Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.

Ben ,'The Killer In Me'


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.


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?


Jessica - May 14, 2008 6:43:49 am PDT #6735 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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

If you're trying to do a left-turn onto the middle of a busy sidewalk, I'd say tourists are not your biggest problem...


Kat - May 14, 2008 6:45:49 am PDT #6736 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sumi: NYT has an article on Nicanor here: [link] Poor boy has lots of expectations to live up to.

Aimee, congrats on the new job.

Also, Wednesday is looking too much like Monday.


Gudanov - May 14, 2008 6:50:35 am PDT #6737 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Unlike the fucking back door to the fucking stock exchange, where I walk through people's pictures every single day.

I dunno, now that people are asking for your autograph, maybe those aren't tourists, maybe they are paparazzi.


sumi - May 14, 2008 6:52:01 am PDT #6738 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Thanks, Kat!

Isn't he beautiful?