@Yutsano: Mine looks like my blender blew up. Full.
Sunday.
3.
burnspbesq
Denver’s Mark Mathews has some of the sickest stick skills I’ve seen in a while.
4.
abo gato
well shit, now that nothing happened, rapture wise, I guess we’ll all have to clean the house and do laundry……well fuck it…..I hate all that.
5.
geg6
Watching movies and cooking scallops and filet on the grill, with roasted baby orange and yellow carrots. Sauteed mushrooms and herbed rice for sides. Started with spinach, orange, mushroom and toasted almond salad with honey poppy seed dressing. Ending with a fudge and peanut butter cake and washed down with a Columbia Winery reisling
and Rodney Strong pinot noir. Fat and happy we will be tonight.
6.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I could twist that comment in so many ways…but I shall postpone that particular madness for now. After all I’m less than 20 minutes from Rapture Time yet.
@John Cole: I’m thinking Sunday is gonna be my heavy cleaning day as well. For whatever reason coming out of the work week I just need to do NOTHING for a day.
7.
Yevgraf (fka Michael)
Both Conan movies are on AMC. Yes, I intend to watch both while drinking myself into a stupor – I’m pathetic.
8.
moonbat
My Xtianist relatives are no longer speaking to me. Too many rapture-mocking posts on face book, I think.
9.
burnspbesq
The only good thing about the end of lax season is that I won’t have to listen to that insipid 30 Seconds to Mars song that ESPN uses in its promo spots any more.
Heavy cleaning day was today. Tonight was barbecue with some good friends and their doggies. Nothing fancy — just some chicken thighs and some hot dogs, a green salad, some cold beer. I made coleslaw but forgot to take it out of the fridge. SamKitten was thrilled with my friends’ Boston Terrier and Rottweiler(sp?)doggies and laughed his ass off with delight the entire time they were here.
Tomorrow, we go to the zoo, and Monday will be lazy day. :)
14.
abo gato
okay, geg6, we just finished our dinner…..oysters on the half shell, seared amberjack with a peppadew aioli and a beet and parsley salad along with a heirloom tomato and an organic onion, sliced up with slivered basil on top and a good olive oil. We also had a nice white bordeaux. Had a couple of Dark and Stormy’s while watching the Preakness. All is well. mmmmmmm
mrs. skippy wants to see the new piates of the carribean movie, so that’s where i’m headed.
and i know i’m a few days late (which is 100 in blog years), but here’s my take on the david brooks meme. i agree w/doug j, the picture has a definite 80’s album cover vibe to it.
Been watching movies for most of the afternoon. I’m watching “Starship Troopers”. My gosh this movie is mindlessly stupid. Also all the bug guts being blown up is kinda grossing me out, but the whole movie is so meh, that I don’t really care.
22.
steviez314
“The Rapture” was a movie in 1991 where Mimi Rogers plays a swinger who becomes born-again.
For whatever reason coming out of the work week I just need to do NOTHING for a day.
I need to do nothing for a day, then have fun for a day. Unfortunately, since the vast majority of weekends are only two days long, this leaves me with a bit of a problem. Fuck.
24.
David Brooks (not that one) is a dickhead.
Oh well, off to Seattle Symphony concert. Not much chance of any of this orchestra being rapt.
25.
Yutsano
@suzanne: Exactly. And the odds of me getting four 10s as a new hire are next to nil. I’m not entirely certain if I asked for an alternate work schedule if I would get it. Especially getting the sweet plum drop that is the alternate Friday off. Oh well. At least my benefits kick major ass.
26.
moonbat
@steviez314: Including steamy sex scene with David Ducovny!
Working on creme brulee. It turns out that custards are, indeed, incredibly easy to make sous vide. I’ll have to wait on the melted sugar on top, though.
Watching Dallas-OKC on TV, I must confess I am probably one of the few residents of the Seattle-Tacoma region who enjoys
watching the OKC Thunder, they are fun to watch and hopes they go to finals. Though if Dirk Nowitski and the Mavs go I wouldn’t lose sleep either.
30.
suzanne
@Yutsano: Yeah, apparently some people in my office already asked for our whole office to go to a 4×10 schedule and were brutally rebuffed. Since we essentially work 10-hour days already, management seems to be aware that they’d be getting less of us. Sigh.
The first Conan film was a fun little film. Basil Poledouris’ music is a joy to hear.
Conan the Destroyer is a POS. Not even Basil’s music will make me watch that turkey again.
33.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Our little Manx, Bobbi Cat, seems to think that this end of the world stuff is only for stupid people.
She’s enjoying the sun today and is doing well on her seizure medication. She hasn’t had a seizure since being put on phenobarb, which she gets twice a day in her English (boiled) meat. She’s regained her weight and is much more active now that we dumped the worthless teabagger vet and take her to a vet that really cares about animals more than politics.
She loves sunning herself on the garage floor since that’s her domain.
34.
Yutsano
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Frabjous news about the kitteh. Though perhaps the hand scratches have now returned in earnest.
Mine was hunting and eating bugs today. She’s just so damn bizarre.
@suzanne: Hell if I could draft a study that shows that a 4X10 work schedule saves money for the government I’d be all over it. As it is I’m just stuck until a whole bunch of people in front of me either retire or quit (which both are happening and we can’t replace them, fun!) or hold out until I’m doing something else in the Service, which has to wait another two years anyway.
