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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on May 4, 2010 12:57:09 GMT -5
Love it! The weather is gorgeous, for once. I really need to be home mowing my lawn. The dandelions are plotting to take over, like highly sentient militants. Every time I look out my back window, they seem to be advancing just a leetle bit closer to my house. Eep. I don't have to worry about the lawn, but I really need to do some housecleaning sometime soon. Where's a house elf when you need one? That's what we need! Robotic house elves! They wouldn't unionize and the problems with mis-directed spells would be minimal. And besides, sex with robots is more common than most people think. Diane *seriously considering a Legolas-shaped robot house elf*
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on May 4, 2010 12:58:18 GMT -5
I wish I was in Paris. I loved it the one time I was there. *le sigh* I wish I was anywhere but here. *le sigh*
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Post by Sue on May 4, 2010 13:16:00 GMT -5
Love it! The weather is gorgeous, for once. I really need to be home mowing my lawn. The dandelions are plotting to take over, like highly sentient militants. Every time I look out my back window, they seem to be advancing just a leetle bit closer to my house. Eep. I don't have to worry about the lawn, but I really need to do some housecleaning sometime soon. Where's a house elf when you need one? Apparently she waslast sighted in Chicago, cleaning for two lovely young ladies. And, in the absence of house elves and robots, everybody needs a wife. Even wives.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on May 4, 2010 13:39:09 GMT -5
I don't have to worry about the lawn, but I really need to do some housecleaning sometime soon. Where's a house elf when you need one? Apparently she waslast sighted in Chicago, cleaning for two lovely young ladies. And, in the absence of house elves and robots, everybody needs a wife. Even wives. ESPECIALLY wives.
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Post by Sara on May 4, 2010 14:51:36 GMT -5
A Hall of Mountain Glory Credit & Copyright: A. Tudorica (ISS Romania) Explanation:[/b] If you tried to enter this hall of fog, you would find it dissipates around you. The hall is actually an optical illusion created by sunlight backscattering off of a cloud passing below the peak of the mountain from which this picture was taken. Known as "the glory", the phenomenon is frequently seen from airplanes. The ring's center is not visible, but if it were, the shadow of the observer would appear. This shadow would likely change as clouds passed, creating a faux moving giant known as the Brocken Spectre. Pictured above, several concentric rings of the glory appear to create a hall for this mountain king. The cause of the glory has only been understood recently and is relatively complex. Briefly, small droplets of water reflect, refract, and diffract sunlight backwards towards the Sun. The phenomenon has a counterpart in astronomy, where looking out from planet Earth in the direction opposite the Sun yields a bright spot called the gegenschein.
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Post by Sara on May 4, 2010 15:22:19 GMT -5
Sharing this because... well, it's nucking futs, is what it is. At least IMHO.
Boston shortstop Marco Scutaro has seen 480 pitches this year: 195 balls and 285 strikes. And out of those 285 strikes, he's only swung at and missed the pitch completely... six times. SIX. Just to provide some contrast, Kevin Youkilis, one of the team's best hitters, had 5 swings and misses in a single game in April.
Hell, Scutaro's first swing and miss of the season didn't happen until the fifth inning of their 14th game—pitch #230.
I mean, that's just insane. Really. Obviously some of the those strikes were called by the umpire, as opposed to foul tips, but still.
*hits "post reply," still shaking head in utter amazement*
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 4, 2010 15:26:44 GMT -5
Evilly snurched from someones LJ, a moment of fannish serendipity: Gareth David Lloyd, Cliff Simon (Ba'al, SG-1) (I think), David Hewlett, James Marsters Who please is the darling girl at the right? Julia, Flannigan would have been there too but missed his subway stop.
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Post by SpringSummers on May 4, 2010 17:05:27 GMT -5
It's Manny from the show Modern Family. For me, one of the most laugh-out-loud comedies on TV right now. Manny is a sweetie with an old soul. I just love him. Thanks for asking, Erin & Spring!! I just read an article about that show...about the iPad and the show, actually. I've not seen it. Speaking of product placement (well, nobody was but me, sorry), on rewatching some of the Bones episodes, DAMN, that show has a lot of product placement. And clumsy as hell product placement to boot. There's one where the bones are disintegrating where it is really really bad; I mean, Jenny McCarthy touting the awesomeness of a particular car? Yowza. I don't mean to pick on the show...but wow. One of the guys at work has an i-Pad, and I got to play with it a bit. It is like a big phone, only without the phone part. It is totally handheld, like a phone. It's cute and has neat features and seems to work well - though I'm wondering if there is really a niche for it. Do people really want this, instead of something smaller (phone) or larger (laptop)? I've put off my computer buying for a few weeks. Will probably do it sometime this summer when I'm clearer on how much I'm gonna be spending on home repair.
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Post by Rachael on May 4, 2010 17:40:00 GMT -5
I just read an article about that show...about the iPad and the show, actually. I've not seen it. Speaking of product placement (well, nobody was but me, sorry), on rewatching some of the Bones episodes, DAMN, that show has a lot of product placement. And clumsy as hell product placement to boot. There's one where the bones are disintegrating where it is really really bad; I mean, Jenny McCarthy touting the awesomeness of a particular car? Yowza. I don't mean to pick on the show...but wow. One of the guys at work has an i-Pad, and I got to play with it a bit. It is like a big phone, only without the phone part. It is totally handheld, like a phone. It's cute and has neat features and seems to work well - though I'm wondering if there is really a niche for it. Do people really want this, instead of something smaller (phone) or larger (laptop)? I've put off my computer buying for a few weeks. Will probably do it sometime this summer when I'm clearer on how much I'm gonna be spending on home repair. Oh, yes. People really want one. This person in particular. But not this model. The 2G, when they've worked out the biggest bugs and have installed a webcam.
