It's a bit late for Mother's Day, but I just stumbled across A Biologist's Mother's Day Song. It's both nerdy AND tear-inducing!
Angel: Just admit it: you think you're gonna ride in, save the day, and sweep Buffy off her--Spike: Like you're not thinking the same thing. Angel: I'm already seeing somebody. Spike: What, dog girl?
'The Girl in Question'
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.
Jessica - May 13, 2010 8:57:04 am PDT #29218 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Sparky1 - May 13, 2010 9:19:45 am PDT #29219 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
I am back from talking to the roofers and showing them the damage from the storm. Conversation was something like:
Me: This needs to be fixed.
Them: It's fine.
Me: This needs to be fixed.
Them: Fixing it will make a big mess.
(Lather, rinse, repeat)
Me: Are you willing to put that in writing and indemnify me and all future owners of this property for all current and subsequent repairs?
Them: Let me call the boss.
Big Boss shows up in person: Okay, we'll have it all fixed by the time you get home tonight.
Calli - May 13, 2010 9:25:05 am PDT #29220 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Steph L. - May 13, 2010 9:30:41 am PDT #29221 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Unrelated font humor: [link]
I just e-mailed that to my entire department.
msbelle - May 13, 2010 9:37:39 am PDT #29222 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
my parents are getting painting quotes today. YAY!
I got my first water bill....over $100.00....boo!
tommyrot - May 13, 2010 9:47:01 am PDT #29223 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Very strange. An anti-terrorism ad in Saudi Arabia that compares terrorists to clowns. Evil clowns.
Sparky1 - May 13, 2010 9:50:45 am PDT #29224 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
I think I need to pay attention more: I was just reading an email from my sister in gmail (which she does not use) and in the sidebar was a link to the googlemap with her address listed.
Her address certainly wasn't in that email exchange, and when I search my gmail it isn't in anything I've saved.
Now I have to figure out where they're mining that information from.
Theodosia - May 13, 2010 9:55:37 am PDT #29225 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sparky, could you have her address saved in your Contacts list? Either way it'd make me worried.
Sean K - May 13, 2010 9:59:53 am PDT #29226 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sparky, if I understand how that data mining works, it may just be that your sister has her address on her Gmail profile somewhere, and the data miner pulled it from there.
We're really at the point where if there's any information you only want to share with selected people, stay off the internet.
And if there's any of that information you've put on the internet over the years, you're too late. You could go hunt all of it down and delete it where you can find and get to it, but even that wouldn't do you any good because it's already spread beyond where you can get to it.
As much as I dislike Facebook's privacy policy, they may be one of the few companies being realistic about it (though they need better PR about it).
You CAN'T protect your information online. You. Can't. The best approach is to stop worrying about it.
Sparky1 - May 13, 2010 10:02:42 am PDT #29227 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
your sister has her address on her Gmail profile
She doesn't use gmail, so it's not that. I have no addresses in my gmail contacts.
The best approach is to stop worrying about it.
It's not worry, it's my librarian brain wanting to know what the search algorithm is doing.