The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by j austin:

Cabinet doors come in a lot of sizes, and if you find some that will fit, but you just don't like them, it's amazing what a decorative paper glued into the inset will do. Papermojo has some beautiful "papers" with woven bamboo adhered to a viny background--I used them to decoupage a crappy melamine craft cabinet.

Eclaire@198:

How sturdy are your shelves? If they're wood, or something that can take a little modifying, you could go to a Re-store and get cast-off cabinet doors to attach, then childlock like you would on the kitchen cabinets.

James Macdonald@191:

Abi explained my mistake in linking, and tykewriter already kindly fixed the cartoon's link for me @174.

With the way August has been going, my karma gremlins will laugh their asses off if I mangle the syntax again.

Hey, you guys, I just wanted to say I appreciate what you've done for me the last couple years. Making Light was the first forum I ever bit the bullet and posted in, and the first one where I was engaged in conversation by another commenter. I rarely post anywhere but open threads, since I'm not as well read as most of you, and rarely have anything to contribute.

I lurk a lot, though, and come to Making Light so often that it has a permanent place in my drop-down history. That sense of familiarity means sometimes I speak too casually, thinking that we know each other, when we don't.

Anyway, just, thank you for being here.
:o)

J

Since I know all the mods are really busy or sleeping right now, if anyone wants to see a charming animation about cats, go to YouTube and search for Simon's Cat. The one that cracks me up the most is titled "Fly Guy." The OMG! freakout when the fly is not quite dead is awesome.

Seriously? I've been in moderation for a really long time--the YooToob link is only to a cute line-art animation.

Ooooh, high-end druids.... Hey, this is not the manuscript I'm supposed to be working on!

Carol@131:

I was so waiting for that;) I just wanted to have an excuse to write "fembots."

What I nearly wrote was "...or a cosmetologist that pimps your 'bot." But that sounded way wrong, and not indicative of the high-end services I imagine my aesthetician droids would provide.

@129: is that a robot who is a cosmetologist, or a cosmetologist who caters to fembots?

Upon first glance, I thought the particle was "In Search of a Robot Cosmology."

That is all.

Random irritation:

The last couple times I've tried to come to ML through the drop-down history, I've been redirected to B ing. Where, yes,Making Light is the first result in the "search."

Grrr.

Michael I @ 144:

But it's for the store, man.

No recommendations for tackling insomnia yet?

Hey, has anyone else seen "Man Versus Cartoon" on Tru TV? The Energetic Materials Testing guys in New Mexico are going through Wile E. Coyote's schemes to catch the Roadrunner, one by one. Tonight, we've had a stuntman swung by a cable over the road while holding a harpoon, and dropping a huge boulder on the running target. They already did rocket-shoes last week!

Serge: I'm glad it wasn't just me. Which sounds terrible upon preview, but there it is;)

I really don't comment anywhere else except one other forum, but that's tied to my business email, so I don't know if it has anything to do with ML or not. The other new thing is a Gmail account (again tied to my jewelry site) and Google Analytics.

LLA @343:

Was it all some sort of "welcome" message from either World Wide Web or Apache something or other? I got fifteen in the space of an hour last night, and then woke up to another twelve this morning.

Terry Karney@299 & 302:

I'll probably buy it because, like Kirk Douglas, Hauer was one of the actors I always watched, no matter what the movie was. He seems like one of those guys that did a lot of movies just because he felt like it (how else do you explain Split Second? Saw that in the theater...)

And, I'd like to second the shameless fishing for more details. I always love small tales of marginally criminal activity--it reminds me of all my mom's stories from overseas.

Serge@295:

Oh yes, Captain Blood was so good--the part at the end where she's melodramatically pleading with the new Governor to spare her father was hilarious.

Yes, that was Mile O'Keefe, and I wanna say Jack Palance, but it's been awhile. I loved Krull so much as a kid--the little hint of a past romance between the spider-widow and the old man always made me sad.

Re the Rutger Hauer book: I have no idea. I found it last night looking for something else. There was a time when I watched everything he was in, just because he was in it---but, er, some of that stuff was real crap. I'm tempted, just because I bet he really has seen all sorts of things.

Serge@290:
Because I lived with my grandparents for a few years, I watched a lot of old movies (on top of an unreasoning fondness for truly bad movies--Ator the Fighting Eagle, anyone?)

I started in again with Errol Flynn's "Captain Blood" a couple weeks ago;)

Oh, speaking of classics of both good and bad, did you know Rutger Hauer has written a book?

Serge@287: That sounds like fun--is it one of SciFi channel's...um...offerings?

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