Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.

'Out Of Gas'


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 § - Feb 01, 2013 9:11:03 pm PST #9700 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Which was too curt. My point is, no, I'm not talking about S2. I'm talking about the entire show, with the ratcheting tension (which was apparent from day 1) and as they gain momentum running headlong through DC I can't work out what the stakes will be.

Huck fails as a character to me.

Those are my points, and I think that even if we've reneged on the cast not being spoilery (I missed the vote on that) mentioning a guy that has been on the show--if you've seen enough to be spoilt, this is not news. if you've never seen it, my Percival comemnt stands.

I need to find a website that tells you which songs were used in which movies and TV shows. I'd love to see Hallelujah go up against In The Air Tonight, and I'm curious about covers and how they affect the numbers. But I think Phil Collins clearly has the Best Song In Ever judging by the moments in which it's used.

Does Pinterest support privacy? I want to find an easy (as in, I don't code) way to arrange refs for a picture that I'm working for that's less confusing and resource intensive than running a program on my client.

How are standers finding it? I'm not sure my leftover back/knee problem would mean I could hang, and adjustable is not in our budget. I'm still trying to get a phone headset that doesn't snap into two pieces and fall off my head in the middle of a call.

Reading glasses: are store-bought all equal? Or which +2s shoudl I pick up for my bad days? And why do they send them in pack of three? Are they disposable? So much fun you just can't stop at one? Share with a friend?

I dunno.

Got my proper pair, and...uncomfortable. Maybe I will get them adjusted, maybe my face hates company.


Cashmere - Feb 01, 2013 9:26:46 pm PST #9701 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Suela, I am sorry that you keep getting endlessly jerked around by your job. And the dog has shitty timing.

Allyson, you are in my thoughts. Hope you are getting what you need.

I have managed to finish the minecraft cake.

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And tomorrow, I get to jump in a frozen lake! But we have raised over $1k for Special Olympics! There will be funny photos later.


le nubian - Feb 01, 2013 9:29:33 pm PST #9702 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

OMG that is super cool.


Typo Boy - Feb 01, 2013 10:02:27 pm PST #9703 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I see what you did there.


Typo Boy - Feb 01, 2013 10:06:27 pm PST #9704 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

In terms of the standing desk: I tried it with cardboard boxes first to make sure it works for me. What you don't want to do is have your work spend money on this and then discover 2.5 hours later it does not work for you.


Stephanie - Feb 02, 2013 2:55:35 am PST #9705 of 30001
Trust my rage

One of the judges I appear in front of stands on the days we do lots lot hearings. She seems to like it and commented once that it helps with all the reaching around she does. She is waiting forthe court to buy a podium but at the moment uses two empty upside down paper boxes to hold her files and stuff


Liese S. - Feb 02, 2013 4:48:27 am PST #9706 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I've thought about going to a standing desk, mostly because fitbit tells me I spend all day sitting around. Which is true, except for when it's not.

I'm happy today, just in a minor good mood, but the SO is cranky sick. He's hit the stage where he believes he should be over it, but isn't. He thinks he now has a sinus infection. So he should probably go in and get antibios. But will he? Doubtful.


JZ - Feb 02, 2013 5:12:56 am PST #9707 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Editorial distress call, extremely minor subdivision:

If one is proofing a text in which one character speaks in a regional accent with various dropped initial sounds (like 'im for him), which way does the abbreviating apostrophe go? The text in question is wibbling all over the place and I want to make it both consistent and consistently right, but it's such a weird little issue that I can't hit on the right terms to even find the question, let alone an answer. And, annoyingly, I can't spot any books on our shelves that would give me some clear examples in print, and I keep getting bounced around online to websites where all the text and punctuation smooth and simple and sans serif.

(My instinct is that it should point toward the missing letter, but I'm not gonna base 350 pages of changes on instinct alone.)

Help?


Hil R. - Feb 02, 2013 5:23:24 am PST #9708 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

(My instinct is that it should point toward the missing letter, but I'm not gonna base 350 pages of changes on instinct alone.)

My instinct would be the same, otherwise it would look like the beginning of a quote.


Jesse - Feb 02, 2013 5:26:19 am PST #9709 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That would be my instinct, too, but I am no professional.

I couldn't wake all the way up until 10, and now I don't think I'll make the 11 o'clock yoga class I like. There's a 4:30 I'm scared of, but I'm getting my hair cut before that, and it seems like a waste to have her style my hair and then immediately go sweat. Bleh.