Oh, please. Spare me from product trainers who not only tell us how marvellous the product is, but how marvellous they are.
Show, dear. Don't tell.
We're proud to say that the Class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history.
Jonathan ,'Touched'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
§ ita § - Nov 07, 2005 8:36:47 am PST #1871 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
aurelia - Nov 07, 2005 8:36:49 am PST #1872 of 10006
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I was gonna say "under the radar" but "off the rocker" sounds kookier.
Nilly - Nov 07, 2005 8:38:07 am PST #1873 of 10006
Swouncing
it is possible to fall between the cracks in the US
It's funny, how many things we take for granted. Or, at least I do.
Also, I never stop learning things here on b.org.
I hear the off the grid people have their own bearaucracy, professional sports, and refer to us on-gridders as "Guggles".
I read this at first as "Muggles".
Aimée, thanks for asking. It's been the usual crazy beginning-of-the-semester here. Oh, and a new roommate. The usual.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2005 8:40:09 am PST #1874 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"Off the rocker" makes me laugh, although yeah, "under the radar" would probably be better-accepted by the people doing it.
Exactly. I mean, really, you just don't have to be Jesse. Being "Jesse" would be enough.
I don't have to be anyone in particular to use a computer at the library or buy a DVD on the subway.
Liese S. - Nov 07, 2005 8:40:34 am PST #1875 of 10006
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
how marvellous they are
Hah. Because their scintillating personalities will make just such a difference to your product usage.
Betsy HP - Nov 07, 2005 8:41:14 am PST #1876 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
There's actually being off the power grid, and then there's all this other stuff, which I like to call "off the grid" but is actually something else...
My bad. I was confusing the two. In my solar-powered mountain hut in Idaho, I'm probably not going to be able to buy DVDs. And satellite Internet requires a backup land line in order to post data.
Liese S. - Nov 07, 2005 8:42:13 am PST #1877 of 10006
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
anyone in particular to use a computer at the library
My library makes me use my card. Which is tied to my SSN, after years of resistance. Glargh.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2005 8:44:21 am PST #1878 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My library makes me use my card. Which is tied to my SSN, after years of resistance. Glargh.
Oh, that's annoying. And restrictive.
Liese S. - Nov 07, 2005 8:45:05 am PST #1879 of 10006
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
backup land line in order to post data.
Does it, still? I thought they had full two-way going now?
eta:
Oh, that's annoying. And restrictive.
Yeah, I was pissy.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2005 8:45:46 am PST #1880 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, and Betsy, the bad is all mine, due to my sloppy language.
The thing that helped the guy I knew here was being a user of people -- someone had the lease on the apartment he lived in, just not him. Same for telephone, etc. He had access to plenty of stuff, but none of it was in his name. And stuff that was in his name, wasn't in his real name.