Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.

Riley ,'Help'


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.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 6:08:56 pm PDT #27455 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile

Well, I don't know how they're going to get them otherwise, so I'd figure so.


Kat - Mar 20, 2012 6:10:16 pm PDT #27456 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm not creeped out about the social seating thing on KLM at all. In December, when they announced it, I thought, huh, weird. But you have to opt in and share info and you don't have to do it. I'd use social seating to avoid anyone who USED social seating as means of meeting people. It would be a handy filter.

xpost with Vortex!

That is if I were ever to fly again.


Hil R. - Mar 20, 2012 6:12:12 pm PDT #27457 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I put practically all of my purchases on my credit card, because I get rewards points. But my bank gives me a better interest rate on my savings account if I make five debit card purchases per month, so I've started doing that -- the first five lunch/coffee/whatever cheap stuff purchases of each month go on debit.


sarameg - Mar 20, 2012 6:18:02 pm PDT #27458 of 30001

I GOT TRAVEL APPROVAL. Now to conquer the travel website. Not a small thing.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 6:33:24 pm PDT #27459 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) has to make an investment t make seat and greet work. So they think there's a PR payoff, since it's free. Somehow it's going to increase customer satisfaction or something related enough to bring in a profit or just make their flyers happy puppies. All I can wonder--was it really cheap? Does management really think a significant portion of their customers like that? Expect that sort of treatment? Enough for an ROI (Return On Investment)?

I dunno where that comes from.

A few days ago I read about an app that looked like a reference to an iPad game that was basically online Pictionary. With a touch of Hangman. Does anyone know what the game is called?


Steph L. - Mar 20, 2012 6:34:40 pm PDT #27460 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

(Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)

I see what you did there.


Kat - Mar 20, 2012 6:38:02 pm PDT #27461 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I am getting nitpick(ier). I just corrected an NPR post about Suzanne Collins and her father by linking to a NYT article.

I'm an English NERD!


le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 6:39:26 pm PDT #27462 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

what I want:

have a person sit next to me on the plane who is quiet, does not have BO, and who will not watch porn or invade my personal space more than is absolutely necessary.

The FB shit has GOT to go.

I wonder what an employer would think of me: I am not on FB and while I am on twitter, I would not disclose that since I don't use my real name nor do I want to be found by professional associates.


Dana - Mar 20, 2012 6:41:38 pm PDT #27463 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I almost want a prospective employer to ask for my FB password just so I can tell them to go to hell.


le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 6:42:45 pm PDT #27464 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I feel like we should have a dummy buffista profile whose name/addy changes as needed to help people out.