Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.

'Bushwhacked'


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.


lisah - Feb 16, 2010 9:21:59 am PST #8705 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Last time I had a galette des Rois was when I drove from the Eastern Shore to the French bakery in Fells Point to get one for an Epiphany/Taking-down-the-tree game night.

Oh man I REALLY miss that place!

As for perfect winter weather, I don't think I'll look at snow the same way again after last week. For real. I've been psychologically traumatized (esp coming as it did in conjunction with them finding Bob's tumor).


Jesse - Feb 16, 2010 9:23:40 am PST #8706 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

As for perfect winter weather, I don't think I'll look at snow the same way again after last week. For real. I've been psychologically traumatized (esp coming as it did in conjunction with them finding Bob's tumor).

Yeah, I believe that. Sorry, you guys!

And here it's in the high 70s. For differing values of "perfect" and "winter."

Heh.


tommyrot - Feb 16, 2010 9:25:30 am PST #8707 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.

As for perfect winter weather, I don't think I'll look at snow the same way again after last week.

Growing up in Wisconsin during a decade of heavy snow, I think it'd take five feet of snow to make me look at snow differently....


Jesse - Feb 16, 2010 9:26:05 am PST #8708 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I will say, I think Boston is still traumatized by the Blizzard of 78, and it's been 30 years! Like, I'm pretty sure that's why they closed schools here last week when we didn't end up getting any snow. And that was "only" 27 inches, but no one was prepared, was the problem. [link]


Calli - Feb 16, 2010 9:27:09 am PST #8709 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Amy, I'm quite happy with my Asus netbook. I dragged it around Greece last fall with no problem, and now it's going to my Wednesday ground school class for note taking. I wouldn't want to do intensive Photoshop work on it, but for my light-use purposes (notes and web, mostly) it's fine.


Amy - Feb 16, 2010 9:28:30 am PST #8710 of 30001
Because books.

After living up here in the Land of Lake Effect Snow, I'm so immune to snow by now, it's weird. I actually feel weirdly guilty that the Mid-Atlantic is getting hit so hard and we've gotten very little in the last month, simply because it's all budgeted for up here, so it's always plowed and salted right away. People know how to live with snow up here.


tommyrot - Feb 16, 2010 9:32:56 am PST #8711 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.

My perspectives on both snow and disability were altered by that huge storm in Minneapolis we got on Halloween '91. We got 30" of snow in 24 hours. I was on crutches, so I had difficulty getting around for the next few weeks - where sidewalks were not cleared, I'd have to walk sideways on the footpaths through the snow. I don't know what people in wheelchairs do when sidewalks are not cleared of thick snow.


lisah - Feb 16, 2010 9:41:49 am PST #8712 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I don't know what people in wheelchairs do when sidewalks are not cleared of thick snow.

I've been thinking about that here a lot.


tommyrot - Feb 16, 2010 9:45:19 am PST #8713 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.

Damn.

JPMorgan Bombing: Bomb Explodes At Bank Offices In Athens

(AP) Police in the Greek capital say a bomb has exploded at the offices of American financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co., causing no injuries.

Good thing there were no injuries.

The government of Greece was hiding the extent of their financial borrowing. Now they're screwed, and possibly the European Union with them


tommyrot - Feb 16, 2010 9:47:17 am PST #8714 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.

MacGyver Multitool

Probably not real.