I'm sorry, sarameg. Here's hoping it's over quickly and you heal up rapidly.
Today's google doodle lets you play cricket.
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Calli - Jul 17, 2017 4:24:27 am PDT #13913 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Dana - Jul 17, 2017 4:29:44 am PDT #13914 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Today's google doodle lets you play cricket.
Does it explain how to play? There are wickets, I know that much.
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2017 4:46:47 am PDT #13915 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ha! On FB, commenting on a friend's post about the Bro tears over the 13th Doctor, some dude I don't know just asked me "What is your Geek fandom?" (Random capitalization is his.) I feel like I leveled up, because I've never been fake geek girl-ed by a random Broheim crying about a fictional alien.
(My reply? "That's cute." Because Brocephus does not get to ask me for receipts. Sheesh.)
shrift - Jul 17, 2017 5:03:38 am PDT #13916 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My first connecting flight has been delayed 3 hours, so Delta had to rebook me on a later flight to San Francisco. Now I'm working from the kitchen while my nieces run around the house.
Tom Scola - Jul 17, 2017 5:33:23 am PDT #13917 of 30002
hwæt
Headline of the day: Woman goes in for cataract surgery, has 27 contact lenses removed from her eye
msbelle - Jul 17, 2017 5:38:47 am PDT #13918 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
How did she get scheduled for surgery without an exam?!?!! Or if she had an exam what sort of horrible dr doesn't notice this?!?!?!
Jesse - Jul 17, 2017 5:48:15 am PDT #13919 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, they saw it, but just thought it was a cataract???
(I am reminded of the fact that my uncle had two of the little cushions from his hearing aid stuck in his ear, but they were both found in a routine office visit!!)
Amy - Jul 17, 2017 5:58:18 am PDT #13920 of 30002
Because books.
I just can't imagine how *she* didn't know she had all those lenses in one eye. And why in one eye? If she didn't think she had to take the lenses out, shouldn't there be 27 in her other eye, too?
smonster - Jul 17, 2017 5:59:27 am PDT #13921 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Steph, I'd be tempted to respond, "Aww, you only have one fandom? That's just… sad."
Ewwww on the contact story. And ow.
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2017 6:21:50 am PDT #13922 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, the dude who asked me "What is your Geek fandom" just posted a follow-up that he checked all the public posts on my profile and didn't see any Doctor Who posts and said I might be a pompous ass but he was willing to "give me the benefit of the doubt" that I didn't make public posts about Doctor Who.
Blocked, you creepy Broseph stalkerino. Jesus. None of my fannish interests have led me to stalk the public profile of a stranger. That is messed up.
(I mean, I acknowledge that a person's public FB profile is open to be perused by anyone [as it is, as the name says, public], but the dude admitted that he did it to pull receipts on me and play gotcha with my fannish cred. That's a little too invested in the 13th Doctor having a dick.)