Surgery-ma for Grace, and I hope it's just the one and not both. (eta: unless both would be better, of course.)
Yes, this.
Thanks to all who had restaurant ideas, I have passed them on.
Today is my last day at work until Jan 3rd - hurrah!
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sparky1 - Dec 17, 2010 3:21:41 am PST #11745 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Kat - Dec 17, 2010 3:28:04 am PST #11746 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Both would actually be great. The laryngotomy would be a laser procedure to remove scar tissue in her larynx. If the bronchoscopy shows it's worthwhile, then that would mean that she has enough leakage around the trach that she is/can/does breath through her mouth. This may be the case as she does make noises.
I don't know. We'll see.
Zenkitty - Dec 17, 2010 3:30:48 am PST #11747 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Surgery ~ma for Gracie!
Cashmere - Dec 17, 2010 3:40:15 am PST #11748 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Lots of ~ma for Grace.
Calli - Dec 17, 2010 4:00:28 am PST #11749 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Much health~ma for Grace.
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2010 4:36:25 am PST #11750 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.
Surgery ~ma for Grace!
ION, this is cool:
Data mining the intellectual history of the human race with Google Book Search
Harvard's Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden and colleagues have been analyzing the huge corpus of literature that Google digitized in its Book Search program, and they're uncovering absolutely fascinating information about our cultural lives, the evolution of language, the secret history of the world, censorship and even public health. It's all written up in a (regwalled) paper in Science, "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books":
When the team looked at the frequency of individual years, they found a consistent pattern. In their own words: "'1951' was rarely discussed until the years immediately preceding 1951. Its frequency soared in 1951, remained high for three years, and then underwent a rapid decay, dropping by half over the next fifteen years." But the shape of these graphs is changing. The peak gets higher with every year and we are forgetting our past with greater speed. The half-life of '1880' was 32 years, but that of '1973' was a mere 10 years.
The future, however, is becoming ever more easily ingrained. The team found that new technology permeates through our culture with growing speed. By scanning the corpus for 154 inventions created between 1800-1960, from microwave ovens to electroencephalographs, they found that more recent ones took far less time to become widely discussed.
eta: This io9 article has more detail: [link]
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2010 4:52:50 am PST #11751 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
BUT STILL NICE
Thank you both!
(The guns were HARD)
Amy - Dec 17, 2010 4:58:23 am PST #11752 of 30001
Because books.
The guns were awesome. I approve of the guns.
I need more caffeine. And to resist the urge to get back into bed.
Jesse - Dec 17, 2010 4:58:23 am PST #11753 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My boss told us we could come in late today, and I think I'm still just the second one here...
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2010 5:24:37 am PST #11754 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Straight lines are hard, yo.
Why am I not working from home today? That seems like a miscalculation.