Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?

Glory ,'Potential'


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.


Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2010 10:18:23 am PST #2969 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Gah.

I don't think this guy knows that I can't switch the graphic on one of his pages because THAT PAGE NO LONGER EXISTS.

We have also started a regular Wednesday meeting which I am in charge of that is not just herding cats, it's herding feral cats while someone is spraying them with a hose and they've just eaten a bag of catnip-each.

Finally I have to update 10 lists that use SQL which I do not know. Therefore the rest of my afternoon will be spent painstakingly copying and pasting numbers into lines of code and hoping to christ that nothing gets moved or deleted or repeated or added because I won't know the difference. At least if I'm mucking around in HTML, I know enough to know if something is off.

This is my day. How is everyone else's?


Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2010 10:19:35 am PST #2970 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I can't decide whether it makes it worse or better that this is actually not an emoticon but a hand-drawn smiley.

Dude. That's some serious obliviousness. Might as well have written LOL on the damn thing.


Calli - Jan 20, 2010 10:23:30 am PST #2971 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm waiting to start a conference call with subcontractors so they can tell us how doing something they agreed to do a year ago will be impossible, and by the way, the fact that we have documentation showing they agreed to do it in no way suggests that they can get it done.

Not that I'm cynical. Or bitter. Or wishing I could drink scotch at 3:25 pm on a work day.


Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2010 10:24:54 am PST #2972 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, "loose motions" sure didn't mean what I thought it meant...


§ ita § - Jan 20, 2010 10:27:35 am PST #2973 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a query that doesn't make sense, and it's all my fault. 2+2 is just not adding up for me. Damned subqueries. That is my day. That and being spoken to pissily by the New Guy. He doesn't like when I redline his documents. I don't like when he sends them outside the team wrong. But I'm moving on. Now I want to ask him why his voicemail received indicator has been on for weeks, and how he knows when new mail comes in. Just need to frame it right.


Anne W. - Jan 20, 2010 10:32:35 am PST #2974 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

ita, the more I hear about New Guy, the more I wonder how long it will be before he's Fired Guy.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2010 10:34:09 am PST #2975 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Now I want to ask him why his voicemail received indicator has been on for weeks, and how he knows when new mail comes in.

I swear at least a quarter of the people I work with have this going on. I don't get it.

Granted, you have to jump through hoops to delete voicemails around here, but still.


Steph L. - Jan 20, 2010 10:35:26 am PST #2976 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I can't decide whether it makes it worse or better that this is actually not an emoticon but a hand-drawn smiley.

Dude. That's some serious obliviousness. Might as well have written LOL on the damn thing.

Man, on another board, where someone objected to the use of the word "rape" metaphorically (like, "I got raped by that parking ticket!"), due to having been actually raped, someone else replied (and I'm paraphrasing, although the ASSCAPS are as the person used them) with "I have freedom of speech so if I want to use RAPE then I'll use RAPE as often as I want and I don't care if you don't like it when I say RAPE. LOL!"

And -- completely ignoring what a rude, tacky-ass bitch she was being -- all I could really think was, why the damn "LOL"? I mean, she may have actually been laughing out loud as she typed, but it SO undermined the perceived "gotcha" of her response.


tommyrot - Jan 20, 2010 10:39:12 am PST #2977 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.

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Jessica - Jan 20, 2010 10:40:03 am PST #2978 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Tep, using LOL as punctuation is a first ammendment RIGHT!! Why do you hate America LOL????