Thessaly and I are off to a wedding in Syracuse in a few minutes. Doubt we'll be around until Sunday or Monday.
TTFN.
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me
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victor infante - Jun 19, 2003 9:02:15 pm PDT #732 of 5668
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Micole - Jun 20, 2003 9:13:42 am PDT #733 of 5668
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Quality stuff that jobma.
What DS said. I got the offer for the new job. V. pleased. Much cooller company, and pays better.
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2003 10:38:34 am PDT #734 of 5668
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
duh... moved to press
Fay - Jun 20, 2003 1:00:16 pm PDT #735 of 5668
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
May I add my voice to the chorus of requests for Jobma? I've put in an application for the job at the school where I'm on placement just now. If there is ANY justice I should get it, 'cause I'm all enthusiastic and smart and kid-liking hard-working and generally a Damned Good Choice. And I live on the street next to the school. And, and, and...and there are other, better qualified applicants who also want the job, damn them. But it must and shall be mine! Maybe. Hopefully.
....jobma? please?
meara - Jun 20, 2003 9:19:25 pm PDT #736 of 5668
In an hour, the Supershuttle will be (or, damn well better be!) picking me up to take me to the airport to start my long long flights to Korea! I'll be there for a week and a half, and have no idea what kind of internet access I'll have...
amych - Jun 21, 2003 6:53:48 am PDT #737 of 5668
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In a fit of greater-than-usual klutziness, I managed to completely fry my laptop last night. So until I manage to build something that works out of duct tape and baling wire, I'll be around while at work, but even grayer than usual evenings and weekends.
Penny B. - Jun 22, 2003 6:58:46 pm PDT #738 of 5668
Nobody
Jobma worked. I signed a contract Friday.
Whew!
Lysana - Jun 22, 2003 7:12:14 pm PDT #739 of 5668
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog
The DH is being recommended for a face-to-face interview with a nice, small company with lots of generous angels (no venture capital!) backing it and a hiring manager who is friends with one of my sweeties. It's the same one I mentioned earlier this week. They actually called him on a Sunday for an unannounced phone interview because they're too busy on weekdays. Please send jobma. Thank you.
deborah grabien - Jun 23, 2003 8:50:23 am PDT #740 of 5668
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
A quickie, almost-certain-confirmation update, for those planning on doing my book launch week of events for The Weaver and the Factory Maid, or any part thereof:
Just talked to St. Martin's, and they want Weaver for the Christmas market. This only affects the original projected timetable by about ten days; official release date is 1 December, with general availability being 5 November. Since I was planning on doing the launch party late October, there's not a huge difference there.
But please do let me know, if you want to be kept up on scheduled events and the big old party we're planning to throw to celebrate the launch. And let me know, if you're coming to San Francisco for the launch (or any other reason!), if you need a bed for the trip. Profile mail is fine.
amych - Jun 23, 2003 1:20:19 pm PDT #741 of 5668
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Friday, I fried my laptop in a moisture-related incident, yanked the power supply and battery to keep anything from shorting out further, disassembled the whole thing and turned it over to let it dry out as best I could.
Saturday, I put things back together, pushed the button, and got a few clicks and pops and then the Ozone Smell of Doom. Proceeded to raid S.'s and my combined stash of dead technology to start building a new machine, purchased a widget to interface between the possibly-still-usable hard drive and some computer to be named later.
Sunday, I -- well, mostly S., to be honest -- finished assembling the computer to be named later.
Today, I tried the widgeted hard drive in its fourth uncooperative computer, and concluded it was dead, cried a bit, and held a naming contest in my LJ for the computer to be named later, complete with pastiche of psychoanalytic literary theory.
Tonight, I got home, set up the computer to be named any day now, and decided on a whim to hit the button on the late lamented laptop. And lo, a host of angels sang... or, anyway, the little green light came on. With a message that it wasn't recognizing the hard drive.
Rebooted, and here I am, back where I was, except for the fact that I can't make parens or exclamation points, which could make programming rather challenging....
I'm still taking naming suggestions, as the computer to be named later is going to do some crucial backup work now, and may still have some freakish zomboidal life ahead of it.