Good luck getting back home, ita.

I went back and whitefonted just so we wouldn't have to see the ugliness staring out at us....

I wish this was possible in real life.

Seriously.

I've been trying to post this all day, but the NYT kept crashing my browser at work.

Duct tape may not be as effective at curing warts as you think:

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Okay, I've been emailing back and forth about a vacancy in our Co-op with this woman. I keep telling her that when she emails back to me the completed application, I'll arrange a viewing. Finally she emails me and asks me how she's supposed to fill this out electronically. It's a Word document sent as an attachment. She doesn't seem to have problems opening it or reading it. It's not that hard to figure out, is it?

I got my new crown put in today. Now I can relax about chewing on the right side of my mouth. And my dentist did about $1000 worth of work for free, since he did the last crown that just crumbled in my mouth. He's so great.

I'll arrange a viewing. Finally she emails me and asks me how she's supposed to fill this out electronically. It's a Word document sent as an attachment. She doesn't seem to have problems opening it or reading it. It's not that hard to figure out, is it?

Huh, it looks like the people I have to invoice are trying to move into your co-op. Just a warning? If they move in and you notice a smell coming from their unit? They died because they are too stupid to breathe.

DJ, that's how I'm feeling about her. More like,"Lady, this co-op is going to eat you alive."

It also doesn't help that she has the same name as one of our worst co-op people ever, so I was already holding her name against her.

They died because they are too stupid to breathe.

OMG yes. Like the substitute teacher in Connecticut whose computer was infected by malware, and instead of turning off the computer, let it run all day, showing porn popups to the kids. She was convicted and could get a sentence of 40 years, although frankly I think losing her job and being mocked internationally should be punishment enough.

I recognize a few more of the BNFs in that ranty post, but really, you can't shame people into reading unfamiliar writers. Fandom doesn't work that way. It's my happy zone and I'm happiest when I read things I trust won't turn into happy fun incest or bad grammar infested with poor spelling.

t sits in the corner of MNFs with Nutty, Shrift, and Plei

'Suela, what makes me so angry about that case, though, is that that teacher wasn't even the one who infected the computer with spy/adware. An expert later determined it had been there for weeks before she covered that class--either one of the students or the regular teacher must have clicked on the wrong thing--and she tried to keep the kids away from it since she had been explicitely told not to turn the computer off.

Read the article here.

It makes me so angry, I could cry.

ETA: Here's a link to the NPR story, which was really good: [link]

I wonder what the ranter would think of the fact that I don't read fanfic.

I'm probably the evillist of EVOLHATERS.

I've read some really well written stuff, but...not my thing.

Why didn't she just turn off the monitor and send a kid to the principal asking him to come to the classroom so that he could deal with it?

If there was a reason she couldn't turn off the monitor - I've known kids at the library that get into places - and if they don't turn off the monitor they hang paper in fron tof the monitor.

NowI'm going to read the story and see if I still make sense.

The NPR story says that she called the office repeatedly, and no one helped her. In terms of the monitor, it appears that she honestly had no idea how to turn off the monitor without turning off the computer. Sadly, that doesn't surprise me--most of the subs I worked with didn't have much experience with computers. Personally, I think that the school should be held responsible for not having a friggin' firewall in place, and I think the regular teacher should have known better than to leave the computer on in the first place. Don't get me wrong--the woman was unprepared and didn't handle the situation as well as she should have, but there is no way she should be made the scapegoat and sent to prison for 40 years, IMO.

(Beth, if you have time to listen to the NPR story, it's much clearer and more detailed than the blog I linked to first.)