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Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?  

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.


Kalshane - May 04, 2006 12:22:14 pm PDT #5448 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.

That's priceless, Sara. Wow.

Of course, we have a user here who has had a problem logging into her computer every morning this week due to combination of forgetting her password and fat-fingering it and has copping an attitude with us over her deficiencies.


§ ita § - May 04, 2006 12:26:12 pm PDT #5449 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I need something that carries well, since I walk on a crowded street for about 8 blocks to the gym. And then something collapsible so it can get stuffed into the locker

This should slide into a locker, plus has a hand or shoulder strap for carrying. I'm not sure what qualifies as travels well, but here is a more traditional bag, yet smaller than your average duffel.

What are you carrying?


sarameg - May 04, 2006 12:29:29 pm PDT #5450 of 10002

It's bizarre.

Though I did have an oh fuck no they didn't moment until I'd verified the message was benign. Years ago, I had to sternly lecture the developers that Jack A. Hole was not an appropriate name placeholder in the software that printed the media labels. Which, if the fields were left blank or an error occurred, were actually printed as such and sent.


§ ita § - May 04, 2006 12:31:34 pm PDT #5451 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had a boss that'd freak out if someone else logged into her machine and the login box displayed their network ID instead of hers of a morning.

So, if you did any tech support on her box, you had to erase your name from the ID box and put hers back in. Either she'd come screaming right to you if you didn't, or she'd type in her password three times and lock your ID out. And then come screaming to you.

She'd never, even if she noticed it first, replace your ID with hers.


sumi - May 04, 2006 12:42:35 pm PDT #5452 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

TAR: did we not discuss TAR here? I would think that the Hippies are the luckiest people ever except that one of them was caught on a non-elim round wearing shorts and no shoes. What happens if they go to Iceland? Also, Yolanda and Ray were very cute -- I'm glad that they pulled themselves together and won the leg! I LOVED the mad footrace at the end. Doesn't happen often enough. And the frats attempt at conniving and the way that it backfired on them.

Alias - yes that had to be one of the worst product placements ever. . . the other REALLY BAD product placement that pops into mind was also on Alias when Sydney and somebody (Sark?) were going somewhere and they need to grab a vehicle and instead of saying, "Just grab that pick-up" -- she said the specific name of the vehicle. I can't recall what it was -- but I think that ita can.


Kalshane - May 04, 2006 12:42:44 pm PDT #5453 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.

Years ago, I had to sternly lecture the developers that Jack A. Hole was not an appropriate name placeholder in the software that printed the media labels. Which, if the fields were left blank or an error occurred, were actually printed as such and sent.

Is it wrong that I find this funny, if inapporpriate.

So, if you did any tech support on her box, you had to erase your name from the ID box and put hers back in. Either she'd come screaming right to you if you didn't, or she'd type in her password three times and lock your ID out. And then come screaming to you

We have a lot of users who do this, but replace the screaming with bewilderment. Of course, it doesn't help that the login prompt saves the last username to fully login, rather than typed, so unless we know the user's password (which we're not supposed to, but happens sometimes anyway) we couldn't put their username back in if we wanted to.


Jesse - May 04, 2006 12:44:13 pm PDT #5454 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Sumi, I'd bet his shoes and pants are in the car. I guess we'll see on the next ep!


§ ita § - May 04, 2006 12:44:58 pm PDT #5455 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

we couldn't put their username back in if we wanted to.

What NOS? We had NetWare at this point, so the login box just sat there, and it was easy enough to type whatever in there. If, of course, you didn't have anything better to do.

New Bond Aston Martin.


sumi - May 04, 2006 12:46:13 pm PDT #5456 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Jesse, if his shoes and pants are in the car -- he still doesn't get to keep them, does he?


bon bon - May 04, 2006 12:48:10 pm PDT #5457 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

What are you carrying?

Just gym clothes, tennis shoes, and shower stuff. It all fits in a standard backpack but there are a bunch of reasons I hate the backpack-- mostly it's got one pocket that makes it hard to find stuff and I prefer to carry my stuff under my arm where I can see it and be sure stuff won't get lifted out of a pocket (happened to me in Italy). I have a duffel too but it takes up so much space in the locker and is uncomfortable to carry.