tommyrot, the company that manufactures the Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth plush also makes a "Gilly" plush.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
Tom Scola - Nov 16, 2005 11:06:04 am PST #4684 of 10006
hwæt
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2005 11:08:18 am PST #4685 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh cool - I didn't realize they were the same company.
bon bon - Nov 16, 2005 11:08:46 am PST #4686 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I have a similar password problem. It's easier to remember if you start it with an uppercase and end with a punctuation like Emi1y!
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2005 11:09:09 am PST #4687 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's the same one we have at my office -- you just need a system. How often do you have to change them? Me, I do something like:
- pick a word you'll remember
- capitalise one letter of it
- put a period between two of the syllables
- replace one of the letters with a digit, and you can increment that digit if you have to change the password regularly
So I could end up with something like Am1lio.ration. Or whatever.
sarameg - Nov 16, 2005 11:09:31 am PST #4688 of 10006
8 characters, one capital, one lowercase, one number, one non-alphanumeric.
One of my companies has this policy. But it can't be any longer than 8 letters, either. Mandatory password cycles result in a lot of swearing from me.
Jesse - Nov 16, 2005 11:11:21 am PST #4689 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I mean, I guess they're right, but it's still annoying. I have a string of numbers I liked to use (with letters interspersed, if need be), but it doesn't have enough different digits for the New Systems.
Emily - Nov 16, 2005 11:13:22 am PST #4690 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
The thing is, I have a bunch of passwords I remember to conform with various policies. I've only got so much brainspace! Also, if I log on every day or so, okay. I'll remember. But if, as seems likely, it's once a week if that...
(But I've gone ahead and done it. I used the password I came up with to use in places where I feel the policy is stupid, and made the relevant changes, e.g. Ri0icu|ous. It's pointless and petty, but it makes me feel better.)
JZ - Nov 16, 2005 11:17:46 am PST #4691 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Having had to call the support staff and have my password changed about fifty times, I have finally given up on being overly clever. Now I just cycle through Schoolhouse Rock titles. Capitalize the first letter, number the number, throw a punctuation mark at the end and it's done. Usually I doodle whatever number it is somewhere unobtrusive on my desk or bulletin board or address book or calendar, with the date I changed it. To anyone else, random number. To me, password in plain sight.
Allyson - Nov 16, 2005 11:25:41 am PST #4692 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Save Firefly it is!
But I'd still like to record Minearsest and Dearest, as it's fun to look back on how I felt at the time, and the embarassing hero-worshipness thing I can't ever seem to kick.
Allyson - Nov 16, 2005 11:26:06 am PST #4693 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
And bon? Thanks for da words of wisdom.