Jesse, I wonder if you could find somebody on Craigslist that would want to stay there for a less than full year. Especially in Boston with all the hospitals you're always going to be doctors coming in for residencies and shit like that for part of a year.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
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.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2013 12:00:54 pm PDT #6350 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Theodosia - Sep 23, 2013 12:17:32 pm PDT #6351 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"
Heh -- you could probably sign up for Air BnB and make money on it, what with it being right in Harvard Square.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2013 12:30:03 pm PDT #6352 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theo doesn't lie. Hell, aren't there NFL/Hockey and holidays around this time?
P.M. Marc - Sep 23, 2013 12:35:03 pm PDT #6353 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So what does all of this mean for people who want to, well, "call a spade a spade"? I urge caution. Mieder concludes his case study with the argument that "to call a spade a spade" should be retired from modern usage: "Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood, it is best to relinquish the old innocuous proverbial expression all together."
Hmph. RACISTS ARE THE REASONS WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. I feel like giving up on innocuous phrases is letting the racists win.
meara - Sep 23, 2013 12:45:55 pm PDT #6354 of 30000
RACISTS ARE THE REASONS WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. I feel like giving up on innocuous phrases is letting the racists win.
Yeah, sadly USING the phrases is ALSO a win for the racists. It's almost like the game is rigged...
I highly highly recommend those of you with a Trader Joe's get you some pumpkin cream cheese and then dip cinnamon sugar pita chips into it. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Sheryl - Sep 23, 2013 12:47:26 pm PDT #6355 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Went to the Renaissance Faire yesterday. Saw some acts we've seen before, and some we hadn't. Weather was good and we had fun.
Jesse - Sep 23, 2013 1:07:58 pm PDT #6356 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, so my lease says I can sublet with approval. I'll see what my friend Kevin has to say.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2013 1:59:58 pm PDT #6357 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
As long as he's not calling you Charles, you're ahead of the game.
My basic response to the IO9 changes: Catlike programming detected. And I clearly mean the kind of cats that like to test cause and effect over and over again, and we keep propping ourselves up to be knocked down over and over again.
How ill-considered is their change? If I put any string after a link to a post, you will only see context-free comments by a user with that name, or comments made while at that modified URL. This is only really an issue when the system deliberately generates URLS with strings after post links, so all of a sudden the "hot article" links take you to hot articles that say there are 900 comments, but they're all invisible, except for the ones made by the person who decided it was hot (usually a total of zero), or stumbling fools who got there before you and wondered where everyone had gone to.
They expect to have that fixed by tomorrow.
People work there. People whose job it is to write code (things happen!), but are there people whose job it is to test? People whose job it is to deliver applications? If so, they're fucking up. If not, HIRE THEM.
Zenkitty - Sep 23, 2013 2:00:07 pm PDT #6358 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
So what's the currently acceptable way to say that? Just "call it like I see it", I guess. I grew up on a farm. A spade was a shovel (except it isn't a bloody shovel, it's a spade). I never knew it was anything else until college. Can I still use the word spade to refer to a gardening tool, or must I say shovel?
I'm glad I own my house. The perils of renting disturb me.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2013 2:04:34 pm PDT #6359 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So what's the currently acceptable way to say that?
I'm a smartass. So occasionally I will say: "let's call a diamond, a diamond."