Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?

'Shells'


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.

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Burrell - Mar 24, 2003 11:31:16 pm PST #8827 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I am so sick of seeing things put up for a vote that it isn't even funny. I no longer enjoy visiting Buffistas much. But that's my ish. Clearly Wolfram and others are liking the whole voting thing a lot more than I am.


Gandalfe - Mar 24, 2003 11:32:54 pm PST #8828 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

we haven't had our first vote yet, our new system has only been in place for what---less than a week---and already we have a back log of issues to vote on.

Actually, we hadn't even gotten the thread created before we had a backlog of issues to deal with.

And if it weren't for that fact, I'd make a new proposal.


Gandalfe - Mar 24, 2003 11:36:55 pm PST #8829 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I really thought I saw naked Faith put forward as a proposal.

You did, and, if I actually thought there would be any possibility of our voting on it would do any good, I'd go all James Carville & Marlee Matilin on it.


Hil R. - Mar 24, 2003 11:39:16 pm PST #8830 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'd go all James Carville & Marlee Matilin on it

OK, I know I'm going to feel dumb when this reference is explained, but, huh?


Hil R. - Mar 24, 2003 11:40:38 pm PST #8831 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I am so sick of seeing things put up for a vote that it isn't even funny. I no longer enjoy visiting Buffistas much. But that's my ish. Clearly Wolfram and others are liking the whole voting thing a lot more than I am.

I think that a lot of stuff is getting proposed now because the system isn't totally clear yet, and most of the stuff getting proposed is to clarify it. I think that once we go through the whole thing once or twice, it'll settle down a bit. (I hope.)


askye - Mar 24, 2003 11:40:54 pm PST #8832 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Gandalfe, that's what I'm talking about, granted there were some issues that we did have to deal with.

But I think it turned into "New toy!"

I seriously don't see that we are in such bad shape that we need to be voting on and changing that many things.

We didn't change our voting system because the whole system is broken and yet I feel like that's what's happening, people are acting as if they have to make proposals. Just because we have a new system and can use it doesn't mean we have to.


Gandalfe - Mar 24, 2003 11:44:43 pm PST #8833 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I'd go all James Carville & Marlee Matilin on it

OK, I know I'm going to feel dumb when this reference is explained, but, huh?

James Carville and Marlee Matilin are higly paid politcal consultants on the opposite side of the fence, he a knee-jerk liberal from way back and she a right-wing apologist. They're married to each other. Came to prominence, if I recall correctly, during the Bush v. Clinton campaign.


Hil R. - Mar 24, 2003 11:46:52 pm PST #8834 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

James Carville and Marlee Matilin are higly paid politcal consultants on the opposite side of the fence

Oh! Mary Matalin! (I was trying to figure out what James Carville had to do with Marlee Matlin, and getting rather confused. Hadn't thought of name similarity there.)


Gandalfe - Mar 24, 2003 11:49:52 pm PST #8835 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Oops. My spelling error - I was pulling it out of a hat. I'll leave it, because it's funny.

Just as funny as the time (very stoned) I wanted to listen to Simon & Garfield.


P.M. Marc - Mar 25, 2003 12:14:35 am PST #8836 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I am so sick of seeing things put up for a vote that it isn't even funny. I no longer enjoy visiting Buffistas much. But that's my ish. Clearly Wolfram and others are liking the whole voting thing a lot more than I am.

Wrod.

I think that a lot of stuff is getting proposed now because the system isn't totally clear yet, and most of the stuff getting proposed is to clarify it. I think that once we go through the whole thing once or twice, it'll settle down a bit. (I hope.)

I seriously doubt it.

No, really.

We've opened a stupid fucking door, and I think it was A Big Mistake. Eh, who knows. Could be what's up with the world, but Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Mailman, peeps, I feel like I've wandered into bizarro land at times. When JET suggested whacking the whole "VOTE! DISCUSS! VOTE!" thing, I was all like "HELL YES!!!"

Ref. his post. Take a moment. Think about it. Realize that people are shrugging and taking off, and understand that this whole "We're almost there!" sounds a lot like tilting at windmills that REALLY MIGHT BE MIDGETS.