I'm kind of amused that there are three films on that list that are based on Tom Clancy books.
The recent Batman films have had Gotham being Chicago, pretty clearly, but I have no idea how that fits into comic continuity. I've always thought of Gotham as Boston, but Philly would work too.
Lots of quite good actors; no howlers in the writing YET.
I'm very impressed by the way Morena Baccarin is blinking. Seriously. She's blinking like a lizard. They've done a fabulous job of making her look not quite human, and the blinking completes the effect.
PJ Evans: Yes, but you can't magic loop; that requires the flexible cable.
OK, Teresa, you've stumped me. Given that circular needles seem to have been invented sometime in the early 1900s, how could magic loop have been done a millennium ago? You can't magic loop on dpns or straights.
You could work both socks at the same time on dpns, though I'd think it unwieldy. Still, I think magic loop's unwieldy, too, so I'm not the person to ask. :)
xeger: How about sinkers, like for fishing? I seem to recall those are made of lead.
Tangentially, do you, or anyone else, have recommendations for light-therapy products?
I've been doing reasonably well with a couple of full-spectrum fluorescents in rooms where I spend a lot of my time (including one on my desk at work), but my SAD is more of a "I tend to get down in the winter" than anything really diagnosable. It does seem that length of exposure compensates somewhat for low intensity.
Jacque: I wonder how one trains the crows in the first place. Perhaps the solution is to scatter some change around and let the crows see you picking it up and inserting it? They're certainly smart enough to figure that out, and once you have two or three who do it the rest will learn from them.
It's odd and annoying to find I am much more invisible when I am in a store with a man.
When I wanted to make a warping frame, the boyfriend and I went off to Home Depot. We found an employee in fairly short order; what weirded us out was that he addressed all of his questions to Liam, even though Liam had only the fuzziest idea of what we were trying to make. Every time, Liam would look at me and wait for me to answer, but the guy didn't seem to notice that. I mean, I get the assumption that the man is the one with the woodworking project, but you'd think he'd get the hint after three or four iterations...
Connie H @#16: Those who make clay ovens at SCA events have a similar metric: 2 or 3 rhinoceros for quickbread, 12 rhinoceros is about 350F.
If it is, it's amazingly ineffective; the URL doesn't appear to exist. I think it's a troll who missed the point and is peeved at Jim for it.
We're having November a month early in Pittsburgh. We were supposed to have frost the night before last; it didn't happen in the city, but some outlying areas got hit. Makes me wonder whether December will be a month early too, or if we'll just have two Novembers (ugh).
Today it's supposed to be about 40F all day, and it's drizzling.
Steve Taylor: "The Waters of March". Original in Portugese, translated by the author into English. It plays on jazz stations all the time.
A stick, a stone,
It's the lift-cable's end,
It's the rest of a stump,
It's the Greens and the Reds
It's a sliver of glass,
It is life, it's the sun,
It is night, it is death,
It's a trap, it's a gun
A tree when it grows,
A plant in a field,
A knot in the wood,
The red ground will yield
The wood of the wind,
A cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump,
It is nothing at all
It's people breathing free,
It's the end of the slope,
It's a beam, it's a void,
It's a hunch, it's a hope
And canal-banks all speak
of the waters of Mars,
It's the end of the strain,
The joy in your heart
I have officially hit outrage fatigue. When you read about Oklahoma passing a law to collect and publish online personal info about women who've had abortions, and your response is to shake your head and wonder what the redneck assholes* will think up next time, it's time to take a break from the news...
* Note, please that these are two different categories, they just have some overlap.
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Spoilered, for those who'd Prefer Not To.
LDR: I think the theory is that page views give ad revenue, so Teresa and/or Patrick get paid for people having commented here (because the comments draw page views). Thus commenters, who create some of the draw, should be compensated.
Of course, I think we are, in personal satisfaction, but I'm impractical that way. :)
Theresa’s “gracious†eagerness to air a private disagreement so publicly by defaming a poster to her site, then to brag about it, should be a serious warning. She seems to feel that the Internet is somehow special, so ordinary copyright laws do not apply. Should your interests and hers diverge, please be aware that she is more than willing to publicly attack your reputation.
Yanno, if you're going to bitch someone out on her own blog, you might at least spell her name right.
Plus? Blog. What did you think was going to happen to your comments? Once you put it on the Internet, it's out there. There is no calling it back.
Last but not least, you do realize that no one would have had any idea who Teresa was talking about, if you hadn't piped up? It could've been me, for all the rest of the Net knows. Heck, we still don't know who you are, except in the broad sense of "that person has a particular style and is female".
When the Dark comes rising, Six shall turn it back:
Three from the circle, three from the track
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone
Five shall return, and one go alone
Loved those books.
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