I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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 - Jan 29, 2010 10:46:54 am PST #4935 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Liese S. - Jan 29, 2010 10:47:37 am PST #4936 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Man, I am having a crap day for productivity. I don't know what is wrong with me. I think I'm irritated that the SO left this morning to deposit paychecks, which we should have done yesterday so we didn't have to go out in the mud today. Now it's escalated into post office, bank, music store, grocery. Which means that once more for admin day it's me doing admin and him running errands.
Now a) I appreciate him running errands I just wish it were happening on a different day because I have dependencies waiting on him. And b) it's not like I don't need the stuff he's doing to be done.
But somehow this has translated in my brain into "he's not getting anything done until afternoon and therefore I'm not getting anything done until afternoon. Not helpful, brain.
Daisy Jane - Jan 29, 2010 10:49:26 am PST #4937 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
WTF ad for buses in Cardiff.
Wow. Started kinda strange and lame and then totes veered off to WTF there at the end.
Daisy Jane - Jan 29, 2010 11:13:05 am PST #4938 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Dammit! As my friend Wes says, "Oh hey there, boundless human capacity for evil! I forgot you were standing right there, like always."
msbelle, do not read. [link]
Jesse - Jan 29, 2010 11:15:57 am PST #4939 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, I'm reading the internal manual for my job's new CRM system, and do you people actually use "CRUD matrix"??? That might be the funniest thing I've read today.
msbelle - Jan 29, 2010 11:18:48 am PST #4940 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
will not read.
Daisy Jane - Jan 29, 2010 11:20:42 am PST #4941 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I just stopped myself from doing something stupid. Go me!
OTOH Dev dude just came over to boss and I and said, "I did something..."
CRUD matrix
Never heard of it.
Daisy Jane - Jan 29, 2010 11:21:12 am PST #4942 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I sorta wish I hadn't.
Jesse - Jan 29, 2010 11:22:31 am PST #4943 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's so funny! It's for "whether a user is allowed to Create, Read, Update, or Delete" a record.
This is why I'm not reading whatever that article was -- I'm going to sit here and chuckle about the various clusterfucks currently happening at my job that I don't have to be involved with at all.
Steph L. - Jan 29, 2010 11:23:02 am PST #4944 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
This font they apparently had to send us? Helvetica.
Well, it's so hard to get...
OH HOLY GOD, now they've sent a power point presentation for the designers to make graphics out of!
That's what, all of 150 ppi? What possible problem you could have getting that ready for a print publication of 300 ppi or better?
We have authors who (1) thieve copyrighted images off Web sites and tell us to use them [uh, NO, because it's illegal and also 72 goddamn dpi], (2) send us powerpoint slides, (3) send us something photocopied out of a textbook and ask us if we can scan it and "clean it up," and (4) authors who send 72 dpi art and, when we ask if they can send a higher-resolution file, ask "How do I make it bigger?"
AUTHOR FAIL.
(Of course, our boss routinely asks us, and I quote, "You make art smaller in Photoshop; why can't you make it bigger in Photoshop, too?" No matter how many times we explain why the results will be hideous -- and even demonstrate -- we know that within a month, he'll ask us that again and STILL be surprised by our answer.)