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Post by Sue on May 4, 2010 17:48:40 GMT -5
One of the guys at work has an i-Pad, and I got to play with it a bit. It is like a big phone, only without the phone part. It is totally handheld, like a phone. It's cute and has neat features and seems to work well - though I'm wondering if there is really a niche for it. Do people really want this, instead of something smaller (phone) or larger (laptop)? I've put off my computer buying for a few weeks. Will probably do it sometime this summer when I'm clearer on how much I'm gonna be spending on home repair. Oh, yes. People really want one. This person in particular. But not this model. The 2G, when they've worked out the biggest bugs and have installed a webcam. Is May 6th still your deadline to let Colorado know?
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Post by SpringSummers on May 4, 2010 19:15:14 GMT -5
One of the guys at work has an i-Pad, and I got to play with it a bit. It is like a big phone, only without the phone part. It is totally handheld, like a phone. It's cute and has neat features and seems to work well - though I'm wondering if there is really a niche for it. Do people really want this, instead of something smaller (phone) or larger (laptop)? I've put off my computer buying for a few weeks. Will probably do it sometime this summer when I'm clearer on how much I'm gonna be spending on home repair. Oh, yes. People really want one. This person in particular. But not this model. The 2G, when they've worked out the biggest bugs and have installed a webcam. I can believe people really want one. I mean, I would love to have one for travel or to grab to run to a meeting with. I was wondering more if people will actually buy it, though, or if they will see it as more of a luxury item they'd love to have, but aren't actually going to buy. It can't really sub for your phone or your laptop (or at least desktop), so you have to have it along with those things. I'm wondering if it will truly pan out it in the end, once we get past the initial "new toy" attraction - i.e., if a long term niche for this kind of "in-between a phone and a laptop" device really exists. And maybe it does. It's certainly worth the gamble, for MacIntosh, and it's a very interesting offering. I'm just remembering all the marketing classes and such from the MBA classes. Would love to have been assigned this case to study. We have a little store that sells computers to the staff and students, and mostly, our sales reflect trends nationwide, among those of college age. It's a little early to tell what's going to happen with this one - and people do tend to wait, as you say, for bugs to be worked out.
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Post by Matthew on May 4, 2010 19:36:19 GMT -5
It's Manny from the show Modern Family. For me, one of the most laugh-out-loud comedies on TV right now. Manny is a sweetie with an old soul. I just love him. Thanks for asking, Erin & Spring!! I just read an article about that show...about the iPad and the show, actually. I've not seen it. Speaking of product placement (well, nobody was but me, sorry), on rewatching some of the Bones episodes, DAMN, that show has a lot of product placement. And clumsy as hell product placement to boot. There's one where the bones are disintegrating where it is really really bad; I mean, Jenny McCarthy touting the awesomeness of a particular car? Yowza. I don't mean to pick on the show...but wow. The clumsiest that I noticed was the Avatar (planet of the cat people, ps, they're blue) tie-in.
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Post by Matthew on May 4, 2010 19:42:14 GMT -5
I just read an article about that show...about the iPad and the show, actually. I've not seen it. Speaking of product placement (well, nobody was but me, sorry), on rewatching some of the Bones episodes, DAMN, that show has a lot of product placement. And clumsy as hell product placement to boot. There's one where the bones are disintegrating where it is really really bad; I mean, Jenny McCarthy touting the awesomeness of a particular car? Yowza. I don't mean to pick on the show...but wow. One of the guys at work has an i-Pad, and I got to play with it a bit. It is like a big phone, only without the phone part. It is totally handheld, like a phone. It's cute and has neat features and seems to work well - though I'm wondering if there is really a niche for it. Do people really want this, instead of something smaller (phone) or larger (laptop)? I've put off my computer buying for a few weeks. Will probably do it sometime this summer when I'm clearer on how much I'm gonna be spending on home repair. I would have loved beyond measure to have had this (the iPad(d(trekkie joke)) back when I was in school. Especially with the keyboard attachment they are advertising it with. would have been amazing for note-taking.
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Post by Queen E on May 4, 2010 19:43:18 GMT -5
I just read an article about that show...about the iPad and the show, actually. I've not seen it. Speaking of product placement (well, nobody was but me, sorry), on rewatching some of the Bones episodes, DAMN, that show has a lot of product placement. And clumsy as hell product placement to boot. There's one where the bones are disintegrating where it is really really bad; I mean, Jenny McCarthy touting the awesomeness of a particular car? Yowza. I don't mean to pick on the show...but wow. The clumsiest that I noticed was the Avatar (planet of the cat people, ps, they're blue) tie-in. Yeah, that was pretty irksome as well. I suppose, if I'd watched it before leaving for England, I would have used Bones as a case study for my thesis. As sort of a "contrast/compare" with Firefly. Advertisers and networks are clearly get much more bold with the placements, lately.
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Post by Matthew on May 4, 2010 19:48:26 GMT -5
Hi, Sue!
And haven't got to read the last dresden book yet. nor the one before it. Will be downloading to listen to them perhaps, because I've seemed to have run out of time for most of anything, but I still have to drive places, so that still allows me to get some multi-tasking in by doing enough reading to keep my soul intact.
Currently reading the Ender Wiggin series and finding Julian Delphiki (Bean) to be an utterly fascinating character.
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