Really? That would be cool.

How is it a passable business model to run a web company and not have failover of some useful extent? I can't (except I can) believe the Gawker network. Who else is dark because of Sandy?

It seems *fairly* clear they don't have good QA/UAT (errors always get through--I understand that--but when it's really basic use cases like reading and, uh, posting-HAVE YOU EVEN USED YOUR SITE???) and they certainly prefer their SEO to their usability guy, but this outage is kinda embarassing.

Read: ita ! would get her ass handed to on a plate if any of her apps were down so long, and any directors involved would be fired unless the rest of their record was stellar (I think it was downtime that precipitated the booting of my former boss--perfect last straw).

So weird--someone on a con call with me broke up with laughter while someone else was talking, and I had no idea why. She managed to blurt out "Sorry! I had to laugh when you said that!" Not the remotest idea, even if it was me or the vendor she was laughing at, but luckily she sent me an email...containing the copypasta definition of "swimmingly" which is apparently so hysterical it sends grown women into fits.

It surprised me when I read about Gawker, too. It’s becoming more clear that Nick Denton just doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing

what you both said.

huffpo too, though.

People have been speculating that the “Untitled Pixar Day of the Dead Film” might actually be Grim Fandango.

Drool! I would love that so much.

Wow, we just had a thunderstorm that freaked the cat out more than anything from yesterday.

Damnit - I offered to carpool with other Brooklynite co-workers, and both of the people who responded live way out in Bushwick! That's not the part of Brooklyn I meant! t /South Brooklyn snob

For an unplanned 4 day weekend, this one really put me through the wringer and I don't have much to show for it. Sure, shit gone done, but ...

OK, I voted, I cleaned, I did laundry, I lay writhing in sinus pain, I did a wine night, dealt with drips, had a cabinet fall off the wall and throw all its contents across the kitchen (I should've taken a before picture but you hit certain kinds of oh shit moments, and your soul is just dead,) rehung the cabinet with my wonderful handy neighbors (I can now say a local rockstar hung my cabinets?) FINALLY finalized a cat sitting schedule, manicure and at least all the clothes for the trip are in the bag. Shoes chosen, I have all the necessary toiletries, I know where my passport is, camera batteries charged.

But the to do list is still so long! Finalize annual enrollment, working version of my annual goals, hand off certain routine tasks, schedule a bill pay, freak out, one last vacuum and load of soggy towels from the drip, freak out....

I'm exhausted from just reading those lists. I'm so not cut out for adulthood.

On my day off yesterday, I did one load of laundry. And watched four episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs! And painted my nails, but not until nighttime.