Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!

Anya ,'Showtime'


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.


tommyrot - Mar 07, 2013 4:43:03 am PST #13958 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.

an experimental aircraft called the Breezy

I've always wanted to ride in a plane like that. And in a Piper Cub. Smalles plane I flew in was a Cessna 152 (a two-seater).

My favorite small plane ride was in a Beaver. (The Beaver is a bush plane.) We rode in one equipped with floats to a remote fishing cabin on a lake in Ontario.

Hear's a Beaver: [link] The one we flew in was built during WWII. They are still extensively used in Canada and Alaska.


flea - Mar 07, 2013 5:06:23 am PST #13959 of 30001
information libertarian

Well, we got the offer and it's a low-ball one, but our realtor is somewhat confident that there is room to bring them up to what is acceptable for us, especially since the season is just beginning and the house has only been on the market 6 days. Sigh.

Also, I am going to a "Digital Humanities Salon" at the university today with the express goal of networking, and remember how I am not good at that? I totally sucked at it at the lecture I went to Tuesday night, although in my defense, I had an anxious and clingy 6 year old holding my hand the whole time. Sigh.


Laura - Mar 07, 2013 5:10:07 am PST #13960 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

A balloon ride is on my list.

The method we have used for linking to pictures on Flickr or Facebook or blogs or whatever has worked ok for me.


Consuela - Mar 07, 2013 5:10:47 am PST #13961 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

They are still extensively used in Canada and Alaska.

Yeah, I took a Beaver out to a project site south of Ketchikan a few years ago. So fun!

Good luck with the house and the networking, flea!


beekaytee - Mar 07, 2013 5:11:27 am PST #13962 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

I'm so in love with the cleanliness of the b.org design that I see no major value in adding pictures. I don't mind following links but, then again, I only use a desktop, so portable devises are not my issue.

I have to go read the article about the Harlem Shake because I have been completely mystified by it's popularity.

The Gangnam style thing, I could somehow understand more. Getting people to do synchronized stuff is more interesting to me. Mass craziness? Not so funny to me.


§ ita § - Mar 07, 2013 5:24:24 am PST #13963 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wouldn't want to disturb most of b.org. Thinking again about what I posted, making some threads image-able (as in, the pictures are embedded in thread, not linked) would make a specific area of the site change in tenor, so if you have bandwidth or passing off as work issues, you could ignore that thread, or turn images off (my style sheet forces them off, for instance).

But I feel that images are becoming a bigger part of casual communication, and they're fun, and clicking on links doesn't paint the same picture (pun perhaps intended) as images embedded in text.


Amy - Mar 07, 2013 5:38:35 am PST #13964 of 30001
Because books.

You want to go wild in Supernatural, don't you? Not that I don't approve, of course.

I never figured out how to embed images in LJ comments, so someone might have to explain it to me, but I would be okay with it.


Laura - Mar 07, 2013 5:47:30 am PST #13965 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

That makes sense, ita.


Laura - Mar 07, 2013 5:55:33 am PST #13966 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Shaq did the Harlem Shake thing with the HS basketball team after their state championship game this year. The boys were likely more psyched about that than winning state again. [link] It is remarkably idiotic, but the kids relished the attention from the big man. DH didn't coach them this year because he had too many other commitments, but he of course was cheering for them and went to games when he could.


brenda m - Mar 07, 2013 5:55:57 am PST #13967 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Maybe add it for show threads, and Beep Me? I dunno. I'm on board with the idea, though okay with things as they are as well.