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!
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
'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.
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.
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.
Spidra Webster - Aug 10, 2010 10:44:40 am PDT #17146 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
New diet technology! I can believe I'm eating chocolate chip cookies when I'm noshing on seaweed cakes!
Cashmere - Aug 10, 2010 10:55:23 am PDT #17147 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Dana, paypal is fine.
Allyson, that blub is made of awesome!
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 11:02:11 am PDT #17148 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.
Oh dear. The text of BoingBoing's link to Ted Steven's obit:
He will be transported to the afterlife in a series of tubes.
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 11:07:57 am PDT #17149 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.
Dalek cake: [link]
This one can even turn its head. Which is, like, the step right before mutant robot cake self-awareness or something.
eta: Photos of the Dalek cake construction: [link]
Jesse - Aug 10, 2010 11:12:53 am PDT #17150 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nice. Marianne Gingrich (Newt's ex #2) talked to Esquire: [link]
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2010 11:15:12 am PDT #17151 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.
Re: Newt's hypocrisy: He says it doesn't matter what he does, because what he says is important.
sarameg - Aug 10, 2010 11:21:50 am PDT #17152 of 30001
Woohoo Allyson!
I am currently breaking everything I touch and getting really confused.
A supposedly simple task I wanted to get out of the way has exploded into a project of epic proportions. Uhng.