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Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.

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Sue - Jul 22, 2010 4:45:09 am PDT #13936 of 30001

hip deep in pie

Sue, lack of pollination is becoming a persistent problem in North America generally, because of the bee collapse.

Interesting. I've seen bees in the garden, but they've been at the flower beds, not the veggies. (My zucchini have nasturtium planted around them and the tomatoes have marigolds as companion plants.) And god knows, something is pollinating the tomatoes, because they are out of control.

I loved rice cereal as a kid. So much that I are baby cereal way past the baby age.

Amy - Jul 22, 2010 4:45:40 am PDT #13937 of 30001

Because books.

Oh, I was careful with milk, too! Well, not careful so much as I just didn't give any until they were a year old. I never experimented with any of the others.

Steph L. - Jul 22, 2010 4:58:30 am PDT #13938 of 30001

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

True story: my company's "IT guy" (scare quotes seem to apply here) just came over to my desk with an Iomega hard drive and pointed to a port on the back.

Him: "What's that? I can't connect it to my computer."
Me: "A firewire port. You need my firewire cable?"
Him: "What's firewire?"

Yes, he's the on-staff "computer guy" for a company whose entire production department is Macs. Needless to say, I (and sometimes chatty co-worker) am the entire Mac tech support department for the company.

What's. Firewire.

t facepalm

Tom Scola - Jul 22, 2010 5:12:34 am PDT #13939 of 30001

They pay me in WOIMS

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Kat - Jul 22, 2010 5:16:38 am PDT #13940 of 30001

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Tom is a cutiehead and I laughed when I read his links.

Ginger - Jul 22, 2010 5:20:19 am PDT #13941 of 30001

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Should I vibrate the plants? I have flowers and no tomato!

It does help. While some people use actual vibrators, I just tap the stem near the flowers.

Amy - Jul 22, 2010 5:21:30 am PDT #13942 of 30001

Because books.

Oh man, someone has to apply to this one, just for fun:

If you're interested, please respond with why we should hire you in 140 characters or less.

Daisy Jane - Jul 22, 2010 5:25:20 am PDT #13943 of 30001

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

lso, someone linked to this shoe site, with gorgeous vintage style shoes

smonster's heart just leaped and she doesn't know why.

Jessica - Jul 22, 2010 5:27:56 am PDT #13944 of 30001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I had a very similar conversation with one of my co-workers yesterday, the major difference being that she is a researcher and I, the tech person, was the one with the answers. (And the correct cable - she was trying to plug a Firewire 400 cable into a Firewire 800 port, and it wasn't going well.)

billytea - Jul 22, 2010 5:32:53 am PDT #13945 of 30001

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

(And the correct cable - she was trying to plug a Firewire 400 cable into a Firewire 800 port, and it wasn't going well.)

Yes, yes, I see. Clearly she needed two cables to make them fit.

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