Happy birthday, Brenda!
We have no snow here in NC. We get to play the "watch the hurricane" game for the next few days, but that's unlikely to affect much of anything inland here.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
Calli - Oct 25, 2012 6:57:48 am PDT #26972 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
sumi - Oct 25, 2012 7:11:50 am PDT #26973 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Theodosia - Oct 25, 2012 7:21:24 am PDT #26974 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Isn't it a bit premature for the local weather boffins to be blathering on about Perfect Storms when it's freaking five days out?
askye - Oct 25, 2012 7:24:12 am PDT #26975 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Happy Birthday Brenda!
amych - Oct 25, 2012 7:27:43 am PDT #26976 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Isn't it a bit premature for the local weather boffins to be blathering on about Perfect Storms when it's freaking five days out?
It is, but I'm selfishly happy to see them use the phrase for an actual storm and not some random minor coincidence.
Gudanov - Oct 25, 2012 7:28:30 am PDT #26977 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Isn't it a bit premature for the local weather boffins to be blathering on about Perfect Storms when it's freaking five days out?
Five isn't even a perfect number.
Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2012 7:45:43 am PDT #26978 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
DC seems to be right on the edge of Sandy. I'm pulling out my wishes for nasty storms in general. Either stay away, or hit us hard enough to shut everything down for a day or two. Preferably weekdays.
None of this in-between of slogging through things to get to work. Because I know me -- if the office is open, I'll be there.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2012 7:47:55 am PDT #26979 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It is almost the same as a perfect number.
An IO9 article that was trying to make a point based on an abstract by their clumsiest writer had that phrase in it--he said that 8.5 was almost the same number as 7, except he was saying that 8.5 was almost the same number as 7% which is a whole impossible ball of wax, given what he was working with.
Jesse - Oct 25, 2012 7:48:40 am PDT #26980 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Isn't it a bit premature for the local weather boffins to be blathering on about Perfect Storms when it's freaking five days out?
Yes. That said, snor'eastercane!
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2012 9:01:05 am PDT #26981 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that if you're somewhere where it's vaguely likely¹ an emergency might rob you of power, it never hurts to have a(n extra) car charger for your phone. It might be the only communication you got.
I think most of my family is on dwindling Blackberry batteries right now. I haven't checked what FEMA suggests in a while (I've got nothing but the phone charging...)
¹ That was our first direct hit since Gilbert, but still--likely enough
OMG, I had been doing pretty well considering the 7am meeting, but...whoa.
Don't people realise that when they come over to your desk to tell you they're on your con call and you're not, it means both of you are delayed in getting back on? Hmm. Judging practicality.
There's this chick on IO9 who really likes me.
That's all. She likes me. I always think it's weird when people do that.