I think I'm with Cindy -- there's "tisk, tisk" and then there's the teeth-suck sound she described above.
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.
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?
Allyson or Kristen, What is the cut off date for signing up for the Lost party?
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.
Puppies!
So what you are saying is things haven't changed much.
So what you are saying is things haven't changed much.
Natter is pretty much an unstoppable force at this point.
Natter is pretty much an unstoppable force at this point.
Does that make Bitches the immovable object?
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.
Watching 24. Really enjoying bitter soulpatch. I bet he's a goner.
Sheesh, Ward!Terror is being awfully hard on the Beaver.