35.
moonbat
@Anoniminous: It always makes me feel so sorry for Wilt Chamberlain I can’t watch it.
36.
superluminR droid
@abo gato
Pepperdew ailoi? I’m intrigued. Tell us more.
That sounds like our other cat, Freddy. If there is a bug moving he catches it, plays with it and then eats it. It’s funny watching him bounding all over the place hunting bugs. He’s a huge cat, almost twenty pounds, and can stand up and reach the top of the kitchen counters. He’s not fat, he’s just a verrrry long cat!
Regarding scratches, the wife says that Bobbi is much more approachable now and has been petting her frequently, which is a big change. She’s always been my cat and was a former feral that latched onto one human to make her life less complicated. The kids only talk to her since she has a very nasty attitude towards anyone approaching her. She’s deceptively cute with teeth and claws that let you know otherwise if you dare to reach out to her.
At least she’s expanded her horizons when it comes to humans but two of us seems to be the limit right now.
Mine was hunting and eating bugs today. She’s just so damn bizarre.
What’s bizarre about hunting and eating bugs? They’re easy prey and surprisingly nutritious. My cat loves attacking bugs and gets very annoyed when there’s a bug inside that’s flying too high for him to attack. He’ll also attack bees, which seems dangerous but is apparently great fun.
39.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@moonbat: Are they shunning you or did they get called up?
40.
Keith G
Since the world is moving on, I need some tech advice:
Amazon just delivered a new LI battery for my netbook. Should I take out the battery nightly when computer is plugged in?
41.
RossInDetroit
Went out to dinner. Gonna watch Inception on the small screen because we’re behind the curve losers. Fine with that.
42.
Yutsano
@Roger Moore: She had made it her current personal mission to get the big house fly that’s been buzzing around the past couple of days. The fly is disrespecting her authoritah. It’s hilarious to watch.
43.
bryanD
The only non-bogus fried rice demo on the web.
HINT for Mmemosyne: note when eggs meet rice.
Sorry, haven’t read all of the comments, but this is one case where supposed internet anonymity is applicable to all sides. This is not a point to die on. Her parents supported her, and i do as well, but to say that the 27% are the only ones who do this sort of thing is inaccurate.
Better is to cast it as what it is. Bachmann has a skewed view of the Constitution, which is what the girl had in mind from the get go.
45.
hildebrand
A lovely day – was interviewed by the local newspaper regarding the history of the rapture (I do religious history), had a couple glasses of a rather solid pinot noir, ate shrimp tacos (homemade) for supper, and just watched a cracking good episode of Dr. Who.
@Yutsano:
Jake will start calling like crazy if there’s a bug he can’t catch. He’s pretty talkative in general, but he’ll talk non-stop if there’s an unreachable prey species around. (This also applies to hummingbirds at my feeder.)
47.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Lurleen: Ah yes. Both sides do it. Your concern has been duly noted.
48.
Elizabelle
If a couple million Christianist wackos were in the wind with the Rapture, would it be good or bad for John McCain?
What about the Republican party?
I am thinking I haz a sad it didn’t happen. The Rapture would just be so much more efficient than waiting around on demographics …
Sadly for all of us, the people worthy of rapturing, if they were actually raptured, would leave us poorer as a polity. The irony of today is that all of these poor excuses for Christians waiting to be airlifted for Jesus are completely deluded, and they still won’t understand that after being left behind. Which somehow I’m sure is good news for John McCain.
52.
hildebrand
@bryanD: Indeed, looking any farther back is a waste of time. The concept is clearly a modern one, and the medievals, especially, would have laughed at the lunatic who had brought up such a nonsensical topic. If you mentioned rapture to the the early church or the medievals, they would have likely asked you questions about mysticism and the idea of union with Christ – certainly worlds away from the sort of talk that modern evangelicals might jabber on and on about (and even then, only a very small, but vocal, subset).
I am going to track down Ponette, that looks like an outstanding film.
53.
burnspbesq
Ugh. Flying cross-country and back in 36 hours when you’re sick virtually guarantees that the 48 hours after you get back will be unpleasant. I’d better feel better tomorrow morning.
54.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Just as a point of order, there are cheaper and less painful methods of committing suicide. A Franchise Tax Board audit, for one.
55.
4jkb4ia
“Darwin Barney flies out to right fielder J.D. Drew. Alfonso Soriano scores. Jeff Baker scores. Kosuke Fukudome to 3rd. Missed catch error by shortstop Jed Lowrie, assist to right fielder J.D. Drew to catcher Jason Varitek. Throwing error by left fielder Carl Crawford, assist to right fielder J.D. Drew. Two out.”
That description was um, epic. That inning was three errors, 12 batters, and 8 runs. Matt Albers could not stop walking anybody, and then it got really bad.
First place was a pleasant surprise while it lasted.
(I give up.)
(Holds head in pain.)
56.
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in. Just got home from work, done for the week. Now commencing my Sunday-Monday weekend. Yee-haw!
