Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.

'The Killer In Me'


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.


Burrell - Apr 15, 2011 12:34:14 pm PDT #3450 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I feel like right now is a good time to quote Liese's words of wisdom:

Liese: Change happens in the heart, one person wrestling with it at a time, and over time (and probably through backtracks) that one person becomes a different person. And that person is in the world, so you have changed the world.


Cashmere - Apr 15, 2011 12:35:18 pm PDT #3451 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Do you ever feel that the weight of stupid sexism is so heavy, that you just want to pick up a baseball bat and start swinging? How do you keep your sanity?

Yes. I don't own a baseball bat, just in case.


Consuela - Apr 15, 2011 12:45:34 pm PDT #3452 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Liese, that's a marvelous quote.

Burrell, thanks for sharing it.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2011 12:48:44 pm PDT #3453 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dilbert creator exposed sock puppeting.


erikaj - Apr 15, 2011 12:51:35 pm PDT #3454 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

He's such a wanker I feel cheated by every chuckle I got from that dumb thing. Take that, certified genius.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 15, 2011 12:51:48 pm PDT #3455 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I wonder if he appreciated credibility back when he had any of it.


Consuela - Apr 15, 2011 12:52:35 pm PDT #3456 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Awesome, ita.

I am not quite evil enough to hope Scott Adams gets pulled from a burning car by a female firefighter. But if he ever does get trapped in a burning car, I really hope that a female firefighter rescues him.


Tom Scola - Apr 15, 2011 12:54:21 pm PDT #3457 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I HATE it when I get dragged into a project at the very last minute, and then everyone else assumes that I know more about the project than they do.


Liese S. - Apr 15, 2011 1:01:13 pm PDT #3458 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, that sucks.

I am having an aggravating day, too, but it's mostly of my own making. I decided I was having problems with the laser printer because of the drum. But instead of buying the $600 maintenance kit, I bought just the drum itself for $150. I get it, no instructions, fine, I buy a service manual from a slightly skeevy website. Manual's great.

But the process of replacing the drum is way more complicated than I'd planned on, mostly because I am a klutz and spilled toner at pretty much every possible interval. The replacement of the drum does not, in fact, solve the problem. And now I have two additional problems, mostly stemming from me trying to clean up the toner.

I think both problems may be resolvable. But the end result appears to be that the drum was fine, but the surrounding bits needed cleaning. But to get those problems resolved means opening it up again, for the fourth time, and I'm just not up to that right now.

To make matters worse, the SO wanted me to go ahead and print the newsletters before I started all this, and I got all the way to the point where I was ready to do so, but then didn't. Now I may not be able to get it back to the point of slightly messy printing where it was. So I should have done what he wanted to begin with.

Blargh.

I always was worse at the physical tech tasks than the programming ones, but I feel this was within my range. Just...not successful.


-t - Apr 15, 2011 1:02:36 pm PDT #3459 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

-t, how did you find out that your taxes had been rejected? I'm not going to be around this weekend to mail them if I need to, and now I'm getting paranoid.

H&R Block sent me an e-mail. It took less than a day. There should be somewhere you can check on your status, however you filed. In fact, I'm going to check the Franchise Tax Board website and maybe try e-filing again directly.

Eta: ah, can't CalFile for a deceased taxpayer. I suppose I can send another copy certified mail on Monday if I get too nervous about it.