I didn't realize how much I use wikipedia until today, when it is blacked out.
First of all, 'Posse?' Passé
Cordelia ,'Potential'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 18, 2012 7:53:10 am PST #17003 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 7:56:41 am PST #17004 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you really need wikipedia articles, you can look up the cached pages on google. Or use a different language, I think.
sumi - Jan 18, 2012 7:57:48 am PST #17005 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Liese S. - Jan 18, 2012 7:58:43 am PST #17006 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So sorry about Perkins, Perkins.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 18, 2012 8:01:16 am PST #17007 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Congrats msbelle! As an fyi, I pay about 140 a month for health and dental, but that's just for me.
Condolences for all the recently bereft pet owners. As someone else said, buffista pets need to not be doing that.
Much vibing for ita !'s mom, and anyone else who needs some -ma.
And that catches me up after a weekend down with the ick. This thread, at least.
Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2012 8:03:19 am PST #17008 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 18, 2012 8:10:46 am PST #17009 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
If you really need wikipedia articles, you can look up the cached pages on google. Or use a different language, I think.
I don't really NEED it. I just didn't realize how many times in a day I think of something I want to know just a bit more about, and then look it up on wikipedia.
One day last week I looked up selvage, Jordan Clarke, Melinda Clarke, John Clarke, List of Hunger Games Characters, Tenterhooks,Wes Bentley, the word "gloss" and "Scrum.
Maria - Jan 18, 2012 8:14:45 am PST #17010 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Tom, you have such a talent for composition and contrast. I love looking at your photos. You should see if you can't exhibit your work somewhere. I'd buy more than one HQ print for my house.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2012 8:16:08 am PST #17011 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.
New Mexico is getting bigger.
Like a waistband after Thanksgiving dinner, New Mexico's borders are gradually gaining girth, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
It’s not much, and it’s not happening very fast -- the state is getting about an inch wider every 40 years -- but the state is unquestionably expanding, according to University of Colorado geophysicist Henry Berglund and his colleagues.
Using a collection of 25 extra-precise GPS receivers planted across New Mexico and Colorado, Berglund determined that the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe are creeping away from each other. The rate of change seems ever so slow to the untrained ear, described as approximately 1.2 “nanostrains” per year.
Maybe I should buy property there.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 8:17:39 am PST #17012 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sophia, Wikipedia doesn't care if you circumvent their measures, by the way. So don't feel any way about it:
During the blackout, Wikipedia is accessible on mobile devices and smart phones. You can also view Wikipedia normally by disabling JavaScript in your browser, as explained on this Technical FAQ page. Our purpose here isn't to make it completely impossible for people to read Wikipedia, and it's okay for you to circumvent the blackout. We just want to make sure you see our message.
But there are a lot of people out there, it seems, who didn't actually read what Wikipedia wrote, and are pissy that anyone's reading any English wikipedia content.
Thanks, Tom.