I believe that's my hey. Hey!

Xander ,'Storyteller'


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.


Laura - Apr 19, 2013 10:53:16 am PDT #19638 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Our best guess is that you are 34. Is it close?

Woo! I am 59 with the mouse dexterity of a 34 year old.


Maria - Apr 19, 2013 11:02:22 am PDT #19639 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

ita !, no, the Miami pre-teens one.

I am a 39 year old with the dexterity of someone who's 53. I am looking sideways at these tests.


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2013 11:02:47 am PDT #19640 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I feel awkward trying to reduce the number of colours in this presentation, but we can't depend on red-green-yellow-grey to convey information because a) black and white printers and b) I definitely know of one red-green colour blind person in the eventual audience.

But I thought I'd made that point before, and I pointedly encoded the information in writing and colours, and now the writing part is gone.

How much do I argue with a director?


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2013 11:04:01 am PDT #19641 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ita !, no, the Miami pre-teens one.

Ah...Miami New Times? I call it oppression by The Man, then. It's really definitely worth reading, though. Beautiful and sad. And kind of inspiring, even to a heart-dead person like myself.


brenda m - Apr 19, 2013 11:07:24 am PDT #19642 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

How likely are people to print it, and how much do you need to enable that? I.e., is the intent for them to be viewed on screen?

We have an official color palette we're supposed to use, and when it first came out someone went through and recolored all of our standard graphics.

Nice, but less than helpful on the ones that show a performance scoreboard - red and green are pretty instantly recongizable as indicating a project on or off track. Various shades of pink and grey, less so.


Jesse - Apr 19, 2013 11:11:13 am PDT #19643 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, ita, this one! [link] (I queued it for tomorrow.)


Burrell - Apr 19, 2013 11:12:24 am PDT #19644 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Virtual cocktail party tonight?

I'd be up for it, Lee.


Jesse - Apr 19, 2013 11:17:07 am PDT #19645 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've moved on to boredom eating to go with my Prosecco, and the baked flour tortillas are fantastic crackers! I'd do that again for sure.


Lee - Apr 19, 2013 11:21:55 am PDT #19646 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'd be up for it, Lee.

I can be home with wine or a cocktail in hand at 6:30 or 7:00 board time.


Jessica - Apr 19, 2013 11:24:55 am PDT #19647 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So apparently the answer to "that's weird, when did my grandmother get an iPhone?" is that I have the wrong number in my phone for her cell. So whoever's been getting my messages in Cincinnati, sorry!