K, OTOH, is damn near impossible.
Trucks are a good source for cutesy spellings that can give you a K when you need one.
On a highway instead of a freeway, county roads are a jackpot.
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
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.
brenda m - Aug 19, 2010 3:59:02 pm PDT #19056 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
billytea - Aug 19, 2010 4:08:50 pm PDT #19057 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think that the American ones are bison, and the African and Asian ones are buffalo, but I can't remember what makes the difference. The ones that we get the milk from for buffalo mozzarella are buffalo, not bison, I think.
There are a few differences between the two families, but the one I like best is that buffalo have horns that touch at the base (making an impressive head-plate on cape buffalo), while a bison's horns are completely separate from one another. (Asian) Buffalo are domesticated, so that'd be where the mil is most likely to come from. Anyone out there milking African cape buffalo - kudos, you lactose loving lunatic.
shrift - Aug 19, 2010 4:27:38 pm PDT #19058 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
FedEx came this morning and delivered a box. I just opened it to discover 4 ARCs from Random House. Did I enter an online contest and forget about it?
sarameg - Aug 19, 2010 4:30:57 pm PDT #19059 of 30001
I had to bring the laptop home in order to bring things back online once the emergency work was done on the machines. So came home, admired the work on my doors, swam, did an hour's worth of work, totally screwed something up and said fuckit. Then I applied stripper.
I'm kind of annoyed.
And now I want to paint my beautiful easily opening and closing doors! LIKE I HAVE TIME FOR MORE PROJECTS. But the deck door looks grey in comparison to the fresh white framing (I want it a certain blue), and I've wanted to paint the basement door purple once it was all patched up with new hardware. And gee, should really rescreen the basement screen door (it swings! And has handles!) and that too needs painting (ooh, maybe red!) And I need to do one more coat on the framing anyway (because of the weather, there was only time for one, so she left me the paint, and will just add it to the invoice.)
AND WHEN DO YOU HAVE THE TIME SARA.
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 4:34:31 pm PDT #19060 of 30001
Because books.
I just opened it to discover 4 ARCs from Random House.
Anything that looks good?
I want the book fairy to send me free books, too.
tommyrot - Aug 19, 2010 4:35:24 pm PDT #19061 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 want the book fairy to send me free books, too.
I know some book fairys! But they work for Amazon and only do it for money.
Amy - Aug 19, 2010 4:37:55 pm PDT #19062 of 30001
Because books.
Those aren't free then, silly.
Aims - Aug 19, 2010 5:08:59 pm PDT #19063 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Dear PTB -
Why are you still making shit like, oh I don't know - whatever shit you are making for television these days - and NOT making any more "Slings & Arrows"? Why, for the love of Lear? I WANT RICHARD III!!
Stupid good show with there being no more stupids.
Aims
amyth - Aug 19, 2010 5:16:20 pm PDT #19064 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
ita, insent. More to follow. :)
shrift - Aug 19, 2010 5:19:04 pm PDT #19065 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Anything that looks good?
Tongues of Serpents, by Naomi Novik. Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson. The War That Came Early: West and East by Harry Turtledove. Dragon Soul by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett.
ETA: I was planning to buy Naomi Novik's book, and I think I've heard positive things about Jones and Bennett. Don't know about the other two.