Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Zenkitty - Feb 21, 2010 11:44:51 am PST #9722 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

subtract the 401k deductions

Wait, what? I used TT a couple years ago, and I don't recall this.


tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 12:42:18 pm PST #9723 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.

Possible Headline o' The Day:

Mary Robbins' Family Battling Cryogenic Freezing Organization Over Rights To Her Head


sarameg - Feb 21, 2010 12:42:31 pm PST #9724 of 30001

Y'all, I need a weekend for my weekend. OK, plugging in the damnde vacuum.


msbelle - Feb 21, 2010 12:51:16 pm PST #9725 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ugh, I need to get more things ready for tomorrow: lay out clothes, pack mac's snack, make my lunch, mark a few more places paint needs fixing and clean out the bathroom. don't wanna.


tommyrot - Feb 21, 2010 12:51:21 pm PST #9726 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'm just gonna quote the beginning of this PZ post:

Amazing gibberish

Renew America, the bizarrely, deeply, weirdly conservative web site founded by Alan Keyes, really had to struggle to find someone crazier than Pastor Grant Swank and Fred Hutchison and Bryan Fischer and Wes Vernon (let alone Alan Keyes himself), but they have succeeded. They have Linda Kimball writing for them. She has written the strangest history of evolutionary biology ever — I think she was stoned out of her mind and hallucinating when she made this one up. It's called "Evolutionism: the dying West's science of magic and madness". The title alone is enough to hint at the weirdness within, but just wait until you read where evolution comes from.

Though taught under the guise of empirical science, naturalistic evolution is really a spiritual concept whose taproot stretches back to the dawn of history. It was then, reports ancient Jewish historian Josephus, that Nimrod (Amraphel in the Old Testament) used terror and force to turn the people away from God and toward the worship of irrational nature. Moving forward in time to the Greco-Roman world, evolution serves as the mechanism of soul-transference in metempsychosis and transmigration of souls. In the ancient East, the mystical Upanishads refine evolution and it becomes the mechanism of soul-movement in involutions, emergences, incarnations, and reincarnation. In that both rationalist/materialist/secularism and its' counterpart Eastern/occult pantheism are modernized nature pseudo-religions, it comes as no surprise that evolution serves as their 'creation mythos'.


Hil R. - Feb 21, 2010 12:53:44 pm PST #9727 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

93-year-old woman died last week, leaving somewhere around 2000 living descendants. [link]


dcp - Feb 21, 2010 12:54:13 pm PST #9728 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Flickr is down for me. Anyone else having the same problem?

eta: ...and it's working again. Whew.


meara - Feb 21, 2010 2:04:00 pm PST #9729 of 30001

Er, doesn't your W2 already do that, Connie? Mine does. Or do you do the 401K separate from your employer?


Kat - Feb 21, 2010 2:18:25 pm PST #9730 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Catching up on GA -- I have to say, that as ever, I love Bailey. I feel like she is the most consistent of characters, without being static. And the young Bailey? So filled with awesome.

JAR was almost unrecognizable due to the bad wig.


sarameg - Feb 21, 2010 2:22:54 pm PST #9731 of 30001

Why do I always do the kitchen last, when it is the room I am going to need to use as soon as I am done?

Next up: make dinner, make lunch, get together Mister Kitty's stuff for tomorrow, dye hair.