@KLondike5: Or noticing the acupuncturee's relaxation. My own cats know that when I'm depressed OR chilled out, I'm ripe for cuddles.
@RenoMartini: Packing the court...with dope rhymes!
@GoldenRatioĻ (aka -girl11): The idea that mentally ill people are ever "bad people" because of their illness, has also got to die. They have an illness that (generally) affects their behavior. They may do bad things but that doesn't make anyone a bad person - especially not someone who may not be able to understand the choice to behave that way or make an effort to choose something else.
@Holly: This.
I use a "cut" (hides text behind a link) selectively based on the people who I know read my blog. Other people would not cut pictures of spiders; I do not want my sweetie having an asthma attack because of me.
Making a tangent to @randomnessish's point, it also kinda helps to include the reason in the warning, which is why I approve of Jezebel's policy. Different readers might want to scroll past war violence, talk about rape, talk about ED, or...well...spiders.
Covered from the shoulder to the knee? If I'm interpreting that correctly (top of the shoulder, not bottom/armpit), I don't know that I've ever seen a prom dress like that. Covering the whole breast seems like a reasonable request to me and I'm okay with dress codes if they're reasonable. (Paddling not okay, as pointed out by so many others, for the record.) This isn't the 1890's.
This should also be reported to the security office associated with his (former?) military unit. If Campbell doesn't have the number, he can get in touch with a local FBI office and they'll help. While the odds of the new account holder being malicious are slim, it IS still a potential opportunity for an unknown quantity to have a leg up in phishing them.
Sprint took the state AG seriously enough when I had problems with them, but it really should be reported anyway and it can't hurt to let the MP's light a fire under 'em too.
@blackheart-uk: Yup, spider plants are great. I was headed here to point them out as a cat-friendly alternative.
However, they can be TOO cat-friendly: Mine devoured the baby spider plants that I expected to grow into gigantic foliage that would send down shoots to provide them with the occasional nibble. Should have paid more attention to what they do when I bring them fresh catnip plants! :) If I try again, I'm getting a huge one to start and hanging it so they can only get at the shoots.
I'm sensing tremendous humor potential here: Buy one, put it on one of my cats, record her ripping it to bits as she pulls it off, YouTube...
It must be my crazy-artist-wannabe side coming out, but my first thought was that this could be leveraged for a Halloween or similar costume. Turn the butt into the gigantic forehead of a second face.
Or maybe my first thought was "the horror!" but I forced myself to forget and tell myself that I was actually thinking of something related.
I used to play WoW but there were too many d-bags. Now I'm the hot (lesbian, even) woman playing City of Heroes. I recruit, too!
I don't know, I think I'd prefer larger Prabbles for my bad habit jar. Then if I ever fill it up, I know I have a stoning coming my way.
You know, not for kids.
@techstar25:
It actually took a moment for me to realize that they were talking about a different Monster. I've definitely hit my afternoon slump, but in my defense, both are selling some fairly unimpressive tubes.
I'm seeing a prime opportunity for Lingerie Shrink Ray here: Why let the larger-breasted women pay less when they can simply claim that they need to subsidize the material and research cost of the larger bras and get some more profit out of the small and average breasted women?
I know, I know, I've been reading this site too long.
Oh hell yes I care about Riyleigh. I'm going to watch that kid her whole life to make sure she never spawns, because in dread Riyleigh, Cthulhu lies dreaming.
Never heard of Fechner? Gasp!
He's one of my scientific patron saints. Wikipedia him, at least; he was a cool guy. He contributed greatly to the study of sensation and perception in psychology.
He also went a little bit weird and tried to detect the souls of plants through objective measure, but that just makes him even more colorful and awesome.
@fulanita:
Geek: extremely knowledgeable, preferably in general, with no accompanying social impairment
Nerd: extremely knowledgeable in a specific field and possibly extremely grating as a result
Dork: deep into the same cultural woods as the other two but also socially inept and not necessarily knowledgeable
Dweeb: not sure, haven't run across a definition
@galaxina: The blank faces were one of the first things I noticed too. I didn't read it the same way you did; for me, it stripped them of individuality and drew the focus back to Michelle and Sasha, in the foreground, where it should be.
The fact that all of the other audience members in the original photo were white, I'm guessing was unintentional. Likewise, I could see making them featureless as a decision to draw attention toward the focus only.
But after realizing, hey, they're all white, it did add another layer of meaning for me - or maybe I should say, questioning. Regardless of whether their treatment by the original photographer or the painter was affected by race issues, what meaning has that treatment stumbled onto?
Maybe I'm waxing a little too philisophical, but the answer I took away was influenced by that initial thought that it was probably only coincedence that gave us the white audience behind them. That despite all of the questions about whether the white majority would give Barack Obama fair consideration, despite all of the scrutiny and the talk of how the race issues made a difference (and how much it was appropriate to make a point of the race difference)...this is, in the end, still all about Michelle and Sasha in that moment. It's them we're supposed to be looking at and thinking about. Forget everyone else who's there; it is just a very archetypal image of mother and daughter, their momentary expressions, isolated from whatever meaning we give the event as a whole.
I'm not sure I'd call it hopeful either, but not bothersome either. More a wake-up call to look at the details, the personal factors, rather than getting bogged down in demographics or how one thinks "white people" or "black people" or "[whatever] people" think.
(And no, if anyone's wondering, I'm not an art snob. Just a research psychologist who does a ton of navel-gazing.)
@dearheart:
That's my current goal and I'm doing a pretty good job of reining it back in. I got too lenient after being around my fratboy coworkers for so long. u.u
Very different experience here, and while I'm all for paying attention to the full range of data, I hope headlines like this don't scare people away from treatment that may go a lot better than they fear or may be worth the side effects.
I've been on Lexapro for about a year and a half. I had absolutely no sex drive for a good couple years before starting it and being in love was OMG EPIC.
It took a while to get the sex drive back, but I've got one now. I've also fallen in love and my romantic feelings for one person I loved pre-Lexapro are still there. The romantic feelings in general are more on par with the intensity of feeling I have on a relaxed day. All of my feelings are. And I like it.
@thatblackgirl:
Just what I was about to say about Warren and Detroit. *snerk* Or at least, most of Detroit - there are some nice parts, I'll admit.
Troy is comparatively nice - by which I mean it's a neighborhood I'd like to live in, if I were going to choose someplace in Michigan. Weather's still awful, though, obviously.
