Sex with robots is more common than most people think.

Spike ,'Lineage'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


-t - Mar 31, 2014 3:24:59 pm PDT #24115 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hey, I didn't bring what things should properly called into it. I'll defend your right to call it food processto if you want to.


Atropa - Mar 31, 2014 3:43:05 pm PDT #24116 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

stumbles into thread I have finished today's to-do list, in spite of wanting to do nothing but sleep and take pain meds for the Lyme flare-up that's been going on for a week or so. Someone please come make me dinner and cocktails.


meara - Mar 31, 2014 3:47:24 pm PDT #24117 of 30000

I just used uber for the first few times this weekend. Quite liked it. Very easy.

I think it's probably easier/less likely to be offensive from someone who is also not from here, ita. Though I've certainly gotten into chats with cabbies about wherever they're from , usually because we start with the weather and they then compare it to morocco or Ethiopia or wherever. (The Moroccan guy then found out I'm from Indiana, and said he wants to go there because he hears there are big girls, and he likes parks and rec, but his wife won't let him!)


lisah - Mar 31, 2014 3:48:56 pm PDT #24118 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

My fitbit says I averaged 22 flights of stairs a day last week. Moving up to the 4th floor of the building certainly helps with that count at least.

I've been avoiding news about the CEO of Mozilla because quitting using Firefox would be a PITA. Too many open tabs.

My excuse right now is passwords I don't want to have to try to remember. I just read this news about 20 minutes ago so I'll give myself a guilt break for a little longer. I've already had to deal with not being able to remember passwords at work today. I have a system and everything but there's always some system that's password is out of sync with others and I can never keep them all straight.


Amy - Mar 31, 2014 3:51:08 pm PDT #24119 of 30000
Because books.

I've already had to deal with not being able to remember passwords at work today. I have a system and everything but there's always some system that's password is out of sync with others and I can never keep them all straight.

I'm slowly developing a system, but a lot of it is too little too late. There are too many, and some of them are too old.


Juliebird - Mar 31, 2014 3:51:50 pm PDT #24120 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Tomorrow is the Big Day Of Awkwardness where I might show up to work with boss lady in a meeting being fired and I'ma be outside raking something, or I show up and she hasn't had her termination meeting yet and I have to explain the new hires delay and make fake plans for the week and then go outside and rake something while she packs up her (our) office.

Please, ED, don't fail me now. You're my only hope to dodge this "hi, I helped get you fired" bullet.


sarameg - Mar 31, 2014 3:54:33 pm PDT #24121 of 30000

Felt like I was hit by a truck today, pretty sure it was cause of the stain fumes messing with my sleep. Swim felt like repeatedly hitting a truck, and lo and behold, it was also cause I was going faster than usual. I guess that's good? Feel less like ass.

So of course I came home and primered 2 sides of 12 spindles (and one side of 3.) Not to the tops or bottoms, but as close as I could get without getting worried about messing something up. Pumpkincat would like to attack the brush from the opposite side. This is problematic.


Laura - Mar 31, 2014 4:03:20 pm PDT #24122 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I maintain you can do it nicely, and just had a great conversation with a driver from Cote D'Ivoire by just starting out with "I don't recognise your accent--where's it from?"

Not taxi drivers, but I have asked a number of the kids friends because that generation in this area has a large number of children with unusual combinations of parents. My first hint is usually names that are odd combinations of surname and given name. I've found they are usually delighted to tell me about their Russian mom and dad from St. Kitts, or whatever the heritage. (just a random example I thought of because the child has a Russian first name and French last name)


§ ita § - Mar 31, 2014 4:18:36 pm PDT #24123 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think it's probably easier/less likely to be offensive from someone who is also not from here, ita

But it's not like you can tell unless I volunteer it, and I haven't had anyone bristle and then warm up at the revelation. It's just that the conversation takes a turn then to "us" instead of "me and you."

I ask almost anyone whose name or accent comes into play and we're put together for a little--if you meet someone whose name is the equivalent of Margaret Robles with a heavy Indian accent, well, I was bursting with at least one question. And sometimes the answer is just "My father liked the name."

And it's not like American accents aren't up for questioning.


Jesse - Mar 31, 2014 4:28:15 pm PDT #24124 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh -- I'm so annoyed about how little I cared about the finale of HIMYM.