Comments | tako_to_ama: Writer's Block: Planet's Rights

tako_to_ama

Writer's Block: Planet's Rights

Jul 23, 2008 14:52

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cowboyhero July 23 2008, 18:54:06 UTC

I was pretty bummed about it. In my head Pluto is still a planet.

Saw a novelty shirt the other day: "don't worry Pluto, I'm not a planet either."

tako_to_ama July 23 2008, 18:58:25 UTC

Oh, I'm not contesting that it doesn't suck-- it was all very silly, I have to say, and more about semantics than science, but I mean that was two years ago, you know? It seems so remote now that I'm surprised anyone still really thinks about it that much.

sarcastic_puto July 23 2008, 19:58:18 UTC

I had totally forgotten about that. It seems so distant.

tako_to_ama July 23 2008, 21:07:41 UTC

Hey Pedro, I didn't know you still existed actually. Assumed you'd died.

What's going on?

sarcastic_puto July 24 2008, 14:00:28 UTC

Not a lot. Got a job at a local classical music station, so I've been busy with that. Saving up money. Going to UC Davis in the fall.

You?

tako_to_ama July 24 2008, 21:24:17 UTC

Hey, super cool! Are you a DJ, or do you just tell the DJs when they're slipping out of their fake British accents or something? Either way, sounds like a cool way to kill time before going off to das college. When are you going off?

Oh, me, I'm mostly being a recluse. I sleep all day and watch cartoons/read/kill time all night. It's my new life.

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jerkameleon July 23 2008, 21:08:57 UTC

I was okay with the not a planet thing. I just wished that they hadn't decided to make a new designation and call them Plutoids.

tako_to_ama July 23 2008, 22:22:18 UTC

...

NERD

jerkameleon July 24 2008, 01:03:05 UTC

What else, Pluto is/was (depending on what you read) my ruling planet as a Scorpio.

tako_to_ama July 24 2008, 21:19:54 UTC

Bad news. We're incompatible, astrologically.

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tako_to_ama July 24 2008, 21:18:40 UTC

It was a weird, knee-jerk sentimental reaction-- simultaneously a reaction against Science and for childhood. Weird society.