What'd you all order a dead guy for?

Jayne ,'The Message'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

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.


Calli - Jun 15, 2010 7:40:34 am PDT #6669 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

This is me resisting trying to grab 6666.

Oops.

[whine] I slept about 3 hours last night and came in to a "We must skype now!" message from a coworker in Pretoria. She wanted to change the entire design of the website I'm building for them. The site that's launching next week. Oh, and I can I do that without delaying launch? No. No, I can't. And even if I could, I wouldn't because people should not change the entire site design (colors, fonts, headers, menu location, etc.) a week before launch, so unless the current version causes puppies to spontaneously combust she can suck up and deal with the design she and all her higher-ups approved months ago.

Then I got to sit in a 2 hour benefits meeting where the visiting speaker tried to convince us that our health insurer was our partner in health. So we needed to be sure to send in as few claims as possible for the insurer who will be raising our rates 10% next month to try to weasel out of, cause that weaseling costs time and money and they'll just have to raise rates again next year if we keep expecting them to, you know, cover stuff. I kinda wanted to tie her in a sack with a couple dozen hungry mink. Bet her insurance doesn't cover that, either.

So, on the upside I have a job and bennies, but my diamond shoes are rubbing up some blisters here and there. [/whine]


Jessica - Jun 15, 2010 7:45:59 am PDT #6670 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We were talking about Jamie Oliver here a while back - here's a guy whose trying to do the same thing about school lunches, but without being an obstinate douchebag about it:

[link]


erikaj - Jun 15, 2010 7:46:31 am PDT #6671 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Concrete Jesus seems like one of those things KO would use his mock-Cronkite voice and "report" for Oddball. (I don't know who's the bigger geek, there. Him for doing it, or me for recognizing Uncle Walter impressions despite being very young when Cronkite hung up his press pass.) But I think that is really funny, anyway.


Scrappy - Jun 15, 2010 7:47:41 am PDT #6672 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Can I just mention that I am wearing my new shoes today and they are totally stylin'? Cause I am and they are. [link]


Theodosia - Jun 15, 2010 7:49:53 am PDT #6673 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"

OK, I didn't resist very hard.


Trudy Booth - Jun 15, 2010 7:51:17 am PDT #6674 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

We were talking about Jamie Oliver here a while back - here's a guy whose trying to do the same thing about school lunches, but without being an obstinate douchebag about it:

Sure, but how are his ratings ?


smonster - Jun 15, 2010 7:59:59 am PDT #6675 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

From the site Tom linked, I love this dress. [link] Pretty sure Sela Ward wore something similar in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.


Stephanie - Jun 15, 2010 8:02:04 am PDT #6676 of 30001
Trust my rage

Does anyone know if you can see streaming World Cup online without paying ESPN? Because I really want to watch Brazil play.

I'd also be happy with audio only, if it exists.


juliana - Jun 15, 2010 8:04:18 am PDT #6677 of 30001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I think Univision has a stream, Stephanie. My Spanish is atrocious, but the commentators are so much less annoying than ESPN's. Also, their audio mix drops the pitch of the constant horn noise in the stadium, which makes it more palatable to me.


Jesse - Jun 15, 2010 8:10:07 am PDT #6678 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I saw something in a facebook comment about logging in somewhere with your Comcast info, if you have Comcast?