It's Allyson Appreciation Day at TheFuselage.com.
This is surreal, because no one there really knows who I am, so it's all, "I don't know Allyson, but I sure do appreciate her!"
I've been laughing all morning.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Feb 07, 2005 9:02:30 am PST #4572 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Kalshane - Feb 07, 2005 9:02:57 am PST #4573 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
If someone reports a problem, we'll at least take a look since even if it's user error we can attempt to show them what they're doing wrong (though if you keep calling us for the same user-error related problem you get relegated to the bottom of the list) but sometimes we can't get there right away.
-t - Feb 07, 2005 9:06:41 am PST #4574 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's pretty wacky, Allyson.
My husband is a Network Engineer and second from the top of his IT dept. I don't think he's taken a single CS class in his life. His degree is in history, I know he taught himself Perl on the job, and he just realized in the last year or so that he no longer has to exagerrate his experience to get the kind of jobs he wants.. OTOH, he was around computers and tinkering with them from a pretty young age - his dad bought Tandy kits that they'd build, stuff like that.
msbelle - Feb 07, 2005 9:11:35 am PST #4575 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
interesting talk. especially since I am looking a possible career change and I am hoping to find a position that relies on on-the-job training for teh specifics.
lunch today was supposed to be a salad from home, but instead it is a bean and cheese burrito from 7/11. At least I resisted the slurpee and am drinking water.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 9:14:03 am PST #4576 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's Allyson Appreciation Day at TheFuselage.com.
You get Appreciation Days at The Fuselage? Sweet deal.
shrift - Feb 07, 2005 9:14:09 am PST #4577 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Why? Or am I being naive in assuming that you struck the word "only" from the sentence, and not something more disparaging?
Oh, we're being very disparaging here at Chez Shrift. Partially due to lack of food, and partially due to my grumpiness at not being more brilliant.
As far as programming goes, I seem to be annoyed with myself that I bake from a mix and not from scratch. And as far as writing goes, I've been doing something similar, but now that I've been stuffing my face with food, I'm less inclined to put my self-confidence through the paper-shredder.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 9:15:55 am PST #4578 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, you people sound like you know a lot about computers. Can anyone tell me why the fuck my computer will no longer print envelopes??? It fakes like it's sending to the printer, but the printer never gets the job.
Nutty - Feb 07, 2005 9:16:38 am PST #4579 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I don't mean to disparage your ilk, Kalshane. I do find that, once over that hurdle, most of the tech folk are quite helpful and willing to converse at my level. And I can understand that there needs to be a hurdle -- you can't talk tech the same way with a newbie and with someone who isn't a newbie.
I just wish there were a universal password or handshake or decoder ring to signify to all tech folk I call up that I am on one side of the hurdle and not the other.
(Ngh. Similarly, when I am being lectured at about the Cool New Process involving Software 2.0, which is not yet released, and I ask, "Does 2.0 fix that bug in 1.0 you and I talked about?" the correct answer is not "I don't know.")
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 9:16:51 am PST #4580 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Probably because it doesn't want you to send that letter. They're capricious beasts, computers. Passive aggressive to a fault.
-t - Feb 07, 2005 9:16:53 am PST #4581 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I want a burrito, now. I have an unholy love for frozen bean and cheese burritos. I have three in my freezer. Unfortunately, my freezer is miles away.
Oh well, in another 45 minutes I can have my Green Apple Pie Yogurt, which is probably full of added sugar but I convince myself is healthy.
It seems like that sentence should have a "that" or a "which" in it, but I don't know which.