The Times told me that Stevens always thought he'd die in a plane crash, so there's that.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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.
Jesse - Aug 10, 2010 9:34:41 am PDT #17136 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 9:36:04 am PDT #17137 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.
Tom Scola - Aug 10, 2010 9:40:08 am PDT #17138 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Stevens survived a plane crash in the 1970s that killed his wife.
Kat - Aug 10, 2010 10:06:08 am PDT #17139 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
WRT the JetBlue guy, according to the NYT's article yesterday (which made me laugh out loud multiple times), JetBlue didn't call the Port Authority police for over 30 minutes after the incident. The NYT speculated it was to give the JetBlue guy time to get home. That seems specious to me. But funny.
Jesse - Aug 10, 2010 10:15:40 am PDT #17140 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And when the cops got to his house, he was doing his boyfriend, per Gawker...
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 10:16:39 am PDT #17141 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.
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 10:33:35 am PDT #17142 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.
Why is it only 2:33? Are the cats slowing down Earth's rotation again?
Zenkitty - Aug 10, 2010 10:35:00 am PDT #17143 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Allyson! That's fantastic! Peter Freaking Beagle loved your book, holy shit!
You realize the downside to this is that you can never again worry about not being a good enough writer without someone saying, Dude, Peter Freaking Beagle!
shrift - Aug 10, 2010 10:38:21 am PDT #17144 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Now that I'm sitting in a new location, I feel like I should put up a sign warning people that they may not want to look at my monitor. Maybe a "What has been seen cannot be unseen" LOLcat?
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 10:43:21 am PDT #17145 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.
Researchers led by Tajuki Narumi at the University of Tokyo created a cookie-eating simulator that allows users to believe that they’re tasting different flavors, when they’re really only tasting one:
To create the effect, the team branded a plain cookie with a distinct logo that the headset tracks via a built-in camera. An air pump sprays out the smell of the chosen cookie, increasing its concentration as the system “sees” the cookie approaching the wearer’s nose.
Meanwhile, a visual display in the headset shows an image of the chosen cookie, suggesting the correct texture for that flavour.
The combination of smell and visual texture combine to fool the user’s sense of taste into thinking they are eating a flavoured cookie instead of the plain one.