I believe it's an Egyptian belief that your spirit is destroyed if no one says your name, which leads to all those monuments with people's names that other people vengefully chip off.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
Connie Neil - Jun 06, 2012 8:13:51 am PDT #8557 of 30001
brillig
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2012 8:14:50 am PDT #8558 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 bet we could all come up with millions of uses for Giant Googly Eyes.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2012 8:19:53 am PDT #8559 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.
Neatorama sez:
Igor Scalisi Palminteri purchased a few images and figures of saints from street markets in his native Palermo. With a bit of acrylic paint and presumably some modeling clay, he turned them into serene and contemplative superheroes. You can find Superman, Catwoman, Spider-Man and more at the link.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2012 8:32:15 am PDT #8560 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.
Warning: possible time suck!
You type a sentence and it finds a picture (via google) that matches each word. So you end up with a "sentence" made up of pictures.
Liese S. - Jun 06, 2012 8:40:43 am PDT #8561 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I love how much Liese is enjoying her telescope.
It is so great! It's kinda the "don't be bored, be interested" thing that I'm constantly telling my kids. But it really was the ideal extravagant gift, because I had the interest, but I never ever would have bought it for myself, and we wouldn't have afforded it out of our regular gifts budget. But from something like the SO's unexpected side job, it was a sacrifice for him, but something I've gotten a lot of joy from using. And he loves it too, so bonus.
Burrell - Jun 06, 2012 9:12:44 am PDT #8562 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yay Griffith Observatory! We just opened a new show in the planetarium up there.
Oo, which show? I'd love to take the kids and tell them I know one of the people who put it together.
NoiseDesign - Jun 06, 2012 9:14:09 am PDT #8563 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
I've worked on all of the shows in the Planetarium. The latest one is called Time's Up.
Allyson - Jun 06, 2012 9:14:42 am PDT #8564 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yay Griffith Observatory! We just opened a new show in the planetarium up there.
Nice! I shall check it out.
Burrell - Jun 06, 2012 9:16:27 am PDT #8565 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Groovy, ND.
Warning: possible time suck!
Definite time suck.
We are making actual progress on home repairs today. Yay!
§ ita § - Jun 06, 2012 9:21:12 am PDT #8566 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dag, our CIO just smacked down a pesky wanna-be vendor and I lucked in on being in the distribution list. She does not mess around. The company is casting a pretty wide net, and keeps poking at us every couple weeks to say "You gonna buy? Buy now? Huh?" and on yesterday's attempt, included the CIO. Her reply is reasonably long, perhaps more than they've earned, but she does actually tell them a) this is annoying b) you don't want her annoyed.
I love the language "please don't feel ... you need to escalate to me".
Thanks for the legwork on that quote. Would that half the people who put it up did that much due diligence.
-t, I swear someone just mentioned that story/concept around/to me within the last couple weeks.