Thanks to one and all on the lightbulb thread Tuesday (“Turn on Your Heartlight”). Based on that discussion, I bought an imposing, almost frightening CFL bulb today and just deployed it in one of my two main lamps. It uses only 30 watts (the lamp is rated for 100) but pumps out 2,000 lumens, a good bit more than a 100-watt incandescent. The light comes on promptly, and the color is good. I no longer have momentary suicidal thoughts when I turn on that lamp, which is my go-to for general evening use and TV watching. The bulb that came out was also CFL, but only 13 watts (!), and it had a perceptible lag before it turned on. Don’t know about the lumens, but see “momentary suicidal thoughts” above. It was probably a “60-watt replacement.” I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought it–I don’t even remember buying it–but this new one is much better. I am thinking about getting an even brighter bulb for this lamp and moving this bulb to my bedside-and-reading-chair lamp, which currently has an incandescent bulb in it.
The new bulb is a Sylvania SuperSaver 2700K, “120-watt replacement.” Cost $8.99 and is rated for 10,000 hours. Nothing special–I picked it up at the grocery store.
57.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: If it’s kitteh proof I’ll buy one tomorrow. Otherwise I’m going old school until the sociallist paradise of my residence bans them outright.
“I am going to track down Ponette, that looks like an outstanding film”
Oh, it is! (And pay no attention to the previews. The film unrolls organically and its not a downer. Some critics dinged the ending but I think the ending is great.)
I realize this is off-topic, but I want it recorded for posterity: I hate breastfeeding with an unholy fire. I want to shoot the next person who even looks askance at my tits. Ow.
As a longtime (but not current) cat wrangler, I think it is kitteh-proof. It just screws into the lamp socket the same way an incandescent bulb does and takes up roughly the same amount of space. I said it was imposing because it looks sort of like the ice cream on a cone where somebody put a few extra swirls on top.
Have to say I am pleasantly surprised. It comes on right away, and the color is pleasantly warm but not too “yellow,” if that makes sense.
I’m sure if I went to Home Depot or someplace else with a bigger selection I could find something better, but from right off the “just the basics” shelf at the grocery it is a win.
61.
suzanne
And to append my earlier comment: The next person who tells me, “But it’s not supposed to hurt!” is gonna get slapped.
Ponette is really good. I haven’t seen it since it first came out. Wonder if it’s available on DVD. (Too lazy to look right now, but it’s going on the list.)
63.
Yutsano
@suzanne: I had friends come into town with their little one. We all decided to head on out to dinner just to spend some time since that was really our only chance during the week. While we were eating Cynda at first charmed every single member of the waitstaff but then got hungry and tired and therefore fussy. At that point Mom and Dad realized they forgot to pack a bottle. She looked around nervous until I reminded her Seattle has an open nursing law. Out flopped the boob and the kid munched happily until she zonked out. But Mom would wince every now and again when the kidlet would get too rough.
@Steeplejack: Lexie is an uber-massive amount of kitteh destruction, even for a kitten. She has managed to kill six light bulbs so far in that lamp. So I definitely need something high on the durability scale.
It was an educational mission. Had to give the Canada Revenue Agency a refresher course on how to properly apply their regulations.
66.
suzanne
@Yutsano: Oh, I flip out the tit in public if she needs it. But I am epically tired of pumping at work, and sleeping on a towel, and feeling that shit drip on myself. YUCK. AND she’s developing a stronger suck as she gets older. But she freaking loves it like no other.
What is it that she does where she goes for the bulb and not the lamp? Seriously, WTF?! How satanic is she? But I digress.
I think the CFL bulbs are sturdier than incandescent. I am fondling the old 13-watt one as I speak, and it feels much sturdier than an incandescent bulb. I think I would have a bit of trouble crushing it in my hand–not that I would want to do that–whereas most incandescent bulbs feel more like eggs. A little fragile.
My suggestion is to get one CFL bulb, put it in one lamp and see how you like it, and/or how much satanic kitteh abuse it can handle, then go from there. After my last post I realized that I am a bit psyched, and I am actually contemplating going to Home Depot to see if I can find some über-perfect “last bulb you’ll ever need” bulb. If I can find one personally color-balanced by Helmut Newton I could die happy.
68.
suzanne
Plus, and not to brag, I kind of have an awesome rack. But the boobfood makes them so damn large that I cannot find shirts to fit. Fucking ridiculous.
69.
suzanne
They have CFLs at Ikea that have a protective outer shield. Tried those?
70.
opie_jeanne
@geg6: With a menu like that, I want to be your best friend. I make killer desserts.
71.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I don’t know whether to be jealous or feel sorry for you that you had to go to Ottawa (I assume). I suppose I could just go with both. But at least Ottawa isn’t as abused as our poor capitol.
@Steeplejack: The bulb endlessly fascinates her. Like totally mesmerizes her. Like she’ll sniff at it either on or off. She is the strangest cat I’ve owned, and my last one was a big pile of quirks too.
@suzanne: In some cultures they nurse until the age of 3. THREE. That seems a bit extreme to me, but at least at twelve months you (and your hubby) can have your boobs back.
I might look into the Ikea thing. I’ve been looking for an excuse to hunt one down anyway.
72.
opie_jeanne
@Mr Stagger Lee: I’ve got some raspberry crisp left from today’s End of the World party.
And some really nice pulled pork (made it in a crockpot) and potato salad, and I think there’s still some killer guacamole made by my youngest child. Also a lot of roast chicken made on the off-chance that our favorite neighbor showed up and wanted to keep somewhat kosher.
