ION, the cat just overbalanced and fell off the counter.
Cortez tried to jump on my dresser the other day and missed. Then he went and sat in the hallway and stared at the wall, licking his paws, all "I meant to do that, hmph."
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Apr 03, 2011 6:28:03 am PDT #1519 of 30001
Because books.
Theodosia - Apr 03, 2011 6:28:06 am PDT #1520 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"
Management theory is seriously screwed up these days -- it forgets that efficiency can be wrongly defined as "doing more with fewer people" especially when it really means "doing a shittier job" But since that's not nearly as noticeable as a short term result, they get away with it, and move on to new jobs when the company does worse.
More than a few times at Houghton Mifflin I pointed out that if I went along to a sales conference to work on the Notes applications, I could avoid numerous and expensive calls over the next year to our Help Desk with a few hours of hands-on preventive maintenance. (A lot of times I could just look at a screen in person and see immediately what was trouble.) But "there were no funds" to send me or anyone else from our department...
OK I may still be bitter about this going on five years later. Being the award-winning brass polisher on the Titanic does that to you.
Typo Boy - Apr 03, 2011 7:14:04 am PDT #1521 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Theodesia, I just vented yday in write way about what that looks like from the author end.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2011 7:29:24 am PDT #1522 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If I didn't already love my Rep (Capuano), I would defintely love him for this from Friday's e-update:
I don’t really know what to write about the bill that passed in the House this afternoon, H.R. 1255: The Government Shutdown Prevention Act. This bill proposes to “deem” H.R.1 enacted into law if communication on the budget is not received from the Senate by April 6th. H.R.1 is the budget bill passed by the House that contained $100 billion in cuts from the President’s FY 2011 budget. It has already been rejected by the Senate.
Not only is this bill a complete waste of floor time, it is also clearly unconstitutional. As I am sure you realize, the way the legislative process works is that a bill has to pass BOTH the House and the Senate and THEN be signed by the President before it is a law. I’m pretty sure they still teach that in elementary school. I voted NO. Shockingly, this unconstitutional bill passed in the House and the entire vote is recorded below
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2011 7:35:45 am PDT #1523 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Happy Scola Day!!!
smonster - Apr 03, 2011 7:43:17 am PDT #1524 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Happiest of birthdays, Tom! Hope it's lovely.
Anne W. - Apr 03, 2011 7:50:00 am PDT #1525 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Happy birthday, Tom!
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2011 7:53:30 am PDT #1526 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Thanks, Everyone!!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 03, 2011 7:54:00 am PDT #1527 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Hooray, Scola Day! Happy birthday.
aurelia - Apr 03, 2011 7:55:22 am PDT #1528 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Happy birthday, Tom!
I have a Good Stuff question. I remembered to click to get "submit a video" but do I need to use youtube's embed code or just the video link code?