Oh good lord, I just spent a minute or two trying to think how Terence Howard could be in The Empire Strikes Back. Maybe I should have coffee before trying to use my brain further.
Ha! Coffee sounds right.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2016 6:16:35 am PDT #19795 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2016 6:34:52 am PDT #19796 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think a lot of the fancy hotels let you have free wifi if you're a member of their program.
Yeah, Kimpton hotels give you free wifi if you join their program, but it's still bullshit. I gotta say, I'm a big fan of Holiday Inn Express, with their free wifi and free big-ass continental breakfast. (Though the Kimpton I stay at in Chicago does have a wine hour every day, so there's that.)
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2016 6:38:04 am PDT #19797 of 30003
brillig
The Paris casino in Vegas charges for wifi.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2016 6:40:05 am PDT #19798 of 30003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think a lot of the fancy hotels let you have free wifi if you're a member of their program.
IME most corporate rates include wifi as part of the package, so it's also "free" for business travelers, who are a more reliable income source than tourists.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2016 6:42:46 am PDT #19799 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Interesting -- I haven't had that experience, but I'm probably not booking anything on a corporate rate.
Becky - Apr 17, 2016 6:43:46 am PDT #19800 of 30003
Hi!
Happy Birthday Sheryl
Suzi, I live in Lakewood, 285 and Kipling area. Across from the prison so my claim to fame is having some famous criminals as my neighbors.
Preferential voting has its places, never had a muffallets (yet), in theory I'm for the serial comma although in writing it doesn't always show. (Grammar is not my strong suit, but I try)
-t If you are getting money back then I vote taxes, if not attack that lawn before it gets too hot.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2016 6:44:47 am PDT #19801 of 30003
brillig
To mothers of boys:
At what age did you trust them to go into a public restroom by themselves? I understand there are situations where the child is going to need help, but I'm getting tired of school-aged boys in the women's rest room because their mothers keep all their kids herded together and/or they don't trust their kids farther than arm's reach. The boys don't look any happier about it than I am, and I can't help think that this whole "bathrooms for the right gender only!" thing is going to poke its ugly head in.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2016 6:51:46 am PDT #19802 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You know, that would be an amazing counter to those laws -- get all the paranoid moms who want their sons with them to protest.
So, the NC one [link] apparently says kids under seven, or anyone 'receiving assistance in using the facility.'
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2016 6:55:03 am PDT #19803 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I live in Lakewood
Hi, Becky! My brother and SiL live in Superior (though they're currently looking at houses in different areas), because he goes to school in Boulder and she works in Thornton.
aurelia - Apr 17, 2016 6:59:22 am PDT #19804 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Happy birthday, Sheryl!
Hi, Becky. Based on your user number you've been lurking since... Wonderfalls maybe?
My taxes were the easiest they've been in decades. No 1099s, no out-of-state income. Crazy.
I would have to check, but I think I may have a discount code for the Chicago Kimpton through my employer.