It was a nice day except for the weather. I don’t see sun predicted in Seattle for the next week.
73.
suzanne
@Yutsano: Oh, fuck that. My personal goal is to make it to six months, which, considering that she turned five months old today, is probably do-able. But… FUCK. I want my goddamn personal space.
Yes. Ikea for lightbulbs. Or Costco. We bought this house a year ago, and all the bulbs in the light fixtures were different. Half were burned out. I have to but some dimmable CFLs for the kitchen, which annoys the crap out of me, but I’ve been happy with Ikea and Costco bulbs in all the other rooms.
@suzanne:
Just think of it as nature’s way of encouraging you to switch to solid food ASAP.
75.
opie_jeanne
@Yutsano: mr opie jeanne retired last year from working a 9/80 for the city of Torrance. All of the city offices are closed every other Friday. It would have been a bit more wonderful if we had been able to afford a house closer to Torrance. He commuted from Anaheim for 7 years, only 30 miles but a minimum of 90 minutes most days.
I had a great week in Ottawa sometime in ’95-96. I was a software contractor for Harris Digital Telephone Systems and got sent up there to troubleshoot some ZOMG problem at a small regional telco. Fixed it almost within the first hour and then had the rest of the week to sightsee and putter around. It wasn’t genius on my part–more like a fresh pair of eyes. “Uh, you guys do realize that the big plug on the framjammit goes into the big slot on the dynotron?” They didn’t want to send me back right away because it would delegitimize the “ZOMG–we need tech support here stat” nature of the problem, plus “ZOMG, you’d better wait around a while because it could happen again,” but they didn’t want me hanging around the office because it was like a Nelson Muntz “Ha-ha!” to their tech guys.
So I slept in, had leisurely breakfasts, dropped by the office to make sure ZOMG it hadn’t happened again and then wandered around Ottawa. Ate at a bunch of really good restaurants, none of whose names I remember. The weather was kind of neat. It was late fall or early spring, and it reminded me of Seattle.
Oh, yeah. And I was getting paid about $45 an hour. Good times.
77.
opie_jeanne
@suzanne: We have some ok CFLs in the giant ugly ceiling cans in this house, but a few of them take forever to warm up. Those were the ones that were here when we bought the house. The owner left only one working lightbulb in each room, as if she’d saved up the dead ones to fill all the rest of the fixtures just for the close of escrow. She was a head-case so we wonder if she did.
I’m kind of fussy about light and like incandescents when I’m doing anything intricate or where seeing colors is important. I have a bit of color-blindness, have trouble telling dark blues and greens apart under fluorescents.
78.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: My Communist Mountie bud (imagine that in the US!) hates Ottawa with a passion, but that may have more to do with the Harper interregnum than anything else. I honestly have never been.
I found it very Seattle-esque, but, now that I think about it, all of Canada seems Seattle-esque to me, at least the parts I’ve been to. Have never been to the Maritime Provinces, which I would love to visit sometime. However, I have played really bad golf all over Manitoba, for reasons that escape me now.
80.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: A road trip so SamKitteh could meet a few of his crazy American uncles sounds like hella fun to me. I honestly would love to visit Nova Scotia and PEI. Maybe get lost in the middle of nowhere New Brunswick and come out with a ton of stories.
For whatever reason coming out of the work week I just need to do nothing for a day.
Thank you for that. Sometimes I feel like such a slug when all I do on Sunday is shuffle aimlessly around the man-cave, eat a little, watch some TV (and then can’t remember what I watched) and lapse into occasional naps.
ETA: Just now getting around to reading the threads in chronological order. Steep +2
That’s actually a good movie. Haven’t seen it in a hella long time, but I was discussing it with a customer at the store tonight.
Has Mimi Rogers been in anything lately, or is she just skimping by on alimony from Tom Cruise? (That’s snark, because I think she is a good actor.) Another good one of hers is Someone to Watch over Me with Tom Berenger.
I do hope she took Cruise to the cleaners on the alimony, though.
Yutsano
Yeah. My kitchen is a wreck and I haven’t developed the wherewithal to clean it yet. Is it Memorial Day yet?
John Cole
@Yutsano: Mine looks like my blender blew up. Full.
Sunday.
burnspbesq
Denver’s Mark Mathews has some of the sickest stick skills I’ve seen in a while.
abo gato
well shit, now that nothing happened, rapture wise, I guess we’ll all have to clean the house and do laundry……well fuck it…..I hate all that.
geg6
Watching movies and cooking scallops and filet on the grill, with roasted baby orange and yellow carrots. Sauteed mushrooms and herbed rice for sides. Started with spinach, orange, mushroom and toasted almond salad with honey poppy seed dressing. Ending with a fudge and peanut butter cake and washed down with a Columbia Winery reisling
and Rodney Strong pinot noir. Fat and happy we will be tonight.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I could twist that comment in so many ways…but I shall postpone that particular madness for now. After all I’m less than 20 minutes from Rapture Time yet.
@John Cole: I’m thinking Sunday is gonna be my heavy cleaning day as well. For whatever reason coming out of the work week I just need to do NOTHING for a day.
