You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


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.


§ ita § - Jun 06, 2013 7:15:00 am PDT #25015 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think that it's time to kick off the year's set of painful and annoying procedures that insurance doesn't want to cover but end up helping inestimably anyway. I've got to start sleeping like it's my job, to remove that as a factor, but for the shoulder there are only so many muscle relaxants and lidocaine patches I can use (And, thank god, I've started carrying them to work. But they're hard to wear subtly when you didn't dress with them in mind. ::considers wearing kikoye over shoulders all day::) and only so much of the heavy lifting they can do.

Does anyone wish Outlook let you decline going forward? I hate when I stop attending the rest of a recurring meeting that Outlook decides it's appropriate to remove all references of it from my calendar. I do use it for reference, especially when it comes to timesheets and filing documents (sometimes "attached to the invite" is the most sensible place to put it).

We had some user "challenges" come in from the field that we don't provide enough Lotus and GroupWise support. Countrywide was heavily invested in Lotus, but I haven't seen Groupwise since the installation *I* made of it (being a CNE ROCKED). I did like it quite a bit, but exchange/POP3/IMAP/free webmail seem to rule the world. Anyone here still have a work mail environment that's not Microsoft or Google?


tommyrot - Jun 06, 2013 7:15:59 am PDT #25016 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.

Nerves! I'm getting a liquor license with some friends and the liquor board hearing is at 1. Should be fine but it is a weird new experience! Wish us no snags, please!

You could have a few drinks before the hearing to calm your nerves.


sarameg - Jun 06, 2013 7:18:00 am PDT #25017 of 30001

A certain company spelled edit:redacted still uses LotusNotes. For real. That's projected to change, but....


Jesse - Jun 06, 2013 7:18:22 am PDT #25018 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

lisah, whatcha doin? Is it for an event?


sarameg - Jun 06, 2013 7:24:16 am PDT #25019 of 30001

They're putting a bar in the bookstore! That thing I thought was totally the annual april fools joke!


lisah - Jun 06, 2013 7:49:53 am PDT #25020 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I'm at city hall right now!


§ ita § - Jun 06, 2013 7:50:14 am PDT #25021 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sarameg, do they use the other functionalities of Notes? CW was at least using a large number of databases (what are they called in Notes-speak?) and being IT, we created a few of our own. That could be a barrier to migration.

Groupwise, less so. If you don't have a Novell network (do the kids even know what one is these days), are there enough features to make it worthwhile? Personally, I loved it--fuck read receipts--this tells you when anything you sent was opened AND when it was deleted, right out of the box.


Dana - Jun 06, 2013 7:51:26 am PDT #25022 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

My husband's company (a big one) uses Lotus Notes.


le nubian - Jun 06, 2013 7:52:59 am PDT #25023 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

someone on twitter mentioned red velvet battered waffle fries and I can't unsee it.

It's unsettling because I think I want to taste this.


Jesse - Jun 06, 2013 7:56:22 am PDT #25024 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

They're putting a bar in the bookstore! That thing I thought was totally the annual april fools joke!

Cool!