Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


Jesse - Dec 21, 2005 7:09:42 pm PST #4401 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Whenever. I figure I'll call for the car at like 9:30.


beth b - Dec 21, 2005 7:17:57 pm PST #4402 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Matt the Bruins fan: Or, if you want to give back some of what you've been getting and drive the family's average blood pressure up over 300, there's always the opting to travel cross-country for an indecent proprosal from a gay redneck rather than attend the family Christmas. I think it wouldn't be too difficult to find a volunteer.


Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2005 7:19:47 pm PST #4403 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

If this poll is to believed, 52% of the public in NY support the strikers compared to 40% supporting management. Given that reporting has been overwhelming hostile to the Union, that is an interesting number. I'd be curious to know if it has made the NY Times.

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Jesse - Dec 21, 2005 7:28:50 pm PST #4404 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think there's a huge difference between supporting the workers and supporting the union, in terms of public opinion. Honestly, it's like Iraq -- people support the troops who are caught in the bullshit without supporting the leadership. And given a choice between "union" and "management"? That's a tough call -- NYC is still a union town.

What I mean to say is that it seems to me like people are more hostile toward Roger Toussaint than to "the union."

Also, note in that poll that the number within the 5 boroughs is even higher -- 58%.


Trudy Booth - Dec 21, 2005 7:35:02 pm PST #4405 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I think the MTA has pissed off a lot of people with the cooked books and the un-needed fare hike and the whole West Side Stadium debacle and that gave the union a leg-up in the good will department.

I don't know how many more twenty degree days that will last, however.


§ ita § - Dec 21, 2005 8:37:13 pm PST #4406 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am in a daftish mood.

msbelle, by contiguous halves I wanted to know if you were wrapping it in one piece of Christian paper and one piece of Jewish. Or, as would be possible, five pieces of christmas paper alternating with five pieces of chanukah paper.

Yeah, still daftish. I want my IQ back, dammit.

I've now earned $14.94 from Google ads. Honestly, if this keeps up, I could use that money to pay for a dedicated server for provocateuse. Huh.


Lee - Dec 21, 2005 8:41:31 pm PST #4407 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Who wants to come fold my laundry for me?


Spidra Webster - Dec 21, 2005 8:47:01 pm PST #4408 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

That's some serious eyes-per-page there, ita. I think if I put ads on my site I'd make that amount in one year. Maybe.


§ ita § - Dec 21, 2005 8:50:16 pm PST #4409 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's some serious eyes-per-page there, ita.

153,169 page impressions since I signed up at lunchtime yesterday. The site was about to cost me a fortune, and I didn't know what to do--close it down, or get booted off a good host for peaking their CPU (I'd run out of bandwidth and shut down most of the sites for a week or so at the end of the billing period, which means I was making the load asymmetrical). I'm willing to spend some money on providing these sites, because they're fun and I like it, but dedicated hosting? Ouch.

If the ad thing keeps panning out, then I can kick myself for not having thought of it sooner.


bon bon - Dec 21, 2005 8:57:21 pm PST #4410 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Where are the ads? I can't see them to kick you a penny.