Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.

'Trash'


Natter 57 Varieties  

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.


lisah - Mar 10, 2008 7:16:32 am PDT #3994 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Does your workplace provide ergonomics assessments?

haha! I'm at a very small company so, no. I assessed myself to need a foot rest and hand and wrist pads. That's as good as it's going to get. Maybe when (if) we move to a new office.


megan walker - Mar 10, 2008 7:23:39 am PDT #3995 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

interpret your Ph.D. thesis in dance form.

Hmmmm, the title (Negotiating Culture) I could do, the actual argument (about how different postwar French groups used the arrival of American films to pursue their own agendas), I'm not so sure.


Nilly - Mar 10, 2008 7:37:30 am PDT #3996 of 10001
Swouncing

interpret your Ph.D. thesis in dance form.

Dynamics of Data Transport on Communication Networks? Maybe because I didn't write it (yet! Hopefully pretty soon! No, really), I can't think of how to dance it.

The MA thesis is easier, I think: Behavior of Traffic under the Influence of Bottlenecks.

I heard a story once about a physics conference which had an extremely tight schedule, so some of the lecturers only had five minutes each to present their talks, and they were not allowed to bring any presentations, pictures, graphs, papers - any aids at all. Just stand for five minutes and talk. One of the lecturers really wanted to have a very important graph presented in his talk, even though it was that short. But, no - no presentations, no transparencies, nothing was allowed, no matter how much he asked.

So he had his wife knit him a sweater, with the graph knitted on it, as part of the sample, and wore it for the lecture.


lisah - Mar 10, 2008 7:38:46 am PDT #3997 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

So he had his wife knit him a sweater, with the graph knitted on it, as part of the sample, and wore it for the lecture.

That is so rad!! And what a devoted wife!

I rode outside yesterday morning and I still haven't warmed up completely.


Sue - Mar 10, 2008 7:43:30 am PDT #3998 of 10001
hip deep in pie

One navy loafer, one black one.

I did this with gloves last week. Well they were both black, but one was big and bulky, and the other one was a dress glove.


tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 7:55:03 am PDT #3999 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.

This headline is very misleading: Wolverine: The Latest Furry Sensation


Emily - Mar 10, 2008 7:59:31 am PDT #4000 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

That's when I found that I had been too vigorous in my flinging and had tossed the purse into the backseat while the lunch bag landed in the passenger seat.

I arrived at school today, reached for my keys on my belt, realized I'd forgotten them in the bathroom, and walked all the way around the school to go in the back way. I was almost to my next-door-neighbor's room to ask her for her key when I found my keys -- on the other side of my belt.

The worst part is, I think this is the side I usually put them on. For some reason I just forgot and looked for them on the wrong side.


Dana - Mar 10, 2008 7:59:38 am PDT #4001 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

rainpocalypse has started here. Other people in my office seem very nonchalant about what sounds to me like a tree branch banging against the side of the building.


tommyrot - Mar 10, 2008 8:08:16 am PDT #4002 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.

Funny yet informative guide to the subprime mortgage mess: [link]


Jesse - Mar 10, 2008 8:30:32 am PDT #4003 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So he had his wife knit him a sweater, with the graph knitted on it, as part of the sample, and wore it for the lecture.

That is awesome.