In the next five or six minutes gay marriage will be legal in Illinois.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
brenda m - Nov 20, 2013 12:27:21 pm PST #12544 of 30000
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
Consuela - Nov 20, 2013 12:36:51 pm PST #12545 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay, Brenda!
OK, I have to tear myself off the couch and go order the turkey for Thanksgiving.
Connie Neil - Nov 20, 2013 12:37:36 pm PST #12546 of 30000
brillig
Things I want to say but don't--"Yes, dude, you did pay $20 for me to help you fix that exceedingly simple problem on your computer--but you didn't know how to fix it yourself, now, did you!"
And stop clicking on things before I tell you to! You keep picking the wrong thing, and we have to start over!
I don't care if people don't know how to work computers, but can't they at least learn logical progression of actions? When I tell you to perform an action, and the screen to do it has an OK button, you don't have to ask to click on the OK! But I do understand people are unsure and need reassurance. But gosh.
Theodosia - Nov 20, 2013 12:47:02 pm PST #12547 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Connie, some people just go into a blind panic when they have to do anything out of the ordinary on their computers.
The friend I stayed with in Vermont wanted to borrow my computer to get online, which I sure didn't mind. Then it turned out that she didn't know how to log out of Facebook or GMail. sigh
Connie Neil - Nov 20, 2013 12:50:58 pm PST #12548 of 30000
brillig
I like the folks who admit up front that they don't know/are intimidated by their computers. I tell them that I don't know how to do their jobs, so why should they know how to do my job? And a lot of people in the construction/insurance industry got into it so they didn't have to sit in an office and work on computers. I tell them, "And the computers caught you anyway." It's the ones who are eager to be "helpful" that annoy me. Oh, and who bitch about "Well, that was easy, I shouldn't have had to pay for that."
Sheryl - Nov 20, 2013 12:53:33 pm PST #12549 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Since all of my outdoor shoes are black, I wear black shoes with jeans. (All of my belts are black as well. All numbering two...)
Theodosia - Nov 20, 2013 1:17:25 pm PST #12550 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Working as application support for the Houghton Mifflin textbook salesforce really gave me a workout, because they were as smart a group of people as you could ever want -- all of them were ex-teachers usually with graduate degrees (including in some cases doctorates) and sometimes ex-principals. I would tell them not to worry because they hadn't been hired for their computer skills, and I couldn't do their jobs.
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2013 1:49:25 pm PST #12551 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Answering PC questions for some people in IT, on the other hand, really does boggle me. It's not like we're a mainframe shop or do any work that's really far away from the platform of all our users--Windows. Lots of people stumble on the OS, Office, don't understand basic principles of websites or the Internet, and I've learnt there's an allowable difference between .NET developer and web developer.
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2013 1:52:31 pm PST #12552 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, wow, that's cruel. Only to dessert-seeking humans, and only to their psyche, but given that, dude.
Cass - Nov 20, 2013 2:04:01 pm PST #12553 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Lots of people stumble on the OS, Office
I have been on Apple OS for so long that having a Windows machine in the office is weird. I get flummoxed on weird things. Usually only once but it's strange because I think I just know PCs until I am stumped.
I did passive aggressively make someone else add a printer and change all my default print settings in the crazy Avimark program the other day though. But that was just because she refused to order toner (after over a month of asking) for the printer I did need and so I wanted her to be stressed and inconvenienced too. Petty but it made me feel better.