150 square meters of living space is not enough for Buffista town.
Yeah, we'd have to buy the neighboring town too.
eta: Ooh, and connect the two with a monorail!
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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.
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2006 10:00:17 am PST #6299 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.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2006 10:08:08 am PST #6300 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Everyone is having babies. For myself, I would settle for not feeling like one.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 29, 2006 10:13:48 am PST #6301 of 10001
What is even happening?
Hey hivemind -- other than opening the valves all the way, which I've already done, is there anything I can do to stop my radiator (steam, I think) making these annoying loud rattling noises? It sounds like someone's filled it with marbles, and the last time I called my landlord about it, she called in the handyman DH and I refer to as Useless Incompetent Guy. (He stared at it for about five minutes, then nodded, and left without doing anything. And never came back.) I'd be willing to put up with a few days of no heat if it would mean being able to hear myself think in my own living room.If it is a steam system, I don't think you can do anything. If, instead, it's forced hot water, you can bleed the radiators, which might help with the noise, and can sometimes help with the heat production. Ask the landlord if it's forced hot water. If it is, make handyuseless show you how to bleed them.
Jesse - Oct 29, 2006 10:25:28 am PST #6302 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, Red Auerbach died. [link]
Noumenon - Oct 29, 2006 10:39:22 am PST #6303 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
What a cool video: The Inner Life of the Cell. You'd need a semester of biology class to understand what's going on, but the pictures are awesome. Like they took an IMAX camera inside a cell. They're explaining how a white blood cell "knows" when it's time to leave the bloodstream and move toward an infection. At first it's specifically about that and farther in it becomes a little more "let's show you all around the cell, skyscraper view to worm's-eye." Very cool.
Consuela - Oct 29, 2006 11:02:30 am PST #6304 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I'm working on this impossibly long and complex job application, and I need some advice.
1. Many of the questions are some variation of: "Identify your level of experience doing X," where (1) is "I've never done it", (4) is "I've done it independently and without supervision, and (5) is "I supervise people who do it and get asked questions as an expert".
The position in question is not a supervisory position. Would it be safer to answer 4 to questions where I have been doing this for a long time and am expert and do supervise people?
2. The application format is weird. It will have 2 or 3 questions in a row of the "Identify your level of experience doing X", to which you are clearly just supposed to reply with a number, and then there will be a question that says, "Please provide a narrative supporting your answer to the above question, including information on the circumstances, the complexity of the work, the length of time, and the organization where the work was performed."
But it doesn't say WHICH above question, and the preceding 3 are all about different things. Do I assume they mean just the one question previous? I'm very confused.
3. What would you think someone meant when they said "liaison work"? Because they don't define it and I'm not sure what they're getting at...
Lee - Oct 29, 2006 11:08:55 am PST #6305 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
BBCA question: Was there a second season/series of Viva Blackpool? Tivo caught one for me that a) I haven't seen before, and b) doesn't match the summary of any of the episodes described on the BBCA episode guide.
Fred Pete - Oct 29, 2006 11:10:29 am PST #6306 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Congrats, Lyra Jane!
Jesse - Oct 29, 2006 11:24:57 am PST #6307 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Bah. I wrote a whole reply to Consuela, and then the site crapped out for a minute. To recreate: I don't know about #1, because I'm assuming that you don't want to look overqualified? For #2, I'd just talk about the immediately preceeding question. Is there no rhyme or reason to which questions have the followup? I'd figure those were the more important questions. #3, I'd talk about any time you're mediating between different functions. From my own experience, I'd talk about coordinating/disseminating/gathering information from different internal departments, as well as being a key contact for a vendor.
Consuela - Oct 29, 2006 11:30:15 am PST #6308 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks, Jesse, that seems sensible. I'm all worried about this one because I'd really really like to get the job.
It would get rid of the ickiest parts of what I do, would allow me to ride my bike to work, and would allow me to work a 9/80 workweek--thus getting every other Friday off. Given that I already work 45-50 hour weeks, this would be a huge improvement in my quality-of-life.