Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.

Spike ,'Touched'


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 10, 2013 8:55:40 am PDT #25461 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I curate tumblr.

Do people send you asks or otherwise reach out to the person behind the Good Stuff?

This week's coursera art topic is "mail art", which today encompasses stuff like posting your art on tumblr. Ergo 90% of the art I do technically qualifies as the real deal and I should be able to submit it for the assignment, no?

Except a decent %age of the art I do qualified for last week's topic of "fantastic" because of the guy with the wings, but I know they mean stuff with aspirations to deepness like Chagall or Man Ray. Not "a part of my head accepts winged people as mundane and valid topics for pictures".

And, shit! The quizzes are hard! How the fuck am I supposed to know what style Jackson Pollock uses if he's not in the week's material??? Yes, I can now recognise some Chagalls I've never seen before, but still...

The course also asks you to not submit digitally created art for assignments which I think is very hidebound. Luckily irrelevant to me, but still.

The guy whose job includes pulling reports out of this one database couldn't fulfill either of my requests--one because the rows weren't there (so I cc'ed the screenshot of the rows to his manager, because he was cc'ing his demurrals to my former manager), and one because the info wasn't in the column. I found him the column, and then he complained about the report length because user ID was appended to the URL, so I sent him the SQL to trim the comma and everything after.

...and then I asked one of our developers the best way to do that, and he found a faster one, but still! If your job is write SQL to generate reports from this table, YOUR CUSTOMERS SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS FOR YOU.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2013 8:59:19 am PDT #25462 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

You know what style Jackson Pollack uses by watching the movie Pollack!


Amy - Jun 10, 2013 9:01:55 am PDT #25463 of 30001
Because books.

What do you call Pollack style, though? Splatter?


msbelle - Jun 10, 2013 9:13:26 am PDT #25464 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

abstract


Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2013 9:14:29 am PDT #25465 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I assumed there were pictures or line drawings and you had to choose which one was Pollack. But you are right-- I have no idea! I guess I would call it spatter.


aurelia - Jun 10, 2013 9:14:37 am PDT #25466 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Abstract Expressionism. Or spatter works, too.


Jesse - Jun 10, 2013 9:14:51 am PDT #25467 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Fingers crossed this is simple and straightforward and does not mess up the closing.

This one!

Do people send you asks or otherwise reach out to the person behind the Good Stuff?

I get the occasional thank-you note, which is nice.


Jesse - Jun 10, 2013 9:22:21 am PDT #25468 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

ita, do you have anything to email back to NetGate?


Dana - Jun 10, 2013 9:23:47 am PDT #25469 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Cicely Tyson from last night:

[link]


Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2013 9:25:06 am PDT #25470 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Cicely Tyson from last night:

Glen Weldon was right-- she is wearing a tesseract!