Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....

Giles ,'Chosen'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

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.


§ ita § - Sep 03, 2008 12:26:53 pm PDT #6911 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Feel free to criticise anywhere I've ever worked, including my next employer, whoever that may be. It's all good.

Hec, at the time of your post I had 22 tabs open in this window, and four in another. There's no excuse for that other than poor organisation and laziness. I opened another tab to signup for Chrome for OS X updates, but after I make this next recruiter call maybe I'll go into the PC room and download it.

I didn't sleep last night. Grr. Got annoying enough I hit the gym around 6 and did grocery shopping. Managed a couple hours today--maybe that will put me back on schedule.


Sheryl - Sep 03, 2008 12:28:45 pm PDT #6912 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Enough with the (extended) Palin family already!(Gossip instead of actual policies? Sheesh.)


amych - Sep 03, 2008 12:29:30 pm PDT #6913 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

9 in browser 1, 23 in browser 2 (across 2 different windows). I'm not sure it's all that unusual.

(OTOH, Chrome's failure to allow me to enter my email addy for OSX updates, plus the comic's interesting quirk of loading the same page 10 times in a row, makes me less than hopeful for the first release...)


Scrappy - Sep 03, 2008 12:32:42 pm PDT #6914 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Scrappy's Fuck-up Update. Talked to Boss. He has cooled off a bit but is still plenty displeased. Sent a Mea Culpa email to execs, hope it helps. Did NOT mention my eval and will bring it up in a couple of weeks, when I hope heads are cooler.


Daisy Jane - Sep 03, 2008 12:33:49 pm PDT #6915 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I try to have a policy of never looking at comments on a newspaper's online edition. That way lies head explosions. But sometimes it's irrestible.

I have no idea why I ever read our editorial blog. It does nothing but show me the icky side of the humans who live in this city. I just want to repost John Donne in every thread.


Glamcookie - Sep 03, 2008 12:33:57 pm PDT #6916 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

My (large software) company gets lots o' bashing as well. Deservedly so, I might add. Hell, I might just join in!


P.M. Marc - Sep 03, 2008 12:34:46 pm PDT #6917 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Feel free to criticise anywhere I've ever worked, including my next employer, whoever that may be. It's all good.

Constructive crit's fine.

Slashdot-level inanity with little substance, on the other hand, makes me want to bust heads.


beth b - Sep 03, 2008 12:41:58 pm PDT #6918 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

It is like the phrase 'lazy government workers', which often gets tossed around when I am around. I am one, I am not lazy and I can't name a lazy one. slow, chickenshit, or easily overwhelmed by bureaucracy , but not lazy.


Burrell - Sep 03, 2008 12:47:24 pm PDT #6919 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I can totally understand not wanting to hear knee-jerk insults, whatever the context. Sure sometimes I can turn the other cheek when I hear someone use a stupid stereotype to insult my school, my job, my hometown, my neighborhood, whatever. It happens. Other times it makes me angry.


Gudanov - Sep 03, 2008 12:47:40 pm PDT #6920 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Shoot, our Internet is out and I'll have to call support. It drives me nuts when my wife calls me at work to have me call support for something at home. Inevitably, they ask me to do something and I have to explain that I can't because I'm not there.