Happy Birthday, Tom!
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
aurelia - Apr 03, 2013 10:53:54 am PDT #17078 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 03, 2013 11:04:28 am PDT #17079 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hippo birdies, Tom!
Connie Neil - Apr 03, 2013 11:20:22 am PDT #17080 of 30001
brillig
Robots in the Corn.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2013 11:30:33 am PDT #17081 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Don't give a lightsaber to a baby. You'd think no one would need to be told this, but....
Lightsaber-wielding baby goes on an adorably lethal rampage
Fun, but could have used more gore.
Consuela - Apr 03, 2013 11:33:52 am PDT #17082 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, what a story: [link] (scroll down)
A family with two small kids is flying United from Denver to BWI. The in-flight movie, shown on the drop-down monitors, not the back-of-seat ones, is quite violent. The parents ask the flight attendant if they can get the closest monitor turned off. FA says no. Parents ask if the plane's Captain can do so; no answer. Parents ask for his name so they can talk to him about it later. Parents play games with the kids to keep them from watching the movie and getting scared.
Midway through the flight, they are diverted to O'Hare, where the parents and children are escorted off the plane by police, because the captain felt that their request constituted a threat to his/the plane's safety.
That was two months ago, and United has not apologized yet.
Amy - Apr 03, 2013 11:37:07 am PDT #17083 of 30001
Because books.
What the fuck.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2013 11:41:56 am PDT #17084 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am rapidly running out of airlines I am willing to fly on. When do we get teleportation again?
Beverly - Apr 03, 2013 11:50:00 am PDT #17085 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That is unconscionable, but not surprising. Flying cars. Who's on that?
Happy Birthday, Tom, and I second the wish for you having something as wonderful as a Scola Smile.
Good for you Burrell. I kind of wish you could coast on your laurels, at least for a little bit.
(Hands msbelle a cudgel. Ducks out of the way)
Amy - Apr 03, 2013 11:59:10 am PDT #17086 of 30001
Because books.
I want to see police pushing back, too. What an incredible waste of time and resources.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2013 12:17:28 pm PDT #17087 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We're troubleshooting an issue, and we've determined that the servers that need to communicate over port 80 can't. Tested two different ways. I asked the developer to test this Monday, but that's neither here or there.
I know that the infrastructure team runs the same tests we did, because I've asked them for sooper sekrit powers. But only the network admins offsite have those. I've been told not to ask them, because it takes a long time. Not even to walk over and tell the liaison this is important. Instead we're not doing anything, because we seem to need infrastructure to tell us to our face they can't do anything else? I'm not sure.
But my head is killing me enough that I wouldn't even drive home, just sleep for a while.