Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.

'Safe'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


Nora Deirdre - Oct 20, 2011 5:26:51 pm PDT #2542 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I nearly choked on my pizza. Which had cheese (two kinds) but no hummus.

If you got your pizza at Regnelli's (which I suspect you have) note that they do have a hummus app which is actually pretty tasty.

In other news, apparently Louisiana just banned legal tender for second-hand merchandise.

While this sounds crazypants (and I will be investigating it more thoroughly shortly) I will say that metal/copper theft and resale is a HUGE HUGE ENORMOUS issue here and it appears that is bill, however totally ridonkulous, is trying to address that.

If this bill is what it seems to be, it makes me laugh that Louisiana must go about and apply the EXACT WRONG SOLUTION in the MOST EGREGIOUS MANNER to an actual problem.

And I will admit to being pretty annoyed by the ha-ha aren't southern people the most fucking stupid people on the planet tone of the comments. They are politicians. Of course they're stupid. At least they're stupid and self-serving in a more entertaining manner than in the S-M-R-T-er states.


Stephanie - Oct 20, 2011 5:27:35 pm PDT #2543 of 30001
Trust my rage

Fwiw, most prisoners eat on a really early day schedule. Meal time is very guard intensive and by shifting the hours the prisoners eat, it allows the guards to rotate in and out at their meal times without needing a lot of extra guards.


Kat - Oct 20, 2011 5:32:22 pm PDT #2544 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I mark papers in red pen when I mark them in hard copy. Otherwise, I ask they submit it all online. I don't do track changes; I just comment.

The first paper set for my AP kids is always turned in online and I print and comment big time (that way I can keep track of word count and check for plagiarism quickly) usually in red pen or green or purple or even black or blue.

I have also instituted fatal errors. If kids make a set of mistakes then I stop grading and they get a zero. I'm going to make a stamp with a kiss on it and just say it's the kiss of death. Fatal errors include not capitalizing I, not punctuating titles, misspelling literature, author, poet or the name of the texts about which you are writing. I also count the set of big homonyms as major errors when used incorrectly.

In other news, Grace is changing schools as of Monday. Her last day at her old school is tomorrow. They, oddly, made her student of the month. Wha? Also they actually wrote in her IEP, which is a legally binding document, that she is adorable. So now she is legally adorable. Oy.


smonster - Oct 20, 2011 5:34:05 pm PDT #2545 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

If you got your pizza at Regnelli's (which I suspect you have)

Totes did! It was pretty tasty. I actually don't like most hummus. Heresy, I know.

I will say that metal/copper theft and resale is a HUGE HUGE ENORMOUS issue here

Indeed. Like, once the wiring is in, you best start sleeping in your house, or it won't be there long. Nora and I know someone whose wiring has been stolen out at least twice, if not three times.


le nubian - Oct 20, 2011 5:34:59 pm PDT #2546 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

what?

damn smonster. Although I heard that they have ripped out the innards of most of the houses in the Detroit area.


smonster - Oct 20, 2011 5:35:13 pm PDT #2547 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

So now she is legally adorable. Oy.

Awesomecakes.


Kat - Oct 20, 2011 5:37:15 pm PDT #2548 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

smonster, easy for you to say. She's like Miss Princess already. She's been imitating the teacher shushing people. At soccer (where she won the sportsman award -- again, kid you not... this is the kid who made herself throw up when she didn't want to play), the volunteers love to pick her up and spin her around and Alexie, the little boy in a walker, actually said today, "I have a crush on Gracie. She's cute!"

Oy.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2011 5:37:59 pm PDT #2549 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They are politicians. Of course they're stupid.

Not seriously, right?

Quick, Kat, make Noah (my keyboard suggested mpreg for that) legally cute, or something. This cannot stand.


smonster - Oct 20, 2011 5:38:01 pm PDT #2550 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Well, the org I worked for in NC put metal cages around all the A/C units. We had the wiring stolen out from under a house we worked on. They got about $100 of copper; it cost about $5K to rewire, IIRC. There I worked in the hood. New Orleans is mostly hood, or the hood is only ever a few blocks away, I should say.


Nora Deirdre - Oct 20, 2011 5:38:25 pm PDT #2551 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Nora and I know someone whose wiring has been stolen out at least twice, if not three times.

Yep.

Although I heard that they have ripped out the innards of most of the houses in the Detroit area.

Blighted/abandoned properties here have long been stripped for parts. What's heartbreaking is when people were trying to rebuild and literally overnight they'd lose $8K worth of copper and wiring that these fucking crackheads would sell for $500.