Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.

'Dirty Girls'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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 - May 14, 2008 6:25:55 am PDT #6725 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Awright Msbelle! Let's get the law on 'em! Injunction Junction, what's your function . . .


sarameg - May 14, 2008 6:26:09 am PDT #6726 of 10001

I'm really skeptical that the Burmese gov't is going to actually do fuckall with the aid they are receiving. Beyond stocking their personal larders and making token for-the-few-cameras displays.

WHY do people keep giving me graphics work? If there is one thing I am really not good at, it is that.


tommyrot - May 14, 2008 6:26:37 am PDT #6727 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.

I just sent an email to the Curious George publishers permissions department linking to the AJC articles.

Good for you!

Perhaps someone can get sued.

::crosses fingers::


Wolfram - May 14, 2008 6:28:06 am PDT #6728 of 10001
Visilurking

Perhaps someone can get sued.

I hope they sue his pants off. But I hope they do it after the election. I think the less publicity this racist piece of shit gets now, the better.


Gudanov - May 14, 2008 6:31:05 am PDT #6729 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

WHY do people keep giving me graphics work? If there is one thing I am really not good at, it is that.

I hate doing graphics work, I suck at making good looking splash screens and icons. Fortunately it hasn't happened in awhile.

I did have fun one time making a temporary splash screen for the product installer that had the product name over a picture of an exploding building with people running away from it. I could hear laughter from various cubicles as the beta installer made its way through development and QA.


Jesse - May 14, 2008 6:31:30 am PDT #6730 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Awesome list:

Yeah, that's right on. Although I am preemptively insulted on behalf of DC: real work goes on there! And also, did the author really mean that reading the Sunday Times is the penultimate NYC experience? Like you read the times, you eat a bagel, then you have to go?


Jessica - May 14, 2008 6:35:27 am PDT #6731 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Although I am preemptively insulted on behalf of DC: real work goes on there!

Yeah, seriously! Though to be fair, it's not much of a pedestrian city the way NYC is, so if you're standing in the middle of the sidewalk taking a picture, the people whose way you are getting in will probably be other tourists.


Sparky1 - May 14, 2008 6:39:00 am PDT #6732 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

the people whose way you are getting in will probably be other tourists.

Not for those of us trying to drive downtown! When the tourists are here, left turns = impossible.


Jesse - May 14, 2008 6:40:13 am PDT #6733 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Though to be fair, it's not much of a pedestrian city the way NYC is, so if you're standing in the middle of the sidewalk taking a picture, the people whose way you are getting in will probably be other tourists.

That's true. Also most of the touristy things have plenty of tourist-space around them. Unlike the fucking back door to the fucking stock exchange, where I walk through people's pictures every single day.

On the flip side, with spring comes Free Stuff Season by my subway stop -- they were offering toothbrushes and pomegranate juice this morning (separate promotions). I didn't take either.


bon bon - May 14, 2008 6:42:04 am PDT #6734 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Awesome list:

I disagree! Here's what's annoying about the first ten items on the list:

1. Really? Robbed? You're going to be robbed whether you dress alike or not by a taxi driver or electronics store in midtown because (a) you are in a taxi and you don't know where you are and (b) you're in an electronics store in midtown! But who else is really going to sucker you? The guy at Duane Reade? Later in the list he points out that you WON'T get robbed. So which is it, guy?

3. 15%?!!! No. If you want to look like a tourist, go for it. Otherwise, it's 20.

5. "Buy junk at a street fair, and eat street meat (don't ask)." This is the time you are providing answers! Also, you can read the NY Times at home. Ridiculous to expect people to waste their vacation time with that.

9. "Also, as soon as it starts to rain, the available cabs become invisible. (No one knows why)." There are like nine economics books on the right hand side! You can't figure out what happens when demand exceeds supply?