This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


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.


le nubian - Aug 17, 2013 7:20:22 pm PDT #2763 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

oh no Burrell!

healing 'ma to sis.


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2013 7:29:12 pm PDT #2764 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm curious about California's no cellphones while driving law. This [link] says I can't use my phone's GPS navigation if I touch the phone, I'm assuming. If it's just talking to me and I am looking over to where it is? Can I do exactly the same thing with a Garmin? Can I pick a playlist on my iPod if there's no phone attached?

I can still hold a paper map, though, right? Flip through a Thomas Guide? Read my static Google instructions? Off paper? From where I scribbled them down? Or printed them? Off my tablet? Which doesn't have a SIM card? On my iPod as a PDF?

Needless to say, perhaps. I both used my phone's navigation to get to the art class (I'm so bad at Pasadena!) and listened to "Welcome To Night Vale" off my iPod (one earbud in--I know that much).

Which is very interesting. I don't much like the weather, though. And it's hard to tell which things will come up in later episodes. I'm kind of scared the answer is "all of them". The narrative device is a bit hard to track.


Sue - Aug 18, 2013 1:42:05 am PDT #2765 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Jesse, Good Stuff is on the trending blogs list on the Tumblr app. You have to scroll down a bit, but maybe that's why there's so many new follows.


Sue - Aug 18, 2013 1:42:06 am PDT #2766 of 30000
hip deep in pie

I seem to double post a lot n the iPad. Is it me or it?


Kat - Aug 18, 2013 3:08:35 am PDT #2767 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, wrt to cell law, the deal is it's hands free. So if it's set to go and talking to you and you never touch it, then it's fine. (This is what my friend in the LAPD tells me). It's also why speaker phone, with you holding the device nearish your face and yelling is a no -- you may as well just use the phone regular then because either way you are breaking the law.

Which meant the day went downhill from there
I've never been sure how to use this--downhill implies fast and out of control, uphill implies difficult and unpleasant. Since either direction is bad, I feel weird about the lack of a clear opposite.

THIS is why I hate hiking. Like the metaphor, at least here, all hiking is unpleasant in BOTH directions because too mountainous. Maybe the opposite of uphill/downhill is a straight path (like a land version of smooth sailing)?


Calli - Aug 18, 2013 3:20:56 am PDT #2768 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Burrell, I hope your sister is through with all the medical stuff soon.

I'd rather bike than hike. All downhill from here is a good place to be for a biker. All uphill less so.


Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:29:36 am PDT #2769 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh Burrell, I hope days continue to get better for you and your sister.

Jesse, Good Stuff is on the trending blogs list on the Tumblr app.

I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg? I mean, isn't it trending because of new followers?


Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:35:05 am PDT #2770 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is anyone still confused about preferential voting? [link]


Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2013 3:35:13 am PDT #2771 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It’s not trending as much as this tumblr, though.


Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:36:11 am PDT #2772 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That is amazing!