Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


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.


sumi - Apr 02, 2012 10:10:23 am PDT #29238 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Triumph! Our lan admin made me an administrator on my own computer. I am updating itunes and adobe even as I type.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2012 10:16:53 am PDT #29239 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

Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney


Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2012 10:40:33 am PDT #29240 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney

I wish I had thought up the phrase "face-time continuum"! That was funny.


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2012 11:48:50 am PDT #29241 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That warehouse shipping story was a bit...damn. You really have a hand scanner that tells you how many steps it's supposed to take you to get to the goods you're fetching? That's ridic.

eta: Today is not a good day. My manager was already not happy with me, and I pissed her off further by doing work that wasn't actually mine, but I was helping someone out. Which meant that she had to sign off on it, and she refused, and I had to officially throw the work back out into the pool.

I'm just trying to not say no, and to be helpful, dammit.


Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2012 11:51:41 am PDT #29242 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Okay, fuck this. I'm a farm kid. I can deal with a goddam tick.

puts on nitrile glove

snap!


Ginger - Apr 02, 2012 11:52:35 am PDT #29243 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Do you have tweezers?


Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2012 11:55:35 am PDT #29244 of 30001
brillig

We always used the blown out match trick to get the tick to let go.


Typo Boy - Apr 02, 2012 12:00:26 pm PDT #29245 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Practical jokes. In a place a I used to work in back in 2000, a new hire top manager was greeted by finding TRS-80 with a 300 baud modem on his desk. He trumped that by keeping both for his personal collection. Proved himself and fit right in. But it meets the ita ! test of not being a hoax or a deception.


SuziQ - Apr 02, 2012 12:00:38 pm PDT #29246 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I have been put in the position of mentoring two other people who are part of our group - one is multiple grade levels higher than I am. I hadn't realized he was a higher grade until today. Based on his knowledge and the training time I've put in with him, I'm surprised.

But now I understand why he has been the more difficult of the two to work with. And, of course, I'm getting the most pressure regarding his projects. I'm trying to step lightly, but, I fear, at some point I'm going to have to be a pushy b*tch.


Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2012 12:03:06 pm PDT #29247 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Turns out, a bathroom sink is a great place to trap a squirming screeching cat while you do something like pluck a tick off his nethers.

In conclusion, ew.