Does the suggestion of using a towel to turn off the water and open the bathroom door also apply at home? I read David@5's observations as taking place at home, and therefore find it a bit unsettling to be told to throw out my towels after one use.
Yikes! Teresa, I hope you feel better soon, and Patrick and Elise, I hope that you will soon be able to relax in the knowledge that Teresa is well.
I found the 2005 list at http://web.archive.org/web/20061229204649/http://shipoffools.com/kitschmas/index.html
Also, in the second paragraph under "Update continued", the link for the 2005 Kitschmas list points back to this Making Light item.
Laurie: whatever you're using to encode, it doesn't seem to be rot-13. Can you tell me what it is, please?
Someone in the lj thread has set up another t-shirt shop here.
Re: #59, Raven
I asked Fictionwise to correct their listing. They say thanks for the heads-up.
I'm very glad for the dinner and party conversations I got to have with Mr. Ford at Wiscon a couple of years ago. I'm sad for myself, and much more so for everyone who knew him better than I was able to.
Another note about root canals: I had one, and my tooth continued to hurt. Long story short, it turns out that it's possible to have more than the usual three roots in a tooth, and they can be faint and hard to see on an X-ray, and someone who's not expecting to see the extra ones may not do so.
I learned first aid basics in high school as part of my driver's ed course. It even came in handy once, as I was able to instruct my roommate in how to make a sling for me.
The NPR story about Gretna is here.
Marilee, if you can run two different browsers on your computer (for example, Firefox and Mozilla), you can claim different zip codes on each of them, and then see both versions of the home page.
I'm now most of the way through finding Serenity (and thanks, Tom, for mentioning that it was out, because I'd forgotten that it was coming), so I can now reply to Tom's comments:
1. I have no idea why everyone thinks that Inara was behaving normally with the Councilor rather than professionally. She'd told the crew that the Councilor was a client, after all, and I assumed that anything Inara said to a client was meant to make the client feel good. That's part of the service she provides, and as you said, she's a very good service professional.
2. That's an interesting comment about Sheperd Book. I think of him as a preacher because that's what Mal keeps calling him, but you're right, he's more of a pastor. I think he's a member of the crew if Mal's said so, however, I don't remember if that was ever stated. However, I'd think that a passenger would be along for just one trip, and he's been there for more than that.
3. Thank you for being boggled at the "original matriarchy" meme. I was myself, though at least the essayist did state that everyone doesn't believe in it. I thought that most of that essay was grounded more in the writer's inner thoughts than in anything that Joss ever wrote, but then, subtext is often like that.
The Boston screening had Sean Maher (Simon Tam) and Morena Baccarin (Inara). We got keychains, but no mini-posters or comment cards. There was someone filming audience questions and reactions, but I don't know where they were from. We also had some sing-alongs. It felt very fannish.
What Steve said. Serenity is witty, funny, and smart.
At some point when I'm more awake I'll write more. (I got home around 12:30 this morning and was too keyed up to go to bed for another hour, despite having to get up at 7 for work.)
Chip: I really hope so, because I want the movie to do very well and convince some network to put the show back on the air. But I won't know for sure until I've seen the movie, so ask me again in a week.
Kate: Are you sure you saw River with a sword? I just watched the trailer several times, and stopped it once or twice, and I saw lots of unarmed combat, but no sword.
Squee! I have tickets to a showing of the (not quite finished) movie in Boston on May 5.
The "Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop Online" seems more like "10 Things I Find Really Irritating About Some Shopping Websites". It's similar to listing 10 programs you don't like and calling them the top 10 reasons to not use a computer.
In general, if I find a site whose interface I hate, I don't shop there. (If it's a place I really want to shop at, such as my preferred coffee supplier, Armeno, I send them comments about the annoyances of their interface.)
It's also kind of ironic that, whenever I look at that page, there's an ad in the right sidebar about shopping at Amazon. But maybe he doesn't hate them.
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