I suspect that the percentage of crap out there is high enough that a random sampling will get you a streak like that without resorting to supernatural forces.
Not that that is particularly reassuring. Maybe it's some sort of harmonic convergence.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
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.
-t - Jul 20, 2014 6:45:28 pm PDT #2405 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 6:52:16 pm PDT #2406 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's the depth of the crap that's astounding me. Someone hit enter three times on projects whose quality rival the depth of Sy Fy movies in three unrelated buckets. I mean, if you'd seen the flounce-acting of SAF3 (that's why I stopped on it, to see if she was really flouncing and bouncing at the end of each line, and then the show just kept getting worse), not to mention the falloff in quality from Congeniality 1-2 was so oustripped by Spy Kids 1-3.
I've channelsurfed before. But today was traumatic. And I can't stop myself.
Connie Neil - Jul 20, 2014 6:55:36 pm PDT #2407 of 30000
brillig
The things that get greenlit are bogglesome.
-t - Jul 20, 2014 6:58:31 pm PDT #2408 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have no ready explanation for that. But I will think about it.
Connie Willis might have an explanation. Her short story in a Rogues isn't about exactly that, but I bet she's thought about it.
Hallucinations: auditory hallucinations trouble me much more than visual. And olfactory, so hard to verify. Never seems to be fudge, at least since Warehouse13 made me particularly aware of the possibility.
-t - Jul 20, 2014 7:00:02 pm PDT #2409 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, hey, 45th anniversary of the moon landing. My phone informs me.
21st century, man.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 7:31:18 pm PDT #2410 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone else get family IT support questions whose answer is "click on retrieve password"? I don't see how telling me "I don't know my password, though." is supposed to engender anything positive from me.
Sometimes the repetitive learned helplessness irritates me enough that it stresses me into more pain. I am short coping mechanisms.
Zenkitty - Jul 20, 2014 8:25:23 pm PDT #2411 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
BTW, thanks to whoever recommended Nasacort - Hil? It's made a huge difference. I don't have to take antihistamines as much anymore and I sleep better.
SuziQ - Jul 20, 2014 9:29:59 pm PDT #2412 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
My son is now officially 18. He is house sitting, so I'd planned on staying up to midnight to call/text him. Around 10pm, he showed up here just to spend a little time with me before heading back. Still texted him at midnight.
When he showed up, I was kinda afraid he would go in his room. It is currently filled with about 225 balloons (about 3 feet deep). Was hoping to save that surprise until the morning when he comes for breakfast. And for whatever reason, he never did go to his room. Mwah-ha-ha!
Typo Boy - Jul 20, 2014 9:33:28 pm PDT #2413 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Another person who had hallucination from sleep deprivation. Not the 4 days without sleep. But back when I was getting poor quality sleep (as in waking up every 45 minutes or so) over a long period of time. Not just visual hallucinations, but detailed false memories - I think from intending to do something and then falling asleep for 30 minutes and dreaming I had done it, and then only realizing when the task was sitting there undone that I had only imagined doing it. TEppy is it possible that you are sleep deprived either in quantity or in quality of sleep?
Pix - Jul 20, 2014 10:34:49 pm PDT #2414 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
When he showed up, I was kinda afraid he would go in his room. It is currently filled with about 225 balloons (about 3 feet deep). Was hoping to save that surprise until the morning when he comes for breakfast. And for whatever reason, he never did go to his room. Mwah-ha-ha!
Ha! Best mom ever.