Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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.


Vortex - Mar 28, 2008 10:34:59 am PDT #8020 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

For short stuff like "r u open??" We get IMs like that already.

I get that in emails from students. The only reason that I don't get more text messages is that I don't give out my cell phone number

I communicate with my students via Facebook. The might not check their email, but they check Facebook.


Jars - Mar 28, 2008 10:35:18 am PDT #8021 of 10001

Texting's been bigger than phoning here since I was in school, so... seven years. Good Lord, I graduate SEVEN YEARS AGO. Holy carps.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 28, 2008 10:35:33 am PDT #8022 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

to kill mutant zombie looters in the event of a nuclear holocaust

I read that as "mutant zombie lobsters" and thought that's a highly specific purpose right there. It also made me think of TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.


juliana - Mar 28, 2008 10:36:47 am PDT #8023 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

do you text from your cell phone?

Absolutely.

Why or why not?

a) Massive phone-fear. b) Texting's faster at just communicating a short line or two (esp. when you're trying to rally a bunch of people). c) Texting's often less obtrusive than talking on the phone when one is out in public.

Also, what Vortex said.

Do you think texting is becoming increasingly popular?

Yes.

-juliana doesn't really want to talk to me!

PFFT.


Gudanov - Mar 28, 2008 10:39:14 am PDT #8024 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

But then you get messages like

"OMG I jst cut down this awesome oak tree LOL. It's totly falling down thi1irlwekjtr;ekrnqnflwef fuxor"

Sure now you do, but after the nuclear holocaust you'll get useful information. Say you get a message from Frank, "OMG 2 many 2 mny sh*t no ammo :( no esc jf0wapuesajfalsdg 123849hwlk brains brains brains brains". You know to avoid where Frank was.


Kat - Mar 28, 2008 10:39:29 am PDT #8025 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Glitter Rally!

So it turns out that talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres hates glitter. Can you imagine? Naturally this doesn't sit well with Kathy Cano-Murillo--aka the Crafty Chica--who is spearheading a movement to win Ellen over to the sparkly side. It all starts with a glitter-positive rally (complete with craft supplies from Duncan) outside Ellen's television studio in Burbank on April 8. I'll be there supporting the cause in a glitter-painted CRAFT teeshirt, alongside the Crafty Chica herself, members of the LA Craft Mafia, and fun folks like TLC's Mark Montano (author of Big-Ass Book of Crafts) and Cathie Filian from DIY's Creative Juice! If you'd like to join us, just come on by Ellen's studio at 3000 West Alameda Ave. in Burbank, CA at 12 noon on April 8.

Holy CRAP. This has an event for ita written all over it.

I'm with Ellen. Hate glitter. Glitter doesn't make you look sparkley or mysterious or anything other than messy.

AND I think safe sparkle is all a lie. Glitter almost always ends up all over you or your loved ones even with almost no contact. I still find glitter on me a few days after seeing ita.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 28, 2008 10:39:31 am PDT #8026 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I actually broke up with someone by reprimanding him about text messaging using up prepaid phone minutes that I needed for emergency calls from my parents.

I suspect he wrote about what a big meanie I was in his diary and then started cutting himself.


flea - Mar 28, 2008 10:44:22 am PDT #8027 of 10001
information libertarian

I knew texting was huge in Europe and has been for some time. I used to watch archaeologists doing field survey texting while walking in 2001. But my impression at that time was it hadn't caught on in the US yet. I guess now it has.


Jesse - Mar 28, 2008 10:45:51 am PDT #8028 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

glitter-positive rally

That's hilarous. I'm pretty sure what Ellen mostly hates is stealth-glitter in cards and stuff. I don't think she cares if other people want to have glitter, she just doesn't want to be attacked by it.


Kat - Mar 28, 2008 10:48:23 am PDT #8029 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

There's a whole thing on the woman's website about "safe sparkle" and non-loose glitter.