Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


beth b - Jul 06, 2007 10:10:48 pm PDT #6862 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I have a good DH - He knows I am falling asleep, yet he is not trying to insist that I put the internets away


Theodosia - Jul 07, 2007 2:55:22 am PDT #6863 of 10001
'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"

You know, I just realized a place to pimp the book for a mention is Boing-Boing, which is interested in all kinds of internet social-networking and geekery. So anybody who wants to take the time, if you drop a note to the editors saying something along the lines of "hey, this is great, it's right up your alley" that could get some free publicity....

I'm not really here, I have to run out to Readercon soon. Going right from Maine to the con is not so great in terms of physical exhaustion, et cet. -- I thought my back was going to fall off yesterday, it hurt so much. On the other hand, the great time spent with friends and/or attending great panels made up for a lot of it!


Jessica - Jul 07, 2007 3:26:23 am PDT #6864 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Bah -- Amazon won't let me review The Book because it's not released yet. I gave it five stars anyway.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 07, 2007 4:34:49 am PDT #6865 of 10001
What is even happening?

In Maine. Want book. Book in New Hampshire. Family want beach. Family bad. Book pretty.


Jesse - Jul 07, 2007 4:38:00 am PDT #6866 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm going to Maine next weekend! Of course, I have no idea exactly where, and I'll apparently be sharing a bed with my grandmother, but I'm still looking forward to it.


Kathy A - Jul 07, 2007 5:10:09 am PDT #6867 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I finished The Book last night!! And, ye, it was good. (Or is that "Yay, it was good!"?) Either way, way to go, paperdol! Loved the equal doses of snark (busting a 13-year-old boy--shame on you) and pathos (oh, did Random Acts of Paypal and the trip to Catalina get me sniffling!).

I'm definitely giving this to Mom to read when she comes out next month--she's never gone onto a discussion board and is completely confused over my long-term love of them (my first Web search in 1996 produced my first online home where I hung out until I discovered Table Talk back in 1999). Maybe she'll understand a little bit when she reads this book.

IWimbledonN, Bjorn Borg? Still hot.


JZ - Jul 07, 2007 5:33:21 am PDT #6868 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Bah -- Amazon won't let me review The Book because it's not released yet. I gave it five stars anyway.

I wondered why there were no reviews, when (a) I knew there'd been ARCs in circulation for a couple weeks already, plus (b) street teaming and (c) made of awesome. How irksome.


Kathy A - Jul 07, 2007 5:56:04 am PDT #6869 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I gots me a new bed!! I missed the end of the women's final, but that's okay, because--new mattress!! Now I just have to see if the old sheets will fit. I'm thinking it'll be a close thing, even though it isn't a pillowtop set.


§ ita § - Jul 07, 2007 6:38:27 am PDT #6870 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Fuck! Tennis!

Man, sometimes the left coast sucks. And I know I've been too out of it to record. And I don't have anything as cool as a new bed to blame it on. But I am reminded that I need to work out why mine's suddenly noisy.

Meanwhile, I was doing more reading. She's just said some very nice things about b.org. We're a solution that works.


Jesse - Jul 07, 2007 7:03:09 am PDT #6871 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, and here's what I decided about the potential for getting busted: enough sites are mentioned in various contexts that it's not like my boss (say) would come directly here. So that's fine, too.