Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.

'Objects In Space'


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amych - Apr 14, 2014 6:48:07 am PDT #23790 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Stand down the alarms. I just ran into the same thing on Facebook. Thinking it's a chrome thing going back to the latest update.


meara - Apr 14, 2014 6:49:49 am PDT #23791 of 25496

Oh even weirder--in FB it doesn't automatically fill out my post from last night...but if I click in the thing to post, it THEN fills (with b.org it's just auto-filled)


amych - Apr 14, 2014 6:56:20 am PDT #23792 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I assumed that was because Facebook doesn't generate a real textbox until you click into the status box thingie (because Facebook, as far as I can tell). I could be just guessing on that one, though.


meara - Apr 14, 2014 10:20:12 am PDT #23793 of 25496

Have you figured out how to fix it? It's continuing to freak me out, and also annoy--it over-wrote two things I posted on FB with last night's status! (Which thankfully wasn't anything too weird, but still)


-t - Apr 15, 2014 4:39:57 am PDT #23794 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Old conversation, but I've had no reason to complain about my Brother printer - I've had it for around 10 years with no problems. It gets pretty light use, but that still seems kind of amazing.


DCJensen - Apr 15, 2014 12:01:22 pm PDT #23795 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Is it a laser printer?


DCJensen - Apr 15, 2014 12:02:49 pm PDT #23796 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

I have a couple of 1995 Apple LaserWriter 4/600 printers that just need new cartridges. One has an external localtalk to Ethernet adapter...

...and I just bought one for $11.95, shipped.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2014 1:35:22 pm PDT #23797 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My printer came, and I'm happy with the product.


Liese S. - Apr 15, 2014 1:38:23 pm PDT #23798 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

My printer didn't come. I just today noticed there'd been a cancellation notice. I was getting set to get all up in my bank's business about the damn billing address issue resolution, when I remembered I'd accidentally entered my cel phone number instead of my company one. Rage deferred.

So I reordered, but with faster shipping since I'd been regretting taking the free choice anyway. Should be here Thursday or Friday.


DCJensen - Apr 15, 2014 5:43:03 pm PDT #23799 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

I've asked this before, but now I really have time.

Since I'm unemployed, I'm doing some housecleaning, and all of my tinkering computers are over 10 years old.

If anyone has any dead or mostly dead laptops (Mac or PC) made in the last decade they would like to get rid of, let me know.

I can't pay much, but I'll pay for postage.