I should read JZ's post to my mom. She'd be completely confused.

Yeah, I'd read that book series too.

Aw, crap. I don't know if I have the brain cells for a whole series all on my own. Maybe we could Buffista-crowdsource it and use the NO DOUBT MASSIVE revenue from the series to finally purchase Buffista Island?

The shopping app I use up to 50% of the time I shop is my discount card app--it's small, but it has all the barcodes for all of my rewards cards. I've been using it for more than a year now, I think, and I don't get asked about it as much as before, though last week the guy next to me in line said he was going to look it up.

Took me a while to get the proper rhythm of having both my money out and the right card selected for the cashier, but it's totally simpler than carrying plastic.

Ah! The Walgreens app--how can I forget. That's huge. I can order refills by either scanning barcodes or picking options from currently filled scripts (and I always know how many refills I have left, etc). It has other features, but other than finding the phone numbers of the nearest one and refills, I don't do much.

And Taxi Magic isn't quite shopping, but the ability to order a cab without making a call (and it tells you when its dispatched, when its nearby, what the medallion # is, gives tou the ability to use the phone as a "flag" with the cab #, put in specific instruction, specify the drop off address (and it estimates the cost of the trip). It does also allow you to pay electronically, but they have too sizable a premium (as much as I was going to tip) for it to be worthwhile for me. But if market penetration drops that down, I'd totally do that too. Making sure I have change for the cab is an annoying end-of-week ritual.

I rarely post in Natter, but I had to chime in with how much I'd love to read JZ's series!

I just sent an email to a Director detailing info on three flights.

His response?

That flight is fine, go ahead.

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!! Dear Sir, Communication - u r doing it wrong!!!!!

Ha! My sister pointed me and a friend of hers to that Racialicious post, and all three of us posted comments. She never comments. And she's so non-confrontational and mediating it makes me laugh, because of the two of us? That's so not her.

and then roam steam-Europe disguised as boy pirates and pulling off elaborate cons to survive, fleece clueless industrialists and bring down the rival clan before it destroys their own;

Wow, that looks awesome.

t ponders

We get our free lunch today without the associated staff meeting, which frankly I'm grateful for, since on the agenda was "hirings" and I just don't think I can handle hearing my future talked about so hypothetically in public any more.

Congrats, Cash, on the DH's new job.

Stay safe and warm this weekend, all you East Coasters.

Also I have a good friend who would LOVE that Ziggy Stardust action figure. As in, sending her the link right now!

(my pitch: Steampunk proto-feminist/The Riches mashup with a band of Dirigible Roma blood-oath-sworn friends for life who commandeer an air wagon to help one of their group flee a particularly odious arranged marriage to the violent scion of a rival clan, and then roam steam-Europe disguised as boy pirates and pulling off elaborate cons to survive, fleece clueless industrialists and bring down the rival clan before it destroys their own; Aenyd/Eanydh is someone's kid sister who stowed away and can't be returned without serious risk to everyone, but is a preternaturally gifted pickpocket and safecracker)

See me after class, please. This needs to be addressed immediately, and I'm not kidding. Steampunk and girl heroes are big right now, and editors love them.

Does FB have a dismiss button? The one good thing that came out of the gawker redesign is that when someone said something that really annoys you, you can dismiss their reply. It disappears from your inbox (where otherwise everything would stay forever) and it disappears from the thread where they wrote it.

It's sufficiently difficult to notice if you've been dismissed that you'd really have to be working it (reading the site not logged in, etc) that it doesn't tend to escalate, and although you can't MARCIE it's a reminder that arguments don't have to devolved into "last word" wrestling matches.