Found out a college friend adopted a baby boy yesterday! I knew they had talked about pursing it a while back, but had no idea it was so close to happening.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'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.
sarameg - Aug 13, 2015 2:24:39 pm PDT #3246 of 30003
Ginger - Aug 13, 2015 2:51:48 pm PDT #3247 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Less than is used for time, distance and ages, because they're amounts, not countable things.
Juliebird - Aug 13, 2015 3:03:00 pm PDT #3248 of 30003
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
PMSing and watching cat videos to cheer myself, but they're turning into hateful torture videos where owners deliberately terrorize their own pets for fun and it's just making me sad. Hooray for installing fear in our companions!
ION, I met a vegetarian who has cow skin carpets. I was heartened. I can't explain why.
-t - Aug 13, 2015 3:52:03 pm PDT #3249 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
because they're amounts, not countable things.
This is what messes me up, because I know that rule but my concept of "countable thing" is not super clear.
Jesse - Aug 13, 2015 4:04:54 pm PDT #3250 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys, it's still fun when a Good Stuff post takes off, but I think I may have gotten all of the followers already. That guy giving free haircuts to kids has like 50K notes, but I only got 170 new followers!
Tom Scola - Aug 13, 2015 4:05:06 pm PDT #3251 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
because they're amounts, not countable things.
Said the person who thinks that “data” isn’t a mass noun.
Lee - Aug 13, 2015 4:32:07 pm PDT #3252 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse's sphere of influence should be infinite!
Today kind of kicked my butt. I would like a massage and a margarita, or maybe a bubble bath and a bourbon. Sadly, I have none of those things.
beth b - Aug 13, 2015 5:16:19 pm PDT #3253 of 30003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
It was not a bad day, but it was not a great day good: feast day bad: because a coworker is moving to another branch good: mr aggressively passive agressive actually lied so he has been caught bad lost a thumb drive that has a lot of work that I hadn't saved anywhere else that needs to be posted tomorrow good: when I realized it was lost I re did about half of it - so it will be done
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-t - Aug 13, 2015 6:02:36 pm PDT #3254 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, I didn't go for a walk, but I did exercise and that did make me feel better. Would still like to go to sleep but soon enough it will be time for that anyway, so I guess that all works out.
Also discovered that just reaching into 120° F water with a bare hand to grab my reheated fish doesn't really hurt. I didn't exactly mean to test that. I hope I don't flake out like that with a higher temperature.
Atropa - Aug 13, 2015 6:17:46 pm PDT #3255 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Things I say to my dog way more often than makes sense:
I tend to say things to the cats like:
"Really? How do you feel about that?"
"How is that going to work with your napping schedule?"
"What ARE you going to do about that issue?"
Sometimes I ask them where they've put the XML source files, because they're not in the dratted directory they're supposed to be. My work-from-home life.