Also, in response to your earlier post: indicator candies.
Erik Nelson @ 183:
I just had a listen to the appropriate episode to refresh my memory, and it's "go stick your head in a pig". Share and enjoy.
P J Evans @ 151:
Read the mouseover for the "(also)" link. Those things are absolutely beautiful.
I also just read all of the Laundry stories for the first time this weekend (except for the one on Tor.com which convinced me they were something to look into), so it was definitely funny too.
My main way for getting papers done was to wait until the deadline loomed, then do everything in a blind panic. (Spilling Dr. Pepper on the keyboard at three in the morning is not recommended, in case you were wondering.) I haven't had to do anything thesis-sized, though, so that probably won't work for you.
It's absolutely amazing how not wanting to do the work you're supposed to be doing sublimates into thinking that cleaning the cat box right now is a great idea.
Very late to the thread here, but I hope everything turns out well.
abi @ 810:
I just checked, and it turns out that theorangecarrotconspiracyisalie.com is available.
abi @ 748:
I could already see the beginnings of larger shopping centers when I was in England. Supermarkets were coming into their own, and I know there were some rather large ASDAs being set up outside of London. (Aren't they owned by Walmart these days?) I think Tesco's getting in on the act too, from what I've heard.
The closest mall to us was in Kingston upon Thames, but the way things were set up there seemed to strike the right balance. There is parking there, good bus service, and it's quite near residential areas as well. The main shopping area is completely pedestrian, with more stores in the surrounding area, and there was an open-air market in one of the side-streets there every week.
Of course, I haven't been back in about eight years, so I don't know how much this has changed.
nerdycellist @ 750:
I once saw a rather lackluster video along flying reptile fetish lines. (This might have been what you found, but I'm not somewhere I particularly want to do that search.) It was oddly humorous and kind of sad at the same time, and it also involved a very sorry-looking hand puppet.
Serge @ 757:
Coming soon toSci-FiSyFy, Mechahamster vs. Giant Cavy.
Jacque @ 736:
In the store here I've seen the standard white, as well as orange, green, and purple cauliflowers. The orange ones tend to look orange or yellowish-orange.
Doing a search for orange cauliflower leads to pictures, as well as websites claiming that they have some sort of nutritional advantage over the standard, white variety.
Xopher @ 719:
It's always a whole lot nicer to know than to be left wondering. I hope everything works out well for you.
abi @ 727:
This is one of the reasons that Los Angeles is not one of my favorite cities. Lots of other big cities I've been to—and even the not-so-big ones—have been people-oriented. Commercial and residential are mixed together, or even in the same building. They're walkable, and there is good public transport. Los Angeles, in my experience, not so much.
(If I'm missing some area of LA that's really awesome and actually works as a people-oriented city, please do correct me.)
Lee @ 691:
Oh my. I hope that editor gets a big, fat bonus.
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geekosaur @ 686:
No, since, according to Christian theology, demons are demons, not gods.
I vaguely remember the wall coming down on the news when I was little. I didn't understand it at all, of course, but it was still Big Stuff. I also remember, a few years after that, our school hadn't sprung for the new French textbooks yet, so there were still references to East and West Germany.
To a more open and free world.
Cheers!
The British only have one problem regarding the name Ford Prefect, namely that Ford stopped making them in 1961 (according to Wikipedia). Americans are doubly caught off guard because it's rare to have the same car model names (or the same car models at all) on both sides of the pond. It was, apparently, available in Canada, though.
The only reason I ever knew was because it was explained in the foreword to the version of HHGTTG that I have. I'd guess that these days, Ford Mondeo might be a better mistaken choice.
Angiportus @ 558 and Bruce Cohen @ 571:
Perfect for reading about a quick fling.
Xopher @ 421:
Gads, Marc Mutty is a complete dolt. Way to go for claiming that a majority beating down a minority was such hard work. Maybe next he'd like to pen a paean to school bullies who beat up little kids for lunch money.
Fortunately, it was a close thing. A roughly half-and-half split does not make it quite the victory they'd like to claim, although it's still a setback.
However, in good news, it looks like Washington is going the right direction, and Kalamazoo has added GLBT people to its non-discrimination ordinance.
What this really reminds me of is that there are people out there who don't really believe in the American Dream. (Yes, I know it's something you do have to believe in, but I still want to.)
I am absolutely delighted to see literate comments on his posts taking him to task for what he said.
Chris W. @ 41/42:
Perhaps he didn't mean to show some sort of nativist agenda, but that's what he did. I also don't think that saying that he's technically an American runner is much of an improvement. It brings along a lot of the same baggage, whether it's more defensible or not.
Larry Brennan @ 404:
I had to check that too. After you let the jello set up, you freeze it before deep-frying it. It's kind of like Baked Alaska in that regard.
janetl @ 395:
The deep-fried jello recipe worries me a little—not because of the deep-frying, but because it makes my mental taste approximation skills come up blank.
I think I'll stick to looking at pictures of cute meerkats instead.
Columbina @ 6: I don't know that I would ever buy a Civil War history written by a non-American. Sometimes home terrain DOES matter.
I think that it's good to have perspectives from insiders and outsiders. Sure, the outsiders don't necessarily know all the little historical and cultural things that insiders take for granted, but on the other hand they don't take all those things for granted and can see things that insiders are completely blind to. That said, in this case it doesn't necessarily look like this is the book for that.
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