I thought the same thing, Nilly. It sounds like she just slipped away while online, and I find that comforting.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Jan 13, 2015 1:33:35 pm PST #14756 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Polter-Cow - Jan 13, 2015 1:33:54 pm PST #14757 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Nilly, I wanted to make a similar comment, but I'm glad I just waited until you made it better for me.
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2015 1:33:54 pm PST #14758 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
She found ita on the couch, with her laptop open. She had been reading her email when she passed.
And I don't care if it makes me a blind-spotted silver-line-er, but I can't help but think - no, not think, feel - that it somehow made her a little bit, a tiny bit, less alone, having the internet with her - not the technical parts of it, the computer parts, in which she was so good, but the people part, the way she connected through these technical and computer tools, with the hearts and souls of people.
No, Nilly, I thought the same thing.
Ginger - Jan 13, 2015 1:34:04 pm PST #14759 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's true, Nilly. Because of y'all, I'm never feel alone as long as the computer is on and the interwebs are working.
Java cat - Jan 13, 2015 1:34:38 pm PST #14760 of 30000
Not javachik
I've cried a thousand times more than I did when my mother died two years ago, because: mom, a few weeks shy of 96 years old. This is so untimely.
erikaj - Jan 13, 2015 1:34:58 pm PST #14761 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod.
Sheryl - Jan 13, 2015 1:39:47 pm PST #14762 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Checking in here now...
I'm stunned. I never met ita in person, but she was so much a part of this board that it's going to be weird here without her.
{{{{{Buffistas}}}}}
Trudy Booth - Jan 13, 2015 1:41:00 pm PST #14763 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I, too, have taken some small comfort in the thought that she was reading on-line and just slipped away from meatspace (a term she taught me).
Cass - Jan 13, 2015 1:44:31 pm PST #14764 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.
So I think it's not entirely my looking-for-any-sort-of-comfort in choosing to see this specific not-alone meaning in this line.
I take great comfort in that.
I had people ask me if they should come over, so I wouldn't be alone. I told them that I was going online. It's where all of our mutual friends are, so I wouldn't be mourning alone. We'd be together.
DavidS - Jan 13, 2015 1:45:10 pm PST #14765 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Angus?
I contacted him.
Hey John! Missed you.