I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


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.


Jesse - Jun 05, 2013 3:55:54 pm PDT #24969 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ack, -t, I don't know how you get around that, but I bet googling stuff about reentering the workforce would find something for you. Also, I have worked continuously and will still definitely use a reference from ten years ago. Because we are now friends! Can you use friends you've done some kind of project with? I mean, shit, I would be your reference!

I just type two letters and Chrome fills in the place I normally go. This website is "bu" + Enter.

No typing! I like to just click click click. And then type sometimes.

Don't all browsers have the bookmark bar now? I don't think of it as a Chrome thing.

They may do, but I've only ever used bookmarks for occasional sites, not regular ones. Regular ones should be in the pull-down or, at worst, auto-fill.


-t - Jun 05, 2013 4:05:12 pm PDT #24970 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, I haven't stayed in contact with anyone I worked with back then. And the last e-mail from HR specifically said that they like the reference to only go 5-10 years back.

I have lots of people willing to be a reference for me, but I can't claim a lengthy "professional association" with any of them.

I think maybe my best bet is to list the inventory company and the person who hired me at the temp agency, because even though I haven't seen her since my first week on this assignment she is technically my supervisor. Those are three months each. It's obvious from my resume that I don't have a lot of long-term gigs and we discussed that in my interviews, but neither of those were with HR so I guess they have different expectations.

Man, I have way too many bookmarks, it is ridiculous. I mostly use autofill for my regular sites, I think.


Jessica - Jun 05, 2013 4:05:26 pm PDT #24971 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

No typing! I like to just click click click. And then type sometimes.

Heh - my summer intern is constantly bitching about the lack of keyboard shortcuts in our workflow (mostly internal web service tools), because he hates clicking.


Dana - Jun 05, 2013 4:10:52 pm PDT #24972 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I do use the Bookmarks bar at the top, but not for places I go to several times a day. It makes sense in my mind, for some reason.


-t - Jun 05, 2013 4:12:44 pm PDT #24973 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I also just leave tabs open. Sometimes a lot of tabs.


Jesse - Jun 05, 2013 4:27:38 pm PDT #24974 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Heh - my summer intern is constantly bitching about the lack of keyboard shortcuts in our workflow (mostly internal web service tools), because he hates clicking.

Really, I like to do one or the other, but not both. In Word? All keyboard shortcuts until I'm taking a break from typing. When I finish a post, I always tab/enter to post it. But if I'm just going from tumblr to facebook to whatever? No keyboard! All clicking.


§ ita § - Jun 05, 2013 4:37:13 pm PDT #24975 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have three windows open in Opera. This [link] is the main one. Safari, Chrome, and Firefox are also running, but with maybe 1/5 of the sites open.

ALL THE INTERNET GET IN MAH BELLEH.


billytea - Jun 05, 2013 4:47:42 pm PDT #24976 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

ALL THE INTERNET GET IN MAH BELLEH.

ita is a Teletubby for the modern age.


-t - Jun 05, 2013 4:56:47 pm PDT #24977 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I just counted all my currently open tabs - 33.

It's usually just 4 when I'm at work. But rarely less than 4.


Amy - Jun 05, 2013 5:02:15 pm PDT #24978 of 30001
Because books.

Wow. I only have one bookmarks bar, with 17 bookmarks, and even that I'd like to pare down.

And I have nine tabs open, which is Too Many and it's freaking me out!