YAY GenevaJob!
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
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.
Lee - Apr 24, 2013 7:11:25 am PDT #20372 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2013 7:25:02 am PDT #20373 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
TOLD YOU.
Yesterday I suggested we take certain steps to determine the root cause for a problem, and I got shut down. I asked the incident manager how to deal with the request for the root cause since "we" had decided not to investigate any more, and he told me to not even mention root cause, just talk about our workaround.
Well, I just pulled over the coals on an IT-wide meeting on the root cause, including by my boss, BECAUSE THAT DECISION WAS ILL-CONSIDERED. I don't get to throw my manager under the bus, I just get to look stupid. Thanks, guys! That was in no way entirely predictable. At least the incident manager agrees that's what I said would happen. Doesn't make me feel better about it happening, though.
Kate P. - Apr 24, 2013 7:36:44 am PDT #20374 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ugh, ita.
Yay for Sparky's DH!
I'm hungry, and I don't have nearly as many crackers at work as I thought I did. Boo.
DavidS - Apr 24, 2013 7:47:49 am PDT #20375 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Would Matilda like a taxidermied squirrel? I hear the Blogess could help her out.
Heh - we've got a taxidermied mouse in the house, much like the one on the Bloggess' book cover. It's actually a Hamlet mouse with a little ruff around its neck and holding a little mousey Yorick skull.
Toddson - Apr 24, 2013 7:53:13 am PDT #20376 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
She now has a taxidermied robot mouse.
Since she's using it for her blog, she's decided it's tax deductible.
This is why IRS staff burn out early, isn't it?
le nubian - Apr 24, 2013 8:01:27 am PDT #20377 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I just received an email with the subject line: "insert logo here"
text of the email was an announcement of student awards.
lisah - Apr 24, 2013 8:06:29 am PDT #20378 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Woohoo Geneva job!
I totally have the ASMR thing too! Until the TAL piece that I heard a couple of weeks ago I thought everyone had it. I don't get it from all whispering, lip smacking, tongue clicking and some other sounds set my teeth on edge.
erikaj - Apr 24, 2013 8:14:56 am PDT #20379 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
For me, it's that nervous finger-tapping...really makes me want to break the tapper's hand(I had several instructors that did it too.)
-t - Apr 24, 2013 8:19:47 am PDT #20380 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woohoo, Sparky, that's great news!
My sister raised a baby squirrel that was, hm, must have been injured or something to have come into her possession, I forget that part. Used to like to perch on her head. It eventually went back into the "wild" of the Portland tree canopy.
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2013 8:25:48 am PDT #20381 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.
New US$100 bill in circulation 10/8 - Boing Boing
The new US$100 bill will go into circulation on October 8, 2013. New security features include a "3-D Security Ribbon" woven into the paper. The image changes from bells to 100s with the viewing angle, and "color-shifting" bell graphic that changes from copper to green, "an effect which makes the bell seem to appear and disappear within the (copper-colored) inkwell."