Happy Birthday, Tom!
I hope you feel better, soon, JZ.
I expect my ability to post and read Buffistas to go poof any moment, since they usually block the site... Perhaps it's a sop for having to work the Monday after daylight savings time change.
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Consuela - Apr 03, 2006 8:13:56 am PDT #8174 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 8:14:28 am PDT #8175 of 10001
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
They survived?
Wow.
Are C-5s bigger or smaller than c-130s?
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2006 8:15:29 am PDT #8176 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.
Are C-5s bigger or smaller than c-130s?
Much bigger....
juliana - Apr 03, 2006 8:17:15 am PDT #8177 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
(re: C-5 crash) Holy mother....
Wow. V. lucky that everyone survived. That must have been one hell of a jolt. I've seen a C-5 up close & personal. BIG-ass planes. Huh-yuge.
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 8:18:31 am PDT #8178 of 10001
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
sheeeeeit -- C-130s are pretty big.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2006 8:18:45 am PDT #8179 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.
I saw a C-5 flying at low altitude. It gave me one of those "How can anything that big actually fly?" moments....
JZ - Apr 03, 2006 8:19:37 am PDT #8180 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.
I hope you feel better, soon, JZ.
The further Hec's hideous and harrowing week from hell recedes into the past, the better I feel.
I'm sorry you're being Peter Principled into management. Resist if at all possible; IME, the people who want and deserve better and are trapped in low or mid-level work are only the second bitterest and most miserable people in any office, but far more bitter and miserable are the people who were fine and happy and productive where they were and got muscled upstairs against their will.
My boss keeps trying to talk me into taking a university-procedures accounting course; I live in fear that someday he'll succeed.
eta: Not looking at tommyrot's link 'cause I know it will flip my shit out. But very very happy that everyone survived.
Consuela - Apr 03, 2006 8:21:57 am PDT #8181 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My boss keeps trying to talk me into taking a university-procedures accounting course; I live in fear that someday he'll succeed.
That sounds like something to be avoided, indeed. Which is not to say you wouldn't be good at something that paid better than what you make now, but I'm pretty much anti-accounting.
Some people are into the numbers; I'm not one of them, really. And it's part of the problem.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 8:23:06 am PDT #8182 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damn. The front end of that plane just snapped off.
TomW - Apr 03, 2006 8:23:43 am PDT #8183 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I haven't seen a C-5 in person, but I have seen a C-130 flying at low altitude, over the surface of a loch, from above.
I think the C-5 was one of those planes I was fascinated with as a kid. With kid-logic, I assumed that a plane that big had to be something like a flying battleship. When I found out it was just used to transport things, I was disappointed and relieved.