Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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tiggy - May 22, 2008 10:33:17 am PDT #6322 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

no hurry.


omnis_audis - May 22, 2008 11:09:11 am PDT #6323 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Tiggy, insent. I had a few minutes before lunch.


tiggy - May 22, 2008 11:28:35 am PDT #6324 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

thank you, omnis!

Jon, omnis beat you to the punch. thank you very much for offering.


Jon B. - May 22, 2008 11:58:49 am PDT #6325 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

No problemo. I'll offer to do something and then have someone else do it anytime!


§ ita § - May 22, 2008 1:41:05 pm PDT #6326 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Goddamned indecent. And water-resistant to boot.


meara - May 22, 2008 1:46:14 pm PDT #6327 of 25501

...I don't get it, ita. What's indecent about that? (it being a link from ita, I was expecting something...raunchy. And when it was a flash drive, I was like..."OK, am I missing something? Is this a...vibrating flash drive? A...taser flash drive?")


Sean K - May 22, 2008 1:50:16 pm PDT #6328 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

32 gigabyte flash drive for a hundred dollars. That's pretty jaw-dropping.


§ ita § - May 22, 2008 1:54:54 pm PDT #6329 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's a phenomenal amount of storage for the price, and for the size. I mean--that just goes in your pocket. How long ago was it that they were shipping laptops with that size hard drives? Not long enough.


meara - May 22, 2008 1:56:29 pm PDT #6330 of 25501

Heh. OK, everybody. Safe to click on that ita link there!


Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:05:00 pm PDT #6331 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Isn't this the point at which I talk about 256K machines and walking to school in the snow uphill both ways?