Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.

Lorne ,'Why We Fight'


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.


Jesse - Dec 06, 2013 11:43:07 am PST #13940 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The (not-an-actual) problem with this job is that I just came across a reference to our work on The Toast, and still don't want to send it to my coworker.


Jesse - Dec 06, 2013 11:43:20 am PST #13941 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, OMG le nub. Hee.


Jessica - Dec 06, 2013 11:43:32 am PST #13942 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I just corrected an article proof that refers to the "Department of Psychological and BRIAN Sciences."

The bot that sends out bug fix notifications from our educational portal site is abbreviated "Ed Portal" and it makes me laugh every. single. time.


Hil R. - Dec 06, 2013 12:04:40 pm PST #13943 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

It wasn't terrible, just...salty. I can see it being a useful ingredient for umami, like anchovy paste or soy sauce, but I think in order to enjoy it on toast you probably had to grow up with it.

Yeah, it works great as an ingredient in veggie patties or stuff like that. But just by itself, on toast? I don't like it at all.


aurelia - Dec 06, 2013 12:06:47 pm PST #13944 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Is that across the street from the Art Institute?

That sounds about right.


Hil R. - Dec 06, 2013 12:08:42 pm PST #13945 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh, a question for people who are better at the whole "unwritten social rules" stuff than I am. Each year, around the holidays, my landlord leaves a present for me. The first few years it was a gift box of cheese from the university creamery, but she's figured out that I'm vegan, and gave me a box of candy this year. When she gave me the cheese, I would bring it to my parents, and my mom said that, if she gave me something, then we should give her something, so we'd send something (my mom generally picked it out) from some website and sign the card from the family. This year, since I'm the one eating the candy, I figure I should be the one sending the present in return. What am I supposed to give her? Would baking cookies and wrapping them up nice with ribbon and stuff be OK, or should I buy something? If so, what should I buy?


Kate P. - Dec 06, 2013 12:09:36 pm PST #13946 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I think homemade cookies are always a good idea, Hil.


le nubian - Dec 06, 2013 12:14:39 pm PST #13947 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I agree with Kate. I also have been known to get people a bottle of wine if I know they like it.


Dana - Dec 06, 2013 12:15:46 pm PST #13948 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Or a plant?


DebetEsse - Dec 06, 2013 1:52:50 pm PST #13949 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Cookies are totally legit.