This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

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.


Jesse - Jun 22, 2005 8:43:21 am PDT #3719 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You have six months! Plenty of time to acquire and then forget stuff. Hurry!

Hmmm. I knew some SPSS six months ago that's probably gone now, how about that?


Gudanov - Jun 22, 2005 8:44:20 am PDT #3720 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Another reason I'm not aching to have one.

It doesn't seem that bad to me, using the clutch gets to be pretty automatic.


§ ita § - Jun 22, 2005 8:45:26 am PDT #3721 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I knew some SPSS six months ago that's probably gone now

Oh, I like statistics. That could work. We are talking statistics, right?

using the clutch gets to be pretty automatic

Gets to be. I'm lazy enough to be happy starting out there.


aurelia - Jun 22, 2005 8:45:26 am PDT #3722 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

My Friend's mom used to keep a glass of water on her headboard (it was a bookcase-type thing). This was, until her cat started batting it over onto her face when she wanted to play. Every morning.

The cat was involved, but in sleepily picking up the water bottle to prevent him from knocking it off the dresser, I failed to realize that the top wasn't on it.


Cashmere - Jun 22, 2005 8:45:34 am PDT #3723 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

It doesn't seem that bad to me, using the clutch gets to be pretty automatic.

My leg always gets tired from the stop & go. I've never killed the engine in traffic, but I've had a leg go numb.


Calli - Jun 22, 2005 8:47:02 am PDT #3724 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I've usually gotten the security deposit back when moving out of a rental, but I don't think I've ever gotten interest. Hmmmm. After 6 years in my current place, I imagine that could buy me a soda or suchlike.

I've had a stick-shift car since 1992. They're nice when driving in the mountains. But switching to an automatic transmission's not fun. I've attempted to hit the clutch and ended up stomping on the brake by mistake.


Jesse - Jun 22, 2005 8:47:46 am PDT #3725 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We are talking statistics, right?

Yeah, Spearman's rho and whatnot.


sarameg - Jun 22, 2005 8:48:55 am PDT #3726 of 10001

I think more than anything, for me it makes me more aware of all the dumbfucks who are rolling up 2 inches. And then another two inches. And then again. Every 20 seconds or so. WHICH ANNOYS ME. Come to a stop at a reasonable distance and stay there. Don't do this slow rolling shit that requires me to pay attention.

They rank up there with the standards on a slight incline who instead of using the brake, play the clutch, rolling back and forth incrementally. USE THE BRAKE.


JZ - Jun 22, 2005 8:49:45 am PDT #3727 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.

Sophia, what city do you live in again? It'll take me just a couple of minutes to check your city's landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities/rent board/whatnot. Because if you can tack on a couple of "City Ordinance # blah-blah-numbercakes states that..." and "According to local statute # yadda-yadda-digitcakes..." it helps.

I got soundly ignored by my ex-landlords when I moved out of Berkeley and in with Hec, and sent them a letter including a couple of local ordinance #s and print-outs of the city's webpages for the ordinances, and cc'ing the Berkeley Rent Board and a family friend who happened to be a lawyer (something totally unrelated to landlord-tenant disputes, but my ex-landlords had no way of knowing that), and within a week I got my full deposit back plus interest.


-t - Jun 22, 2005 8:54:04 am PDT #3728 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I normally drive an automatic, but I'm driving a stick today. I have a lot less leeway in how close I have to get the seat to steering wheel in order to put the clutch in. Almost got a cramp in my left calf before I figured that out. But I learned to drive on a standard and the reflexes have never quite gone away.