Mentos and Singapore team up to increase the birth rate. NSFW. [link]
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
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.
Hil R. - Aug 07, 2012 3:06:31 pm PDT #17363 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2012 3:11:31 pm PDT #17364 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know "there's no tone on the internet", but seriously--if I really meant "there's no reason to assume Joss' big screen success can translate to TV" then I'm too stupid to talk to. Way too stupid.
Kat - Aug 07, 2012 3:22:46 pm PDT #17365 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Suzi. Yikes. That's middle of the night.
I'm having folks over on Friday. I start work on Thursday. I also have a head cold from hell and I can't breathe.
Also, my son just wiped his entire mouth on his tshirt while eating pizza. Even though there was a napkin right there.
Sigh.
lisah - Aug 07, 2012 4:08:12 pm PDT #17366 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I worked at Schwab in the early 90s and we had a sort of inter-office email/IM. It was used for flirting, to spread word that Kurt Cobain had died, and to work out inter-office drug deals. The clever dudes doing the deals were sending messages like "Hey, want to come play 8-ball at my place later?" Shockingly they were found out.
I got the first computer of my own in 95, when I went to grad school, and got online online then.
Kat - Aug 07, 2012 4:12:00 pm PDT #17367 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
lisah, you just totally reminded me! I worked at a DC nonprofit in 1993. We used our internal messaging system to set up 4:00 PM Hearts games, which we also played online across three different floors.
We'd also sometimes plan on ganging up on people during said Hearts games via the messaging system.
Amy - Aug 07, 2012 4:22:14 pm PDT #17368 of 30001
Because books.
We didn't even have Internet at work until 1999 or so.
Corgi. In a water park. He's so happy.
Lolo Jones is hot. And Amanda Pearce is like lightning.
sarameg - Aug 07, 2012 4:30:02 pm PDT #17369 of 30001
I had my own mac starting in college, but no internet in the dorms yet-1993. Had to go to the labs for that, and at the time, it was vax for email and PCs, not yet on the internet. I think the PC got on network later that term. I didn't get my own internet at home until 99 or so, but I definitely was surfing when I started work in 97. NSM in college, just email. My dad had it at the house in 90 or so? For email. I don't remember, exactly, it was dialup to the university and I wasn't exactly using it. I remember being fairly uninterested in using it up at APO with mosaic.
aurelia - Aug 07, 2012 4:30:39 pm PDT #17370 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I got the first computer of my own in 95, when I went to grad school, and got online online then.
96-97 for me, although I had a web-designer boyfriend for a couple of years before that.
I feel like this photo [link] wants a clever caption but I'm just not coming up with anything. It's not the best photo of the set (I like this one [link] )but it is probably the most pointed one.
lisah - Aug 07, 2012 5:10:44 pm PDT #17371 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Trying to find out the name of the old Schwab inter office IM sent me down a rabbit hole of old files I had saved in my gmail account. (Like 10 years old...old in internet time!)
I think I just printed out the Schwab messages, though, and have them in a box somewhere.
msbelle - Aug 07, 2012 5:13:48 pm PDT #17372 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The corgi must go on goodstuff.