When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Pix - Jul 07, 2009 7:19:36 pm PDT #15622 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.

Thanks for the good thoughts for my gram. She's still in the hospital, but it looks like she's stable. They still think she had some kind of heart incident and have done a whole new series of tests that my mom will get more information about tomorrow. She's assuring me I don't have to come home, and I'm taking her at her word. I'm nervous that things will get worse while I'm on the ship in Alaska and unable to get home quickly, but we are in LA overnight a week from Saturday, so I can cancel the second cruise week and go home then if need be. Fingers crossed that she is fine and it all becomes moot.

The whole ADD pausing thing? Very much shows up a point my therapist once made, ages ago. She said the great thing about the ADD mind is that it sees all the possibilities - the challenge is to figure out how to narrow all those possibilities down to a more manageable number. I sometimes pause in the middle of a line of reasoning to re-examine some of the options, and that can derail my end of a conversation.

SO TRUE. Wow, I never thought about this before, but that is exactly what I'm constantly doing. I have to really watch it while I'm teaching, because I have had those moments when I completely lose track of where I was going because my mind has skittered down several other related paths in the meantime.

I used to pronounce it Skiffy, but now I just look at it balefully. Perhaps it should be the Channel that Shall Not Be Named.

I am Cass.


§ ita § - Jul 07, 2009 7:38:58 pm PDT #15623 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sy Fy can be trademarked or copyrighted or whatever's applicable, and Sci Fi cannot. It's brand control.

Also, apparently illiterately moronic.


Trudy Booth - Jul 07, 2009 7:45:30 pm PDT #15624 of 30000
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

Sy Fy can be trademarked or copyrighted or whatever's applicable, and Sci Fi cannot. It's brand control.

That's actually a pretty good reason.

(Well, in that it keeps people like me employed. It was still a douche move.)


-t - Jul 07, 2009 7:50:13 pm PDT #15625 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Did they keep the little ringed planet logo? 'Cause I like that.


StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 8:08:33 pm PDT #15626 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

There's a second reason for SyFy - that's how it's most-commonly-twittered.

I kid you not, and I do not make it up. However, I can no longer find the web-release from the-old-SciFi to back this up, so you can assume I'm lying.

(I'm totally not, though. I'm too lazy to continue researching it; I have better things to do, like sleep.)


-t - Jul 07, 2009 8:12:57 pm PDT #15627 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

She said the great thing about the ADD mind is that it sees all the possibilities - the challenge is to figure out how to narrow all those possibilities down to a more manageable number.

I like that. It's not just a bug, it's also a feature.


NoiseDesign - Jul 07, 2009 8:19:14 pm PDT #15628 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

I took a ton of pictures today and plan to go through them when I get a chance and hopefully upload some sets on Facebook. Dear doG it is just insanely beautiful here.


Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 07, 2009 8:43:23 pm PDT #15629 of 30000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

There's a second reason for SyFy - that's how it's most-commonly-twittered.

I kid you not, and I do not make it up. However, I can no longer find the web-release from the-old-SciFi to back this up, so you can assume I'm lying.

I remember the same article. I think the reason given was it was the way most commonly searched for on the internet rather than specifically Twitter, but either way it seems like a network caving to illiteracy.


omnis_audis - Jul 07, 2009 10:11:38 pm PDT #15630 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I love it when the media caves to the lowest common denominator. We as a society are DOOMED! We need that Isle pronto. Must be isolated from the mainlands. Independent sources of energy and food. And a well stocked library!


StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 10:16:27 pm PDT #15631 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

We need that Isle pronto.

(nods insanely fast)