Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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.


Theodosia - Jul 23, 2020 2:24:54 pm PDT #23945 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Laura, is this a job he's likely to keep into the winter and beyond? It may be a good idea to get a car that does well in the snow, preferably FWD. The best car I ever had was a Subaru Forester, which had AWD. You're not bulletproof, but the drive was sensitive enough to increase power so you hugged the road just a little better -- and you never got stuck parked in a snow bank.

I miss my Subaru. sigh.


Laura - Jul 23, 2020 2:31:48 pm PDT #23946 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Subarus are awesome. My sister had well over 300,000 on hers before it totally rusted out. She would have just wrapped the whole thing in duct tape if it would pass NYS inspection.


Laura - Jul 23, 2020 2:32:43 pm PDT #23947 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

DH is looking at a Toyota Venza.


Dana - Jul 23, 2020 3:17:47 pm PDT #23948 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I called in sick to work yesterday due to a migraine.

Booooo.

And now it looks like my dad tested positive for prostate cancer, so now we get to wait for a biopsy.

Ugh. Fingers crossed for the best outcome.


Jesse - Jul 23, 2020 3:29:24 pm PDT #23949 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good thoughts toward your dad, shrift.


Laura - Jul 23, 2020 4:51:38 pm PDT #23950 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Think DH has a winner. 2008 Camry Hybrid. He is going to go see it tomorrow. He doesn't want him to have a junker. [link]


-t - Jul 23, 2020 4:55:18 pm PDT #23951 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nice.


Shir - Jul 23, 2020 9:12:38 pm PDT #23952 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I am very sorry, shrift. ~ma and thoughts to you, your dad, and family.


Shir - Jul 23, 2020 9:18:27 pm PDT #23953 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

And in other post: went to the campus' library yesterday (first time since... late Feb? Early March?) to get some dead-tree version of books that were unavailable online. While it was almost deserted (hence looking like a potential place to come to write my assignments in it), half of the patrons were without masks and in spaces where you cannot open the windows. I came, I browsed the shelves (possibly my favorite pastime), and I got away as quickly as possible.

I also don't know anything about cars either, but good luck!


Calli - Jul 24, 2020 1:46:36 am PDT #23954 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Dad~ma, shrift. If it helps, my grandfather had prostate cancer for years, and it wasn't what caught him in the end.

Yay, Camry, Laura! I hope it works out for your son.

I bought an Impreza based on my niece-in-law's experience, but I can't report back on reliability because I haven't driven it half the time I've owned it. Due to COVID. I mean, yay WfH, and it looks nice in the parking lot. But it's getting a really inaccurate impression of its car-ish duties as part of my wee household.