 30001
Because books.
Oh, gas makes me nervous, too. Stephen totally blew off his eyebrows and eyelashes once relighting the pilot in our really old (think actual vintage 1944) stove. But there's nothing like it for cooking. Adjusting the heat of a burner is impossible with electric.
Hil R. - Aug 05, 2012 3:55:03 pm PDT #16994 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I like gas stoves so much better. They make sense -- you can see how much fire there is, and that corresponds to how much heat there is. Plus, turning the heat up or down is so much easier. On my current electric stove, if I realize that the heat is too high on a pan and turn it down, it takes forever until the pan actually gets to the lower temperature. On a gas stove, there's just less fire immediately.
Also, I need to be way more careful around electric stoves than around gas ones, since I can't see when something is hot enough to burn me, so I have to assume that everything is.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2012 3:57:04 pm PDT #16995 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had the flat electric in my last place, and it had its good points (like I didn't worry about setting things on it when it was off, because of no pilot light), but in general, yuck.