Gina Szanboti

Also houses with stone walls a foot thick. Helps keep cooler in summer too.

Ah, I see the problem now. Endotherms are indeed "warm-blooded" organisms. Ectotherms are the opposite, "cold-blooded." However, Sponges said he was "exothermic," which means giving off heat generated in a chemical reaction to the environment (which also fits your self-description of giving off heat "like a furnace"). Hence the confusion. He'll have to clarify which he meant. Myself, I took him to mean he is a chemical reaction that gives off heat, in keeping with his inorganic aspirations.

Nah, just a freak. I grew up in OH though, and we didn't heat the upstairs. You could make those little footprints with your fist on the frost inside the window glass, and we slept under half a dozen blankets, which was fine, once you warmed it up under there. Until then it was the 9th circle of Hell freeze your feet off cold.

Dude, that's what exothermic means. But I'm like you. I don't even light the pilot on the furnace unless it's forecast to be near freezing for at least 5 days. Four I can weather through if it's going back up into the mid 40s at night. But that's probably my limit these days. I never turned the heat on at all last winter. And like Naraku, my usual bills are like $10 or something. I dunno, I just send them a hundred bucks and when that runs out I send them some more. I usually use about 1/4 to 1/3 of the "baseline allowance," i.e., what they expect you to use before they start surcharging you more for using over that.

Damn, she's texting so hard she didn't even notice she nearly got sideswiped by a T-Rex on a hoverboard.

You're in Ohio now, right? Well, there ya go.

I so want a full version of Rawhide and Ghost Riders.

We voted that shit out last year, but Assembly now sez they have to study it for two years to see if people really want it gone, and whether we should stay on PDT or PST all year. Dude, this ain't Brexit, just keep the PDT we have for 8 months already, like 60% of us told you to. I don't know what's wrong with those other 40%, but they're obviously idiots and anti-vaxxers, so you can ignore 'em. It's not like they're ever going to vote for you anyway, Chu.

In S.F., they are, except for the cross streets, which tend to be flat. Go watch Bullitt. Nah, I just meant in general. It's not like a perfect bowl shape, but the whole area is hemmed in by mountains on all sides but the ocean. Some are big mountains, like the San Gabriel Mts., some not so big, like the Santa Ana Mts. Heh, if not for the latter sticking its finger all up in the O.C. and R.C., it practically would be a nice bowl shape. Since mountains don't usually pop up cleanly vertical from the ground, and water does what it wants, at the edges of those ranges, you can be driving along minding your own business and suddenly run into surprise dips and hills where you would otherwise expect relative flatness. That's what I meant. So that gif in your sig -- the bird is never in the cage - is that because missing frames or he's supposed to be inept at twirling it? Dunno what it's from, so I can't tell. Either way, I want to smack it out of his hands.

Not me. I knew I didn't want any kids even back then. You wanna talk about everyone losing their goddamn minds... Edit: Ok, so I totally did not read that as the meme construction, but instead as "Everyone when (they're) a child says..." ::sigh:: Nevermind. smfh

Lombard's got an undeserved rep. The hillside it's built on is crazy steep, sure, but the switchback they made to get up it is pretty benign, incline-wise. L.A.'s got all those sneaky canyons around the bowl. Even here, past the far east side (Old Folsom, near the dam and the prison), you get a few surprise roller coaster roads, where the last dribbles of the foothills peter out before they give way to lakebed flats.

Now I have a machine gun. Ho - Ho - Ho.

It's not bad if you have an automatic, which most cars now do (just brake with your left foot), but with a stick, that's a nightmare. And god forbid your car stalls out there. My strategy was to put on the parking brake at less than full blast and gun it forward while fighting the brake. Negotiating a turn along with finessing the gas, clutch and handbrake was even more fun. Didn't Subaru once advertise their "hill grabbing" transmissions or something?

Jesus, now you're having my anxiety dreams! Usually they were driving up vertical hills, but sometimes it was down them. I always woke up from those in terror, sometimes in tears. Haven't had one for a long time though. I don't think I care enough about anything to feel anxious anymore. I don't know which came first - real life fear of driving on steep hills leading to the dreams, or the dreams making real life hills freak me out so much more. I can't drive in S.F., and sometimes even walking I run into one of those cross streets with stairs instead of sidewalks, and it totally triggers me. Yet I love being in the mountains and climbing shit. It's not the heights or even the steepness, it's the vehicular component I think. You can't grab a vertical hillside with tires like you can with hands. I grew up in a hilly rural area, and you couldn't have paid me enough to drive the school bus. It was like a daily exercise in cheating death. No less than 4 points at which the bus had to back into driveways to turn around, on one-lane roads on blind hillsides. Icy winter fun!!

"The city’s fire department said that while the castle had exterior sprinkler systems, its halls were not so equipped as this was not required under local fire codes. "Shuri Castle has been destroyed by fire several times" Seems like it's past time for Japan to think about updating its fire codes. It seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle to make everything earthquake proof. Also, if a 500 year old building has been destroyed several times, is the building 500 years old, or just its architecture?

They're worried about the falling white birth rate. Whenever anyone complains about the falling birthrate, they're either Japanese or white. Since this is written in English, I'ma go with white.

That's what I look like on the rare occasions someone takes my picture. Too bad dog paws can't flip people off.

https://www.wonkette.com/trump-stunk-up-this-criminal-justice-forum-so-kamala-harris-went-and-got-her-own

Can you drop one course and still have enough credits to maintain full-time status? If so, pick the one that's freaking you out the most and drop it. You can take it again later when you're feeling less stressed. Other than that, just get through one day at a time. Triage your assignments. I know I spent a lot of time in college feeling overwhelmed and just focusing on, "if I can just make it through to Weds." or "Once I get past these midterms, it'll be better." And it is. Trust me, the worst that can happen, won't. Because there's always something worse.

So, is Monster's Johan an anti-hero, just a dick, or pure, satanic evil? I think maybe a little of all three. He's a master manipulator, seems able to walk through fire and disappear without a trace, kills a ton of people, but most of them deserved it. There's some vague hints of supernatural shenanigans going on too, so maybe he was possessed. But he was also the victim of his crazy mother, who in turn was a victim of crazy fascists, who also totally messed him up too. And he tried to protect his sister. And he liked Tenma, though having Johan like you isn't necessarily a good thing. I think he genuinely cared about children, but was equally able to run his own experiments on them, trying to gain insight into himself. After all this time, I still don't quite know what to make of him.

Sasuke is better than Naruto on his own merits. But Naruto got all kinds of help from every quarter, including the 9-Tails. How you gonna compete with that? It's like Naruto got a full scholarship to Harvard while Sasuke had to work 3 jobs to pay his way through DeVry. Since they are still nearly equals in battle, I'd say Sasuke is the better man. Even if he is all emo.

Can't wait for the second season (weird to think of comics with "seasons"). I have to know what happened to the minions! Are they still seeking the holy feather duster replacement? And I'm pretty sure the kids' dad is not what he appears to be. Likewise the old baba who keeps popping up to rant about the meteor (actually a defenestrated flaming couch) that hit.

"Rape is defined as 'intentionally penetration... of another person with a penis' without consent, according to the Sexual Offences Act." I hope that's not actually a quote of the law. If that's what the law says, then only people with penises can be raped. I expect British lawmakers to be more literate in English than your average American. Other than that, I don't see the problem.

This is also fun.