Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


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.


meara - Aug 20, 2013 7:14:38 am PDT #3052 of 30000

it needs to hit 120 - 125 for an hour sustained. if any interior part is not getting that hot, they will just retreat to the cool areas.

Hmm. I figure it'll hit that in the trunk all day. I'll just make sure I get it hot or my backpack too, after work--maybe stop and have dinner and let it bake a while. ;)


le nubian - Aug 20, 2013 7:25:02 am PDT #3053 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Whereas getting to vote can be as simple as requesting an absentee ballot and/or calling up the local senior center to arrange a carpool if the polling place isn't in easy walking distance.

Except some of the states are closing down polling areas and making people wait 4+ hours to vote.


WindSparrow - Aug 20, 2013 7:34:51 am PDT #3054 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Except some of the states are closing down polling areas and making people wait 4+ hours to vote.

Same dog, different leg.


sj - Aug 20, 2013 7:53:56 am PDT #3055 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Anyone have a London hotel recommendation? We'll have the 4-year old with us, although she has already told us she'd prefer Paris to check on Madeline.

This is my favorite place to stay in London link.


le nubian - Aug 20, 2013 8:44:10 am PDT #3056 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I am in a dissertation meeting. We are waiting for a faculty member who is late to the meeting.

The faculty member we are waiting on never confirmed the meeting. So we are likely waiting on someone who will never show up.

Why would you have such an important meeting and not confirm the date and time with all members of the committee? In my life I have never encountered this until today.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 20, 2013 8:59:04 am PDT #3057 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Was a Young Person in charge of confirming? Because they don't seem to confirm- they assume you are confirmed if you do not say no. They also don't confirm themselves. I actually had one not confirm when I said I could meet "any time after 6". She just showed up at 8 and thought I would be there.


le nubian - Aug 20, 2013 9:03:43 am PDT #3058 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

the student was the one sending out email messages and I think the student is 35-40 in age.


le nubian - Aug 20, 2013 9:35:53 am PDT #3059 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

have you ever had someone run a meeting and couldn't hear the people in the meeting?

I am in hell, people.


Kate P. - Aug 20, 2013 9:40:22 am PDT #3060 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I actually had one not confirm when I said I could meet "any time after 6". She just showed up at 8 and thought I would be there.

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That reminds me of le nubian's story about the student who cancelled the meeting she had "scheduled" but had never told le nubian about.


Rick - Aug 20, 2013 9:43:54 am PDT #3061 of 30000

The faculty member we are waiting on never confirmed the meeting. So we are likely waiting on someone who will never show up.

Depending on the congeniality of the committee members, we would proceed with the defense, and assuming that the oral defense was judged adequate and the document fixable, the Chair would meet with the remaining member to ensure that that person's concerns were also addressed.

Of course, the student must know that if the last committee member wants to be obstinate, the whole thing might have to be done again. But I've never seen that happen.

Getting four or five academics to show up in the same place at the same time is sufficiently difficult that you have to make allowances. You never know when one of them might have "an idea" and be lost to the world for a few days.