I am joining in on the stink-eye, shrift. 2011 needs to start being a hell of a lot nicer to you.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Feb 07, 2011 9:55:52 am PST #21601 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Steph L. - Feb 07, 2011 9:56:37 am PST #21602 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Anyone want to chip in for a live chicken to take the curse off shrift? I'm good for a fiver.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2011 9:57:33 am PST #21603 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just got chewed out by my boss because another group is giving us inconsistent information. I forwarded him what timestamps I could to contradict them, but the damage is probably done.
Dammit.
At least my pain meds will be refilled soon. No Ambien, though, which is making things tough.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2011 10:12:15 am PST #21604 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jezebel.com has gotten the redesign. They like it even less than IO9 did. Imagine if they'd gotten that buggy version!
Jesse - Feb 07, 2011 10:13:54 am PST #21605 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As has gawker.com. I think I might be done with them all.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2011 10:17:26 am PST #21606 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 has at least temporarily lost posters. Which is sad. It's certainly getting less of my time. I'd check gawker and jezebel in my free time, but I'm now significantly less likely to do that.
Nick Denton is making wagers with someone that page views won't go down (they already have for IO9), and he's replying to every tweet telling them to use the "classic" view.
Couple that with the fact that there's a video telling you how to use the new site--major usability fail. It's supposed to be a web site, not an application. Who wants to invest that much effort? I love IO9, but I'm not watching that video.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2011 10:18:42 am PST #21607 of 30001
hwæt
I was done with Nick Denton a long, long time ago.
billytea - Feb 07, 2011 10:32:21 am PST #21608 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.
Okay, no, actually, a billytea question: The county doesn't do snakes, so my dad would have to get a professional pest control person with reptile experience in, which obviously he wouldn't want to do unless it was absolutely, definitely rattlesnakes and not any kind of mimics. Is this phone camera picture even remotely identifiable?
I agree with Cash. The head to me looks more like a colubrid like a Pacific gopher snake, than a viper. The colouring could certainly be a gopher snake. The tail posture mostly matters if it was trying to threaten your dad when he took the pic.
I would certainly not be so sure about it as to recommend anyone try picking it up, though.
JZ - Feb 07, 2011 10:48:11 am PST #21609 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thanks, everyone. I'm prodding my dad now to post the snake-head pics.
javachik - Feb 07, 2011 11:00:03 am PST #21610 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, JZ's dad lives pretty near me. I've seen 3 rattlesnakes in the last year on my dog walks. I don't have a snake phobia, thank god. 11 years of being a camper and camp counselor in the San Bernardino mountains stomps that right out of you.
And this is not to say that people shouldn't have phobias about animals, but I personally am far more scared of people than any animal. I carry pepper spray on my dog walks for predators, mostly of the two-legged variety.