@Tommyrot - loved Windup Girl. Starting some others of his soon.
Also quite in love with Ian MacDonald, who just published Dervish House. Really amazing setting, there.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
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.
hippocampus - Nov 12, 2010 1:16:16 pm PST #5223 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2010 1:19:25 pm PST #5224 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stabbed myself in the finger with my boxcutter. I'm a little pouty as a result.
tommyrot - Nov 12, 2010 1:19:44 pm PST #5225 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 - loved Windup Girl. Starting some others of his soon.
Cool!
On my lunch break, I bought his "Pump Six and Other Stories" book, as well as the new Ian M. Banks novel "Surface Detail."
Liese S. - Nov 12, 2010 1:22:53 pm PST #5226 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Cut away from your body, ita.
msbelle - Nov 12, 2010 1:34:38 pm PST #5227 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I've come across two instances today where people were all "wtf is wrong with parents who can't control how much time their kid plays video games or watches tv, just turn it off or take it away." I want to send them mac.
Theodosia - Nov 12, 2010 1:59:51 pm PST #5228 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My week of Things Going Weird now includes the ceiling fan in the living room -- which had the pull chord that turns on the fan part fall off. I partially disassembled it and found that there is a broken plastic & wire thingie that I'm not going to be able to safely try to fix.
It's the cold season of course, so it may seem like there is no need for a ceiling fan until next summer, but actually having it run on colder days is a win -- all the hot air that hangs out on the ceiling gets drawn down.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2010 2:01:18 pm PST #5229 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cut away from your body, ita.
I did! But my hand was even further away from my body. It's a conundrum.
Burrell - Nov 12, 2010 2:02:14 pm PST #5230 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ugh msbelle, I hate those kinds of judgey comments.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2010 2:09:08 pm PST #5231 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just saw a lady leave with a pink doughnut box. Hoarder.
My boss just went through such hoops to not say "bullshit" in conversation with me, and then totally went and said "bullshit." Now I know where I'm getting my tone cues from.
Dude, you can totally say bullshit. I'm not going to swoon.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2010 2:12:36 pm PST #5232 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When I went to get some petty cash this morning, I saw a donut box in accounting. We should have more donuts in my department.