Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.

Anya ,'Get It Done'


Natter 39 and Holding  

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.


Consuela - Sep 30, 2005 8:31:34 am PDT #2317 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I had a co-worker about whom I was forced to say, "she's smarter than she's willing to be." But she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product. I was very grateful when she left.

Her replacement, whom I hired, is far superior and works harder than I do. Eeeps.


Lee - Sep 30, 2005 8:32:10 am PDT #2318 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I think the clever but lazy may be another Buffistas trait, since I've heard it too.

Poor ita. Hopefully she'll stop paying attention soon.


msbelle - Sep 30, 2005 8:33:27 am PDT #2319 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

bon bon - you can edit your settings so that you do not show up in people's viewd profile place. I haven't been to friendster in yonks, but still.


Jesse - Sep 30, 2005 8:34:05 am PDT #2320 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think the clever but lazy may be another Buffistas trait, since I've heard it too.

It makes sense, since didn't many of us get here as a kind of nerdy way to avoid doing work?

It's a fine line between having to work hard (the horror!) and doing better than just good enough.


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 8:34:35 am PDT #2321 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

she made a couple of deeply stupid mistakes, showed up for work when she wanted to, and bloated several projects with bad product

Aha! I've smoothed over any mistakes (none counted as deeply stupid), I show up quite regularly (although I may leave a little willy nilly), and I never bloat projects -- my sort of laziness trims them, in fact.

Okay, right. Back to work.


Calli - Sep 30, 2005 8:36:30 am PDT #2322 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Speaking of mistakes, is "devision" a nifty new form of "division" or did a mistake on some stuff I put online make it past seven editors and merrily into print?

I'm thinking it's probably the latter.

Well, at least it's "division" on the web version now. Oy.


amych - Sep 30, 2005 8:37:49 am PDT #2323 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

wrt Suela's ex-cow, something in my brain is kicking at me very hard to distinguish between coasting and actual fucking-up. I suspect this is entirely because I do so much of the former.


amych - Sep 30, 2005 8:38:33 am PDT #2324 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Calli, it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.


tommyrot - Sep 30, 2005 8:39:31 am PDT #2325 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I've been lazy at work this last year and a half (ever since I got my own office and my boss can't look through his window to see what's on my screen.)

Unfortunatly, I've proven to be very quick and efficient whenever there's a crisis to solve. And I kinda' like the crisises, as they make the day go faster.

Maybe I should be pretending my regular work is a crisis too? Except then I'd have no time for b.org.


Calli - Sep 30, 2005 8:39:45 am PDT #2326 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

it's the seven editors. They were all coasting, speaking of.

Them and me, both.