So sequestration is taking its first bite at work: all travel authorizations cancelled, our annual spring symposium cancelled, annual calibration workshop cancelled, and training money is probably going to be frozen. Could be worse, but the two big events are in-house run, and kinda a big deal to the community. Ah well.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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.
sarameg - Mar 20, 2013 2:44:54 pm PDT #15468 of 30001
Burrell - Mar 20, 2013 3:26:38 pm PDT #15469 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I had this image of marijuana being grown in the basement of a school and that's how the school was being funded.
I did too.
Further, I expected you to be interviewed on "This American Life" about your drug enterprise.
Sheer genius. I bow to your brilliance.
So sequestration is taking its first bite at work
Ugh, sorry to hear that. Sequestration is going to blow.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2013 3:27:55 pm PDT #15470 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. I was just reading a website's relationship advice that made Cosmopolitan look like Dworkin, and then I hit (no pun intended) #6 on their list of how to make your man feel like a man. Revolutionary, man. And I thought giving him "free reign" would be all it took.
shrift - Mar 20, 2013 3:55:40 pm PDT #15471 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
#6 on their list of how to make your man feel like a man.
Wow. Okay. I'm just going to drop a reference to The World According to Garp and back away slowly.
aurelia - Mar 20, 2013 3:56:56 pm PDT #15472 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I was going to mention American Gods.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2013 4:26:07 pm PDT #15473 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd love to believe that site is satire, but...yeah.
So, watching un-named thing on TV, and there is this exchange while trying to discern someone's motive:
"If you're a terrorist, that might be reason enough."
"He's not from the Middle East. Fair skin, fair hair--the kind of terrorist we should fear the most--one of us."
Now, I think that's a carelessly biased thing to say in the first place, but who replies to a non-fair-skinned non-fair-haired speaker by defining "us" Nordically and excluding the person you're responding to? Oh, right. Humans.
::sigh:: Back to road head.
le nubian - Mar 20, 2013 4:35:13 pm PDT #15474 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
#6 on their list of how to make your man feel like a man.
This kind of thing started a bad chain of events in Stephen King's Thinner
Polgara - Mar 20, 2013 4:38:59 pm PDT #15475 of 30001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Now, I think that's a carelessly biased thing to say in the first place, but who replies to a non-fair-skinned non-fair-haired speaker by defining "us" Nordically and excluding the person you're responding to? Oh, right. Humans.
Speaking as a fair-skinned person, I too did a double take when he said that. But, it's a stupid show with very pretty people.
Scrappy - Mar 20, 2013 5:03:59 pm PDT #15476 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
#6 on their list of how to make your man feel like a man.
I, um, may have done that when I was in college. On the New Jersey Turnpike.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2013 5:09:44 pm PDT #15477 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Road head is a thing, though, right? I mean, they didn't make it up for that article.