And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.

Giles ,'Touched'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


brenda m - Feb 21, 2013 11:54:25 am PST #12233 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Coordinating with a couple other non-profits to share space, so maybe that's where this is coming from?

That would make a little more sense.

but I'm long past actually caring.

Though that makes the most sense of all.


erin_obscure - Feb 21, 2013 11:55:01 am PST #12234 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

I do not understand storing phones in the bra. A car key or roll of cash in the cleavage, sure, but my phone? Does not fit there, and not because of inadequate boobage or lack of trying (pretty sure Tom Scola has photos of me attempting that feat at the last F2F and totally failing). plus I'm really not happy at the idea of an expensive piece of electronics being subjected to the humidity of mah boobies.


§ ita § - Feb 21, 2013 11:57:49 am PST #12235 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

IT security is the only section of IT that I know jackshit about and am curious as hell about. I watched a friend create his entire security career and transition from below my pay grade to above, and I still can't work out how I'd do it. We do get some free training software courses, and I'm at least taking the security-related ones there, because it just looks like magic.

Completely unrelated to the Security Director job opening at my company, but the frequency with which that position is open makes me even more curious about what sort of stuff they know.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 21, 2013 12:00:11 pm PST #12236 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Thanks, Teppy and Jess. Interesting.


Jessica - Feb 21, 2013 12:01:41 pm PST #12237 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I've stashed my phone in my bra on occasion (slipped into the side), but mostly I prefer clothes with pockets.


Jessica - Feb 21, 2013 12:02:41 pm PST #12238 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

According to, ahem, sources familiar with the matter, it took the main site getting hit for IT to start taking the problem seriously, but they seem to be on top of things now.


Jessica - Feb 21, 2013 12:03:29 pm PST #12239 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My theory - angry Russian Community fans.


§ ita § - Feb 21, 2013 12:22:43 pm PST #12240 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone here have a google alert or similar for their employer? I recently decided I was too ignorant and set one up. It's kinda educational. But luckily not high traffic.

I am kinda confused by my job sometime. As a business analyst, I take end user requirements and make a guide document for developers out of it. I really really do not pick which developer works with me on stuff, especially with the developers we have now. It was one of those resounding silence moments of the call, but I had no idea "We need a developer to assign to this" was targeted at me, since the developers and their manager are also on the phone.

But, strictly, not silence, since one person is chewing noisily into the call, and someone else is heavy breathing. I am continually boggled by how un-paranoid people are.


Burrell - Feb 21, 2013 12:31:00 pm PST #12241 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Go CJ! And go Suzi, you righteously proud mommy!

It has never occurred to me to store keys or phone or anything in my bra. I blame the fact that I was a wee A-cup for so long that I went basically braless until I started teaching.


Liese S. - Feb 21, 2013 12:31:05 pm PST #12242 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

In my experience, people are rarely paranoid enough.