Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.

Willow ,'Bring On The Night'


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.


Kathy A - Feb 11, 2011 12:01:00 pm PST #22443 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Oh, man, that blows! One of the reasons I am not really looking forward to getting the MLS and venturing into the public library field.

IcompletelyON, I am soooo tired of winter that I decided to place an order for my spring/summer shirts. At least I found a coupon that ended up saving me $37 on the six shirts--woohoo! And I ordered them in the size I know I should be at or at least near in April, which is hopefully when I can start wearing them (no more snow! no more cold!!). They're stretchy and long, so I can get away with them if they're still a bit snug by then.


Cashmere - Feb 11, 2011 12:48:59 pm PST #22444 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Jesus fuck, what were people thinking? (Not Sail and Cash-type people. The nutters who voted for this creep.)

I swear, all the douchebags in the world got together and elected this man their king.

Our trip to Indiana has been delayed. We started the trip, but had to turn back because DH's stiff neck got worse and he was so uncomfortable he couldn't ride in the van. So we came home, I rubbed his neck down with Tiger Balm, applied a heated rice bag and gave him some ibruprofen. I hope it works. We're going to try to leave again in the morning.

On the upside: it means I get to go to derby practice tonight.


JZ - Feb 11, 2011 12:56:28 pm PST #22445 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.

No cheesecake or pizza or cognac today, alas, just a long dull seminar to bring all the admins up to date on a new faculty-CVs-on-the-intranet program that will make all academic and medical staff appointments and advancements paperless by April. Which, yay and go team paperless!

But the application in its present form includes -- no, doesn't even include, starts out with a tab labeled "Import CV" that, if the faculty member clicks it, will import whatever badly-formatted Word doc CV the faculty member pulls off hir desktop and irrevokably overwrite the university-approved fully formatted CV that's already up there. There's no conceivable reason anyone but an HR admin could ever have to click that tab, and it's the first thing the faculty will see when they log in.

We all screamed and recoiled and flailed at that tab of evil, and the guy leading the seminar asked innocently why we couldn't just explain to our faculty not to click it, there, problem solved. Um. Dude, have you ever met a doctor?

I think we should start a betting pool on which senior MD will be the first to completely overwrite hir 75-page CV with a kitten singing "Fight the Power" or something.


tommyrot - Feb 11, 2011 12:58:22 pm PST #22446 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

We all screamed and recoiled and flailed at that tab of evil, and the guy leading the seminar asked innocently why we couldn't just explain to our faculty not to click it, there, problem solved. Um. Dude, have you ever met a doctor?

As a programmer, I say, "Dude. Have you ever met a user?"

Of course, most users are fine. But even if 1% of users click on it, it still makes a mess.


Tom Scola - Feb 11, 2011 1:00:40 pm PST #22447 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Tell them they should make the tab bright red, and label it "History Eraser Button".


JZ - Feb 11, 2011 1:04:23 pm PST #22448 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.

Tell them they should make the tab bright red, and label it "History Eraser Button".

And, sadly, I can still guarantee you that won't deter everyone. Most people, yes, but there'll still be that small handful who come to their admins afterward saying mournfully, "Well, I didn't understand what it meant, so I figured it didn't mean me."


msbelle - Feb 11, 2011 1:06:23 pm PST #22449 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am so frustrated with the website for one of the companies that would be a really good place for me to work. When I log in to the careers section, it periodically gives me an error, other times takes my log in, but within a step or two cycles me back to the main page as if I had never signed in. I sent them an email explaining the situation and giving them my browser information, but it makes me doubt whether my other two job submissions ever went through. grrrr.

I could be their site tester. In fact, if I do not get an answer in a day or two, maybe I will sent the head of HR as well as the IT department head an email complete with screen shot and step by step process I took.


Atropa - Feb 11, 2011 1:17:58 pm PST #22450 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Where are people talking about Glee? I don't watch it, but I DO have a question about it.


JZ - Feb 11, 2011 1:18:46 pm PST #22451 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.

Comedy.


Atropa - Feb 11, 2011 1:21:34 pm PST #22452 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Thank you, JZ!