There's an unwritten but very well understood rule here--no noise that extends too far from your very-open cubicle. Headphones only if you're listening to music/whatever, and conversations of either the personal or phone variety are to be kept down as much as possible. If you have a boss that's not a fan of other people stopping you from working (like a friend of mine had), you will be told to keep personal visits to a bare minimum.

It's quieter here than your average library.

What was Middle America thinking?! What on earth possessed them to vote for Blue Dog Democrats (many of who campaigned as openly religious Christians espousing "traditional" American values)? ... Effin' uptight dumbasses! Who needs 'em?!

I know! What kind of crazy dumbass votes for someone with Christian/American family values as part of their platform? I mean, they'd have to be crazy to fall for that!

It goes well with her drivers, don't you think?

Watched Shadows again last night - all of the men Not!Crying broke me into eeny teeny pieces.

Juliana, I could totally see you rocking the Impala.

Thank you! Want the Impala so much, even with living in CA/North Beach. Will give Daddy!Truck to Martin.

Apparently watching too much SPN results in the loss of personal pronouns. It's a tradeoff I can live with.

As for music in cubes, most people here use headphones. The only time I hear the radio is when our Communications Group is listening for a new WF ad.

Heh -- apparently Dinosaur Comics has quite a bit of influence! The Wikipedia article about chickens has been locked for vandalism...

I just had Jehovah's Witnesses! I did not put on my leopard bikini for them.

So sorry to read about Bradley's passing. I have enjoyed much of his work over the years. The writeup on the CBS site has some old photos. [link]

Yeah, that's sad.

Long pig!

Mmmm, barbeque (link added because to get the joke, you have to know that the Carib Indians gave the English language both the word "cannibal" and the word "barbeque", and... well, you should draw your own conclusions there).

Sad about Ed Bradley.

Top Chef was fantastic last night. I need to catch up on two weeks of blogs at the site. Mike: Even more than his attitude (which does kind of suck), his plating and presentation skills really suck. However great his cooking may or may not be, he works and acts like a line cook at Denny's. Betty: I'm disappointed, though somewhat sympathetic, but lots of other people have covered the relevant questions of Cookiegate. Sam: If you're going to call people on perceived cheating, call them on it. Better yet, call them on it before your neck is on the block. Same goes for Mia.

Lee Anne said early on in her blog that she was brought in after the third episode, to help on the production side. S (who read the blogs last night) was saying that apparently the reason she was brought in was to help clarify the rules to the players. I'm betting it was this very incident that prompted that decision.

Off to read the TC blogs...

I bet S is right.

Well, I know what METALLICAR is -- I asked what Skeet's car is -- to me - a non car-loving person - it looks very similar.