Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.

'Get It Done'


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.


Allyson - Jan 01, 2006 9:09:56 am PST #6598 of 10002
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

I can't remember the great virus freeware I put on my work PC. The icon was of a little red spider, does anyone know what I'm talking about? I figure maybe I can at least defrag the bitch, yeah?


JZ - Jan 01, 2006 9:11:43 am PST #6599 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

ita, I have two local guys for you: Cat-Stack Guy (snarkalicious, creative, very cute in glasses, does improv) or Latino!Xander (painfully sweet and loyal, also an improv guy, terrific guitarist, deeply comic-book and Whedonverse literate); I don't think either one is really a right good match for you (though L!X would fuss admirably over you during your migraines and would always be willing to make a chai run to Coffee Bean for you), but if your aim is just to thwart your sister, they're both available and local, no traveling required.

Based on any criteria deeper and more complicated than accessibility, improv-ness, and chai runs, I'm having trouble thinking of anyone who's good enough for you.


Emily - Jan 01, 2006 9:14:49 am PST #6600 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Spidra, I think Levenger has something like that.

Allyson, who would turn down a scientist? Particularly an employed one? Do you have one for me, too?


Jesse - Jan 01, 2006 9:14:57 am PST #6601 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

(though L!X would fuss admirably over you during your migraines and would always be willing to make a chai run to Coffee Bean for you),

That's totally what she needs!!


§ ita § - Jan 01, 2006 9:17:29 am PST #6602 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's totally what she needs!!

Only if he'd let me scream at him to leave me alone without taking it personally. Because sometimes I need that too.


Steph L. - Jan 01, 2006 9:20:40 am PST #6603 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

RIO!!!! OMG, potential!pit bull is soooooooo sweetfaced!!!! Plus, I'm a total sucker for pits. I love them, even when my mom's pit is trying to intimidate me off of "his" futon.

Also, I am really rather drunk, but that's okay. I think J. is too, since she is talking to the movie.

But is she talking to it in FRENCH?

Heh. Best juliana memory EVAH.


JZ - Jan 01, 2006 9:28:42 am PST #6604 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

That's totally what she needs!!

I'm mildly obsessed with the difficult-to-pair goodness of L!X. He's completely Xander and Wash muddled together into one sweetly geeksome package: kind, upstanding, fiercely loyal, bright, and just thoroughly good. He has a daughter (mom was a fling, they're co-parenting but not together) to whom he's devoted: thinks the sun rises and sets on her, spends as much time as possible with her, and wants to find someone to truly Be With so he can give her siblings and roots. He's poor right now because he's helping pay her mother's way through college, since mom put her schooling on hold during the daughter's babyhood.

He's a Faire geek, subspecialty Morris dancing: in college, he was brought into it by a PTSD-suffering Vietnam vet who found some kind of healing and wholeness by throwing himself into a profound obsession with the history and layers of meaning to Morris-dancing; when he talks about his mentor, his voice gets all slow and rich and glowing with fondness and sadness (the mentor passed away a couple of years ago). And he has a vast rich depth of knowledge of English and Spanish history (he's part Moorish), and a love of Shakespeare, and a love of the worlds of the Buffyverse and Alan Moore's graphic novels and all that is deep and literate and twisty.

And he's also short, and teddy-bear-shaped, and jug-eared, and wears the world's ugliest Coke-bottle glasses, and he uses emoticons in his emails, and I'm always all fretful that he'll end up alone because people keep red-flagging the shortness and the emoticons and not sticking around long enough to notice his Washy Xanderness.


erikaj - Jan 01, 2006 9:29:02 am PST #6605 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I'd be fucking ecstatic if somebody who knew handled something weird about my P.C. Allyson. And you have Adaware, which I know cause I have it.Actually, I have two...spybot too. Because I was all like "Die, you spyware bastards, die!" after having to pay a techie $100 to clean it up after stuff started shutting down. Being ignorant...so expensive.JZ, your friend(?) sounds like a nice man. Never fear about the emoticons...the guy I'm hopelessly in love with sort of has an emoticon problem. And that sentence sounded so *nice* in my head. Dag.


Consuela - Jan 01, 2006 9:32:23 am PST #6606 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Spybot, Allyson. Also Ad-aware and the Microsoft Beta Spyware thing.

Do it and don't tell them. It'll be fine.


Kalshane - Jan 01, 2006 9:44:04 am PST #6607 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

For Viruses, AVG is free and has a high rating from both CNET and their Users: [link] I have not used it personally, though.

For Spyware, as others have said, Spybot (but don't install the "Tea-timer" function as it is annoying and not so helpful) Ad-Aware and MS Anti-Spyware are good (I use a combination of all three at home and at work.) I also use Spyware Blaster [link] which works in conjunction with Spybot's immunize function to prevent some spyware from installing itself in the first place.

ETA: MS Anti-Spyware will run in the system tray, so it will be noticeable if you're trying to do this on the sly. The other stuff you can tell not to make desktop icons when you install it and only actually "run" when you tell them to scan, which would be less noticable. (Though there will still be Start Menu icons)