Yevgraf (fka Michael)
Both Conan movies are on AMC. Yes, I intend to watch both while drinking myself into a stupor – I’m pathetic.
moonbat
My Xtianist relatives are no longer speaking to me. Too many rapture-mocking posts on face book, I think.
burnspbesq
The only good thing about the end of lax season is that I won’t have to listen to that insipid 30 Seconds to Mars song that ESPN uses in its promo spots any more.
burnspbesq
@moonbat:
Mission accomplished?
Mnemosyne
Today was one of those days that reminds me why I moved to Southern California. Perfect weather — sunny but not ungodly hot. I did my errands by bike.
Next up: dinner out, though I haven’t decided where yet and it’s my turn to pick.
moonbat
Yes! We are swilling salty dogs tonight in celebration.
RedKitten
Heavy cleaning day was today. Tonight was barbecue with some good friends and their doggies. Nothing fancy — just some chicken thighs and some hot dogs, a green salad, some cold beer. I made coleslaw but forgot to take it out of the fridge. SamKitten was thrilled with my friends’ Boston Terrier and Rottweiler(sp?)doggies and laughed his ass off with delight the entire time they were here.
Tomorrow, we go to the zoo, and Monday will be lazy day. :)
abo gato
okay, geg6, we just finished our dinner…..oysters on the half shell, seared amberjack with a peppadew aioli and a beet and parsley salad along with a heirloom tomato and an organic onion, sliced up with slivered basil on top and a good olive oil. We also had a nice white bordeaux. Had a couple of Dark and Stormy’s while watching the Preakness. All is well. mmmmmmm
Mr Stagger Lee
(sniff) No Free Stuff for Mr Stagger Lee (sniff)
Cat Lady
Misbegotten Wombat Xtian Fundies – 0
Iconoclast Funloving Skeptics – 1
Only The Good Die Young
Yutsano
@Mr Stagger Lee: Awww…want a cookie?
@Mnemosyne: The new Batali pizza joint. I forgot where it is exactly but I wanna say Santa Monica. It’s supposed to be fucking heaven.
maven
Watching Sordid LIves tonight. Olivia Newton-John and Texas white trash. Didn
‘t go anywhere today……..like up.
skippy
mrs. skippy wants to see the new piates of the carribean movie, so that’s where i’m headed.
and i know i’m a few days late (which is 100 in blog years), but here’s my take on the david brooks meme. i agree w/doug j, the picture has a definite 80’s album cover vibe to it.
Comrade Darkness
Guys, guys, this is what the end of the world looks like.
http://www.visir.is/aska-fellur-vida-til-jardar/article/2011110529784
A 20km high ash cloud. What, you don’t speak icelandic? Well, no rapture for you.
lamh34
Been watching movies for most of the afternoon. I’m watching “Starship Troopers”. My gosh this movie is mindlessly stupid. Also all the bug guts being blown up is kinda grossing me out, but the whole movie is so meh, that I don’t really care.
steviez314
“The Rapture” was a movie in 1991 where Mimi Rogers plays a swinger who becomes born-again.
suzanne
@Yutsano:
I need to do nothing for a day, then have fun for a day. Unfortunately, since the vast majority of weekends are only two days long, this leaves me with a bit of a problem. Fuck.
David Brooks (not that one) is a dickhead.
Oh well, off to Seattle Symphony concert. Not much chance of any of this orchestra being rapt.
Yutsano
@suzanne: Exactly. And the odds of me getting four 10s as a new hire are next to nil. I’m not entirely certain if I asked for an alternate work schedule if I would get it. Especially getting the sweet plum drop that is the alternate Friday off. Oh well. At least my benefits kick major ass.
moonbat
@steviez314: Including steamy sex scene with David Ducovny!
Roger Moore
Working on creme brulee. It turns out that custards are, indeed, incredibly easy to make sous vide. I’ll have to wait on the melted sugar on top, though.
Ana Gama
Just in case you want to know why.
http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/05/ten-reasons-why-rapture-didnt-happen.html
Mr Stagger Lee
Watching Dallas-OKC on TV, I must confess I am probably one of the few residents of the Seattle-Tacoma region who enjoys
watching the OKC Thunder, they are fun to watch and hopes they go to finals. Though if Dirk Nowitski and the Mavs go I wouldn’t lose sleep either.
suzanne
@Yutsano: Yeah, apparently some people in my office already asked for our whole office to go to a 4×10 schedule and were brutally rebuffed. Since we essentially work 10-hour days already, management seems to be aware that they’d be getting less of us. Sigh.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
@steviez314:
I loved that movie. Depicts the Rapture as literally occurring, yet is impious.
Anoniminous
@Yevgraf (fka Michael):
The first Conan film was a fun little film. Basil Poledouris’ music is a joy to hear.
Conan the Destroyer is a POS. Not even Basil’s music will make me watch that turkey again.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Our little Manx, Bobbi Cat, seems to think that this end of the world stuff is only for stupid people.
She’s enjoying the sun today and is doing well on her seizure medication. She hasn’t had a seizure since being put on phenobarb, which she gets twice a day in her English (boiled) meat. She’s regained her weight and is much more active now that we dumped the worthless teabagger vet and take her to a vet that really cares about animals more than politics.
She loves sunning herself on the garage floor since that’s her domain.
Yutsano
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Frabjous news about the kitteh. Though perhaps the hand scratches have now returned in earnest.
