Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.

'Jaynestown'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Liese S. - Feb 17, 2013 10:40:57 am PST #11686 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

And you want to get a cheap hardware-store-plastic-faced hammer, too;

Will do.

Which I'm pretty sure it isn't, because you're a musician, and you want to play, you know? Even though fret dust DOES look like glitter.....

True facts!

Heh, the project with the kids is going so great, Matt. They are going nuts over it, and they're doing so well. No maimings yet! Next week will be an exciting week, I think, because we'll be to assembly and stringing for the younger kids and will be starting electronics with the older ones.

And I will totally get you that schematic, too, for the active/passive config. Sorry it's taken so long.....

That would be great. But no worries about the delay, I just got the film piezos in last week, and I'm still waiting on the hide glue. I found a great tutorial using the crockpot...and the one in the picture was exactly my crockpot. So I have successfully convinced the SO that buying me a new crockpot so I can use the old one to warm hide glue was a good use of resources.

So the SO's bass and our buddy Sammy's bass are both on hold until I can get that going.

Anyway, the little film piezos, the site says are too delicate to solder and I should use a conductive epoxy to attach the leads. Do you know where I can buy conductive epoxy? I probably should have just bought the next step up, which is what I did now for the older kids, but I still want to be able to use the little ones.


Burrell - Feb 17, 2013 10:46:23 am PST #11687 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh bonny, I wanted to say that I share your enjoyment of Live at Daryl's House. He just seems so happy!

Lunch or grading... lunch or grading...?


-t - Feb 17, 2013 10:52:14 am PST #11688 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Lunch!


Cass - Feb 17, 2013 11:08:12 am PST #11689 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Lunch. Then grade. Or paint your nails.


Consuela - Feb 17, 2013 11:21:29 am PST #11690 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm dogsitting this weekend, I just have to note that two times the dogs = two times as much dog fart. Ewww.


Steph L. - Feb 17, 2013 11:26:27 am PST #11691 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Dishes are washed, bathroom is clean (except I haven't mopped). Now I need to go to the store.

Still no minion.


beekaytee - Feb 17, 2013 11:54:59 am PST #11692 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Oh bonny, I wanted to say that I share your enjoyment of Live at Daryl's House. He just seems so happy!

This is my favorite part.

I'm aspiring to figure out how I can live a life with so much fun/joy.

Of course, without the 40 years of touring (though he seems to love that too), and battling egos.


Burrell - Feb 17, 2013 12:28:05 pm PST #11693 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I'm aspiring to figure out how I can live a life with so much fun/joy.

It probably helps if you have enough money to not need to worry about it, as he clearly does, and if you can arrange your life so that you get to spend most of your time doing things that you love. Not that I begrudge him any of that, esp since he has the good sense to be happy about it.


§ ita § - Feb 17, 2013 12:29:30 pm PST #11694 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's way more practical to have the nurse come in the afternoon, but until I get used to the rhythm (I could get used to the rhythm!) this bit now, with the wait and the headache...gonna take some getting used to.

Today is day #23 of #30 of my sketch challenge, and I'm looking at my deviantArt stats. Before this all started, the picture I had that had gotten the most favourites was the one I did after taking a few months of art class, and in it I was bringing to bear everything I could remember from the class. It was painstaking, without pain. Very considered, though, in terms of focus and composition and leading the eye.

So it felt nice that other people liked it too.

So far in this month of quick sketches, though, I have one with more favourites than that, 64 in less than a month, compared to 54 in almost a year. And another, in this same less than a month, with 50 to the previous leader's 54. So there goes my entire reward for deliberation--I'm having a lot of fun with these sketches, and people liking them is always gratifying, but it really makes it clear that if I tried to manipulate an audience to get popular, all else being equal (these are all pictures of the same pairing) I would have no idea what works. I thought I'd cracked it.

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE, DAMMIT.

In other things you're very curious about, I don't think this muffin recipe is necessarily the one. Cakelike batter, but with restricted mixing? I'm definitely hitting clumps of dry flour that I hadn't with the pineapple raisin carrot batter, with less folding.

And I'm also thinking that cranberry oatmeal isn't enough flavouring. Most of the recipes also had nuts, but I don't want nuts. Need to work out what the magical third ingredient should be.


Cass - Feb 17, 2013 12:38:21 pm PST #11695 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE, DAMMIT.

Don't we all?

And I'm also thinking that cranberry oatmeal isn't enough flavouring. Most of the recipes also had nuts, but I don't want nuts. Need to work out what the magical third ingredient should be.

Hmmm, will seeds be too close to nuts? Because cranberry and oatmeal isn't enough but I feel like you need to add something with a bit of substance and that's fruit, a substantial grain, seeds or nuts in my head. And you've got fruit, grain and don't want nuts. So seeds?