I think Patrick McEnroe was a complete heel for trying to press Serena for an apology during their doubles championship acceptance speech, and the crowd was right to boo him, and Venus was right to move him on. Time and place, man, time and place.
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
Xander ,'Showtime'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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 14, 2009 11:17:18 am PDT #8771 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2009 11:24:18 am PDT #8772 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Eric Gioia is my Council Member, and his wife just had a baby this morning, so I'm voting for him. Otherwise, is it wrong that I'm voting for women where possible?
My practice on ballots where I know nothing about any of the candidates is to vote for women over men, on the principle that it helps correct gender inequity in public office and I'm less likely to help put an entitled former frat boy into power that way.
Dana - Sep 14, 2009 11:31:37 am PDT #8773 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
U.S. Open:
Federer, SHUT UP with your bad self. It's like watching Jesus play tennis or something. I expect him to walk on water next.
Jesse - Sep 14, 2009 11:57:16 am PDT #8774 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Sep 14, 2009 12:38:24 pm PDT #8775 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Man, I like when places that claim 100% customer service actually deliver on that promise.
I ordered a Daredevil trade from Amazon Marketplace. It was a volume 1 of 2; I ordered volume 2 from Amazon directly.
My package came today, with volume 2 and...Civil War: The Road to Civil War. Which has nothing to do with Daredevil, even though it was labeled as volume 1 of the trade I ordered.
I called the seller, and the guy was really nice, and he A) told me to just keep the wrong book and B) is sending me a bundle with volumes 1 and 2 since that's what they have on hand. So I can just return the volume 2 I got from Amazon, and I have come out way ahead on this deal.
(But this sort of goes back to what Hec was saying earlier about places that make all their money on the shipping. It's clearly less cost-effective for them to pay to have the wrong book shipped back and sell it again, somehow.)
Sheryl - Sep 14, 2009 12:43:12 pm PDT #8776 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Why am I waking up at random times during the night? It's not even Nova's fault...(this time)
Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2009 1:01:28 pm PDT #8777 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The seller's losing some money, but he's getting customer satisfaction and a good customer review, and on Amazon your sales live and die by your reviews.
It depends on the book, for me. Once I swapped two of my expensive engineering books, sent them to the wrong people. I paid the shipping to have them sent back to me, and paid shipping again to send them to the right people. I still made a decent profit on the books. (I only had the one copy of both, so I would have had to do that anyway, of course.) But once when I shipped out the wrong paperback, it would have cost me more to pay to have it shipped back to me than I would have made selling it, so I did better to take the loss and pay shipping only once - to send the right book.
I don't even bother to sell paperbacks anymore, unless it's a hard-to-find one. The fee Amazon charges the buyer for shipping is generous and usually more than enough to cover the cost, especially when you use recycled shipping materials as I do, but Amazon has their own fee, and frankly it isn't worth the hassle to make just a buck or two. If it were my living, it would be, but as a side thing to make "spending money", it's not.
Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2009 1:05:25 pm PDT #8778 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
ION, I am sick. I rarely get sick, and I'm not dealing with it well. whine
I want someone to come take care of me. What can I eat if even crackers make me want to barf?
Polter-Cow - Sep 14, 2009 1:10:53 pm PDT #8779 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The seller's losing some money, but he's getting customer satisfaction and a good customer review, and on Amazon your sales live and die by your reviews.
It's strange; after I got the wrong book, I checked the reviews and was surprised that it was actually fairly low (92% in the last 30 days—I normally prefer sellers with 95% or above). Loads of great reviews, but quite a few 1-star reviews about not getting the right product or getting a defective product and having nothing done about it. They must not have talked to the guy I talked to, who was great!
(The funny part was that he "had a theory" about why the book was mislabeled, like they just hired some new guy who was an idiot or something. Obviously, he didn't go into detail, but I was amused that he actually had an inkling of where things went wrong.)
Shir - Sep 14, 2009 1:16:51 pm PDT #8780 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Nilly, the Wedding: Freaking Awesome. I'm dead tired now, but I bet our girl is still there, dancing, giggling, smiling, and stopping every 5 minutes to take her picture with a guest.
And there was so much love there. You can't even begin to imagine.
Words, words and more words tomorrow. Pictures as soon as the bride will allow me to post them for the masses.
Lovely wedding, in every way of the term.
Oh, bed now.