kazran: are you really a babysitter?
the doctor: I think you’ll find I’m universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult. [flourishes psychic paper]
kazran: it’s…just a lot of wavy lines.
the doctor: …yeah, it shorted out; finally a lie too big.
bernadette might be my new favorite character on ‘the big bang theory’:
penny: no, it was great; he just didn’t challenge me on an intellectual level.
bernadette: couldn’t you just fool around with him then listen to npr?
* ha! I didn’t even mean to make a pun.
eric: have you ever heard of lake agassiz?
eric: it’s a lake that was formed in the middle of the US from glacier runoff
kara: no. oh it’s big. was big.
eric: larger than all the great lakes combined!
kara: are you reading something about it?
eric: just the wikipedia
eric: it’s interesting b/c apparently it just kept getting bigger and bigger as the glacier receded
kara: nowhere to drain?
eric: until eventually an opening into the ocean opened up
eric: and it all drained *at once*
kara: yikes – 1-3 meters rise in sea level!
kara: that’s INSANE!
eric: …meanwhile, in the bible…
kara: heh
kara: how did you come across this
eric: i was reading about biblical history
eric: abrahamic religions & so on
eric: i mean… theoretically if the timing on that is there they think it is, it accounts not only for the flood myths across various religions but also global cooling and the genesis of urban life & agriculture which led to monotheism in the first place
kara: …it’s weird that this is making me hot right?
eric: =D
Words come later. It is the scent that first speaks of love.
kara: i had a dream i had an ipad and was a reading a magazine on it and it was awesome
kara: sadly, i hear magazines are so far not awesome on the ipad
eric: yeah
eric: people are still figuring it out
eric: guess it started off better than the web though
eric: early web pages were hilarious
kara: true
kara: i mean, i should be able to switch to ‘paperless’ subscriptions on my current magazines, just like i can opt out of paper statements for my credit card and other bills
eric: haha, the publishing industry is so far away from being able to figure that out
eric: the whole thing is like this incredibly brittle porcelain vase being propped up by lots of crossed fingers & old money
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
~ Rebecca West
via angie
me: maybe i should just move to new zealand and work in tourism and walk around a glacier all day
me: sounds good to me
eric: pet koalas
me: YES!
me: oh my god
me: so cute
me: so sleepy and cute and so soft
eric: did their farts smell like coughdrops?
from the madeloud.com review of the edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes album:
Make no mistake, though: Edward Sharpe & the Magnificent Zeros are no jam band. Don’t think Phish; instead, imagine what Arcade Fire would sound like if they’d sprouted up in Southern California, hanging out in a sun-baked backyard rather than hunkered down in a chilly old church in Canada.
me: i think you put it better
me: and more succinctly
eric: yeah, maybe “chilly old church” means their butt
eric: and “hunkered down” means they put a stick up in it
post-dinner, laden with unwanted leftovers and in search of a homeless person to whom we could offer free food, how many homeless people did we see after walking around for 15 minutes? NONE. WTF. we started studying every person we saw, judging whether they seemed homeless. none did. none were. frustrated:
me: this is ridiculous!
jula: usually there are – i mean, this is hollywood.
terry: where are they? i can’t believe we can’t find a single homeless person! where are they hiding?? …is there an app for that?
tonight jula and i watched ‘gone with the wind’ (her first time, my second) and during one of scarlett and rhett’s frustrating miscommunication-based fights:
jula: oh my god, can’t they just hug it out??