t Waving back to Frank
Hi, Amy!
Oh, and because I didn't earlier: congrats, ND!
Hmm, what else can I exclamation-point today? They wouldn't let Jesse exclamation-point her staff evaluations, apparently. How grammar-ically biased of them!
Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
Mal ,'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.
Nilly - Sep 27, 2006 4:49:27 am PDT #509 of 10001
Swouncing
erikaj - Sep 27, 2006 4:54:08 am PDT #510 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Cause the captain likes dots, Jesse. (/ The Wire likes carrots.)A rebellious cop was once shoehorned on that show into a lot of paperwork by his boss who said "And put the dots(bullet points) in it. The commander likes the dots." So that is what I think of, filling out something useless.
Jesse - Sep 27, 2006 5:10:51 am PDT #511 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"And put the dots(bullet points) in it. The commander likes the dots."
That's really funny. I feel like that's half of being successful with written work (for school, for your job, for whatever) -- figuring out the little tricks that the person you're submitting to will like. I had a professor in college who liked long paragraphs, so I literally just smooshed paragraphs together after I had written my paper.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2006 5:13:28 am PDT #512 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Commander Burrell is like the Powerpoint King of Baltimore PD. Loves nothing like a good slideshow.
Tom Scola - Sep 27, 2006 5:15:07 am PDT #513 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
John Hodgman interview: [link]
bon bon - Sep 27, 2006 5:21:04 am PDT #514 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I feel like that's half of being successful with written work (for school, for your job, for whatever) -- figuring out the little tricks that the person you're submitting to will like.
This is interesting. I feel like I'm doing that all the time with one person I work for-- she's persnickety and yet inconsistent.
I had a professor in college who liked long paragraphs, so I literally just smooshed paragraphs together after I had written my paper.
Who likes long paragraphs?!
Gudanov - Sep 27, 2006 5:22:21 am PDT #515 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Congrats JZ and DavidS!
What's the name?
A little late, but I've been out of town.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2006 5:29:06 am PDT #516 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matilda, Gud.
My bosses at this company before this one let me style my writing myself. This manager likes to preach against the Oxford comma, and won't approve documents until they're tweaked just so. I don't want to be sold on why the serial comma is wrong--just remind me you hate it and lets move on.
Gudanov - Sep 27, 2006 5:31:49 am PDT #517 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Happy Birthday Nicole!
Jesse - Sep 27, 2006 5:33:28 am PDT #518 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Who likes long paragraphs?!
This one person who thought they were more academic or something. Sure, if I had actually been putting together more complex arguments or whatever. But no.
Off to add more dots to a thing I'm working on.