We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.

Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'


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.


Burrell - Dec 07, 2012 3:27:26 pm PST #3543 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Scrappy, sending your mom lots of recovery and good outcome vibes. So glad you get to be with her soon.


Jesse - Dec 07, 2012 3:29:29 pm PST #3544 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Dag, I thought tonight was the first night. Will revise!


sarameg - Dec 07, 2012 3:32:17 pm PST #3545 of 30001

My brother is threatening us with disembowelment and mystery gifts unless we send him wish lists. Is it wrong that I'm kinda excited about the mystery gifts? My brother's humor is so weird, I'd expect tumor cell slides or used lab equipment or who knows what!

So far all I've come up with are impractical for having to bring home in luggage- ladder, rechargeable multi-speed drill/screwdriver (I have a drill, it's just not so good as a screwdriver.) Meh.


Jessica - Dec 07, 2012 3:35:16 pm PST #3546 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think I've discovered the recipe for my department's white elephant / bakeoff - eggnog cake.

(ita, the recipe says the trick to a tender crumb here is whipping the eggnog into a foam before folding it in - might be the muffin fix you were looking for?)


§ ita § - Dec 07, 2012 3:41:44 pm PST #3547 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

might be the muffin fix you were looking for?

Not unless I use the cake method to make the muffins--I'm not creaming the shortening and aerating that way, I'm pouring wet onto dry and folding minimally. I don't know if the state of the wet affects the end result of the crumb.


meara - Dec 07, 2012 4:02:54 pm PST #3548 of 30001

I'm catching up on TV from last night, and was amused (and yet surprised it took so long) when on Scandal she said "I'm just feeling a little Sally Hemmings/Thomas Jefferson about all this!!"

Hah. The show is fun, though. And while I didn't like last night's episode of Grey's all that much (kinda boring, don't care about the new interns), I do still appreciate that I could point out to my roommate the many times it passed both the Bechdel test and whatever any sort of minority-Bechdel-test might be called.


Jesse - Dec 07, 2012 4:08:38 pm PST #3549 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I didn't care about the last crop of new interns, either, until I did! They did a good job of bringing some in. I just wish Shonda Rhimes knew how to write people out of shows without killing them off.


Kat - Dec 07, 2012 4:31:27 pm PST #3550 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Jesse, she wrote Burke off, didn't she or did he die too?


Atropa - Dec 07, 2012 4:33:50 pm PST #3551 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Why do ombré sequined Ugg boots exist? Why? t /questions brought to you from Las Vegas


meara - Dec 07, 2012 4:39:21 pm PST #3552 of 30001

I thought he just left for another hospital after Christina didn't go through with the wedding? But lord knows, I've forgotten half the drama that happened the first several seasons. Bombs, shootings, brain tumors, etc etc.