You’ve just become my favorite person today. Perhaps even the rest of the week!
I’ll admit, when this video was first making the webbernets rounds, it completely reinstigated the massive nerdcrush I’d had on Carl Sagan when I was younger. 
If you’re into vinyl, a friend of mine even found a 7" of it.
I pit my rotten memory. 
In some thread in some forum of this board someone made an offhand comment that implied they don’t sleep in a single bloc, and suggested the curious could look up “something sleeping.”
And I was curious (because my sleeping is always broken by a couple hours of wakefulness in the early hours) but I didn’t have the time to look it up right then.
So…now I don’t remember the name of the thread, or even what it was about, nor the name for the sleep pattern. Stupid, stupid memory.
Yes! At least, that sounds like what I do, regardless if it isn’t exactly what the other post said.
Thank you! 
Hey brother in law could you please not call me when you’re clearly drunk? You’re over 40 and a bit old for these kinds of frat boy antics. I’ve told you your brother won’t be home until later tonight three times so far.
I’m starting to see (yet again!) why your wife wanted a divorce and your kids hate you.
I do not give a shit about the Apple Tablet. I might give a shit when the damn thing is actually, you know, announced and shit, but all the pointless fucking speculation is already blocking up my tech blogs. I do not need Apple’s free advertising on my BBC and CNN feeds too.
Fucking JW’s tricked me into answering the door. My co-worker had to come by this morning to borrow my keys and a little while later the doorbell rang again. I thought she got the spare keys and decided to bring mine back so I opened the door without looking and it was two JW’s. As soon as they said “we have a bible message” I said not interested and shut the door. Had I not thought it was someone else I’d have looked first and not opened the door.
I’m usually pretty laid back about friends posting religious stuff on Facebook - it’s your status, knock yourself out, I say.
But when a college buddy posted this, (amidst four other Jesus-y status updates within an hour), I got kind of annoyed:
Look, I’m not going to randomly quote Christopher Hitchens in my status:
no matter how much I agree with him, because I realize that this is a light, social site for keeping tabs on friends of many persuasions and beliefs, not the Great Debates forum. I certainly wouldn’t post a quote that said, “Christians are delusional hypocrites,” or something, because that would be directly insulting to the people who hold those beliefs, and again, not in keeping with the tone of the forum.
But many people seem to think that if you’re a Christian, somehow it is acceptable to post vicious slander without stopping for a moment to consider whether it is appropriate.
(Not wanting to start a debate, nor get my panties too much in a bunch, I tried for a gently humorous reminder that she was explicitly insulting about 10% of the population, including me. I simply posted “I don’t know, I kind of like my neighbors.”)
My suggested response:
You misunderstand. It’s only when a Christian does something wrong that that verse applies.
And that is apropropriate, she is snarking about everybody who isnt her brand of christian, being chided that she should not be the one doing the judging is good … I am more of a live and let live sort of person myself.
ARRRRRGH!!
The furnace is out AGAIN. For the FOURTH TIME in TWO WEEKS. It’s 58 degrees inside the house and falling, it’s going to snow tonight, and every single time the landlord calls his repair guy who is his personal friend and good buddy, the buddy replaces one small part and calls it good.
Last time, the replacement caused the furnace to work for all of TWO HOURS, and by the time the guy came back more than 24 hours later, it was 47 degrees inside.
The landlord says he’ll “try” to call the guy tonight, but it “probably” won’t be until tomorrow that he can reach him.
Yea, then maybe I’ll “try” to mail you my rent check on Friday.
Goddammit.
Three more days taking care of my mother in law. I’d like a drink please. In fact, I’d like several but there’s no fucking alcohol in this house!
I’m starting to understand why people drink nyquil or vanilla extract. Hmmmm, I think she’s she’s got some vanilla extract.
Mouthwash!
Hereis a link to the Colorado Bar Association - they have an 800 number to call, and there’s also a link to “find a lawyer.” I urge you to talk to someone before withholding rent, just to be sure you’re doing things properly. It is totally unacceptable for you not to have reliable heat, and I bet one nastygram with a firm letterhead will take care of it!
My mini-rant this morning is against the Prop 8 arguments. I cannot believe licensed lawyers are going before a federal court to argue 1.) marriage is traditionally man-woman and 2.) marriage is about procreation. Really? That’s what you’ve got? Because it’s a pathetically thin veil for the real reasons, as I can discern them: 1.) Our religion says gays are bad; 2.) gays oog us out, so they are bad; ergo, let’s deny them as many rights as we can get away with.
I’d say stated argument #1 was disposed of in Loving, and the only reason it might be a teeny hook to hang a supportive decision on is that gender doesn’t trigger strict scrutiny. #2 was shredded by the judge in this very case, when he commented the last marriage he performed was between a 90-something and an 80-something. Not to mention that gay people can procreate, and straight people procreate a lot outside of marriage.
I can deal with disagreement, and even partisanship and some level of ignorance. But this is so dumb and disingenuous, it just makes me sad.
(BTW, my facebook friend first responded to my comment with “OK.” Then a couple hours later she deleted both comments, but left the original bible quote up. :rolleyes:)
Give me your fucking extension when you send your contact info! Dammit, I’m tired of people who handwrite their first name and phone number on a fax, and then I call and I need their extension or last name to get through to them. Especially when I need to reach you so that my client can go about his business.
If you need something from me and that’s all the info you give me, I’m not even going to bother dialing zero and asking for you.
::shudder::
Ok, I’m not as desperate as I thought.
Thank you (I think).
Thanks! I have a number of friends who are attorneys, and would definitely contact someone before I did anything. I was just mouthing off about the rent anyway - I wouldn’t do that, not at this point. Our landlord is a nice guy, our place is wonderful, and I know he’s just trying to figure out a way not to have to replace the furnace, but he’s said that he will if he has to. We’ve got a space heater and just bring all the animals into the (very large) master bedroom and fire it up when this happens.
However, I hold my options open to escalating things and losing the good relationship if things continue to be unreliable.
Ahhhh, the power of a safe space to rant
Attention!
It is not fair that on a person’s birthday, that person would both get a cold and start their period.
That is all.
Thank you for your attention.