Emily:
I'd like to offer up a question to the hivemind. If you were submitting your resume to support your application for, oh, anything at all, would you include the freaking end dates of your previous positions, or just the starting years, as though perhaps you were still teaching in Prague despite having worked in Kansas for the last 17 years?!?!
It needed a double interrobang. I mean, it's personally annoying for me, because I need to ferret out end dates or make them up out of whole cloth, but what really gets to me is -- how can anyone think this is appropriate? Why would you just put the start years?
Calli:
I'd only do this if my job history had some holes:
1997: Started at Big Important Company
2001: Started at Small, yet Boutique and Impressive Company
(unsaid: January 1998: booted from BIC and spent the next three years living in parents' basement, eating junk food, and writing porny fanfic. Which I'd worry about being my fate in a few months if it wasn't for the fact that my parents don't have a basement. So you can imagine my relief.)
I'm just the setup, in Natter:
Kate P.:
I have a question: if it's the 21st named storm, how come it starts with the 23rd letter of the alphabet? Shouldn't it be Hurricane Uma?
Dana:
They skip some letters.
Calli:
I believe they skip U, X, Y, and Z. And possibly Q. Pity. If we had to have this many hurricanes in a season, the least they could do would be to name one "Xena". Or "Zod". I'm not picky.
amych:
They skip q, u, x, y, and z in the naming scheme.
(Hugely x-posty, natch. Or should that be alpha-posty, since the alphabet ends after W.)
(Leading me to wonder, does the world?)
Prognosticatey in
Firefly:
Kevin:
The week of Serenity mudslinging begins tomorrow! From the theatre counts it looks like Serenity is going to almost completely disappear in the US on Friday.
Allyson:
I'm not sure why that triggers mudslinging.
brenda m:
Oh! I know! Cause we can all blamey on each other, and this time, we can back it up with data! Rock on.
Unrelatedly, does Google have a site yet where I can get specific by-theatre attendance numbers for theatres near people I don't like anyway, so I can start throwing some rocks? Just asking.
Two in a row...Context? What context?
Allyson
in
Firefly:
Minearverse is soaps, crafts, feminism, and pictures of dogs.
In Bitches on the dangers of crockpotting:
beth b
The worst thing about dinner in a crockpot -- it starts smelling so good....
and I have to wait ....
ita
Never crock when you're at home! It's slow torture.
beth b
now she tells me ...
The fact that this quote came from Bureaucraxy makes it even better.
Ginger:
I'm kind of in the mood for a fresh bout of torture.
In Natter:
msbelle:
I know George is adorable, but would anyone who watches the show really date a George in real life?
sumi:
It's not as if the character is dating either.
In F2F:
Aimée:
Do you have mice in the back yard for the Dread Beast to pounce on?
Jilli VoiceOfReason:
No. And Dread Beast probably couldn't be bothered to pounce on *anything*. But he does like going outside and eating grass.
Aimée:
I had friends like that in college.
