Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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.


Trudy Booth - Jul 09, 2007 1:51:19 pm PDT #7271 of 10001
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

t dies laughing


shrift - Jul 09, 2007 1:52:20 pm PDT #7272 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Totally unrelated wetness, you guys.


tommyrot - Jul 09, 2007 1:53:19 pm PDT #7273 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I got confused when we had to make things oscillate.

Taken out of context, that could go after Trudy's post too....


Trudy Booth - Jul 09, 2007 1:53:22 pm PDT #7274 of 10001
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

Having that not so fresh feeling?


tommyrot - Jul 09, 2007 1:54:10 pm PDT #7275 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Oh yeah, I also hooked up a sonar to my Arduino, and then had it send the sonar data via USB to my laptop. That was fun to play with.


amych - Jul 09, 2007 1:57:37 pm PDT #7276 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I am tommyrot when it comes to the sadness of the childhood electronics kit. I connected tab A to slot B and made things light up when following the directions, but I didn't so much get beyond that point....

One of my students just got back from taking his gang of adorable inner-city middle-school students to RoboCup 2007. I'll bet he mastered the electronics kit. (And the middle-schoolers may have too. Someone please convince the dude to teach and/or design stuff rather than majoring in econ?)


shrift - Jul 09, 2007 2:01:26 pm PDT #7277 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Having that not so fresh feeling?

Having to walk through dirty water gushing out of storm drains and sit next to people who smell like hot garbage on the bus really just makes me crave a night in with my Summer's Eve.

Oh yeah. So totally yeah.


meara - Jul 09, 2007 2:24:13 pm PDT #7278 of 10001

it's not like ure my woman

See, I'm picky, so I'd rule him out solely on the basis of "ure" rather than "youre"...I can forgive the occasional "u" instead of "you" or 4 instead of for, but...ure?? (This is, of course, why I'm planning ot get a phone with a full qwerty keyboard, so I can write better texts without taking forever)


§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 2:52:31 pm PDT #7279 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is, of course, why I'm planning ot get a phone with a full qwerty keyboard, so I can write better texts without taking forever

I am the uptightest ever on this front. I type every damned word out in a text, ignoring the character limit and my aching thumbs. I am more likely to write "ASAP" on the web and "as soon as possible" in a text message. Oh, and everything is properly capitalised too.

It's possible the chip on my shoulder is somehow also up my butt.

He is (was?) a nice guy otherwise I'd have brushed him off hard a while back, but I do feel genuinely unable to make friends out of acquaintances right now (although existing friends might appreciate me spreading the load a bit...) and was faced with that wall, not knowing how to get past it.

Man, I keep flipping over to Facebook to stare at this picture of the wife of one of the instructors. She's that chick, for values of that for which you have to grudgingly admit she can carry off a piece of fashion you previously thought impossible. She's tiny, hot, and sweet. She has a couple of wedding pics up and I'm freaking mesmerised.


tommyrot - Jul 09, 2007 2:55:16 pm PDT #7280 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Giant flat-screen TV cozy