How do you say "tsk," Jesse? Because I've never seen that noise transliterated, nor heard "tsk" pronounced TSK. Seems quite plausible.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
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.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 3:20:08 pm PST #4702 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 3:22:06 pm PST #4703 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think I'm with Cindy -- there's "tisk, tisk" and then there's the teeth-suck sound she described above.
NoiseDesign - Feb 07, 2005 3:32:38 pm PST #4704 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Hey folks. I was going to try to catch up, but I've been buried in a couple of shows so I ended up skipping close to 2000 messages in here. What's up?
Lee - Feb 07, 2005 3:41:15 pm PST #4705 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Allyson or Kristen, What is the cut off date for signing up for the Lost party?
Sue - Feb 07, 2005 3:43:56 pm PST #4706 of 10002
hip deep in pie
What's up?
Cats are being stacked, there's some alternative Super Bowl programming involving puppies, people have different ringtones, some people work with computers without a CS degree, and words get pronounced differently in different places.
Theodosia - Feb 07, 2005 3:51:08 pm PST #4707 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Puppies!
NoiseDesign - Feb 07, 2005 3:51:32 pm PST #4708 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
So what you are saying is things haven't changed much.
Sue - Feb 07, 2005 3:52:25 pm PST #4709 of 10002
hip deep in pie
So what you are saying is things haven't changed much.
Natter is pretty much an unstoppable force at this point.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 07, 2005 3:55:57 pm PST #4710 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Natter is pretty much an unstoppable force at this point.
Does that make Bitches the immovable object?
Liese S. - Feb 07, 2005 4:05:54 pm PST #4711 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Huh. Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever verbalized what I think "tsk" sounds like, though I think it's probably different from what you expressed.
Also, whales are cool. If they exist.
Also, I don't have a CS degree. I don't have a degree at all, but if I'd finished mine, it wouldn't have been CS. And I programmed all my life, for fun, so dunno about that gender disparity thing. Guess I'm an anomaly. Again.
But then also, my first paying programming gig was an RPG, and I was getting paid for my writing skills. There, and at my meatspace job, I learned to code by reading other people's code.
And I still think I suck. I like to do it, I just don't think I produce particularly elegant results. And furthermore, I totally don't believe that I can code, so either there's your gender issues right there, or possibly, I just suck. Which is a totally different kind of gender issue.
The SO's path was pretty much tommyrot's. Mine was similar, but started with AS/400's query functions, instead. No one taught me SQL, I just got sick of not getting the info I wanted and noticed they hadn't blocked my commandline access. Yeah, I'm that problem user.
Code is creative for me. Or was. When I was doing it. And sucking.
Now, instead, I'm creative with instruments. And suck at it. Still having fun, though.