You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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.


EpicTangent - Sep 16, 2021 9:07:42 am PDT #9278 of 29424
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

This looks promising: A saliva test for COVID-19 outperforms nasal and oral swab tests, according to a new study.

Darnell Rockefeller University Laboratory (DRUL) saliva test

How much do I love the synchronicity of the lab's acronym and the medium of the test? SO MUCH.


Trudy Booth - Sep 16, 2021 9:32:47 am PDT #9279 of 29424
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Where is everyone? Was the east coast raptured?

Have you MET us?

Maaaybe Scola. That's about it.


meara - Sep 16, 2021 9:47:10 am PDT #9280 of 29424

Hahah DRUL is great!

See this is why you need a secret identity. And a sock puppet account. And a stage name.

I mean, I have a stage (drag) name! And meara is not my legal name! Maybe it should be.


DavidS - Sep 16, 2021 10:03:47 am PDT #9281 of 29424
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I mean, I have a stage (drag) name!

What's your drag name?

I've done the running of the steps (no bulls involved), and procured and quaffed Second Coffee.

I'm now perusing the cake possibilities at Schubert's Bakery for Emmett & Matilda's bdays next week (they will be 25 and 15 respectively).

Please look at the Schubert's cakes and tell me what you would get that is not just a chocolate/chocolate cake. (It may have chocolate in combination with something else like the Fuerst Pueckler): [link]


Toddson - Sep 16, 2021 10:19:22 am PDT #9282 of 29424
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

OK, I checked those cakes and now I'm drooling (no test involved). I'd go for the Tiramisu, Chocolate Mousse or that other mousse cake (didn't write down the name). I'd go for the Opera Cake if I didn't hate hazelnut flavors.

In the drool/DRUL news, I saw they're also training dogs to sniff out COVID ... which would definitely be an improvement on any kind of jabbing.


Steph L. - Sep 16, 2021 10:20:58 am PDT #9283 of 29424
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

I mean, I have a stage (drag) name!

What's your drag name?

Is it Indy?


meara - Sep 16, 2021 10:44:30 am PDT #9284 of 29424

Yep, it's Indy!

I would probably get an opera cake, unless it was for one friend who I know would want the Swedish princess cake because marzipan.

I am on hold at the non-emergency police number. Which is fine--it's been 20 minutes--the annoying thing is it rings like, 5 times, and then there's a recorded message about visiting the website, and then it rings 5 more times....like, just give me some hold music so I don't keep thinking someone has picked up and I don't keep hearing the same recording over and over every 20 seconds??


Jesse - Sep 16, 2021 10:48:55 am PDT #9285 of 29424
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Now I can't remember where, but I have heard of little kids having trouble getting enough spit for that test. Which might still be better than sticking something up their nose?

Please look at the Schubert's cakes and tell me what you would get that is not just a chocolate/chocolate cake. (It may have chocolate in combination with something else like the Fuerst Pueckler): [link]

It super depends on who's eating it. Like, for me I might do the black forest, but not if my aunt were coming because she's allergic to cherries. Fuerst Peuckler also looks delicious.


EpicTangent - Sep 16, 2021 10:51:46 am PDT #9286 of 29424
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Aww, the bakery website won't load for me, with either browser. Just as well, I suppose, as it would make me crave cake I do not have access to. And make the sandwich I packed for lunch extra pathetic.


shrift - Sep 16, 2021 10:59:47 am PDT #9287 of 29424
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I have jury duty today. Which would be fine, except we're still in this pandemic and I am covering for, like, 5 people mostly due to employee attrition. Which means I'm on ALL of the launches.

But I'm going to jam some lunch in my face, put on a KN95 mask, pack a book and some battery chargers, and go to the courthouse early since I don't know how long the security line will take.