You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


tommyrot - Feb 07, 2007 9:38:40 am PST #8758 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Websites that play music are wrong, wronger than the blink tag, wronger than dark text on a dark background, wronger than the wrongest thing the wrongest web designer wrongly did on the wrongest day of the wrongest month of the wrongest year that every wrongly existed.

But they are not the worst. The worst of all are the sites that automatically start playing video.


Jesse - Feb 07, 2007 9:40:34 am PST #8759 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yesterday, I was trying to get into a government website, and couldn't reset someone's password, because she has too much access to stuff, apparently. Which makes sense on some level, because all I needed to log in as her is her SSN, email, and the password she forgot, and everyone's SSN is somewhere at work, even if it's supposed to be secure. I was still a little weirded out by this woman telling me her SSN over the phone.


Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2007 9:42:26 am PST #8760 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I was still a little weirded out by this woman telling me her SSN over the phone.

You should apply for a Macy's card in her name, Jesse.


§ ita § - Feb 07, 2007 9:43:02 am PST #8761 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was still a little weirded out by this woman telling me her SSN over the phone.

The guy who called me the other day to ask mine said that he was the billing group for my headache clinic and he needed my SSN to submit claims. I asked him how they'd submitted all the claims previous (I've been going to her for way too long, considering), and he said they just needed it now.

Sure, it could be 2007 rules, but it still sounded weird. What are the scenarios in which they can be used, and in which can you refuse to divulge yours without penalty? There are no-penalty situations, right?


Allyson - Feb 07, 2007 9:49:03 am PST #8762 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

You should apply for a Macy's card in her name, Jesse.

ahhhh ha ha ha!!!


Jesse - Feb 07, 2007 9:51:42 am PST #8763 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You should apply for a Macy's card in her name, Jesse.

Ha! I told her I wouldn't steal her identity, but she said she wouldn't really mind. Needless to say, a new wardrobe is on its way to my new PO Box.


Steph L. - Feb 07, 2007 9:54:31 am PST #8764 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oh, great.

THANKS for the earworm, people!

::grumble::


Kathy A - Feb 07, 2007 9:59:11 am PST #8765 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I feel so bad for my cat--she spends the past three hours sleeping under the bed, and as soon as she comes out for some food and water, I swoop her up and shove medicine down her throat. She's now back under the bed, hiding. If she manages to come out sooner than 9:00 tonight, I'll be able to coddle her a bit before shoving in more medicine. I really hate doing this to her.


Jesse - Feb 07, 2007 10:02:03 am PST #8766 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Sorry, Kathy, but at least you know you're being nicer giving her the medicine than not.

In awesome news, VH-1 is showing ego trip's Race-O-Rama!!

... um. I mean. I'm working really hard.


Theodosia - Feb 07, 2007 10:04:41 am PST #8767 of 10001
'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"

Kathy, cats have very little long term memory, so it's not like she's going to hold it against you for more than a few hours at a time.