Ooh, that sounds really good, askye.
I am bummed about your missed nap, Zen! BTW, have I mentioned that I do sometimes need to run a TPS report? Cracks me up every time. Actually cracks me up every time I see the option on a menu.
I've seen honest faces before. They usually come attached to liars.
Willow ,'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.
-t - Sep 16, 2015 1:54:27 pm PDT #5485 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sheryl - Sep 16, 2015 2:00:17 pm PDT #5486 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I've been lucky and haven't had any encounters with the police while driving. I do tend to be a bit cautious about speed limits, though.
Calli - Sep 16, 2015 2:25:04 pm PDT #5487 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've been pulled over twice for speeding and gotten off with a warning both times. I'm white. The first time I also brought the cleavage into play, and the second time (15 years and 50 additional pounds later) I think it was a mixture of white privilege and looking like his mother.
In other transport news, I've flown an average of once a year for the past 20 years. I think I've been pulled aside for a pat down maybe twice. Once I was traveling with a middle-aged, middle class African American lady. She got pulled for a pat-down and her carry-on luggage thoroughly checked on the way out and then again on the way back. She said it happened every time she flew.
Hil R. - Sep 16, 2015 2:37:12 pm PDT #5488 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This past summer, my sister was pulled over for speeding while I was in the car, and the cop did kind of stand there for a little while before coming over. (She was driving about 55 in a 35 zone. The GPS she was using displays the speed limit, and it was displaying 50, and she didn't notice that the actual signs said different.) It was while we were in Maine, in a car with NJ plates, and the cop made sure to tell her that, if she wanted to contest the ticket, she had to do it in person, in a court in Maine, in about three weeks.
-t - Sep 16, 2015 3:02:24 pm PDT #5489 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just killed a mosquito as it was biting me on the neck. Mildly concerned that it was a transmogrified vampire.
Tom Scola - Sep 16, 2015 3:07:40 pm PDT #5490 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
8.3 earthquake in Chile; tsunami watch in Hawaii.
Calli - Sep 16, 2015 3:35:08 pm PDT #5491 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Oh, dear. There's also a tsunami watch in Chile.
-t - Sep 16, 2015 3:54:20 pm PDT #5492 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
8.3? Fuck.
sarameg - Sep 16, 2015 3:59:20 pm PDT #5493 of 30003
Last ticket I got, pulled over for speeding 5 miles over the limit in rural Idaho by patronizing as fuck cops. Driving a rental, being blown past by locals.
In this area, pretty damned sure I'm not the one with the target on me. Never gotten a ticket here (yet) and fully expect if I do, it'll be because a slow night.
Walking back from the pool one night, had a cop pull a U-ie in front of me as I was about to cross the street. It was the depths of winter; only thing visible (and not really even that) were my eyes. Conversation abruptly changed from curt "where are you going." to "there's been a lot of foot crime..," when I pulled down my scarf revealing my whiteness. Spotlight came off my face.
I was unamused. I imagine if it were one of my black neighbors, who have lived here longer and done more for this community, it would have been a different conversation.
I pretty much view all cops here with skepticism. I'm likely to benefit from my interactions with them, but it's because the root is rotten. I cannot rejoice in that.
Burrell - Sep 16, 2015 4:08:54 pm PDT #5494 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yeah, I get that, sarameg
A couple weeks ago I got an alert from the campus that there was an altercation off campus. There are usually a few alerts in a row until the ruckus clears. This one ended with an Incident Resolution notice: it was a drunk community member with a gun, no violence, brought in without incident. Why isn't that the norm?
As for the quake, I can't really fathom 8.3 except that it sounds scary and please please not too much devastation.