Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


§ ita § - Mar 03, 2013 1:23:07 pm PST #13499 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You do have to love that this is the woman entrusted with administering IV pain meds, though.

Seriously. I have no idea how her career choices intersect with her complete nutcasedness. Also, she really needs to stop using quantum physics as a metaphor for things. Unless high school physics was really really incomplete, there's not that much application for decisions to better your life wrapped up in that branch of science. But everything brings up quantum physics to her, which she's almost as into as stem cells. Which is her main hobby. I was wondering how stem cells could be a hobby, and apparently the answer is "by having a stem cell machine at home." Okay. Clears things up.

Not related at all--samoa cookie cupcakes: [link]

And, Jilli? An IO9er told me to tell you that you look beautiful (I figured it was okay to use that photo to show the RDJ cosplay since you'd made it a tumblr post--hope that wasn't an error in judgement--I'm sure you have more readers than that segment of io9, though).


Calli - Mar 03, 2013 1:33:23 pm PST #13500 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Well, I'm glad you got your meds, even with such a bountiful helping of woo.

My energy just sputtered out. I went hiking with a friend this morning, did laundry, cooked lunch for the week, and I had planned to make a nice dinner. But after totally messing up the first step in the dinner recipe and breaking my bottle opener, I'm saying screw it and having bread, olive oil, and an apple. And wine--I had another opener.


beekaytee - Mar 03, 2013 1:34:18 pm PST #13501 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

I ADORE THAT BOOK! It got me into architecture!

Me TOO! And decoding. Seriously, I learned so much from this book. Dubloons!

I did NOT know there were two sequels. When I call tomorrow, I'll ask if the publisher intends to reprint them as well.

If this turns out to be a bum steer, I'm gonna be massively bummed.


Cass - Mar 03, 2013 1:35:40 pm PST #13502 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

anyway, before the year is out, people will be treated with light and sound (because we are all God and God created light and sound first, ergo quod erat demonstrandum flobotinum).

I am picturing her just making medicine a little more sonic. Probably because that way I can laugh it off. She could wear a fez.


DavidS - Mar 03, 2013 1:36:56 pm PST #13503 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

When I call tomorrow, I'll ask if the publisher intends to reprint them as well.

The writer himself doesn't want them reprinted. He's been quite curmudgeonly about it.

The second book is titled The Mystery Of The Witch Who Wouldn't.


Burrell - Mar 03, 2013 1:40:14 pm PST #13504 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I haven't done much today aside from the laundry, but I'm trying to give myself props for writing. I'm trying to force myself into a better habit, and for the first time in years I'm finally writing my own stuff again.


erin_obscure - Mar 03, 2013 1:40:46 pm PST #13505 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Just overheard at work: "ok, put the phone down and pull up your pants"


billytea - Mar 03, 2013 1:41:43 pm PST #13506 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

They're going to alter the fabric of the universe so that medicine works differently, if I'm tracking her correctly...anyway, before the year is out, people will be treated with light and sound (because we are all God and God created light and sound first, ergo quod erat demonstrandum flobotinum).

Ok, I think she might've been just a little too impressed with Beck's version of Sound And Vision.


billytea - Mar 03, 2013 1:44:57 pm PST #13507 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I was wondering how stem cells could be a hobby, and apparently the answer is "by having a stem cell machine at home." Okay. Clears things up.

Oh Criminy, you're being treated by Calvin.


Burrell - Mar 03, 2013 1:46:31 pm PST #13508 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

anyway, before the year is out, people will be treated with light and sound

Oh I wanted to remark on this. I am not denying your nurse's woo-woo, but there's a completely non-woo, in fact pretty cool, experimental cancer treatment that uses light to destroy the cancer cells. I keep reading about it.