Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
That sounds much less like fun than should be allowed on your birthday. ijs
That's pretty much what I thought. So I whined a lot, and I got a cake, and people said "happy birthday" a lot. But they didn't give me the Nano we had as a raffle prize. Which would bother me more if it wasn't the same size as the iPod mini I already have...
Well at least there was cake.
"Buffy" is one of the most tilted, or inclined, Kuiper Belt Objects
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TV characters are very popular for temp names. I'm waiting for the day someone overhears a researcher refer to the object of study as That Fucker. Because you know they do.
It actually makes me a bit nuts when the media publishes the cute moniker, though I understand why they do (charm, quirk, not as boring as 2004 XR190. ) Curmudgeons with no magic get all "but they named it WHAT OFF MY LAWN " and no, they didn't. Naming is done by the IAU and it is exhaustive and persnickity and very often, rather boring so just relax.
But I'm cranky.
skulls are so cool.
There's an office-wide (i.e. not just our dept.) holiday lunch party on Friday, and apparently my boss decided that would be "enough".
Oh, that is so... so... pointy-haired boss-y.
Anyone know why a Java thing that had been working just fine moments before would suddenly stop working in IE? The thing in question is the documents viewer here
It doesn't work for me in both IE and Firefox. But my computer's been bugging me the last two days, telling me I should update my Java. I think I'll try that now....
Nope. Still don't wanna work. Probably a bug on their end.