Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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.


Allyson - Mar 24, 2006 12:28:34 pm PST #6087 of 10001
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've seen so much porn on company equipment, man.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?


§ ita § - Mar 24, 2006 12:28:49 pm PST #6088 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've seen so much porn on company equipment, man

WHAT IS WITH PEOPLE [eta: ha! to the xpost]? (the site that lists internal course is slow to load) I got nothing against the desire to see porn, but I'm skeeved by people that need it so bad they not only can't keep it off of work hardware, but are also so dumb they don't try and hide the facts. Though you're probably more relaxed than the folks here. I'm pretty sure you get reported stat for that sort of stuff here. Against which I have no objection. The fewer stupid people in the workplace the better.


Kalshane - Mar 24, 2006 12:30:21 pm PST #6089 of 10001
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.

User calls help desk to report a gold message that says "thank you" in the lower left corner of her screen. "Believing it to be a virus, I advised her to not touch anything and transferred her to our software support team," says pilot fish who got the call. "The tech took over the call and shadowed the user's desktop but didn't see the message. After asking the user about it, she understood. Once the yellow Post-it note that someone had taped on her monitor was removed, she was able to view her desktop normally."

Wow. Just wow.


sarameg - Mar 24, 2006 12:30:46 pm PST #6090 of 10001

but I can't think of the right bucket in which to toss my desire to improve my written and oral presentational skills.

It's referred to professional skills development here. Which seems redundant in a professional plan. Sorry if that isn't more helpful.


§ ita § - Mar 24, 2006 12:31:33 pm PST #6091 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sorry if that isn't more helpful.

Dude, it's magical, and I'm going to use it.


Allyson - Mar 24, 2006 12:31:56 pm PST #6092 of 10001
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

yeah, I am ita.

You need it so bad that you're what? Getting off in the next cube over? The hell?

WAIT UNTIL YOU GET HOME.


tommyrot - Mar 24, 2006 12:33:28 pm PST #6093 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.

Bah. First part of launch went OK. But now I've lost the webcast. Stupid Johnie-come-latelies, sucking up all the bandwidth....


Kalshane - Mar 24, 2006 12:35:07 pm PST #6094 of 10001
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.

I've seen so much porn on company equipment, man.

I went to work on a VP's PC once and he'd stepped out of his office, so I sat down to do what needed to be done before he got back. Moved the mouse, screen saver shut off and there was the porn site he'd been looking at before he left the room. I couldn't believe it.

I got nothing against the desire to see porn, but I'm skeeved by people that need it so bad they not only can't keep it off of work hardware, and are so dumb they don't try and hide the facts.

Yes. This.


Laura - Mar 24, 2006 12:36:10 pm PST #6095 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

I got blown out too Tom. What I saw of the launch was cool though.


Allyson - Mar 24, 2006 12:37:01 pm PST #6096 of 10001
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'm avoiding it by reading the blogosphere explosion about Ben Domenech. For some reason, perpetrators of literary/journalistic/any sort of writing-for-a-living frauds totally fascinate me; between Domenech, James Frey and JT Leroy, this has been a banner year in crooked-writerdom-related work avoidance for me.

omigod, this has made me panic so much. I'm terrified that I could have written something down, and it's just something I remembered reading that worked its way into my brain and then fell out on a page somewhere.

I HATES these guys.