Wow, stocks sure dropped today. The mortgage crises is the financial disaster that just keeps giving.
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
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.
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2008 10:42:53 am PDT #8782 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Kathy A - Sep 15, 2008 11:03:45 am PDT #8783 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love the fact that the Chicago Tribune has an architectural blog, which has posted an interesting overview of what the 1909 Burnham Plan of Chicago has done for the city of today.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2008 11:39:45 am PDT #8784 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dag, I'm tired. And I didn't get here until after 10 this morning, so it's not like I can sneak out early.... I was responding to emails from home, so I guess I was technically on the clock, but still.
Meh.
Hil R. - Sep 15, 2008 11:43:05 am PDT #8785 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I tried to read Les Miserables when I was about 12 or so, but I got bored with it after a while and never finished it.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2008 11:44:15 am PDT #8786 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's wrong with people? I just finished discussing with a recruiter a job opportunity that insists on the applicants submitting a business requirements document, a functional requirements document, and a workflow diagram. Who has those lyring around or can whip them up just like that? I'd have to lift something from work, and that's not right.
javachik - Sep 15, 2008 11:47:41 am PDT #8787 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
ita, I've seen those "lifted" with any pertinent confidential data redacted. Would that work?
Jesse - Sep 15, 2008 11:50:15 am PDT #8788 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, when I have to give a writing sample, I do give something from work. It's pretty common in my field. The request, anyway. Which reminds me, I should sock away some things from this job....
Burrell - Sep 15, 2008 11:52:29 am PDT #8789 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
WRT kids reading age-inappropriate books: One of my friends is an Americanist. When her daughter was six, the young girl picked up her mother's copy of Moby Dick and started reading it. And apparently liked it enough to want to bring it to school the next day to finish reading it. Her teacher was a bit alarmed. My friend was more amused, esp when her daughter expressed interest in getting a Quiqueg (sp?) action figure.
Lee - Sep 15, 2008 12:02:25 pm PDT #8790 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
ita, in completely different news, I spent part of this morning looking at pictures of Christian Bale to send you.
Thank you.
Burrell - Sep 15, 2008 12:06:03 pm PDT #8791 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Taking one for the team were you, Perkins?