I'm sorry, sumi. I hope the cat your neighbors found is Mr. Ivan, and that you can meet up with them, and him, soon.
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
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.
Calli - Dec 07, 2009 4:11:08 pm PST #23544 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Ginger - Dec 07, 2009 4:17:44 pm PST #23545 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have new windows, and now, when they are closed, I can't get internet. So I have to open my window. But it is cold, and all my head is going out the window, even with the drapes closed and a pillow stuffed in the opening. Any ideas? Should I try taping plastic over the whole thing?
I googled, and apparently this is a rather large problem. The signal is blocked by the low-e coating on the window. Some people are enclosing the modem in clear plastic and putting it outside the window. Otherwise, your best bet may be shrink film [link]
shrift - Dec 07, 2009 4:27:28 pm PST #23546 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Did anyone else just go to a Roy Orbison Wrapped in Cling-Film place?
Sophia Brooks - Dec 07, 2009 4:33:13 pm PST #23547 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow- thank you ginger! It never occurred to me to google- the problem seemed so weird. I wish I could fit the #@^%!! receiver between the window and the screen, but I can;t.
tommyrot - Dec 07, 2009 4:34:05 pm PST #23548 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Möbius Bagel: interlocking, endless, doughy rings of math
On the website of sculptor and mathematician George Hart, there are step-by-step instructions for how to craft a Möbius strip from a single bagel. I like his thoughts at the very end of the instruction process:
"It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area."
Hil R. - Dec 07, 2009 5:14:32 pm PST #23549 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Mobius bagel is neat.
Steph L. - Dec 07, 2009 5:23:58 pm PST #23550 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Mobius bagel is neat.
I wonder if you could make a Klein bagel?
Maybe I need a Klein bottle for Christmas!
Polter-Cow - Dec 07, 2009 5:33:49 pm PST #23551 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mmm, I do love Trader Joe's BBQ Chicken Salad.
tommyrot - Dec 07, 2009 5:34:48 pm PST #23552 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Teppy reminds me I must get one of those Klein bottle winter hats....
Jesse - Dec 07, 2009 5:46:21 pm PST #23553 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, you guys, seriously -- I have to make this list of (a) things I did, and (b) things other people mostly did that I was ultimately responsible for. "Primary responsibility" and "managerial responsibility"? Does that sounds like b?