Yay Suzi!
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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 - Mar 17, 2014 7:31:50 am PDT #22580 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
msbelle - Mar 17, 2014 7:34:52 am PDT #22581 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Suzi totally wins at Monday.
I was telling my kid co-worker of my weekend watching old VHS tapes and he says "What is Live Aid?". !?!?!?!
Wouldn't that be like me not knowing that Monterrey or Woodstock were? Sure he wasn't yet, but I know about lots of stuff before I was born.
Burrell - Mar 17, 2014 7:45:05 am PDT #22582 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Not knowing about Live Aid does seem kind of boggling but also in keeping with our amnesiac culture. I bet he also doesn't know about the Monterrey Jazz Festival come to think of it.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2014 7:49:10 am PDT #22583 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now I want to go ask my youngest coworker if she's heard of Live Aid, but I don't think we quite have that kind of relationship.
Zenkitty - Mar 17, 2014 7:59:41 am PDT #22584 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Congrats, Suzi!
LiveAid
I worked with a girl in 1989 who not only was unaware that the Berlin Wall had just fallen, had not idea what the Berlin Wall was. When I explained it, she shrugged and said "who cares?"
airway fire
frostbite in the throat
Oh, god, no. The horror!
lisah - Mar 17, 2014 8:24:40 am PDT #22585 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
We have a new teammate who is British and new to town and, at our fundraiser last night where we were raffling off baseball tickets, asked me what an "Orioles" was!
shrift - Mar 17, 2014 8:28:12 am PDT #22586 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Okay, I had a conversation with my manager this morning and I think we're on the same page WRT what I should be working on, so I have been empowered to say no to people.
Not good was that I whiffed on a call I was supposed to join this morning, but it turns out it's totally not my fault and I get to blame technology.
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2014 8:43:05 am PDT #22587 of 30000
brillig
Must be patient with the baby-tech on the phone. He's working for a company that's cheap and hasn't told him things, just get the system working.
He sounds so damned young! I think I scared him. I'm not used to people who think I sound intimidating.
Tom Scola - Mar 17, 2014 8:47:49 am PDT #22588 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yikes: The New York Daily News reports that L'Wren Scott, fashion designer and long-term partner of Mick Jagger, has been found dead in her Manhattan apartment. Sources say that her assistant discovered her hanging by a scarf from a doorknob. Scott left no note.
Amy - Mar 17, 2014 8:50:36 am PDT #22589 of 30000
Because books.
I just saw a tweet from Tom and Lorenzo about that. And apparently she did tweet something right before her death, even if she didn't leave a note.