I love the idea that converted people immediately have sweater vests.
This is... a good sign? Presumably, none of them live in hot climates, but they might all be living in Preppytown.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
Nutty - Nov 30, 2006 10:17:18 am PST #3814 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Theodosia - Nov 30, 2006 10:17:52 am PST #3815 of 10007
'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"
Volvo owning seems to be correlated with Morris dancing, at least in England....
sarameg - Nov 30, 2006 10:21:22 am PST #3816 of 10007
I guess I was thinking that was more eccentric than wacky, but I could be wrong.
Survivalist hippies.
Sue - Nov 30, 2006 10:21:48 am PST #3817 of 10007
hip deep in pie
Volvo = Buddhist, in this town.
Lee - Nov 30, 2006 10:21:59 am PST #3818 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Why do people in my family think it's funny to use " X mess" instead of Christmas or XMas?
It's really not, you know.
Gudanov - Nov 30, 2006 10:22:48 am PST #3819 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
Survivalist hippies.
I stand corrected.
Jesse - Nov 30, 2006 10:49:07 am PST #3820 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. We just had an all-staff page thing over the phones, saying that the phone system would be going down for five minutes, at 4 o'clock. The announcement was much longer than that. Then she came back and said disregard the previous message. Um, OK.
brenda m - Nov 30, 2006 11:08:02 am PST #3821 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I think my favorite message ever was when we got an email about a 24-hour planned downtime of the uninterruptible power source.
Only it came on a DST weekend, so in effect, there was a 23-hour 24-hour interruption of the uninterruptible power source.
Gudanov - Nov 30, 2006 11:08:49 am PST #3822 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
An update from home:
Incidentally, Leif is apparently devising his own Contraption challenge. I learned this because he was asking if he'd spelled "place" and "another" correctly. When he asked how to spell "programmable" I went over to see what he was doing. He was writing hints to help his victim create the contraption. What he typed in front of me was, "Place another programmable ball here"
Leif likes to play a computer game called "The Incredible Machine: Contraptions" and apparently has figured out how to create scenarios. And yes, he is still four.
Daisy Jane - Nov 30, 2006 11:13:59 am PST #3823 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ugh. Now leaving work has been postponed until 4, because the blizzard "seems to have let up." Uhm. whole point is to not have us driving in the crap weather, not to wait until it's bad and then send us out.