Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

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.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 18, 2012 2:36:09 pm PDT #14534 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Didn't she end up teaching the sign language to a deaf boy or man?


Jesse - Jul 18, 2012 2:39:06 pm PDT #14535 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I can't deal with tapping on the trackpad to click, I guess because I have a heavy finger when tracking. I'm always tapping when I don't mean to. So I turn that shit right off! And laugh at other people using my computer.

I totally got yelled at in the last few minutes of my work day, by a notorious yeller who I have successfully avoided until today, and probably won't work with again, thanks to my new coworker. Oy vey. It sort of made me cry (not in front of her), but was also such pure unadulterated bullshit, I will be fine telling my boss about it in the morning. The best line was when she said, "If you want to work with [My Department], you're going to have to [blah blah]." I don't want to work with your department!!!! Good luck, New Coworker....


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 2:40:31 pm PDT #14536 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Steve Jobs is God, right? And he just ascended, not died?

Is the App Store Heaven or Hell? Why in God's name would you decide to put a Mac app in there? What is the plus side? Not having to manage a web/FTP presence? Because it's fucking annoying to me to have to switch browsers (Opera gives the wrong error message, BTW--that you're using the wrong version of OS X, not that you're using the wrong browser, so you actually have to pay attention to get anywhere), load an extra app, and then log in--to get a free piece of software. You're fucking lucky you're a sexy hot piece of shit, Skitch. I wouldn't do this for just any slut piece of code.

Gnargh. Just quasi-blew up on someone in email. We have an error so bad it happens over 50% of the time you load a page on our website, and they've been sitting on the next step of diagnosing the issue for a week and a half with no explanation for why nothing's happening, just "So you want us to do the next step?" every time I ask them to do the next step. And today, I can't wring status out of him without sending him the same email over and over again. So, fine, have a piece of the urgency that is currently up my ass.


-t - Jul 18, 2012 2:46:39 pm PDT #14537 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Not gonna do it, tommyrot! I prefer clicking to click. I am prone to the accidental tap while scrolling or typing or not trying to do anything, I think. It takes a lot of concentration to use a mac with that setting for me.


Dana - Jul 18, 2012 2:48:37 pm PDT #14538 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Oh, man, tapping to click on touchpads drives me insane. I always click and move and open things I don't want to.


aurelia - Jul 18, 2012 2:56:57 pm PDT #14539 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I always click and move and open things I don't want to.

I would do this, too.

Also, does everybody who uses iOS intentionally spell things without apostrophes (like I'll), knowing the autocorrect will fix it?

Yes. I probably wouldn't if the apostrophe was on the same page as the letters.


Jesse - Jul 18, 2012 3:08:25 pm PDT #14540 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm so glad this is not just me with the accidental clicking.


tommyrot - Jul 18, 2012 3:10:02 pm PDT #14541 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yes. I probably wouldn't if the apostrophe was on the same page as the letters.

Heh. Me too.


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 3:39:51 pm PDT #14542 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I told a vendor he couldn't call me for an update on Friday because it was Batman day. He was in the middle of being really impressed. I told him to hold it, because he didn't know how I was dressing for the event. In the end, he might have sprained something laughing.

I might actually send him a picture. He got an advanced screening ticket to the last movie and he took it as seriously as it deserved.

Okay--weird call. Someone I don't know called me and asked me what floor we were on, because he needed to know for a package. We're listed in the building directory, so it's not secret, but why would a stranger call me? I asked him what package, he said he didn't have it, someone from another company had called him for the information, and he looked up his contacts for [some app I don't work on] and he couldn't get in touch with [person I've never heard of]. I told him "Look, you just sound weird. Call the third person on your list." and hung up.


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2012 3:49:10 pm PDT #14543 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aha! A Bourne ad about Renner's character. And so much different than all the rest, because this one spins the sci fi element and hard.