My email seems to be backed up by 2.5 hours. Which is annoying enough, but spam is still being delivered (to a trashbox) efficiently.
Per usual, not a peep from IT about the problem.
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
sarameg - Mar 03, 2006 5:54:25 am PST #1124 of 10001
Jesse - Mar 03, 2006 5:55:52 am PST #1125 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ICompletelyON, Stephen Colbert was brilliant as usual last night. "Those cowboys sure admired each other's pistols!" Slashtastically delicious.
And Montgomery Clift!!
JZ - Mar 03, 2006 5:57:00 am PST #1126 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
From upthread a bit: One really, really nice thing about being a regular at a coffee-getting place? If you're unexpectedly short on cash, "your" cashier/barista/whoever will just wave you on through and say "Catch up on it next time." Or, anyhow, mine would, out in Berkeley. It was lovely.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 5:58:35 am PST #1127 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Which is annoying enough, but spam is still being delivered
Come rain, hail, or snow the spam always gets delivered.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2006 5:59:59 am PST #1128 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.
sarameg - Mar 03, 2006 6:00:36 am PST #1129 of 10001
will just wave you on through and say "Catch up on it next time."
We did that in the bagel shop. We also had a regular who was a cop who apparently had a very um, stinky patrol. He'd stand in the doorway and call out his order because "I really can't inflict this on y'all " so we'd run around the counter to him. He was very funny.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2006 6:04:15 am PST #1130 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.
Yeah. Their insistance on using their own words annoys me.
ION, according to this if you make a much larger credit card payment than usual, the Department of Homeland Security must be notified: [link]
They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.
Jesse - Mar 03, 2006 6:07:20 am PST #1131 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I totally order a "medium coffee" at Starbuck's.
I have fallen to a new low: singing along to the On Demand karaoke on Oxygen's On Demand channel.
DXMachina - Mar 03, 2006 6:07:51 am PST #1132 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
"Those cowboys sure admired each other's pistols!"
Speaking of pistols, last night I was watching The High and the Mighty, an airplane disaster movie from the early fifties. There's a scene as the passengers are boarding the plane where the little kid passenger is not only wearing a cowboy pistol and holster set as he boards the plane, but he pulls out the cap gun and fires it several time at the co-pilot (John Wayne). I was waiting for security to riddle the little kid with bullets, but they just let it pass.
Sean K - Mar 03, 2006 6:08:17 am PST #1133 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.
You haven't been corrected when you do that? I always get corrected.