Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


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.


sumi - Aug 16, 2012 2:39:12 pm PDT #18368 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Okay, I thought that sort of information was for N.A. only.

And he's going to be recurring - although his character doesn't appear to have a name.


§ ita § - Aug 16, 2012 2:55:51 pm PDT #18369 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's a new series. Saying who's in the cast isn't a spoiler.

Two of the developers were making a decision on something to do with IIS, and they were treating it like it was case sensitive. I said "but isn't IIS case insensitive when it's using NTFS as a file source, at least?" And one of the developers got really unprofessionally pissy at me. She said she asked her guy (who she'd earlier said wasn't the IIS subject matter expert) and he said to do it this way, and if I wanted to challenge it I was free to come to the Developer's Review Board. I told her I didn't care, but this was precisely why I was trying to identify an SME as ultimate authority (her guy had also made a dumb mistake the week before--of course IIS cares which IP address you set up for a given website--if that server isn't actually configured for that IP address, how's IIS going to serve up a website at same?). I later found the official IIS guru, asked him about case sensitivity, and it turned out he backed my position.

I hope she never forwards my emails to her to my manager. She is my weak spot. I just can't...aI couldn't stop myself from saying "I've found our official subject matter expert, and he agrees with me. I don't care what you do with this piece of information, I just thought you should have it."

So, yeah, oozing passive aggressiveness. I checked the instructions she wrote for the task. They assume case insensitivity.


smonster - Aug 16, 2012 3:22:08 pm PDT #18370 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Cleaning the fridge is kind of a monster job.

I totally read this as "a SMONSTER job" and I was like, "Okay? I've been scraping paint off windows all day, I'm in that mode."

Oh! And Pix, I am so glad to hear it's not bedbugs.


Burrell - Aug 16, 2012 3:24:25 pm PDT #18371 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Yay for no bed bugs, hope whatever it is stops biting you Pix.


Lee - Aug 16, 2012 3:27:03 pm PDT #18372 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

The instructions for my desk specifically say that you only need one adult to put it together.

It would seem that I don't qualify.


Liese S. - Aug 16, 2012 3:35:44 pm PDT #18373 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hah. Desk assembly instructionwriters are lying liars who lie.

Man, I just rushed around and got all sweaty trying to get outside stuff done before it rained. And then it didn't rain. So I came in to look at the radar map because it seemed like there was rain on three sides of me. You know why? Because there's rain on three sides of me. C'mon rain, I need you to loosen up the soil so tomorrow's weeding goes smoother.


Steph L. - Aug 16, 2012 3:42:51 pm PDT #18374 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I've been scraping paint off windows all day

Any Ruffalo flushing?


sarameg - Aug 16, 2012 3:45:55 pm PDT #18375 of 30001

Yay no bedbugs! Sinai just found bedbugs in one of the multi-person chemo day treatment rooms. Which, honestly, I'm surprised doesn't happen more.

I bailed on burger night because while I can eat, biting into a burger is just not yet doable and watching them eat would have been depressing. Makes me sad.

An enormous scab just came out from between my teeth. Dental recovery is kind of revolting.


beth b - Aug 16, 2012 3:48:21 pm PDT #18376 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Yay no bed bugs!


§ ita § - Aug 16, 2012 3:50:09 pm PDT #18377 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I keep forgetting how seriously Flashpoint (sometimes) take the people shooting. They just had their rookie kill his first person in an engagement, and they deal with his reaction and the coping mechanisms of his group, as well as the standard protocol that surrounds an officer shooting.

It's such a weird little show, and ION keeps showing it over and over and over. I think I must have seen the entire thing at least once in the past month. And there are three more episodes on my TiVo since this morning. I wonder how ACTRA is with residuals.