Which is pretty resistant to change.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Jul 29, 2011 1:04:32 pm PDT #18581 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
amych - Jul 29, 2011 1:11:09 pm PDT #18582 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Or dependent on someplace institutional (public library, school, community college, senior center...) as the only place in their lives with access to the internets.
On its own merits as a browser, I hate IE as much as the next web dev, but I've been seeing that link all over the place today with a pretty hefty dose of "HAR I TOLD YOU THEY'RE STUPID WE HATES THEM!" and thinking about how both digital divides and IQ scores correlate awfully strongly with privilege or disadvantage.
OH HAI MY KNEEJERK LET ME SHOW YOU IT
§ ita § - Jul 29, 2011 1:12:35 pm PDT #18583 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"HAR I TOLD YOU THEY'RE STUPID WE HATES THEM!"
I'm not saying they're stupid. I'm saying I'm genius.
amych - Jul 29, 2011 1:14:42 pm PDT #18584 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Of course you are, Opera Lady! Just having a little twitch at some of the deeply user-blaming responses I've been seeing elsewhere to the same link.
Sheryl - Jul 29, 2011 1:19:25 pm PDT #18585 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Health ~ma to Maria's DH, LeN and toddson.
In completely random news, I just painted my toenails. Green and sparkly.(My Favorite Martian from Confetti- how could I resist?)
Ginger - Jul 29, 2011 1:22:41 pm PDT #18586 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My doctor actually announced a diagnosis of diabetes as good news. She said, given you eyesight symptoms, another possibility could have been MS.
At least it wasn't the funny syphilis.
Zenkitty - Jul 29, 2011 1:30:24 pm PDT #18587 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Much ~ma to you and your DH, Maria.
le nubian, sorry for the scary diagnosis. I'm glad there are so many around you who can help steer you right.
Trying to discuss politics these days, I lose all my words and degenerate into teeth-gnashing and screeching. It's best I don't engage the subject. Seriously, I can't take the outrage overload anymore.
sumi - Jul 29, 2011 1:30:38 pm PDT #18588 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Man, the alarms went off and I turned on the radio and eventually a dj broke into the program to say that funnel clouds have been sighted . . . but it's bright and sunny. Weather channel says that there are funnel clouds developing in conjunction with cumulous clouds but that they probably won't touch the surface.
Very weird.
Toddson - Jul 29, 2011 1:39:38 pm PDT #18589 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, I've heard it said (possibly here) that most people use IE to download a good browser.
tommyrot - Jul 29, 2011 2:41:09 pm PDT #18590 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.
Anyone else feel like this is it? This is when we lose what's left of our world leadership role?
From France and Germany to China and India, countries around the world are angry that American politicians play with the possibility of a U.S. default like a yo-yo with little regard for the international economic system that depends on American solvency.
Despite China’s traditional preference of staying out of the domestic affairs of other nations, senior Chinese officials’ frustrations are growing louder and louder. Stephen Roach, the non-executive chairman of Morgan Staley Asia, said senior Chinese officials told him the debt ceiling debte in the U.S. is “truly shocking.” “We understand the politics,” a Chinise official said, “but your government’s continued recklessness is astonishing.” And newspapers around the world are voicing discontent with Congress’s handling of the debt ceiling:
Possibly we are seeing history being made.