Discussing the complexities of programming grammar in Tech:
ita !: I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.
Jessica: If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"
....or am I missing something?
(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)
ita !: I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.
I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.
There's a lesson here for all of us.
Jessica: I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?
ita !: One nice things.
In Bitches, Scrappy with the setup, and billytea for the win
She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life." Really? REALLY?
Send her a reply saying that sending threatening letters through the mail is a federal offence.
Ginger also had a pretty good response to Scrappy:
Honey, you can keep the Jesus. You need it more.
In Boxed Set:
Dana: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, and Michael Gambon are combining to make one wizard-telepathic-mutant British starship captain.
Jesse -
The "wrong" names make me irrationally angry. I'm going to go up to some Girl Scouts on the street and yell "Two Samoas and one Trefoil!!!"
...and then I'll go to Starbucks and order a medium coffee.
In Natter, ita ! has opinions on Judge Dredd's sexuality:
Someone on IO9 is excoriating me for being a perv who wants Judge Dredd gay because I have established a long history of forcing sexual attraction readings and fanfic onto canon. The conversation? "Judge Dredd is too fascist to not be asexual." "Why would fascism make you asexual? Here is a book with famous fascist sexual perverts" "Oh, so now you're saying all fascists are gay? Are all environmentalists furries?" "No, I said they can have erections." "FANFIC PERVErT" "Hitler and Lenin had sex drives" "STOP SHUTTING DOWN DISCOURSE WITH FAKE GAY" "I think I need to go now."
In Natter:
Cashmere sets it up: "And tomorrow, I get to jump in a frozen lake!..."
And Le Nubian hits it out of the park: "OMG that is super cool."
erikaj:
And I should either be at a doctor's appointment or sitting around going "Nope. Not walking today, either." But still manage to have the kind of attitude that lights up a room, like crips on TV have.
Windsparrow
in Buffista Fic:
Good gravy, do people actually lave things in fic? I'd sooner resort to making manhoods throb.
