Or a pointy stick, for jabbing.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2017 12:32:36 pm PDT #15507 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dana - Aug 17, 2017 12:42:00 pm PDT #15508 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Jesus, now this guy is saying that Lee never had evil intent, and he doesn't want to see that attributed to Lee 150 years later.
Riiiiiiight. The guy who led the fucking Confederate Army didn't have any evil intent. Fortunately, this is on a friend's FB page, so I screeched at him. Politely.
Sheryl - Aug 17, 2017 1:02:56 pm PDT #15509 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
"S, get the duck out of your mouth!" - Actual thing I said. (No, he didn't remove it from his mouth. He's been chewing on my rubber ducks for a while. Toddlers...)
Una - Aug 17, 2017 1:11:17 pm PDT #15510 of 30002
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
(Here's why I don't usually post: by the time I can come back, the conversation has moved on...)
(Hi, -t!)
The nice thing about pinhole projection is that you don't even have to make anything. Look at the shadow of your interlaced fingers, or a colander, or tree leaves. Eclipse projections everywhere!
I totally get the concerns, but lack of exposure is why people don't get science, argh.
-t - Aug 17, 2017 1:18:12 pm PDT #15511 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I totally get the concerns, but lack of exposure is why people don't get science, argh.
Totally, that is what is so frustrating!
The dancing rings thrown by the annular eclipse through tree leaves are one of my favorite visual memories. I was trying to explain the interlaced fingers method of pinhole projection to the guys who were renting us the car (the one guy kept saying "but you can't look right at the sun? I kinda want to now" so I hope he doesn't do that at least). I did show it to some of my coworkers last time we had a partial during work hours, but that was a tiny sliver missing and they were not so impressed.
Hil R. - Aug 17, 2017 1:27:18 pm PDT #15512 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My eclipse glasses, which I ordered a week ago with two business day shipping, are still listed as "preparing for shipment" on the tracker. I'm pretty sure I will not have eclipse glasses for the actual eclipse.
Hil R. - Aug 17, 2017 1:31:47 pm PDT #15513 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A local disability group (which is very informal -- we have almost no actual organization beyond "Guy who's mostly in charge because it was his idea to have a local chapter") is trying to put together a statement on Charlottesville. We're all discussing edits. There was some actual discussion about several points, and edits made, and I appreciate all of that discussion, but there are also a bunch of grammatical errors, and I pointed them out, and those were not changed. And I can't really point them out again without looking like an ass, but one of them is really annoying me. (Most of it is misplaced commas, but there's one sentence with the wrong verb tense.)
-t - Aug 17, 2017 1:40:20 pm PDT #15514 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh to both of those, Hil.
I'm trying desperately not start anything in the next 20 minutes so I can just cleanly leave when my 8 hours are up and get to vacationing. Maybe I'll straighten up the papers on my desk.
-t - Aug 17, 2017 2:19:12 pm PDT #15515 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Success! Work badge is in its box by my front door and it can stay there for 6 days! Now for laundry and packing be so forth
Tom Scola - Aug 17, 2017 2:27:41 pm PDT #15516 of 30002
hwæt
WHY don't people believe you when you tell them they're texting the wrong number???