Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.

Xander ,'Empty Places'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


Fred Pete - Nov 23, 2009 6:31:34 am PST #20864 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Eek on being fully conscious and thought to be in a coma.

In other news, we broke down yesterday and adopted a companion kitty for Seamus. Well, actually, two. Pearl is a gray-and-white four-month-old girl. Coco is a black four-year-old boy.

Pearl doesn't seem to like being picked up, but once you succeed, she likes to be cuddled. She's taken to hiding in one corner of a bookcase.

Coco looks like a handful. The rescue group has had him in their system since 2005 (so, since he was a kitten or adolescent). He's fine if you sit still and let him approach you, but he hisses and growls and attacks if you try to approach him with much more than a finger to sniff.


Jesse - Nov 23, 2009 6:32:22 am PST #20865 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

love it. They possibly have too much time on their hands, but AWESOME way to use it.

That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

Also, that story of the guy in the coma is terrifying, but amazing that he's communicating now.


§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 6:37:50 am PST #20866 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They're going to have more difficulty proving the persistent or vegetative parts of persistent vegetative states now, aren't they?


Jessica - Nov 23, 2009 6:38:48 am PST #20867 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I thought there were tests that could be done to detect locked-in syndrome, but it's possible I'm confusing reality with House.


Beverly - Nov 23, 2009 6:43:04 am PST #20868 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Fred, there's a chance he'll have a delayed or even a "second" kittenhood, learn to play and approach and be approached without feeling threatened.

Our feral didn't respond to his name for eight years, nor was he vocal, at all. Now he won't shut up, and apparates before us when we call his name. Begs to be picked up and held, although not by anyone sitting, though he will smush up against a hip or leg in lieu of lapsitting. Cats are infinitely adaptable, as I'm sure you know. And I can't think of a family who would be more fertile ground for nurturing a personality stunted by cages and short-term foster placements. All best to you and Coco.


msbelle - Nov 23, 2009 6:46:12 am PST #20869 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

IthereishopeforhumanityyetN - my church was down to 3 children in need holiday gift letters when we got there after service on Sunday. They usually have them out for 3 Sundays, and I asked the volunteers if they had only put out part of what we have, but no, they had put out all that our church had been given.

Then today I email our HR lady who had similar letters that our company had taken on for employees to take voluntarily. Now this workplace has NOT ONCE in the 2 years I have been here pushed volunteerism or charity donations, NOTHING. I got the very last letter and they were first available 2 weeks ago.

So woohoo for people!


-t - Nov 23, 2009 6:49:48 am PST #20870 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I heard something on the radio about problems with how persistent vegetative states are determined, focussing on someone in a similar situation (possibly this guy, I don't remember well enough to be sure), but the way they figured out that the supposedly comatose person was awake was not simple or inexpensive. The doctor who did the figuring out was horrified at the thought of all the people he had pronounced brain dead that may not have been.


Dana - Nov 23, 2009 7:10:28 am PST #20871 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Aw, Carl Kasell is leaving NPR's newscasts (but staying on Wait Wait).


Dana - Nov 23, 2009 7:16:22 am PST #20872 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

On the other hand, listening to Carl imitate Sarah Palin on this week's WWDTM is a little...ew.


flea - Nov 23, 2009 7:23:47 am PST #20873 of 30001
information libertarian

Oh, gosh, Wait Wait has a page where you can listen to things people got Carl to record for their answering machines! [link]