Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?

Wash ,'Ariel'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


tommyrot - Dec 28, 2007 7:30:20 am PST #9494 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

No, this is not a harp. Yes, it is a radiator. Really.

Awesome! Also, beautiful.


msbelle - Dec 28, 2007 7:30:55 am PST #9495 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

awesome Kathy.

congestion of death = my head

I have over 2000 unfiled emails in my inbox. poor noodle who is getting this dumped on her. I am trying to clean up, but only so much I can do. I have been cc'd on almost every client/app development/issue email for 1.5 years.


megan walker - Dec 28, 2007 7:31:36 am PST #9496 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I was surprised to see Boston come in at 10. I've lived in both cities and Boston/Cambridge is definitely more readerly.

The fact that Minneapolis and St. Paul are #1 and #3 leads me to believe they must be referring to Boston proper and not the metro area.


Jesse - Dec 28, 2007 7:40:16 am PST #9497 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's excellent, Kathy! I'll be able to close out a card when I get around to writing checks this weekend, which is exciting, even if I just put part of it on another card (low interest balance transfer!).


Sue - Dec 28, 2007 7:41:17 am PST #9498 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I am reading this list of 2007 buzzwords, and i'm not sure if that many of them have made it into the common vernacular.

[link]

And i have to say that there's already a phrase for this:

kinnear v.

To take a candid photograph surreptitiously, especially by holding the camera low and out of the line of sight. Coined in August by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee of the Yarn Harlot blog when she attempted to take a photograph during an encounter with the actor Greg Kinnear at an airport.

I've always heard it called "shooting from the hip."


Sue - Dec 28, 2007 7:42:01 am PST #9499 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I don't even want to talk about my credit card balance. Waaay more than I am comfortable with.


Gadget_Girl - Dec 28, 2007 7:46:08 am PST #9500 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".

Grad School killed my credit card. Well, in 2008 husband and I will pay off cards, again.

I've applied for a scholarship that would pay off about half what I owe. I'll find out in March if I got it. Worst part is I'm up against a really close friend. They've been giving it to 2nd time applicants, though, and this will be my second application. My friend can apply again for 2009.


Jesse - Dec 28, 2007 7:47:51 am PST #9501 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am reading this list of 2007 buzzwords, and i'm not sure if that many of them have made it into the common vernacular.

Yeah, I haven't heard of a lot of those. Which makes its value somewhat diminished as something to point at when coworkers have never heard of "lolcat." Oh, Grant.

I don't even want to talk about my credit card balance. Waaay more than I am comfortable with.

This is why I'm focusing on the good news of closing out the smallest card, not the larger picture.....


msbelle - Dec 28, 2007 7:50:55 am PST #9502 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I think I will payoff 2 with my bonus and that will leave just the 0% one which I think I will roll over onto another 0% one in a few months. The plan is to have that one paid off in a year (maybe year and a half).


lisah - Dec 28, 2007 7:54:01 am PST #9503 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I just added "pay off credit card" to my 100/1001 days list thingy. and figured out how much i'd have to pay on it every week to have it paid completely in 1001 days from Jan 1. If I don't charge anything else on it. Seems a bit like an impossible goal for me!