And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


lisah - Nov 16, 2010 4:38:22 am PST #5674 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

So sleepy I was going cross-eyed driving into work. Not good! Come on, Coffee, do your thing!


Jesse - Nov 16, 2010 4:43:12 am PST #5675 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My van driver was sleeping until right before we left. That did not inspire confidence.


tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 4:44:13 am PST #5676 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.

Police called to suspicious package: it was an Amazon order

A man in Hudson, Ohio called the police to report a suspicious package on his doorstep. When the officer arrived, he noticed the "AMAZON.COM" printing on the box and asked if the man had recently ordered anything from Amazon:

The man reportedly said "Why yes, I did."

The officer told the resident his order had arrived. The resident then said he was comfortable opening the box. The officer then left the scene, according to the report.

Awww... I like happy endings.


Sparky1 - Nov 16, 2010 4:44:27 am PST #5677 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

The alumni office here would like me to find whatever I can on someone who graduated between 1900-1905 whose name is John Smith.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 4:45:25 am PST #5678 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.

The alumni office here would like me to find whatever I can on someone who graduated between 1900-1905 whose name is John Smith.

Once you find him, can you find out if he's related to Mark Smith?


flea - Nov 16, 2010 4:46:48 am PST #5679 of 30001
information libertarian

Yeah, the genealogy I am currently not even bothering to try to work on involves my great-grandparents, Mary and Bill Smith.


Jessica - Nov 16, 2010 4:50:52 am PST #5680 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Skype isn't any better than Vonage was before it improved (sometimes staticky, cellphone like connection)

Ugh, that's no good. I was hoping to swap out our landline for a Skype phone, but since it'll be DH's business line we need high-quality audio (for interviews).

The problem with having phone/internet/cable all bundled up is that we can't save any significant amount of money by giving just one up. (Unless it's internet, and that's the most important one!!)


tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 4:51:14 am PST #5681 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.

Astronaut watches the Earth from an ISS porthole: perfect cover for a nonexistent sf novel

Madeleine Robins called this picture of ISS astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson watching the spin far below, "The perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when I was thirteen." Exactly right.

A cool picture, and the "SF novel book cover" is exactly right.

Up until very recently, no spacecraft or space stations had big windows like that. So they couldn't have done a cool SF novel book cover picture before.


sumi - Nov 16, 2010 5:05:29 am PST #5682 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

I'd like to report that my copy of The Adventures of Sam the Bat is from Amazon and it's not an ARC. I'm not sure how I got so lucky. (I received it a while ago but I've been in a frenzy of book ordering and uh, hadn't quite realized that I had it.)


Gudanov - Nov 16, 2010 5:24:21 am PST #5683 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Skype isn't any better than Vonage was before it improved

Vonage is great now, maybe Skype will get there too.