Both things
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2003 8:50:10 pm PST #8503 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
jengod - Mar 20, 2003 8:50:19 pm PST #8504 of 10001
That's what I said!
:)
See: jengod "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 20, 2003 9:44:57 pm EST
And by must-read, I mean, it's like...it's like...it's like the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue. You're not legally compelled to read it or anything, but everybody does. It's the happy, peaceful, no-stress, no-natter, spit-coffee-on-your-monitor it's so funny thread! It says so in the title!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2003 8:50:33 pm PST #8505 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Bob likes green peas....
bicyclops - Mar 20, 2003 8:51:13 pm PST #8506 of 10001
This is the kind of irrational thinking that we were doing away with in the first place by structuring a formal system. Am I the only one who thinks reasonableness should be a necessary factor here?
With you all the way, Wolfie
DavidS - Mar 20, 2003 8:51:32 pm PST #8507 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's what I said!
What jen said!
Hil R. - Mar 20, 2003 8:53:27 pm PST #8508 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Buffista A points "I said no blah thread" two months ago, nobody said anything else pro or con, so there was a consensus against blah.
That was definitely a decision made, under the system then being used. We discussed. Several people who were originally in favor changed their minds (me included). There were quite a few "no, we shouldn't" posts. Once the discussion moved on, no one said, "wait, we shouldn't stop discussing that, you guys didn't think of this reason why we should do it..."
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2003 8:53:31 pm PST #8509 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
COMM's above my fold. You should buy a bigger monitor. And no, it's not a BBaBB issue, not when the code's working, anyway.
I loves me some COMM, but I don't see why it needs to go higher. Can we explain it to me again?
bicyclops - Mar 20, 2003 8:53:34 pm PST #8510 of 10001
I don't believe this ever happened. We don't tend toward silence. You may have noticed. I am quite confident that I could post "Green peas are yummy" in Natter and there'd wind up being a debate.
So there's a debate. When does a debate become a consensus?
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2003 8:55:23 pm PST #8511 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
ita thinks she's a Cool Kid just because her monitor is bigger and she could beat us all up and she wears nifty metal mesh halters
Oh, wait. ita is a Cool Kid.
Hey, ita, can I sit next to you at lunch? Huh? Huh?
John H - Mar 20, 2003 8:55:25 pm PST #8512 of 10001
I don't believe this ever happened. We don't tend toward silence.
So there's a debate. When does a debate become a consensus?
That's a misunderstanding of what Betsy said. She was replying to the statement that people raise an issue, it doesn't get discussed, so that's called consensus.