Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.

Willow ,'Showtime'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Lee - Apr 15, 2005 5:06:31 pm PDT #6175 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I think that a) I'm an idiot, and b) I need Lori. I left my cell phone charger in Belmont, so I went and bought a travel one this morning, and I can't figure out how the effing thing is supposed to work.


sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 5:09:23 pm PDT #6176 of 10001

Plug it in where the sockets fit?

t /don't have a cellphone, is a mysterious device that lets you talk to AIR


Lee - Apr 15, 2005 5:11:02 pm PDT #6177 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

That's just it. I know I am supposed to somehow fit together the charger and the phone's charging element. I just don't know how the hell that is supposed to happen.

t cranky


sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 5:11:39 pm PDT #6178 of 10001

Also? A 17 lb cat stumbling around on the out tray of a printer sounds very similar to a 7 lb cat standing on the ON button.

Freaky.


sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 5:14:52 pm PDT #6179 of 10001

Perkins, I am not mocking. I am wallowing with you in confusion.

I am a physics BS who was trained by a tinkerer and I swore madly when I bought a car cd player converter/adaptor and it came with all these weird plugs. WTF. I fix my own stereo and rewire parts of my apartment. But the Tech sometimes confounds me.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 5:28:53 pm PDT #6180 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Stupid state tax question that might be CA only:

  • Nowhere did I see it say I have to e-file before the 15th. But TurboTax won't give me my paperwork to mail in the cheque until the state okays my efile (24 to 48 hours). Yet, I need to mail in the cheque today.

I don't see how that works. I'm going to mail in the whopping $32 with my "reference" paperwork, and cross my fingers.


sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 5:32:44 pm PDT #6181 of 10001

That should do. I vaguely recall reports of post office craziness as people try to get their stuff in with the 4/15 postmark.

( On the assumption that state and federal craziness is all equal. I'm too paranoid and freak if I do it less than 2 weeks in advance.)


Emily - Apr 15, 2005 5:35:44 pm PDT #6182 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

So, uh, anybody here watching Numb3rs? Cause I'd like to geek-kibbitz a little, but if I'm the only one watching, it's self-geeking, which is just embarrassing.


sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 5:37:58 pm PDT #6183 of 10001

I'm halfwatching.... Which means I am retaining nothing.


JZ - Apr 15, 2005 5:42:34 pm PDT #6184 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Aw, hell, ita, you've just given me ghastly gut-cramps. Zmayhem taxes aren't quite done, Hec can't find the confirmatory email from TaxSlayer with our password (um, yes, actually, I DID choose TaxSlayer because of Buffy), t /super-lame-o and since we can't access the in-progress return without the password I was just about to switch over to Turbo Tax. But we have no printer, and we have slightly over 4 hours to go, with no time to wait and no way to print and mail. Fuck.

t facepalm

t headdesk

::cries::