Also, my computer has a virus and the computer person keeps saying "I've never seen that before."
Oh, that's never good.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Amy - Jan 25, 2010 4:22:48 am PST #3960 of 30001
Because books.
Lee - Jan 25, 2010 4:31:24 am PST #3961 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ouch, Sparky.
Sparky1 - Jan 25, 2010 4:54:16 am PST #3962 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Someone else made the coffee in the office this morning, thank goodness.
Lee - Jan 25, 2010 4:59:28 am PST #3963 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
mmmmm, coffee.
sarameg - Jan 25, 2010 5:08:55 am PST #3964 of 30001
Seriously? This cannot be another cold. Just, no.
Gudanov - Jan 25, 2010 5:21:55 am PST #3965 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Ah, dude. Really? I feel bad for South Carolina. It isn't quite as bad when he explained more (I tried to find an article that gave more context), but still.
The Article: [link]
GREENVILLE - Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving people government assistance to "feeding stray animals."
Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, made his remarks during a town hall meeting in Fountain Inn that included state lawmakers and about 115 residents.
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said.
In South Carolina, 58 percent of students participate in the free and reduced-price lunch program.
Bauer's remarks came during a speech in which he said government should take away assistance if those receiving help didn't pass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings if their children were receiving free and reduced-price lunches.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 25, 2010 5:28:01 am PST #3966 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Every once and a while I come upon this word use thing at work that drives me crazy. We have a set of rules for what amount of money you get back if you drop an on-line class. We call them procedures. But there is not procedure; the document does not tell you how to withdraw or get a refund, it just tells you the rule about what amount you get back. I would call this a policy. But apparently you cannot have a true policy without the faculty voting on it, and rules that the faculty did not vote on are called procedures. BUT THERE IS NO PROCEDURE!!!
brenda m - Jan 25, 2010 5:32:06 am PST #3967 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Um, it's just as bad. Take away the stuff about "breeding" and he's still proposing withholding food from needy children in order to punish their parents' bad choices.
(ETA: and I should probably put scare quotes around bad choices, since apparently missing a PTA meeting seems to qualify.)
Sophia Brooks - Jan 25, 2010 5:34:17 am PST #3968 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just read that. Did he just call people on food stamps or receiving public assistance "stray animals"???!!! As in not actually human beings?
Gudanov - Jan 25, 2010 5:36:28 am PST #3969 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I'm not saying it's not bad, but he doesn't keep going down the dehumanizing path. I have a big problem with treating children like property.