This morning I spent 45 minutes in a teleconference that was mostly taken up (~30 minutes worth) discussing whether we should have the teleconference. The other 15 minutes were spent trying to make sure everyone knew how to use their mics properly.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
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.
Calli - Sep 14, 2011 6:44:59 am PDT #26064 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
P.M. Marc - Sep 14, 2011 6:49:28 am PDT #26065 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Someone email me that link so I can look at it when I am not at work.
The counter-argument from queer people opposed to that is that (1) "queer" = / = all "non-standard" sexuality, and (2) heteroromantic asexuals easily pass for plain old heterosexual and therefore benefit from straight privilege and are not oppressed.
Yes. And #2 is correct. Can you marry any person who you fell in love with legally in all 50 states in the US? Then my violin for you is VERY SMALL, and you need to GET OFF MY LAWN, or I will CUT YOU DED.
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 6:55:14 am PDT #26066 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Yes. And #2 is correct.
Oh, I totally agree. Asexuality (particularly aromantic and heteroromantic) is non-typical sexuality, but it still isn't queer just by virtue of being non-typical sexuality.
Cashmere - Sep 14, 2011 6:56:36 am PDT #26067 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
insent, Plei!
zuisa - Sep 14, 2011 7:07:20 am PDT #26068 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Oh my god. I just right-clicked something and it took twenty seven seconds for the menu to pop up. Whoever normally works here must not use this computer much, because... it can't do much.
Toddson - Sep 14, 2011 7:09:23 am PDT #26069 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Looking at zuisa's tagline (When I was nine years old, I think I wanted to be a brontosaurus.) ... well, your (temporary) computer's a dinosaur - is that close enough?
zuisa - Sep 14, 2011 7:10:40 am PDT #26070 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Haha, absolutely.
The tagline is actually a quote from Fringe, but it's still valid. What nine-year-old DOESN'T want to grow up to be a dinosaur?
flea - Sep 14, 2011 7:16:03 am PDT #26071 of 30001
information libertarian
I spent several months working receptionist temp jobs in DC in 1994-1995, and boy are you taking me back, zuisa! For one thing, this was before the internet. At best I could expect to play computer solitaire; sometimes I had no computer at all, and once I had a typewriter for 2 weeks. In many, many cases I barely had anything to do, and phones never rang. I packed books and read, and studied classical Greek, and typed letters and postcards to people.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2011 7:18:30 am PDT #26072 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I really want to have to stop putting the A/C on. Come on, fall.
Seriously!
zuisa - Sep 14, 2011 7:18:38 am PDT #26073 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
studied classical Greek
This sounds awesome.
I'm SO lucky there's internet, even if the computer is basically useless otherwise. I really should write something or study something. It'd be a much better use of my time.