Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.

'Shindig'


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.


meara - Jul 17, 2013 7:36:51 pm PDT #29539 of 30001

For anyone with online banking at BofA, if you went to log in and the picture or passphrase wasn't yours, what would you guess to do next?

Um, the REST of your sentence didn't even make sense to me, so probably what someone else said--vaguely panic, quit my browser, go back and hope it's correct?

But the way the bank does it, I put in my username or whatever, and then there's a picture, and if it's the right picture (presumably proving it's the bank and not a scammer) then I put in my password. If it was the wrong picture, I'd think it was a scammer and call the bank maybe? Make sure I wasn't bleeding money.

But generally if it's just "bank doesn't know this computer" they don't show the wrong picture, they just start saying "I don't know this computer!" and make you enter questions...which is different (and annoys me, especially when it doesn't seem to remember my dang computer ever, but I understand why/how it happens)


brenda m - Jul 17, 2013 7:43:44 pm PDT #29540 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

Since we're talking bank/online security aggravations, it drives me batshit how often the questions are not factual, one-answer questions. Father's year of birth, great. Favorite movie? How am I supposed to remember at a later date what I might have said?


P.M. Marc - Jul 17, 2013 7:52:06 pm PDT #29541 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

HUNKITUDE RATING: 8/10. Don’t deny you watched Reading Rainbow for a FEW MORE YEARS than was strictly necessary.

So guilty as charged here.


meara - Jul 17, 2013 8:15:03 pm PDT #29542 of 30001

t drives me batshit how often the questions are not factual, one-answer questions. Father's year of birth, great. Favorite movie? How am I supposed to remember at a later date what I might have said?

Yes! Or even when they have options, it's "Favorite movie" and "favorite book" and "where was your honeymoon?" and "who was your best man?" Thanks, bank. Rub it in. And yes I could make up fictional answers, but I'd never remember them.


beth b - Jul 17, 2013 8:30:22 pm PDT #29543 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

so I have a child hood neighbor, that probbably knew form birth that she was going to be an artist. She is doing VERY welll and yes she majored in art

[link]

the article has some of the prices her art has fetched.


Burrell - Jul 17, 2013 8:32:10 pm PDT #29544 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

That Hunks of PBS list? Made me so happy with #2 Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews!

HUNKIEST ATTRIBUTES: I mean, can we just keep looking at the photo?

HUNKITUDE RATING: 10/10. Package deal takes it to another order of hotness magnititude.

That there was my 10th grade year. 9th grade? One of them anyway.


shrift - Jul 17, 2013 9:26:19 pm PDT #29545 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

OH MY GOD this is the third time this car alarm has gone off in the last 30 minutes and I am going to CUT SOMEONE.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 18, 2013 1:02:38 am PDT #29546 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

so I have a child hood neighbor, that probbably knew form birth that she was going to be an artist. She is doing VERY welll and yes she majored in art

I can't claim success on that level, but I knew from a very early age that Art was what I wanted to do with my life - by Middle School I was looking at Interlochen brochures - and I remained laser-focused on that through college and into my professional career. There were other things I had options to pursue a career in (Psychology had a certain appeal, and the head of the Mathematics department once horrified me by saying I would make an excellent mathematician if I wanted to...), but there was never any doubt about what my first choice was going to be.

For the record, I picked what was behind door #3: do the Nestea plung einto bed.


Jesse - Jul 18, 2013 3:00:28 am PDT #29547 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yes! Or even when they have options, it's "Favorite movie" and "favorite book" and "where was your honeymoon?" and "who was your best man?" Thanks, bank. Rub it in. And yes I could make up fictional answers, but I'd never remember them.

This.

Matt, you have job doing art, the practical side of being an Artist, yes? It reminds me of a childhood friend who is a professional musician -- for the Navy. I would never have pegged him as a professional musician, OR for going into the military, but the combination makes so much sense. He was always a practical kid, and it's a steady full-time job making music.


Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2013 4:18:31 am PDT #29548 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Can I be more cranky this morning? I think not.

Not unrelatedly, it's supposed to hit 100° today.