This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal ,'Ariel'


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Strix - Nov 27, 2011 8:17:06 am PST #18634 of 25502
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Ok, let me tinker with one, and report back.


Strix - Nov 27, 2011 8:27:17 am PST #18635 of 25502
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

YESSSS!!!! Now, hopefully, the title will let me add more than a line to two.

Uh, anyone wanna help me look for scandals for senators? Email is good. [link]


Strix - Nov 27, 2011 8:35:15 am PST #18636 of 25502
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Effin' SUCCESS!!!

My geek cred just rolled for +10!


Jessica - Nov 27, 2011 9:19:23 am PST #18637 of 25502
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

iTunes question - there's a daily podcast I listen to. A couple of weeks ago, I synced without downloading it and then shut down my computer, so I just downloaded it directly to my phone instead. Now that episode won't go away even though I have iTunes set up to remove podcasts once they've been listened to.

Any way to manually remove this one episode? It doesn't show up in iTunes at all, and I can't see an obvious "delete" button anywhere on my iPhone.


Tom Scola - Nov 27, 2011 9:24:03 am PST #18638 of 25502
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

You can delete it using the swipe-right gesture.


le nubian - Nov 27, 2011 9:24:55 am PST #18639 of 25502
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Can you just remove it, unsubscribe, then resubscribe to the feed?

FWIW, I like instacast for my iphone and ipad (not universal unfortunately). After instacast, I don't even use itunes anymore for podcasts.


Jessica - Nov 27, 2011 9:52:30 am PST #18640 of 25502
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You can delete it using the swipe-right gesture.

AHA! Thank you, that worked perfectly.


§ ita § - Nov 28, 2011 7:36:18 am PST #18641 of 25502
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, I have a panicky Cyber Monday question. Which brands are decent?

  • Lenovo
  • ASUS
  • HP
  • Not getting Dell, never mind
  • Toshiba
  • Sony
  • Acer

Just trying to winnow down a list before I start deep diving for my sister's replacement laptop *today*. Good god, the pressure.


dcp - Nov 28, 2011 7:51:06 am PST #18642 of 25502
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Myself, I'm a Toshiba fan.

Work laptops are Lenovo, and seem to be holding up well. My major gripe with Lenovo is that the Ctrl and Fn keys are switched.


Amy - Nov 28, 2011 7:56:11 am PST #18643 of 25502
Because books.

I've liked the Asus products we have a lot (one laptop, one netbook), and our old Lenovo laptops were total workhouses that lasted way longer than I expected.