Jesse, you want for me to come over this weekend and set things up nice for you? You don't need no stinking $100 cable either.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Sep 13, 2007 2:26:51 pm PDT #402 of 10001
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Jesse - Sep 13, 2007 2:28:17 pm PDT #403 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, thanks, Tom! I will let you know if I can't get my shit together.
Tom Scola - Sep 13, 2007 2:28:42 pm PDT #404 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Global CFO of our Fortune 400 company was offering to show some visiting clients her cube. Nobody gets offices here.
Usually, what happens is the bigwig has a cube, but ends up spending 99% of his or her time in a conference room somewhere.
Ginger - Sep 13, 2007 2:28:52 pm PDT #405 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's a lovely storm. It's raining! I'm so over this drought. Even the grass at Turner Field looked ratty, and it's grass that's practically watered with champagne and fertilized with caviar.
amych - Sep 13, 2007 2:31:50 pm PDT #406 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's raining!
jealousjealousjealous
SuziQ - Sep 13, 2007 2:38:16 pm PDT #407 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I wish we had a policy that if you travel over 75% of the time, you get a cube. We have so many office dwellers who are NEVER in the office. Just seems wrong.
flea - Sep 13, 2007 2:39:08 pm PDT #408 of 10001
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Well, well - it was - um, less than 90 degrees today!
Signed, also over the drought, but it's not done with us yet.
amych - Sep 13, 2007 2:45:51 pm PDT #409 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, well - it was - um, less than 90 degrees today!
And as it was one of my walking home days, this was a very welcome thing indeed. Plus, walking home meant getting to meet the very adorable shark puppy of one of my students.
On the down side, there is the drought, and I find myself distractingly aware of the dryness in the air (like almost-but-not-quite-itchy clothing, that you're way too aware of feeling without it quite rising to the level of "gotta take this off right the fuck now"), and pining for a good hurricane.
(No, really. I don't wish the destruction on anyone, but they're actually an important part of the normal climate cycle for the region, and we haven't had one come inland in several years in a row. So the reservoirs and groundwater were already shot to hell before the whole less-than-a-quarter-of-the-normal-rainfall summer thing.)
Jesse - Sep 13, 2007 2:58:55 pm PDT #410 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I figured out how to fix my problem! I can't actually do it, of course, but I now get what to do -- there was a step in the setup that the cable company didn't tell me to do, and now I can't get into the "Setup Wizard," but I'll give it another try of unplugging everything. Maybe tomorrow.
Sorry for using this thread as tech support. Or tech moral support.
Glamcookie - Sep 13, 2007 2:59:41 pm PDT #411 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister