Today is going to be the longest day ever.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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.
Dana - Feb 19, 2013 6:50:17 am PST #11902 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Amy - Feb 19, 2013 6:54:37 am PST #11903 of 30001
Because books.
I think lotion should help, Suzi. Possibly some vitamin E cream.
-t - Feb 19, 2013 7:31:35 am PST #11904 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Whoa, that 3D pen is amazing!
meara - Feb 19, 2013 7:39:49 am PST #11905 of 30001
I know people have linked to things like this before, but seriously, these realistic dolls are kinda creepy:
The 3-D pen is pretty cool
amyth - Feb 19, 2013 7:43:36 am PST #11906 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I want a 3-D pen, but not a realistic baby doll.
Consuela - Feb 19, 2013 8:11:56 am PST #11907 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Man, I'm freezing, even with extra wool socks on under my boots.
And the realtor lost a ton of the papers I signed a week ago. This is such a Monday.
meara - Feb 19, 2013 8:15:47 am PST #11908 of 30001
I have gotten so used to leaving town on Mondays, or at the very least on Tuesday, that I have completely lost track of what day of the week it is. I thought today was Wednesday, at one point. Also, I have lots and lots of work to do before Friday. And I leave again tomorrow and get back after midnight on Thursday.
Zenkitty - Feb 19, 2013 8:24:01 am PST #11909 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The realistic baby dolls are sure realistic. Okay in photos, but in real life, when they wouldn't be moving AT ALL? That would be CREEPY. The article talks about how some women collect these dolls and treat them like real babies, carrying them around shopping and such, and what a capacity for love they have... Oh, how adorable, the love this woman shows for her... cold stiff baby...? Ugh.
My Editor in Chief seems to think that I receive information by magical osmosis. He surely doesn't think the process involves him ever telling me anything.
tommyrot - Feb 19, 2013 8:24:39 am PST #11910 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.
We're waiting to hear back from a client so there's currently nothing for me to do. So right now I'm doing a 3-D scan of a toy Volkswagen with my homemade 3-D laser scanner.
eta: The resulting data, when imported into Excel and graphed, doesn't really look like a Volkswagen. The windows on the car seem to confuse the laser rangefinder.
Jesse - Feb 19, 2013 8:29:38 am PST #11911 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, one of the things my boss said to me in a meeting last week was that I should speak up more, mostly in the context of the ongoing (but now just simmering) clusterfuck. So there were new messages about it just now. Granted, I was cc'd, and it's mostly an upper-level discussion, but I was going to write back with a couple of thoughts (mostly designed to make myself look On Top Of Things). But I thought I'd check in with my boss first. And she said not to! This is my problem -- my instincts are totally opposite of hers.
And I am re-reminded that the whole clusterfuck grew from a mistake I made last summer, that I TOTALLY could have gotten away with, since NO ONE NOTICED. I thought someone might notice, so brought it to everyone's attention, and now pretty much regret that, which is NOT the lesson I should be learning, as a person who tends to hope my screwups will go away if I avoid them long enough.