Oh god it's funny because it's depressingly true!
[eta: ita's jokes, not the tigerpigs. Those are funny because they're tigerpigs.]
This must be what going mad feels like.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Jessica - Mar 13, 2012 6:34:25 am PDT #26428 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ginger - Mar 13, 2012 7:01:38 am PDT #26429 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
It can't be done. It's a hardware problem.
Tom Scola - Mar 13, 2012 7:04:00 am PDT #26430 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Three. It actually only takes one programmer, but two will leave in the middle of the project.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2012 7:22:41 am PDT #26431 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It actually only takes one programmer, but two will leave in the middle of the project.
And there will be no documentation! And the IT lead will get blamed for the lack of smoothness of transition! BUT SHE WILL GET THE PRODUCT TO RELEASE ON TIME ANYWAY. BECAUSE OF AWESOME.
::cries::
Kate P. - Mar 13, 2012 7:37:27 am PDT #26432 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jess, all good thoughts for your FIL.
It's going to be a warm week in Nashville, which is nice except for how I have nothing I can fit into that is appropriate for warm weather!* And I'm a furnace these days anyway, so just putting on long pants and toughing it out is liable to lead to heatstroke. I foresee a trip to Goodwill and/or Target this weekend.
*Except for the sleeveless dress I am wearing today, which Jon B's FAQwife so generously sent me. Buffista hand-me-downs FTW!
Zenkitty - Mar 13, 2012 7:47:13 am PDT #26433 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, man, I need to do that too. I culled my closet last fall and I have very little warm-weather wear. I thought I'd have another month to get ready for it!
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2012 7:56:53 am PDT #26434 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am currently having a fruitless fight with the support team for the Time Warner Cable payment website. They're telling me to run IE on my Mac, or FF 3.5.
I'm trying to get them to say explicitly that it's company policy that they insist I use abandoned insecure software from 2005, or version 3.5 of a software that's on version 10 right now. I sent them a list of the security flaws that have been fixed since version 4 of Firefox, and asked if they're officially telling me I have to open up my system to those in order to pay my bills.
Thing is, I already paid my bill using Firefox 10. So it's just an exercise in getting clear documentation on how bad their reading/comprehension skills are, and how bad the manual they're regurgitating is.
If their system had been compatible with Opera I wouldn't even have started down this road.
Lee - Mar 13, 2012 8:09:17 am PDT #26435 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I woke up too early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, and I ended up going to the hardware store for a house thing at 7:00 and then installing the thing I bought before I went to work.
I blame both DST and sarameg.
Calli - Mar 13, 2012 8:26:58 am PDT #26436 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I woke up at 1 am thinking there was an earthquake. We don't get a lot of earthquakes in central NC, but it has been known to happen. I fell back asleep pretty quickly, and I haven't seen anything in the news about it, so I guess I was just having a nightmare.
Burrell - Mar 13, 2012 8:29:22 am PDT #26437 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yesterday I had to take care of a sick kid all day PLUS read through 30 or so articles to consider for publication. And then had a work-related meeting from 8 pm-11pm. Yesterday sucked. Oh AND my daughter failed her social studies test spectacularly too!
Today however is going quite well. I still have to assess a bunch of articles, but I have time to wander the internets first, plus a cat purring in my lap.