Aims! The Giants rookie Brandon Belt is a tall gangly dude such that the local announcer compared him (quite aptly) to a baby giraffe. He got to meet a baby giraffe.
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 8:55:33 am PDT #23833 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2011 9:00:02 am PDT #23834 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
and it turns out to be a CAUSAL cocktail party.
Are you sure it's not a correlation cocktail party?
Jesse - Sep 02, 2011 9:00:17 am PDT #23835 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess we'll see if I go!
megan walker - Sep 02, 2011 9:01:24 am PDT #23836 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also completely off topic, but, the male editor in my [former] editorial group, who was the only one who had been promoted (twice), just quit because "it wasn't a good fit" because the job had changed so much recently (true, they basically added a whole other job to it) and he was working ridiculous hours as a result. He had been there for almost ten years.
So, in just over a year, they have lost 3 of 5 editors (and hopefully, as of next week, maybe 4). Even my crazy boss is talking of leaving. They are royally screwed. And it's their own damn fault.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 9:05:09 am PDT #23837 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
in my editorial group
They're not your editorial group anymore.
megan walker - Sep 02, 2011 9:08:08 am PDT #23838 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
They're not your editorial group anymore.
Thank god.
Kate P. - Sep 02, 2011 9:20:00 am PDT #23839 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I've not met Me'shell N'degeocello, but I am on the liner notes of one of her albums.
Oooooh, which one?
I sat one table over from Gwyneth Paltrow and a bunch of other famous folks (Chris Martin, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, a few others) at a bluegrass club last year. But my best celeb story is that I once carded Benjamin Bratt for alcohol.
Consuela - Sep 02, 2011 9:20:34 am PDT #23840 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
megan, that sounds a great deal like what happened at my last job. After I left, a staff member a month left for the next year. There was a running joke about doing a calendar of all the refugees. Of that office of about 25, only half a dozen of the folks I worked with are still there.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2011 9:29:24 am PDT #23841 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oooooh, which one?
DJ FFlood, on turntables--me and him grew up together in Jamaica, and we're still in touch. Liner notes were a complete surprise, though.
After I left my MI job, the company closed down. The President and VP realised they could chase their dreams just like I could, so they did, and their dreams were elsewhere, so bye bye computer store. That was kinda startling.
megan walker - Sep 02, 2011 9:36:52 am PDT #23842 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan, that sounds a great deal like what happened at my last job. After I left, a staff member a month left for the next year. There was a running joke about doing a calendar of all the refugees. Of that office of about 25, only half a dozen of the folks I worked with are still there.
The funny thing is, if they had promoted me way back when, when I made my case, I probably would have stayed, even with the crappy pay and long hours. And they essentially told me that they knew I was a lynchpin and that the dominoes would fall if I left. And yet they chose to do nothing.
Admittedly, I never thought A. would leave, since he makes more and it goes much further for him (as he works at home in Phoenix). But, it was so bad that he actually just quit with no other job.