Hey, I just realized that no one said anything about last night's GA (which I will be watching tonight).
Why not? Was it bad?
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Lee - Oct 06, 2006 2:20:59 pm PDT #2536 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Gus - Oct 06, 2006 2:21:06 pm PDT #2537 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Ok, shrift is getting a big head around now ...
Well, really, what is wrong with that?
Yay, shrift!
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2006 2:21:39 pm PDT #2538 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's this document inspection process we do that takes four people through 250 lines of a document in two hours. It's mandatory that people come in totally prepared, with an assembled list of questions referenced by line number. Then we fine tooth come the document for flaws, and without fixing them, note them for the author to fix later.
It's a hell of a taxing procedure. While I think it would improve all the documents we produce and those we have to use from others, it's going to be a bitch to get buy-in from people who haven't done the training.
On Monday I'm moderating an inspection with 8 participants. To encourage them to read before showing (I know these people. They won't read) I told them to submit their questions to me by 9am Monday morning or don't bother showing.
But more politely.
The person who's told me to shoehorn in a review panel into a formal inspection process replied to all telling them their presence was mandatory. I emailed her asking her to encourage all these people that their PARTICIPATION and preparation were what's important.
Nothing yet.
I have 8 people, about 500 lines of document, and 90 minutes. I need to work out how to tweak things so it's not such an obvious setup to fail.
shrift - Oct 06, 2006 2:23:41 pm PDT #2539 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Ok, shrift is getting a big head around now ...
Oh, I don't think so. I've been job-searching for about six months now, so all I'm feeling is relief that I'll be able to pay my bills and not have to write more cover letters for a little while.
DavidS - Oct 06, 2006 2:25:12 pm PDT #2540 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have a job! They want me to start on Monday. Woo!
Right the fuck on! So glad.
Now you can make money and go to lots of conventions.
This weekend. Wallow in contentment over the A's making it past the first round. Have Sunday off to write because New Baby is going to the Last Baby Shower (for us anyway).
sumi - Oct 06, 2006 2:28:33 pm PDT #2541 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
GA: I thought it was good -- some very nice Alex stuff and Cristina stuff plus the Teaser is extra fun.
Lee - Oct 06, 2006 2:29:11 pm PDT #2542 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY
msbelle - Oct 06, 2006 2:29:14 pm PDT #2543 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ita, I feel your pain. we are now having a walk through of each new site with the management team in a meeting because they will not do it on their own when we email them the links. And what happened the one time we already had one of these?? We could barely keep them focused on what they were supposed to be looking for - typo's, not functioning links, incorrect information. No, they were discussion layout and design.
These are the same people that want our schedules shorter and shorter.
Jessica - Oct 06, 2006 2:33:02 pm PDT #2544 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yay Shrift! Work is good.
Plans for the weekend are hanging with juliana, smonster, amyth and KateP in Nashville! I'm at the airport now, should be boarding soon.
I would like to state for the record that the "no liquids" rule can BITE ME. Checking a bag for a 3-day trip is just WRONG.
Gus - Oct 06, 2006 2:36:19 pm PDT #2545 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I hereby donate all of shirft's first paycheck to the A's bat boy.
Whatever a bat boy is, for whatever a bat boy does. If I knew more about baseball and paychecks, this would be an exciting post.