Tom Vermont is nice this year. Lots of rural, and quiet. There are mountains, meadows, lakes, streams. A city if you want it, but on a much smaller scale. Lots of good food.
Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.
'Serenity'
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.
askye - Jun 24, 2014 7:27:11 pm PDT #681 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
billytea - Jun 24, 2014 9:59:10 pm PDT #682 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I was able to find the point of intersection between the tangent line and the line through the circles' centers pretty quickly, but then figuring out how to construct the tangent line was where I was stumped. I don't totally remember the train of thought that eventually got me to the solution.
Would you like me to put a bit more about what I came up with?
Meanwhile, a link on the reproductive habits of echidnas, in fairly explicit detail (and with pictures, so, you know, be warned). I've commented previously on the four-headed penises of the males; this articles adds the news that echidna sperm travels in gangs of up to 100, making them faster at reaching the egg and presumably giving them an advantage in West Side Story-style dance-fights.
Calli - Jun 25, 2014 3:16:17 am PDT #683 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
echidna sperm travels in gangs of up to 100, making them faster at reaching the egg and presumably giving them an advantage in West Side Story-style dance-fights.
When you're a gamete you're a gamete all the way.
Jesse - Jun 25, 2014 3:33:41 am PDT #684 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Made it to jury duty. The two-bus voyage to the suburbs would have actually been super quick and easy if not for the 20 minute wait in between buses. Wish me luck!
Theodosia - Jun 25, 2014 3:59:41 am PDT #685 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Should we wish you a Twelve-Angry-Men type jury or a swift dismissal?
hippocampus - Jun 25, 2014 4:37:34 am PDT #686 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
hooray, Jilli!
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2014 5:18:35 am PDT #687 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Possible Good Stuff: Sweet Photos of Animal Parents and their Young - Neatorama
-t - Jun 25, 2014 5:45:12 am PDT #688 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good luck, Jesse, whatever that may mean in this particular situation.
I would go see the echidna reproductive cell version of West Side Story.
My official hire date anniversary happened while I was on vacation - I've been an employee here a year. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
sarameg - Jun 25, 2014 6:42:54 am PDT #689 of 30000
It takes Fedex employees longer to put together a shipment using their Fedex software at the store than it takes me using the website.
(Observed while waiting in line to just pick up a package.)
Also, miserably muggy out. It may only be 82, but horrid day to walk across campus. Thank god for server room access.
tommyrot - Jun 25, 2014 6:54:11 am PDT #690 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Of possible interest to Jilli: Zero Teapot - Neatorama
Zero in on your love of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with the ceramic Zero Teapot from the NeatoShop. This frightfully fun collectible looks like Zero the ghost dog, with the handle and the lid designed to showcase his floppy white ears. A jack-o-lantern adorns his long snout.
Also cool: HTML head-tag earrings - Boing Boing
So, on which ear does the <head> tag go and which gets the </head> tag?