Sorry, Jesse.

Schmoker, there is some tradition of 'I'd like to COMM post ####, COMM thread'. Can't see an example quickly.

t /natter. really.

Natter 8:

Typo boy: OK quick help - does 11 X 17 = one of these sizes: Ledger, executive, statement?

If not, what are the alternate terms for it. I'm trying to find what printers can handle what paper, and I don't know what the terms mean.

~ a few posts pass by ~

Typo boy: OK used better google tactics this time. 11 x 17 = ledger.

Hope no one went to any great trouble.

Daniel:

Daniel breaks down, weeping over his treatise on advanced paper sizes and their reletive use in the world of publishing, business and world commerse.

sob

Natter 8:

ita: Whew. I've applied the last coat of clear satin finish to the desk I stained yesterday. The pie has 20 minutes left to go.

I am so freaking tired. But at least I have 2 hours to rest up before krav.

I'm pretty optimistic about this piecrust (from America's Test Kitchen), though I was on the brink of giving up because it was so freaking hard to work with. I feel it will flake. I like running through different recipes, since it gives you a good sense of applied pie mechanics.

I still can't say "pie" properly. I've been Weebled. In fact, I have been known to (but not been witnessed) to chant "pie" (look! I just did it) at random, but pie-related moments.

Natter 8:

Phill: There must be a funny and tasteless way to spin this situation, and by cracky, we're just the ones to do it!

Literary:

DX: Ooh! I know! I know! (Waves hand in the air )

Darn, I never get called on...

Literary:

DavidS: > sounds like the paper I wrote on The Tempest.

Whoa. That sounds intense. I can't even figure out how you tied it together.

DavidS: [clears throat] Thesis was that the imagery in the Tempest predicates an ontology of actuality moving into possibility which I tied (with a very loose slipknot) to big bang physics and (more relevant for the topic) to Shakespeare's notion of morality being explicitly tied to the ability to imagine. With Caliban being the pivotol figure and redeemed by his ability to hear voices and whatnot.

Hayden: My god, does this make me want to smoke some pot.

Literary:

Kathy Astrom: Betsy and Micole, did you read Ann Maxwell's Timeshadow Rider? This one still blows my mind every single time I read it. Actually, the first time I read it, I had no clue what happened at the end, so I started rereading it the next day, and the lightbulb finally clicked on about three-quarters of the way through.

Betsy Hanes Perry: I liked that one better than the furry/smoothie books, actually. My favorite, though, was the one about the culture where duels to the death were the principal method of population control. To get married, the bride and groom sat down in front of a table with a knife. If they both survived, they got married. Very ita.

[I think it was Name Of A Shadow .]

meara: Er...they duelled each OTHER? I'm thinking if you really want to get married you're not exactly going to be trying your hardest. Unless you're ita.

Natter 8:

Jesse: I swear, I will NEVER get sick of the "How do YOU do it?" game.

ita: As opposed to the "How YOU doing?" game, which gets old real fast.

Am-Chau, in Precious:

I live to link.

No, that's Nilly...

I live to Google "slash"+"Lord of the Rings"+"quiz" and actually read the results?

I was born to slash, and bash, and Google for beautiful poetry?

Sean K: Though, having spent a good chunk of my life in rural middle-America, I'd have to say you'd be surprised how many people fit that stereotypical generalization. There are actually large chunks of people who are scary and bigotted.

amyparker: I'm related to many of them.

msbelle: Are you talking about my ass? I know it has strong opinions, but I think calling it bigotted is a little harsh.

billytea: (resolves to prod next American I see till large scary bigotted chunk reveals itself)