I can't even go to the starbucks in my building anymore b/c I'll get shit for my long absence!
I got that in my deli when I started working full-time again. "I thought you moved! We never see you!"
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 5:50:07 am PDT #4488 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 6:01:42 am PDT #4489 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, my little desktop weather thing keeps making noise at me and distracting me from work conversations -- first there was a tornado warning (!!) in my old neighborhood, but then it got cancelled. Phew!
I do think I'll make it so the thing doesn't actually make noise.
Nutty - Aug 25, 2006 6:03:57 am PDT #4490 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
the servers
Okay, so, skimmy, I realize, but -- anybody else get very far into this discussion thinking it was a conversation about one's close personal relationship with one's tower of internet data storage and processing capacity?
Just me then.
I've never called a waiter a server, because my brain has to work double-hard when words have that many everyday meanings. Cleave, okay, it's a trivia thing and anyway I don't use that word very often. But server, like nose, needs to have only one meaning for me.
Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2006 6:08:09 am PDT #4491 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I keep complaining to my office-mates about the sounds that Weatherbug makes. They turn off the sound, but then a few weeks later, the sound is back on! Very annoying.
tommyrot - Aug 25, 2006 6:09:33 am PDT #4492 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.
Doesn't Weatherbug install a whole bunch of adware?
Theodosia - Aug 25, 2006 6:11:43 am PDT #4493 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I prefer waitron -- even more impersonal, almost machinelike.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 6:14:05 am PDT #4494 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, the Weatherbug sound is super annoying. This is some shit from the Weather Channel, so it just makes thunder noises in case of emergency -- or it did, before I turned the sound off.
tommyrot - Aug 25, 2006 6:14:25 am PDT #4495 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 like the indeterminate gender-ness of waitron....
Jessica - Aug 25, 2006 6:16:10 am PDT #4496 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Weatherbug alerts are awful, I agree. Not just the chirping sound, but they alert you to everything, not just changes. So if it's raining, it will chirp every friggin' three minutes to tell you OMGSTILLRAINING!!
bon bon - Aug 25, 2006 6:18:34 am PDT #4497 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Another silly girl I learned about through Gawker: [link]
Nowhere in the ballpark of JMPP, but the writing is hilariously awful.