I do think my ex-coworker from Osaka would take issue with the claim that the best ramen in the world is found in Tokyo. Them's fighting words!
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
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.
Jessica - Sep 17, 2009 6:51:27 am PDT #9376 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Frankenbuddha - Sep 17, 2009 6:54:39 am PDT #9377 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I agree in principle, but having been to Frank Pepe's, I can't argue with their conclusions.
Frank Pepe's is awe-inspiringly good pizza. Every trip I've taken out of New England in the last decade plus has included a detour to New Haven on at least one direction of the trip.
Gudanov - Sep 17, 2009 6:55:52 am PDT #9378 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I'm starting to hear that there is an actual controversy over the policy czars. I'm not sure, but this might be the most stupid controversy yet.
Strega - Sep 17, 2009 7:02:55 am PDT #9379 of 30001
What would you have Automator do for your life? (It automatically does routine functions.)
Laundry. Including the folding-and-putting-things-away part.
There's other general cleaning & tidying stuff I wouldn't mind having automated, but if I could pick one thing, it'd definitely be laundry. With every other chore, I get some small amount of satisfaction when it's done.
Glamcookie - Sep 17, 2009 7:05:33 am PDT #9380 of 30001
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
Happy birthday, Perkins!
Liese S. - Sep 17, 2009 7:09:38 am PDT #9381 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So with you, Strega. I hate the folding and putting away bits of laundry. It drives me mad because it only takes a literal few minutes. But I hate it and never do it and it therefore takes a year and results in wrinkled dirty freshly laundered clothes. I'm trying to be better about short stupid tasks like that and just get them done.
Which reminds me, I need to get offline and unload the dishwasher. And do the budget. And get the fundraising software working.
Damn.
DavidS - Sep 17, 2009 7:11:05 am PDT #9382 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I hate the folding and putting away bits of laundry.
JZ and I often split this process so I haul it to the laundromat, wash it, dry it, haul it back. And she folds and puts it away.
Though she also often does the whole thing herself, either at her Dad's house, or just in the nabe.
Still, it's nice to be able to break it into two.
Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2009 7:12:25 am PDT #9383 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Half of what I get is abusive about my weight. It's really weird.
When I attempted Craigs List personals I had my ad get flagged and taken down as inappropriate content or somesuch. Poking around on the internets I discovered this is a phenomenon -- guys will flag "BBW" ads so they're taken down.
My understanding is that its an automatic threshhold X number of flags and bye-bye post -- so I'm not all too annoyed at Craigs List as an entity. My other understanding is that X is a substantial number and you can't sit there flagging a post over and over -- so I'm kind of queasy at the thought of dozens or hundreds of guys doing this on principle or for kicks or something.
This was the end of Trudy and Personal Ads.
megan walker - Sep 17, 2009 7:13:48 am PDT #9384 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
....what is that color screen called that you used to see at the end of a broadcast day on tv??
By the way, it is still used, much to my surprise. I taped an hour of one just this week (when I was trying to tape Clean Sweep on TLC at 6am).
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2009 7:14:14 am PDT #9385 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have gotten into the habit of folding my laundry fairly quickly, but then it stays in the laundry basket forever. I can't explain why.
Happy birthday, Perkins!