I had to explain the cousin generations thing to a bunch of my cousins at a family party last weekend. But people there were mostly either my fourth cousin or my third cousin once removed, so it involved a bunch of drawing diagrams. Then one of the little kids looked at the diagram, and figured out what it was, and wanted to know where he was, and I told him that I'd stopped drawing his branch of the tree at his grandfather because I was just trying to explain the relations, but he didn't like that explanation, so I taped another piece of paper to the bottom to draw him in. He's my fourth cousin once removed.
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Hil R. - Jul 19, 2013 2:15:15 pm PDT #29745 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
-t - Jul 19, 2013 2:34:57 pm PDT #29746 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Love that, Hil. I will never understand the cousin nomenclature, but I am ok with that.
It kills me that there's a PBS show in the style of Project Runway, but about winemakers. "You're going home. Please leave the vineyard."
Doesn't that take years before they can judge the results? I am boggled.
Ma to your sis, Burrell. Lots.
Laura - Jul 19, 2013 2:37:57 pm PDT #29747 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Shiny toes!
Sis~ma, Burrell.
Lee - Jul 19, 2013 2:39:41 pm PDT #29748 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Doesn't that take years before they can judge the results? I am boggled.
That's what I was wondering.
Also, I would like today to be over, and it keeps not being.
What are people doing this weekend?
sarameg - Jul 19, 2013 2:58:10 pm PDT #29749 of 30001
The pool was open for basically 30 minutes between storms. I got 29 laps in before the thunder started, and walked onto my porch as the floodgates opened. Eh, 29 > 0. And it is seriously loud out there right now.
I'm going to a country party out at my neighbor S's family home out in the boonies. Her boyfriend's band is the entertainment.
le nubian - Jul 19, 2013 3:30:44 pm PDT #29750 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
someone just tweeted that she knows 2 people (who don't know each other) who thought the reason pluto is not a planet anymore is because it exploded.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 19, 2013 3:33:15 pm PDT #29751 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, I am in trouble. I tried the new tapas place that just opened up a half block down the street from me, and it is both out-of-this-world delicious and fairly expensive. I had stuffed mushrooms, brie, and a small portion of seafood & cheese-stuffed baked salmon that was the best thing I've eaten since getting back from Florida last month.
My wallet is really going to miss the days when I lived upstairs from a great Thai restaurant where my favorite dish was an $8 lunch special that was enough to make two meals.
Steph L. - Jul 19, 2013 3:34:14 pm PDT #29752 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Cincinnati has this amazing 200,000-square foot grocery store called Jungle Jim's. Incredible international sections, a produce section larger than some grocery stores (and they sell durian, although they don't keep it out; you have to ask for it), cheese for days, etc. etc. I think Neil Gaiman has shopped there when he's been in the area.
Anyway, you can explore the entire store -- inside -- through Google Street View. Apparently a photographer spent more than 6 hours inside taking pictures of it. Check it out: [link]
t edit Not as interesting as GeoGuessr, but it's still a big fucking store with a lot of cool food. The hot sauce section has some hot sauce locked up, not because of the scoville units, but because it's $1,400. (Not a typo.)
t edit again I keep trying to find the hot sauce section and keep ending up back at the hookah wall. It's like one of those dreams where you're trying to get home but all kinds of things delay you and you can't quite make it.
meara - Jul 19, 2013 4:03:37 pm PDT #29753 of 30001
I have been to Jungle Jim's once, and I must say, it was definitely impressive.
I know my sister and parents have both (separately and together) taken trips two hours away to go to Jungle Jim's and IKEA, and make a day of it.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2013 4:05:47 pm PDT #29754 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My boss got dinged by the CIO for micromanaging me. In effect, I got dinged for hot being senior enough.
Ugh. And now my old boss has told him I work well if you spell it out for me. Which is, surprisingly, what I hate. I want goals, and I want freedom, AND I WANT INFORMATION. He asked me for a presentation today I'd written under my own steam two weeks ago. I keep planning for meetings that aren't even happening yet because slide decks are our shibboleth. He got dinged for delaying producing a document which he never asked me about, but that I had written the first draft of and given him over a week ago.
But I'm hoping the more leeway he's been instructed to give me comes with more info, and we should both be cooking with gas.