It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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.


Consuela - Apr 15, 2014 8:44:31 pm PDT #25342 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I had major blood sugar crash yesterday, so today I was much more cautious about food. Still sleepy on the way home from work, but I got to the gym and had a really good climbing session, so that was good.

More jury duty tomorrow. This is rapidly exceeding my tolerance for boredom.


Burrell - Apr 15, 2014 8:56:05 pm PDT #25343 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

oh msbelle, how infuriating!


hippocampus - Apr 15, 2014 9:42:55 pm PDT #25344 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

Good luck, parents!

Msbelle, that's really maddening. Two weeks on an email seems too long to me too.

I've woken myself up before by grinding my teeth so hard they ache. This morning, I'm hoping that's what I've done. Ow.


Jesse - Apr 16, 2014 2:49:22 am PDT #25345 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, msbelle, that does sound infuriating. BUT I am excited for mac to be reading The Outsiders.

I rescued a dog today and put him back in what I thought was his yard on the right side of the gate, only to then realize, "Wait it might not be his yard" (there was already a dog there). So I left a note saying, "I left a dalmatian in the yard, is it yours?" Luckily it was.

Ha! I am reminded of the time a neighbor kid basically threw a big orange kitty in my door when I opened it. Nice thought, except it wasn't my cat.


sarameg - Apr 16, 2014 4:19:15 am PDT #25346 of 30000

My IT department does not understand why our client-facing helpdesk would need non-stale user information. Don't even get me started on them being cranky that a system that serves out proprietary data (per NASA!) might just need non-stale information for authentication.

I want to stab people with forks.


tommyrot - Apr 16, 2014 5:27:46 am PDT #25347 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Further evidence that Finland is an awesome country: Finland to offer Tom of Finland gay bondage art stamps - Boing Boing

NSFW. That's right--Finland has NSFW gay stamps.


Connie Neil - Apr 16, 2014 6:08:34 am PDT #25348 of 30000
brillig

"Oops, I put the wrong stamp on my passport application."


Jesse - Apr 16, 2014 6:29:21 am PDT #25349 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's fantastic.


Connie Neil - Apr 16, 2014 7:33:50 am PDT #25350 of 30000
brillig

Mornings are more interesting here in the new building. Pull into the parking lot, get out of the car, smirk at the backup on the freeway, scan the valley to see if anything's burning yet, nod to the NSA complex on the other side of the freeway. I wonder if they stare at us as much as we stare at them.

edit: And just down the highway is a Flash Technologies facility. The road into their campus is called Flash Drive.


-t - Apr 16, 2014 7:47:05 am PDT #25351 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Cute.

Rabbits have an ETA of the last week of April, whee!