Cell on speaker. Personal conversation. Loud talker. 5 story open stairwell. WHATTHEFUCK.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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.
sarameg - Aug 07, 2012 9:05:04 am PDT #17296 of 30001
Kate P. - Aug 07, 2012 9:06:30 am PDT #17297 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ben said one of the kids at school who participates in Young Life asked him if he wanted to come to a meeting, and Ben told him he had plans with Satan that day.
Ha, that's awesome. Good on him.
So, I'm back at work today! It's weird. Feels like my old life again. Huh.
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 9:09:00 am PDT #17298 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The other business analyst in the group hasn't signed the NDA and he's sulky every time a topic comes up that I can't go into detail on. It's certainly not a reflection on the quality of our work--he never puts a foot wrong. It just involves my software, that's all. But he's taking it personally, especially since he's been tasked with managing the fallout of the error in my release two weeks ago. I haven't had to face the music on that one, and I'm not looking forward to it. But people are also discouraging me from asking the developer who said she'd verified the change what she had actually done, since she missed the fact we broke stuff.
Connie Neil - Aug 07, 2012 9:09:32 am PDT #17299 of 30001
brillig
Steph L. - Aug 07, 2012 9:11:11 am PDT #17300 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
They misspelled "...aiming to give universal access to a large universe of CAT PICTURES."
DavidS - Aug 07, 2012 9:19:07 am PDT #17301 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The actual page: The World Wide Web project
Oh shit, I remember when it looked like that.
The browser I used was: Web Crawler.
Which had a spider icon. Jilli would've loved it.
I remember pre-WWW when I was going to University owned FTP sites to download geeky academic spiels about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.
I thought that was the most amazing thing ever.
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 9:19:57 am PDT #17302 of 30001
Because books.
Steph, that's good news about your brother. He did a really hard thing.
So, I'm back at work today! It's weird. Feels like my old life again. Huh.
It's weird at first, huh? Enjoy it, though!
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 9:27:29 am PDT #17303 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember pre-WWW when I was going to University owned FTP sites to download geeky academic spiels about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.
You sure it was FTP and not Gopher? If it was FTP, then it was probably Archie, which was pioneered by my very own alma mater. Wahoo.
God, I'm blanking entirely on shit for this project, but at least I know I'm not blanking as much as, oh, EVERYONE ELSE, because I'm sending them emails going "Have you done this yet?" and their responses are all "Oh! Uh..."
tommyrot - Aug 07, 2012 9:30:36 am PDT #17304 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.
The first book I bought on the Internet described the Word Wide Web as "experimental." still, it was enough to get me to want to get on the Internet. But this was '93, and I couldn't find a way to access the Internet.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2012 9:32:52 am PDT #17305 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You sure it was FTP and not Gopher?
Pretty sure? That's the first time I encountered the phrase File Transfer Protocol.