Good luck Jesse!
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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 - Jan 04, 2013 6:32:48 am PST #6601 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2013 6:48:39 am PST #6602 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah! Definitely someone else's fault! I mean, also my fault, but definitely someone else's as well.
Phew.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2013 6:52:55 am PST #6603 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse, I'm glad that misery has company, at least. And accepting responsibility for your mistakes while carrying a feasible mitigation plan so far seems to be the best way of handling things that kinda gotta happen to everyone.
Fingers crossed for you too, Consuela.
I'm still trying to balance "being proactive" and "rushing to panic" as well as "being thorough" and "not working smart". My manager just stripped off half the testing I had planned for our upgrade on the 27th, and...less testing? Really? That's a thing? I mean, I defer, but I never want to be the one suggesting too little testing. I just want to take the new system, on the real hardware, and test every fucking thing on it. Apparently, no.
Oh. Okay.
(Please let there not be fuckups)
tommyrot - Jan 04, 2013 6:53:04 am PST #6604 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.
Yay on faultspreadedaroundidness. (I bet that's a word in German.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2013 7:28:17 am PST #6605 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
This xkcd made me laugh and laugh (don't skip the mouseover text): [link]
Is the idea that passing cars with too-loud radios will be mobbed by hungry birds and squirrels when they pass by?
Consuela - Jan 04, 2013 7:29:46 am PST #6606 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Is the idea that passing cars with too-loud radios will be mobbed by hungry birds and squirrels when they pass by?
That was my only explanation, but it took me a while to figure it out. I am sometimes not Randall Munro's target audience, I think...
sumi - Jan 04, 2013 7:48:53 am PST #6607 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
White House Photographer Pete Souza's Year in Photos 2012.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 04, 2013 7:50:40 am PST #6608 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am confused by the xkcd as well... why would the birds stop the people from driving down the street?
meara - Jan 04, 2013 7:52:39 am PST #6609 of 30001
Yay on faultspreadedaroundidness. (I bet that's a word in German.)
OMG, there should totally be a word for that!!
Jessica - Jan 04, 2013 7:52:44 am PST #6610 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dear AP department, having me scan a paper invoice so I can email it to you and then throw it away in my trash can (instead of giving you the paper invoice to scan and then throw away in *your* trash can) does not, in fact, reduce the amount of paper waste in the office.
Scanning all of our invoices is probably a good move for other reasons, but "becoming a paperless office" is not one of them.