Mine was hunting and eating bugs today. She’s just so damn bizarre.
@suzanne: Hell if I could draft a study that shows that a 4X10 work schedule saves money for the government I’d be all over it. As it is I’m just stuck until a whole bunch of people in front of me either retire or quit (which both are happening and we can’t replace them, fun!) or hold out until I’m doing something else in the Service, which has to wait another two years anyway.
moonbat
@Anoniminous: It always makes me feel so sorry for Wilt Chamberlain I can’t watch it.
superluminR droid
@abo gato
Pepperdew ailoi? I’m intrigued. Tell us more.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Yutsano:
That sounds like our other cat, Freddy. If there is a bug moving he catches it, plays with it and then eats it. It’s funny watching him bounding all over the place hunting bugs. He’s a huge cat, almost twenty pounds, and can stand up and reach the top of the kitchen counters. He’s not fat, he’s just a verrrry long cat!
Regarding scratches, the wife says that Bobbi is much more approachable now and has been petting her frequently, which is a big change. She’s always been my cat and was a former feral that latched onto one human to make her life less complicated. The kids only talk to her since she has a very nasty attitude towards anyone approaching her. She’s deceptively cute with teeth and claws that let you know otherwise if you dare to reach out to her.
At least she’s expanded her horizons when it comes to humans but two of us seems to be the limit right now.
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
What’s bizarre about hunting and eating bugs? They’re easy prey and surprisingly nutritious. My cat loves attacking bugs and gets very annoyed when there’s a bug inside that’s flying too high for him to attack. He’ll also attack bees, which seems dangerous but is apparently great fun.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@moonbat: Are they shunning you or did they get called up?
Keith G
Since the world is moving on, I need some tech advice:
Amazon just delivered a new LI battery for my netbook. Should I take out the battery nightly when computer is plugged in?
RossInDetroit
Went out to dinner. Gonna watch Inception on the small screen because we’re behind the curve losers. Fine with that.
Yutsano
@Roger Moore: She had made it her current personal mission to get the big house fly that’s been buzzing around the past couple of days. The fly is disrespecting her authoritah. It’s hilarious to watch.
bryanD
The only non-bogus fried rice demo on the web.
HINT for Mmemosyne: note when eggs meet rice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-LF2xAkff4
Lurleen
Sorry, haven’t read all of the comments, but this is one case where supposed internet anonymity is applicable to all sides. This is not a point to die on. Her parents supported her, and i do as well, but to say that the 27% are the only ones who do this sort of thing is inaccurate.
Better is to cast it as what it is. Bachmann has a skewed view of the Constitution, which is what the girl had in mind from the get go.
hildebrand
A lovely day – was interviewed by the local newspaper regarding the history of the rapture (I do religious history), had a couple glasses of a rather solid pinot noir, ate shrimp tacos (homemade) for supper, and just watched a cracking good episode of Dr. Who.
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
Jake will start calling like crazy if there’s a bug he can’t catch. He’s pretty talkative in general, but he’ll talk non-stop if there’s an unreachable prey species around. (This also applies to hummingbirds at my feeder.)
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Lurleen: Ah yes. Both sides do it. Your concern has been duly noted.
Elizabelle
If a couple million Christianist wackos were in the wind with the Rapture, would it be good or bad for John McCain?
What about the Republican party?
I am thinking I haz a sad it didn’t happen. The Rapture would just be so much more efficient than waiting around on demographics …
bryanD
@hildebrand:
I just *know* that you didn’t try to take the origins of the rapture doctrine further back than 1830s Scotland?
*Did* *you*?
Movie recommendation: Ponette (1995).
OR The Gay Divorcee. Pre-1936 A&R!
(I always recommend Ponette. Fucking unique movie!)
Southern Beale
If anyone wants to know what 13-year-ciacadas sound like, I’ve posted an audio clip on my blog.
Cat Lady
@Elizabelle:
Sadly for all of us, the people worthy of rapturing, if they were actually raptured, would leave us poorer as a polity. The irony of today is that all of these poor excuses for Christians waiting to be airlifted for Jesus are completely deluded, and they still won’t understand that after being left behind. Which somehow I’m sure is good news for John McCain.
hildebrand
@bryanD: Indeed, looking any farther back is a waste of time. The concept is clearly a modern one, and the medievals, especially, would have laughed at the lunatic who had brought up such a nonsensical topic. If you mentioned rapture to the the early church or the medievals, they would have likely asked you questions about mysticism and the idea of union with Christ – certainly worlds away from the sort of talk that modern evangelicals might jabber on and on about (and even then, only a very small, but vocal, subset).
I am going to track down Ponette, that looks like an outstanding film.
burnspbesq
Ugh. Flying cross-country and back in 36 hours when you’re sick virtually guarantees that the 48 hours after you get back will be unpleasant. I’d better feel better tomorrow morning.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Just as a point of order, there are cheaper and less painful methods of committing suicide. A Franchise Tax Board audit, for one.
4jkb4ia
“Darwin Barney flies out to right fielder J.D. Drew. Alfonso Soriano scores. Jeff Baker scores. Kosuke Fukudome to 3rd. Missed catch error by shortstop Jed Lowrie, assist to right fielder J.D. Drew to catcher Jason Varitek. Throwing error by left fielder Carl Crawford, assist to right fielder J.D. Drew. Two out.”
