Oh, Consuela that's so sad.

Jesus, Hec. That's awful.

It is! Over fucking sneakers. Their school district (a really good one, incidentally) has had to deal with this incident, a middle school teacher committing suicide after being charged with having sex with a student, and another girl in the HS who drowned. All in this same school year.

So, do people only write in verticals? Is immigration my law vertical?

Between Hec's news and Suela's, I just want to hug everybody.

A "vertical" is an area of expertise. In content creation, it's used to refer to the various subject areas in which one is creating content. (So if you have a newspaper website, Food, Travel, and Cars would all be verticals.)

I think it somehow derives from "vertical integration" but personally I think it's thrown around mostly by people who just heard the word somewhere and want to sound business-y.

(Dana, Shrift--if you hadn't heard, it was Sabine, from YV.)

Shit. No, I hadn't seen that.

So here's a cheering picture: [link]

Is "whiseas" a real word in legalese? I've never seen it before.

Good news first: congratulations Amy on the new job!

And condolences to Consuela and the other here who lost a friend.

And yipes on the school shooting. I also heard on the news about some teenager who was caught bringing a loaded gun to school (10 rounds). Scary stuff! Makes me wonder what is wrong with people and how do we start teaching them that lives matter?

(BTW almost wrote "lives natter" just then)

Makes me wonder what is wrong with people and how do we start teaching them that lives matter?

Yeah, this is a huge question here in New Orleans. How do we get to the root of what causes this culture of violence?

Sorry to hear about your friend, 'suela.

Thanks, Frank.

There's a memorial on Sunday afternoon I'm going to try to get to; more as a representative of the fannish community than anything else. She knew a lot of people and her family would appreciate that, I suspect.