Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.

'War Stories'


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.


brenda m - Dec 11, 2006 5:12:08 am PST #5455 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

40% off coupon for any one book over $20 at Borders/Waldenbooks tomorrow. [link]


flea - Dec 11, 2006 5:20:55 am PST #5456 of 10007
information libertarian

My boss had a library patron get mad at her when she wouldn't unlock my office and let the student study in it this weekend. WTF is up with people? It even says "My Office" on the door. I also have people walk in and take my stapler off my desk.


Ginger - Dec 11, 2006 5:36:29 am PST #5457 of 10007
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

How did you cut and paste?

When I started in newspapers, I typed on long sheets of newsprint with a Royal Standard. I, like everyone else in the newsroom, wrote directly on the typewriter, and then used a pica stick to tear the paper and rubber cement to paste the paragraphs into a different order. Every desk had a metal pica stick (a ruler in picas) and a paste pot of rubber cement. We all made big balls of rubber cement while stuck on hold.

Then we rode our dinosaurs home uphill both ways in the snow.


Hil R. - Dec 11, 2006 5:38:45 am PST #5458 of 10007
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've been getting really annoyed at students who seem to have no clue of how to knock on a door. I share my office with five other grad students, most of whom are TAs. Lots of times, when I'm the only one in the office, I'll close the door so that it's just open a crack, since it locks when you close it all the way, and I get sick of having to stand up to open the door when people knock. Inevitably, there will be students who come to the door, open it, walk in, then just stand there staring at me until I ask what they want. (Generally, it's a question like "Where's Mike?" to which the answer is "He's in room 104, as the note he left taped to the door says," or "Where's the main office?" Or, sometimes, "How do I do this calculus problem?" Those are my favorite. If it were, "I'm not in your class, but I'm having some trouble with this homework assignment, and the professor and TA for my class aren't here. Could you please help me?" then I might say yes, if I had time. But random students will just walk in, put a notebook down on my desk, and say "How do I do this problem?" Um, no.)


amych - Dec 11, 2006 5:39:37 am PST #5459 of 10007
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I also have people walk in and take my stapler off my desk.

All. The. Time.

If they'd stop stealing the staplers that we put out for them they wouldn't have to, but even then, they could ask and not just walk in and grab! Childrens, I am not the Office Depot!


shrift - Dec 11, 2006 5:39:55 am PST #5460 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

My boss had a library patron get mad at her when she wouldn't unlock my office and let the student study in it this weekend.

What, the rest of the entire library wasn't good enough, or something?

It's good that we have Msbelle and Mac to distract us from how much the rest of humanity can suck.


Gudanov - Dec 11, 2006 5:41:55 am PST #5461 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping

Lead story from my community paper. I get it in print (no subscription).

The Election Was Good News For .... Who?
...
Islamic Fascists...
Slackards...
Illegal Aliens...
Those who want a weaker America...

[link]

I do not live in the most progressive community.


tommyrot - Dec 11, 2006 5:47:21 am PST #5462 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Hey, I'm a slackard and the election was good news for me.

But seriously, those people annoy me. There are quite a lot of unstated assumptions in those assertions, and they really ought to be defending those assumptions. Like, how can you argue that the war in Iraq is making us safer from terrorism, when every single US intelligence agency says the opposite? What info are you privy to that they don't have?


shrift - Dec 11, 2006 5:48:44 am PST #5463 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Slackards for the win!

Except for the part where the slackardly probably wouldn't have bothered to vote, so I guess this victory goes to the gay terrorists.


Gudanov - Dec 11, 2006 5:55:43 am PST #5464 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping

Like, how can you argue that the war in Iraq is making us safer from terrorism, when every single US intelligence agency says the opposite?

To be fair, the president has been backed up on this by many independent sources like the vice president, the secretary of defense (not former yet I think), and ... um... Tony Snow, and maybe Rush if he is still carrying water.