Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!

Oz ,'Bring On The Night'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Lee - Jan 19, 2009 7:42:24 pm PST #2074 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

More Scola Visit pictures [link]


msbelle - Jan 19, 2009 7:48:45 pm PST #2075 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

OMG, I want a game night.


billytea - Jan 19, 2009 7:48:53 pm PST #2076 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Scola crushed us with his mathical brain.

Well, of course.

I have played neither of these games. I don't do much in the party game space anymore - Bohnanza is what counts as a party game for me these days. (The one party game whose loss I really mourn is Pictionary. My youngest brother and I make a killer team, I've always enjoyed playing with him. But thatnks to some bad experiences with friends, he refuses to play it anymore.)


shrift - Jan 19, 2009 7:49:30 pm PST #2077 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I did not accomplish much today, but I did make pie. Delicious pie.

Aurelia (and Brenda, if you can make it), how do you feel about dinner tomorrow? Or Wednesday? I usually leave work around 6 or 6:30. I haven't eaten at Singha in ages, so that's my suggestion unless there's someplace else you'd like to try.


billytea - Jan 19, 2009 7:52:23 pm PST #2078 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

OMG, I want a game night.

My fondest memories from my FAC days are of games nights (including one where they awarded prizes for best scores, first prize being a block of limburger to contribute the smell of success).


msbelle - Jan 19, 2009 7:58:37 pm PST #2079 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I think with mac liking his PS2 solo games enough now, I could actually have people over for dinner and a game or two. Of course if someone were to play with mac, I could make it more like lunch and many hours of games.


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2009 8:01:15 pm PST #2080 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I miss game nights too. But with Polgara you have to shore yourself up. She has the competitive gene.

I think Take On Me is my favourite one hit wonder with video, although I have heard at least one more Aha song.


Hil R. - Jan 19, 2009 8:11:42 pm PST #2081 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I miss game night. But most of my friends now are from other countries, so games like Trivial Pursuit just aren't fair, and neither are language-based games like Scrabble and Boggle, and we usually end up with logic-based games, which I tend to get bored with pretty quickly.


Typo Boy - Jan 19, 2009 8:16:51 pm PST #2082 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

If you choose to work contractor the best way to handle health insurance is join some sort of group, so you can get group rates. And given your conditions choose the expensive options that give you the widest choice of provider. In Washington State if you've had coverage, they only let providers rate you on age not previous condition, which would keep costs within reason. Not sure all states have that rule, so you need to check regulations in whatever state you would live.

Chamber of commerce is the best deal for many people (so you pay the annual fee to be a chamber member, plus the monthly fee for your insurance, plus co-pays, deductibles and so on.)

Years ago the way to translate contract rates into rates for a company that provides benefits and pays employers portion of social security was to discount by 30% to 40%. Don't know what the formula today is, but maybe some HR people on board can say. At any rate I'm pretty sure you have to figure contractor payment is worth at least 35% less per hour than working as an employee. Benefits, tax status employer portion of FICA, unbillable hours - both for paperwork, and for stuff that you actually do for client that for various reasons you cannot bill.

And this asumes that you can get group health insurance that is purely age rated. Don't know whether some states can take existing condition into account when setting rates even if you have had no period without insurance.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 19, 2009 8:21:12 pm PST #2083 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I sort of wish I could play Trivial Pursuit on-line with Buffistas. I miss a good game. I play with my family at Thanksgiving, but my uncle always wins because none of the rest of us can do Sports and Leisure.