Every field has its crazy, I guess.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
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.
Amy - Oct 21, 2011 11:50:52 am PDT #2683 of 30001
Because books.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 11:50:58 am PDT #2684 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're lots of crackpotty people. I'd be surprised to see linguists being any crazier than anyone else, but whatever.
That sounds less like a communications problem (which implies some kind of interference on both sides of the communication) and more like the coworker is being untruthful.
No, he cops to it if I ask it differently. I am willing to say the problem is entirely on his end, you just have to phrase questions so "yes" or something similarly simple and affirmative is not a valid answer. Or you'll get it. Always.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 11:52:29 am PDT #2685 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, apparently the corpse is on the front page of gawker.
Toddson - Oct 21, 2011 11:55:29 am PDT #2686 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Took me a moment ... I thought, briefly, the corpse in question was the (or an) annoying co-worker.
Amy - Oct 21, 2011 11:59:04 am PDT #2687 of 30001
Because books.
In other news, Elmo and Elvis Costello.
Steph L. - Oct 21, 2011 12:15:10 pm PDT #2688 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, apparently the corpse is on the front page of gawker.
Is this because we didn't get to see Bin Laden's corpse? So we're going overboard with the dead!Khadafy dealie? ("We" = "way too much of humanity," NOT "Buffistas.")
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 12:27:51 pm PDT #2689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, dude #1, I said that parameter was the CLIENT IP address. And the one in the gateway settings was the SERVER IP address. Stop conflating them.
Dude #2 (or dudette), I know you're new on the project, but you are seriously asking me the name of the company we're integrating with? It's the same as *name* of the project. It's every fifth word out of everyone's mouth. Some questions you do research on yourself, instead of asking them out loud.
Okay, whew, back to cutting and pasting from MX records.
askye - Oct 21, 2011 12:30:04 pm PDT #2690 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I was stuck in the airport yesterday where CNN first broke the news and they kept showing the cell phone footage of his body on a loop. With the anchors pretty much trying to find new ways of saying there was footage, he was dead, but it was unconfirmed and oh look there's raw footage.
Burrell - Oct 21, 2011 12:47:57 pm PDT #2691 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
No, he cops to it if I ask it differently. I am willing to say the problem is entirely on his end, you just have to phrase questions so "yes" or something similarly simple and affirmative is not a valid answer. Or you'll get it. Always.
Oy! that would drive me bugfuck in a colleague.
le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 12:48:49 pm PDT #2692 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I was listening to a news podcast on the way home and the discussion was that the people of Libya were so terrorized by him that they wanted to see the body to be sure he was dead. I get that impulse and perhaps the people of Libya should have access to this footage if they so desire.
I do question the newscasters in the country showing that crap on loop in a manner that resembles murder/corpse porn. For goodness sake, show it on the news with plenty of warnings once. Then be done with it. It should not show up EVERYWHERE. Most of the people in the US are not that interested in seeing dead bodies everywhere we turn.
I know, what a shocking statement given how many of us watch CSI/NCIS, but those are fictional dead people and special effects. We do not want to see the real thing.