Barb, if it's any consolation, in the future when a doctor asks when she started, it'll be a memorable date.
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Apr 01, 2010 1:31:24 pm PDT #20349 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Barb - Apr 01, 2010 1:52:40 pm PDT #20350 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Barb, if it's any consolation, in the future when a doctor asks when she started, it'll be a memorable date.
Provided they believe me!
P.M. Marc - Apr 01, 2010 2:06:47 pm PDT #20351 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Speaking of which -- why in 2010 can't all browsers render all punctuation marks at all times? Why is this still an issue? A dash should not break things!
Where's the dash coming from? If it's from somewhere outside of the standards set by ISO, that'd be why.
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2010 2:11:02 pm PDT #20352 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Laziness and ignorance on the part of web developers, combined with overly complicated, esoteric rules about how browsers choose the character set, and a lot of legacy tools that don't work properly.
Ginger - Apr 01, 2010 2:15:10 pm PDT #20353 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
This is about my speed for April Fool's. From today's e-mail:
May is National Historic Preservation Month. The Georgia Trust and Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia DNR (HPD) present the Georgia Preservation Month Lecture Series, where speakers will focus on the benefits of going green. Guest speakers include Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, the Incredible Hulk, and Gumby. Special appearances will be made by Shrek and the Jolly Green Giant, who will discuss how they have made being green into successful careers.
Also, Book View Cafe [link] is featuring its zombie authors.
bon bon - Apr 01, 2010 2:19:28 pm PDT #20354 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Well, I almost always use chrome. I see lots semicolons, dashes and quotes that aren't rendered correctly on different sites but the only site I consistently remember is the "print this" page on NYMag, i.e.: [link]
P.M. Marc - Apr 01, 2010 2:20:21 pm PDT #20355 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
combined with overly complicated, esoteric rules about how browsers choose the character set
About EVERYTHING to do with your browser.
For that matter.
Boy howdy.
DavidS - Apr 01, 2010 2:20:28 pm PDT #20356 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
People who are not my fb friends, or missed it. Hubby is Bartender of the Month
Fuckyeah!
Get healed up, ita.
Emmett's writing about Jimmy Carter, sprawled on his belly in his baseball uni. He's got to wrap it up so we can get to practice and I can take his stuff to a cafe and type it up.
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2010 2:25:32 pm PDT #20357 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
If people would just use UTF-8 everywhere, it wouldn’t be a problem. But for a place with a workflow like the NYT, there are probably at least a dozen places where the character encoding could possibly get screwed up along the line.
bon bon - Apr 01, 2010 2:28:14 pm PDT #20358 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
If people would just use UTF-8 everywhere, it wouldn’t be a problem.
This is the thinking that is the problem, right? Someone who is composing a blog comment in Word doesn't know what UTF-8 is. But the six or seven browsers, you would think, could recognize smart quotes.
ETA: I don't compose things in Word, just tired of seeing code for nonbreaking space and whatnot.