Isn't "Tara" great? Love it. That is going to be my next script, if I ever write the current one.
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Feb 24, 2010 4:25:36 am PST #10323 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2010 4:31:56 am PST #10324 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, I have no idea how. Just it can't be over. I am sure of this.
Wasn't it great? I can't believe I came so late to it. I blame everyone here for letting me down.
JZ - Feb 24, 2010 4:38:57 am PST #10325 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, ugh, Theo, I'm sorry!
WRITE IT, Barb.
We totally missed the skating last night; it was wet and rainy and exactly the right kind of evening for rewatching Totoro. I'm mildly irked that I'll have to troll YouTube to catch up with everything, but on the other hand at the end of the movie Matilda insisted that I stand up and dance around the living room to the end credits song with her, and I love her dancing even more than I love ice skating.
More amazing Shorpy pictures. I'm starting to warm to the idea of an NYC F2F, especially if Gud or MM can get cracking on a time machine and get us all back to the turn of the last century.
sarameg - Feb 24, 2010 4:39:04 am PST #10326 of 30001
Dear NE: Please enjoy the copious snow we're sending north. We feel bad about not sharing the earlier snow. Really.
Mid-Atlantic
Jesse - Feb 24, 2010 4:44:06 am PST #10327 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That little girl is fantastic.
Sorry, Sara, I'm still not getting snow up here. Just rain!
JZ - Feb 24, 2010 4:52:21 am PST #10328 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Look how pretty! I've never really wanted to go to SLC before in my life, but now...though this one probably also requires a time machine.
Steph L. - Feb 24, 2010 4:52:30 am PST #10329 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Trudy Booth - Feb 24, 2010 4:57:50 am PST #10330 of 30001
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
I loved wandering around Saltair when I was in SLC.
JZ - Feb 24, 2010 4:58:05 am PST #10331 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I can think of at least four women in my family who need this one.
tommyrot - Feb 24, 2010 4:58:12 am PST #10332 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.
I think every Buffista needs one several of these: Snackbot, the vending machine that comes to you
Two years of work for Carnegie Mellon University's Paul Rybski and his team of students, the combined minds of 17 other faculty members, and a $20,000 cocktail including a laser navigation system, sonar sensors and stereo camera-eyes all led to one marvelous invention: the Snackbot. Yes, as you've no doubt already surmised by the name, we're talking about a robot that serves snacks.
The Snackbot isn't just a dumb waiter, though — it's got something of a personality, according to Ian Daly of The New York Times:
"Hello, I'm the Snackbot," it said in a voice not unlike that of HAL 9000, from "2001: A Space Odyssey," as its rectangular LED "mouth" pulsated to form the words. "I've come to deliver snacks to Ian. Is Ian here?"
I responded affirmatively. "Oh, hello, Ian," it said. "Here is your order. I believe it was a granola bar, right?"
Yes, it was. "All right, go ahead and take your snack. I'm sure it would be good, but I wouldn't know. I prefer a snack of electricity."
A cheeky personality, at that. The Carnegie Mellon team behind Snackbot wanted to develop a robot that would help them study human-machine interactions. The easiest way to grease the wheels, they figured, was to have the robot offer people snacks. Scientific research is, after all, the result of blood, sweat, tears, potato chips and soda, right? Isn't that how it goes?