Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Curious. Do many birds there have the ability to turn into other species? I thought that was reserved for certain humans and only at full moon. I'm personally hoping one day to turn into a doughnut but that's something else entirely.

If taylor can have a melting 7-year-old, then I'm having shape-shifting birds.
If you metamorphose into a doughnut, Vivaldi, then may I have the first bite?

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Curious. Do many birds there have the ability to turn into other species? I thought that was reserved for certain humans and only at full moon. I'm personally hoping one day to turn into a doughnut but that's something else entirely.

Curious, I'm well on my way to look like a muffin.

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Curious, I'm well on my way to look like a muffin.

Yum Yum.

[badgoodDeb]

A doughnut? I would have thought you would want to be bacon, VR!

[Dylrob]

I'm just playing around with my laptop right now. I had sent it in for repairs a few weeks ago. It just came back about 10 minutes ago. Complete with a brand new LCD, hinges, and keyboard. It would seem I was too quick to judge her as scrap. Though I'll still probably get a netbook once the Pixel Qi technology is available (in fact if anything it makes such a purchase more likely, since I'll have something more powerful to fall back on when being able to use it anywhere isn't the priority).

The funny thing is that just today I went to check on the status of the repairs. The site Officemax linked to suggested that they were still in progress.

[RickyMaveety]

Having a short break while working on the new website & business. Man, I hope it isn't quite this much work every month!!

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Having a short break while working on the new website & business. Man, I hope it isn't quite this much work every month!!

A new business, Ricky?
Whatever it is, I wish you well.

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Having a short break while working on the new website & business. Man, I hope it isn't quite this much work every month!!

Like you didn't have enough to do already?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

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Marc - you *need* an excuse to eat homemade muffins?
...

That's true. Actually, what I am doing RIGHT NOW is listening to the beaters as The Loved One makes up a Lemon Pudding (which we'll have with custard). It's not a muffin, but at least I haven't made any excuses to eat it.

Originally Posted by kazbates

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It's not that they aren't kind of cute, in a kind of *eewww* way, but the guano they create can be quite noxious and, considering they eat so much, fairly voluminous.

Geckos can be the same. We get lots of them in the house (and out) during summer, and I enjoy their chirping from the high walls and their attacks on the insect population (I think they're a big part of our limited number of mossies we get), but they do tend to leave little choc-mint Tic tacs around the house. Fortunately, we're pretty much "wipe-clean" here, with tiles and leather chairs and such (plus they tend to stick mostly to insect-central - oor entry foyer/atrium), though one of our near-neighbours is less fond of them, having gone for white fabric and light carpet throughout her house.

Cheers,
Marc

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Having a short break while working on the new website & business. Man, I hope it isn't quite this much work every month!!

work - haven't you got sufficient to occupy your self with ?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Patricia

If taylor can have a melting 7-year-old, then I'm having shape-shifting birds.

we've got those same swallow-bat-birds here, over the canal. i like to watch them too. amazingly acrobatic.

when i was a student i did a summer internship in boston and sublet an appartment from a guy who had gone home to his parents' for the summer. one night i was reading in bed before going to sleep, when suddenly i noticed a dark shape flapping erratically around the bedroom !!! i was a bit frozen with panic for a moment, then it fluttered out of the bedroom and i leapt out of bed, and slammed my bedroom door on my way out so it couldn't get back in. i managed to chase it into the second bedroom and shut that door too so at least it was contained.

unfortunately, i then discovered my bedroom door had one of those locking doorhandles with a button lock. i had never noticed it before since i had not so far had any reason to shut that door. so at around 1 am, i was locked out of my bedroom, where all my clothes and other belongings were. i called the guy i was renting the flat from and woke him up (poor guy) and he groggily told me to call the landlord (he turned out to be on vacation as well, i think). i ended up having to get a locksmith to come and let me back into the bedroom after spending the night on the very odd sofa (it was a modular one made up individual seats pushed together, and it was shaped sort of like a row of muffins. not the most comfortable sofa to sleep on.) ; the locksmith said he *could* come right away, but he would charge me three times more for a night visit.

i also called the city bat-catcher who showed up with a pair of huge gloves and a little tiny cardboard box, and couldn't find the creature anywhere. he told me that the bat had probably gone out the window. when i pointed out that the window was closed, he pointed to the part of the frame that was a little bit crooked, and told me bats can actually collapse their skulls to fit through even a tiny little space !!

luckily, he must have been right, because i never saw that bat again for the rest of the month. although i also kept the second bedroom door shut after that, just in case.

[lilac_jive]

I'm watching some episodes of Psych thtat my Tivo recorded. If you haven't seen it, check it out on Hulu. One of the best shows on TV right now IMHO.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

I'm watching some episodes of Psych thtat my Tivo recorded. If you haven't seen it, check it out on Hulu. One of the best shows on TV right now IMHO.

Totally agree, I love Psych, and I love how they take a pop at the Mentalist (the Mentalist came long after Psych and is basically a more serious and less fun version of the story).

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Totally agree, I love Psych, and I love how they take a pop at the Mentalist (the Mentalist came long after Psych and is basically a more serious and less fun version of the story).

That was hilarious!

I think my most favorite episode is Tuesday the 17th, with the Rick Astley pinata.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

when i was a student .....

Good grief, Zelda, I'm half chuckling but I'll bet that was one of the most disturbing nights you've ever spent. And I'll bet you never quite slept as soundly after that either. Luckily, it was probably just a swallow/swift momentarily transmogrified.