MM,
in Technology, lays the smack on the never-ending game of "my old computer is older than yours":
Ah, yes, the good old days.
Charles Babbage and I used to discuss number theory and chicks while filing the teeth on the gears of his Difference Engine. It was I that directed him towards the efficacy of steam as a motivator for his calculatory Devices, though he thought me mad. I finally convinced him after a particularly long discussion in a pub resulting in fisticuffs and my directing him to a chirurgeon for a cure for syphilis.
Little known fact about Babbage: SLUT!
It was this, rather than his much advertised Personality Difficulties (e.g. his propensity for accosting organ-grinders and beating them about the groin with a stout walking stick) that, I think, led to his failure to complete his Difference and Analytical Engines. The man, while indubitably a genius, could not Keep It In His Pants and would chase down and bugger anything with an appropriate orifice. This was kept out of the Papers, of course, in deference to his status as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. Also, he had dirt on every publisher in London.
But I digress.
Hec, in Bitches, coming up with a brilliant idea:
We should all wear little sashes like Girl Scouts and put on all the buttons that we don't want to have to explain to people: Divorced & Remarried, Shared Custody in East Bay, Author, Dead Mom, A's Fan.
From Minearverse...
Simon:
The thought has crossed my mind that foreign broadcasters may cut Dollhouse so they can squeeze in more ads. Bit like what A&E did for MI5 (Spooks), I'm sure BBC America did it for Torchwood as well. But that's fun and games for next year. Right now I'm just enjoying a fandom that's just woken up after a 3 year nap.
Tamara:
And they woke up all feisty, it seems.
Allyson:
Heh. And a whole new fandom will spring forth. Like Firefly fans who didna know Buffy and Angel. And I was like, "Who are you people? Hands off the Whedon, strangers! You're getting your new fan goo on my Tim! Wash your hands! Ew!"
From Movies...
Jilli:
We just got back from Indy. It was fun, even if it did take so much suspension of disbelief in some sections that even *I* felt a strain. But still, it was pretty much what I wanted in an Indiana Jones movie.
Plei:
Jilli, Jilli, Jilli.
You don't SUSPEND your disbelief for it. You leave it in the car, outside the theatre, and if it happens to come looking for you, you pretend you've never met it.
Bitches, Erin stressing about updating her resume.
I was looking at the dates just now, and I thought, damn, when did I get so old?! I had teaching experience in 1994! Geez.
(Must go out and buy vat of Creme de la Mer. CRAP. Cannot afford de la Mer. Must buy vat of Olay. ----- Can't afford that either. Will slather self in Always Save peanut butter, creamy, smoke and attract bees. Damn. Too old to attract bees. Will curl up in dessicated ball of age, clutching sheaves of teaching resume in wrinkly hands.)
Aillean in Boxed Set, on Moonlight.
Oh God, but that plotline totally pays for itself by creating some of the slashiest on-screen slash in recent memory. Some of Angel? Less gay.
Spoiler-font just in case, but it is very general in nature.
from Natter
msbelle
- another hivemind question:
"upskill" real word or really horrible business speak.
amych
- incredibly horrible.
Sophia Brooks
- horrible. Plus it sounds like a combo of "upscale" and "Catskills"
sarameg
- OED claims it, but it is ugly and stupid and smells funny.
Dana
- I vote "ew".
Scrappy
- Horrible, although I kind of like its cousin "upsell," since it is such a pithy way to describe the whole "You want fries with that" thing.
Steph L.
- Dear God! Is it meant to be a noun?
....surely not a verb?
msbelle
- it is used as a verb..."educate and upskill [employees]..."
Ginger
- Perhaps if they upskilled writing, we wouldn't have to face that word.
Sox
- No. Bad. Must be removed. And then I need to wash my eyes.
Steph L.
- Sweet Fancy Moses.
That's such an egregious abuse of the language that I want to check it for bruises.
Dana
- Fake word! Fake word! Burn it!
Allyson
- Can we file upskill in the manure pile with productize?
I'd also like to nominate proactive for tossing in the poo pile. The word, not the product.
In Bitches:
juliana:
My hard drive is named snuffleupagus - I was having a bitch of a time getting it to be recognized.
