Timelies all!
Why does it feel like it's later in the week than it is?
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Sheryl - May 25, 2016 2:05:30 pm PDT #22027 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
-t - May 25, 2016 2:19:25 pm PDT #22028 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Because these three days have been one million years long.
Or maybe that's just today. I feel like I've been behind all day and running to catch up. Exhausting.
billytea - May 25, 2016 3:33:39 pm PDT #22029 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Congratulations ND for claiming your fiefdom! Do not fear to rule it with an iron fist. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
Hi Raq!
Meanwhile, in Australia--bat invasion!
Please note that where the headline refers to 100K bats, they mean 100,000 bats, not 100-kilo bats. (Incidentally, Bateman's Bay is where my family went for our summer holidays when I was but a wee sprog. Gareth managed to get stung on the foot by a bluebottle, but we had no bat-related encounters.)
Kate P. - May 25, 2016 5:01:12 pm PDT #22030 of 30003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Some recs for mac:
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer. On the young end of YA, sci-fi set in a future Zimbabwe, three detectives with special powers are called in to solve a kidnapping case. [link]
Boy Nobody, by Allen Zadoff. YA action/thriller about a teenage assassin, first in a series. [link]
For quick, fun sci-fi books, has he read any Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Or for dystopian sci-fi, what about Trent Reedy (Divided We Fall series) or Marie Lu (Legend series)?
Dana - May 25, 2016 5:34:23 pm PDT #22031 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
fuck fuck fuck left my pills at home
here until monday
fuuuuuck
Kat - May 25, 2016 6:16:39 pm PDT #22032 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Boy Nobody is really great. As is Nancy Farmer's House of Scorpion.
sarameg - May 25, 2016 6:49:21 pm PDT #22033 of 30003
I hate computers. In addition to everything else.
Consuela - May 25, 2016 7:10:24 pm PDT #22034 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, no, Dana. I'm sorry.
Gud: I'm sorry to hear Girls Who Code turned you down. Did they say why? I mean, it's a donation, right?
Me, I stopped at the store for vegetables and almonds. And of course I bought some of Mary's jalapeno cheese puffs -- which meant that's what I had for dinner instead of the salad I had planned. Then I made almond bars for a work thing tomorrow, and then I made the salad so I have something to eat for lunch tomorrow.
Here's a nice tasty salad: equal amounts green and red cabbage, shredded; diced red onion; fresh corn (or canned); black beans; cilantro (if you have it and you like it); diced avocado; and crumbled cojita. Toss with a lime/olive oil vinaigrette (I made it with lemons). Don't forget the salt. I forgot the cilantro, but I made it a few weeks ago and it's really tasty.
Burrell - May 25, 2016 8:12:56 pm PDT #22035 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
yum!
shrift - May 25, 2016 8:20:27 pm PDT #22036 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Dana, could your husband overnight them, maybe?