Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.

'The Message'


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.


Jesse - Sep 11, 2013 4:13:59 pm PDT #4961 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's hilarious.

My mother has gotten into texting with the iPhone -- it took her a while to get the nuances of text v. email, now that they are both on her phone.


Cass - Sep 11, 2013 4:14:28 pm PDT #4962 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Damn. He posted. I liked. Time to go wrangle into a sports bra and stretch. I'll appreciate this later, I hope.

People embracing technologies is weird. And sometimes fun.

Ouch, ita. I hope it helps.


Cashmere - Sep 11, 2013 4:21:06 pm PDT #4963 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

Repot, I covet those swanky, zero gravity chairs!!! Cool gift!

I am creeped out by couples Facebook accounts. My DH isn't into social media but he keeps an account to stay in touch with friends and to see whom I have offended on any given day.


-t - Sep 11, 2013 4:25:09 pm PDT #4964 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I treat my parents' e-mail addresses as if they were separate but they actually both have access to both of them because it's just easier for them that way. Shrug. Mom is really embracing Facetime and Google Hangouts.

Jeez, my dad is 72 tomorrow and I didn't get him anything. Oops.


meara - Sep 11, 2013 4:28:01 pm PDT #4965 of 30000

My parents share email (and don't Facebook) but I think it's ok if you hardly use email and its not how your friends contact you. They still make and get phone calls, not emails.


Atropa - Sep 11, 2013 4:31:37 pm PDT #4966 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

My dad used mom's FB account for a little while after she passed away. I finally had to say, "Dad, I get it, but I'm a goth and I find it a little unnerving to see mom leaving birthday wishes for Pete. Let me set you up your own account."


Dana - Sep 11, 2013 4:39:18 pm PDT #4967 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I think my computer just saved me. I got in the car earlier, and the rental car has satellite radio. The classical channel was playing the last couple of minutes of "On the Transmigration of Souls", John Adams' piece that was commissioned to commemorate 9/11. After I got done crying, I decided to listen to the rest of it once I got back to the hotel room.

My trusty little netbook, which is showing its age, got about five minutes into the YT video before it decided to stop. Or before it decided I should stop.


sarameg - Sep 11, 2013 4:42:28 pm PDT #4968 of 30000

My dad was an early adopter of the internut (I think he might've been on D/ARPANET?) and both use their email for work/business and personal. My mother would've lost her mind if she had to share an email with my father. All his...stuff. And he would have cluelessly deleted stuff that was important to her because he does dumb shit like that.

There is a reason she doles out the cash and he only carries one of their credit cards. She's the one who balances the books; he's the one that forgets to tell anyone else that he moved money around. So his access is limited. It's partly her enabling, partly because starting 52 years ago, she learned that while he will keep meticulous records, his methods make her nuts, but he'd happily go along with anything if he just didn't have to do it at all. So she took over that aspect of their lives and everyone was happier.


Steph L. - Sep 11, 2013 4:54:45 pm PDT #4969 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Oh, hey, we are going to get our marriage license tomorrow morning!

WOO LICENSED TO MARRY!!!


-t - Sep 11, 2013 4:58:11 pm PDT #4970 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Woo, official!