That description was um, epic. That inning was three errors, 12 batters, and 8 runs. Matt Albers could not stop walking anybody, and then it got really bad.
First place was a pleasant surprise while it lasted.
(I give up.)
(Holds head in pain.)
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in. Just got home from work, done for the week. Now commencing my Sunday-Monday weekend. Yee-haw!
Thanks to one and all on the lightbulb thread Tuesday (“Turn on Your Heartlight”). Based on that discussion, I bought an imposing, almost frightening CFL bulb today and just deployed it in one of my two main lamps. It uses only 30 watts (the lamp is rated for 100) but pumps out 2,000 lumens, a good bit more than a 100-watt incandescent. The light comes on promptly, and the color is good. I no longer have momentary suicidal thoughts when I turn on that lamp, which is my go-to for general evening use and TV watching. The bulb that came out was also CFL, but only 13 watts (!), and it had a perceptible lag before it turned on. Don’t know about the lumens, but see “momentary suicidal thoughts” above. It was probably a “60-watt replacement.” I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought it–I don’t even remember buying it–but this new one is much better. I am thinking about getting an even brighter bulb for this lamp and moving this bulb to my bedside-and-reading-chair lamp, which currently has an incandescent bulb in it.
The new bulb is a Sylvania SuperSaver 2700K, “120-watt replacement.” Cost $8.99 and is rated for 10,000 hours. Nothing special–I picked it up at the grocery store.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: If it’s kitteh proof I’ll buy one tomorrow. Otherwise I’m going old school until the sociallist paradise of my residence bans them outright.
bryanD
@hildebrand:
“I am going to track down Ponette, that looks like an outstanding film”
Oh, it is! (And pay no attention to the previews. The film unrolls organically and its not a downer. Some critics dinged the ending but I think the ending is great.)
Re: “do history”. You’ll like this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=YcjFAV4WZ9MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=anatoly+fomenko&hl=en&ei=64grTavqHJP6sAOby8SUBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
suzanne
I realize this is off-topic, but I want it recorded for posterity: I hate breastfeeding with an unholy fire. I want to shoot the next person who even looks askance at my tits. Ow.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
As a longtime (but not current) cat wrangler, I think it is kitteh-proof. It just screws into the lamp socket the same way an incandescent bulb does and takes up roughly the same amount of space. I said it was imposing because it looks sort of like the ice cream on a cone where somebody put a few extra swirls on top.
Have to say I am pleasantly surprised. It comes on right away, and the color is pleasantly warm but not too “yellow,” if that makes sense.
I’m sure if I went to Home Depot or someplace else with a bigger selection I could find something better, but from right off the “just the basics” shelf at the grocery it is a win.
suzanne
And to append my earlier comment: The next person who tells me, “But it’s not supposed to hurt!” is gonna get slapped.
Steeplejack
@bryanD:
Ponette is really good. I haven’t seen it since it first came out. Wonder if it’s available on DVD. (Too lazy to look right now, but it’s going on the list.)
Yutsano
@suzanne: I had friends come into town with their little one. We all decided to head on out to dinner just to spend some time since that was really our only chance during the week. While we were eating Cynda at first charmed every single member of the waitstaff but then got hungry and tired and therefore fussy. At that point Mom and Dad realized they forgot to pack a bottle. She looked around nervous until I reminded her Seattle has an open nursing law. Out flopped the boob and the kid munched happily until she zonked out. But Mom would wince every now and again when the kidlet would get too rough.
@Steeplejack: Lexie is an uber-massive amount of kitteh destruction, even for a kitten. She has managed to kill six light bulbs so far in that lamp. So I definitely need something high on the durability scale.
jurassicpork
Sometimes I wish I was more religious just so I could’ve been Rapturized today and get away from it all.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
It was an educational mission. Had to give the Canada Revenue Agency a refresher course on how to properly apply their regulations.
suzanne
@Yutsano: Oh, I flip out the tit in public if she needs it. But I am epically tired of pumping at work, and sleeping on a towel, and feeling that shit drip on myself. YUCK. AND she’s developing a stronger suck as she gets older. But she freaking loves it like no other.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
What is it that she does where she goes for the bulb and not the lamp? Seriously, WTF?! How satanic is she? But I digress.
I think the CFL bulbs are sturdier than incandescent. I am fondling the old 13-watt one as I speak, and it feels much sturdier than an incandescent bulb. I think I would have a bit of trouble crushing it in my hand–not that I would want to do that–whereas most incandescent bulbs feel more like eggs. A little fragile.
My suggestion is to get one CFL bulb, put it in one lamp and see how you like it, and/or how much satanic kitteh abuse it can handle, then go from there. After my last post I realized that I am a bit psyched, and I am actually contemplating going to Home Depot to see if I can find some über-perfect “last bulb you’ll ever need” bulb. If I can find one personally color-balanced by Helmut Newton I could die happy.
suzanne
Plus, and not to brag, I kind of have an awesome rack. But the boobfood makes them so damn large that I cannot find shirts to fit. Fucking ridiculous.
suzanne
They have CFLs at Ikea that have a protective outer shield. Tried those?
opie_jeanne
@geg6: With a menu like that, I want to be your best friend. I make killer desserts.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I don’t know whether to be jealous or feel sorry for you that you had to go to Ottawa (I assume). I suppose I could just go with both. But at least Ottawa isn’t as abused as our poor capitol.
