Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.

'Serenity'


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.


ChiKat - Apr 25, 2005 8:20:49 am PDT #8697 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

not sure if he's doing multiple roles or not

He is. But for the life of me, I can't remember them all. I know he's a commoner in the crowd scene for burning the witch. And other stuff, too.

Tim Curry (King Arthur) is the only one who doesn't play multiple roles.

eta: Ah! I have the program right here! Handy, yes?

DHP: Sir Robin, Villager 1, Guard 1, Brother Maynard


DavidS - Apr 25, 2005 8:26:56 am PDT #8698 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Awww, fuck. We're getting software update and they're reimaging my hard drive.

And they always assure me that I won't lose anything, and they always fucking lose stuff. "Oh, gee, it should have picked up all those subfolders in My Documents. I wonder why it didn't do that?"

So now I have to hide all my stuff on various network drives if I want to keep it.


Steph L. - Apr 25, 2005 8:32:11 am PDT #8699 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Hec, can't you save it to disc(s)?

t edit Or e-mail files to yourself? Gmail has 2 GB of storage.


DXMachina - Apr 25, 2005 8:35:09 am PDT #8700 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Peter Gammons has basically the same deal going on at ESPN.com -- a couple of guys on a sports board I read take his weekly column to bits on grammar, logic, incorrect reference to 70s rock lyrics, and coherence of phrase. Nobody would say Gammo actually invents untruths, just because his shtick is gossip-mongering among baseball decision-makers and outright speculation; but his version of the truth sometimes makes no sense and is comically uncopyedited.

Gammons just had to issue an apology for a sidebar he included with a column he did on the Dodgers for ESPN.com. The sidebar was lifted pretty much verbatim from an LA Times column about Milton Bradley, and was published without any attribution. Gammons called it and "inexplicable oversight," and ESPN removed the sidebar.


DavidS - Apr 25, 2005 8:39:11 am PDT #8701 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hec, can't you save it to disc(s)?

I don't think we even supply those anymore.

I guess I could gmail stuff, but mostly I'm worried about all my music (which I lost on the last re-imaging). I don't really want to use my personal gmail space for work documents (and being in HR, there are confidentiality issues). There are a couple network drives dedicated to my ID so I can dump stuff over on the F: drive and hope that works.

Dang it. I hate that so much of IT these days is generic wipe/reimage/reload. I miss the days when serious geeks roamed the IT department.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 25, 2005 8:42:17 am PDT #8702 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I miss the days when serious geeks roamed the IT department.

They've been hunted out of existence. All the IT folks are farm raised these days.

Be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting IT geeks.

t /Elmer Fudd


Dana - Apr 25, 2005 8:43:32 am PDT #8703 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

There's also yousendit.com, Hec.


Connie Neil - Apr 25, 2005 8:46:47 am PDT #8704 of 10001
brillig

when serious geeks roamed the IT department

Nod nod nod. I shouldn't be having people sidle up to me in the break room four years after I helped set up the system.


Steph L. - Apr 25, 2005 9:13:18 am PDT #8705 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

mostly I'm worried about all my music (which I lost on the last re-imaging).

You can send yourself the music files (or like Dana said, use yousendit.com -- you could make a zipped file and send it that way) if you can't burn them to a CD.

I don't really want to use my personal gmail space for work documents (and being in HR, there are confidentiality issues). There are a couple network drives dedicated to my ID so I can dump stuff over on the F: drive and hope that works.

Oh, I didn't mean use your gmail account for work documents; sorry. Company documents are for the company server. I just meant use gmail for any personal files you want to make sure you don't lose.


§ ita § - Apr 25, 2005 9:27:51 am PDT #8706 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Lordie. Search on 'krystal' to read responses to her column.