@Steeplejack: The bulb endlessly fascinates her. Like totally mesmerizes her. Like she’ll sniff at it either on or off. She is the strangest cat I’ve owned, and my last one was a big pile of quirks too.
@suzanne: In some cultures they nurse until the age of 3. THREE. That seems a bit extreme to me, but at least at twelve months you (and your hubby) can have your boobs back.
I might look into the Ikea thing. I’ve been looking for an excuse to hunt one down anyway.
opie_jeanne
@Mr Stagger Lee: I’ve got some raspberry crisp left from today’s End of the World party.
And some really nice pulled pork (made it in a crockpot) and potato salad, and I think there’s still some killer guacamole made by my youngest child. Also a lot of roast chicken made on the off-chance that our favorite neighbor showed up and wanted to keep somewhat kosher.
It was a nice day except for the weather. I don’t see sun predicted in Seattle for the next week.
suzanne
@Yutsano: Oh, fuck that. My personal goal is to make it to six months, which, considering that she turned five months old today, is probably do-able. But… FUCK. I want my goddamn personal space.
Yes. Ikea for lightbulbs. Or Costco. We bought this house a year ago, and all the bulbs in the light fixtures were different. Half were burned out. I have to but some dimmable CFLs for the kitchen, which annoys the crap out of me, but I’ve been happy with Ikea and Costco bulbs in all the other rooms.
Roger Moore
@suzanne:
Just think of it as nature’s way of encouraging you to switch to solid food ASAP.
opie_jeanne
@Yutsano: mr opie jeanne retired last year from working a 9/80 for the city of Torrance. All of the city offices are closed every other Friday. It would have been a bit more wonderful if we had been able to afford a house closer to Torrance. He commuted from Anaheim for 7 years, only 30 miles but a minimum of 90 minutes most days.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
I had a great week in Ottawa sometime in ’95-96. I was a software contractor for Harris Digital Telephone Systems and got sent up there to troubleshoot some ZOMG problem at a small regional telco. Fixed it almost within the first hour and then had the rest of the week to sightsee and putter around. It wasn’t genius on my part–more like a fresh pair of eyes. “Uh, you guys do realize that the big plug on the framjammit goes into the big slot on the dynotron?” They didn’t want to send me back right away because it would delegitimize the “ZOMG–we need tech support here stat” nature of the problem, plus “ZOMG, you’d better wait around a while because it could happen again,” but they didn’t want me hanging around the office because it was like a Nelson Muntz “Ha-ha!” to their tech guys.
So I slept in, had leisurely breakfasts, dropped by the office to make sure ZOMG it hadn’t happened again and then wandered around Ottawa. Ate at a bunch of really good restaurants, none of whose names I remember. The weather was kind of neat. It was late fall or early spring, and it reminded me of Seattle.
Oh, yeah. And I was getting paid about $45 an hour. Good times.
opie_jeanne
@suzanne: We have some ok CFLs in the giant ugly ceiling cans in this house, but a few of them take forever to warm up. Those were the ones that were here when we bought the house. The owner left only one working lightbulb in each room, as if she’d saved up the dead ones to fill all the rest of the fixtures just for the close of escrow. She was a head-case so we wonder if she did.
I’m kind of fussy about light and like incandescents when I’m doing anything intricate or where seeing colors is important. I have a bit of color-blindness, have trouble telling dark blues and greens apart under fluorescents.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: My Communist Mountie bud (imagine that in the US!) hates Ottawa with a passion, but that may have more to do with the Harper interregnum than anything else. I honestly have never been.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
I found it very Seattle-esque, but, now that I think about it, all of Canada seems Seattle-esque to me, at least the parts I’ve been to. Have never been to the Maritime Provinces, which I would love to visit sometime. However, I have played really bad golf all over Manitoba, for reasons that escape me now.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: A road trip so SamKitteh could meet a few of his crazy American uncles sounds like hella fun to me. I honestly would love to visit Nova Scotia and PEI. Maybe get lost in the middle of nowhere New Brunswick and come out with a ton of stories.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
Thank you for that. Sometimes I feel like such a slug when all I do on Sunday is shuffle aimlessly around the man-cave, eat a little, watch some TV (and then can’t remember what I watched) and lapse into occasional naps.
ETA: Just now getting around to reading the threads in chronological order. Steep +2
Steeplejack
@steviez314:
That’s actually a good movie. Haven’t seen it in a hella long time, but I was discussing it with a customer at the store tonight.
Has Mimi Rogers been in anything lately, or is she just skimping by on alimony from Tom Cruise? (That’s snark, because I think she is a good actor.) Another good one of hers is Someone to Watch over Me with Tom Berenger.
I do hope she took Cruise to the cleaners on the alimony, though.
Jon H
NY Times reports that Mitch Daniels has decided not to run.
Elizabelle
@Jon H:
Andrew Sullivan will be devastated.
He will take to his bed, with beagles and vapors.
Suffern ACE
@Elizabelle: @Jon H: Wow. That kind of leaves Huntsman as the last undeclared darling of the grande pooh-bahs.