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.
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
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.
Sheryl - Sep 23, 2013 12:47:26 pm PDT #6355 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
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."
Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2013 2:12:06 pm PDT #6360 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Typo, you have trouble believing in three assholes? Knowing three assholes? Trusting three guys with impulse control issues and poor judgement?
The last. Trusting one asshole can happen to anyone. But it seems like extremely bad luck to trust three out of three. Or am I wrong in thinking that Groomsmen are usually friends of fairly long standing? Like you know their characters?
Theodosia - Sep 23, 2013 2:18:55 pm PDT #6361 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"
"let's call a diamond, a diamond."
This is genius, and I will use it at the next opportunity.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2013 2:22:13 pm PDT #6362 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But it seems like extremely bad luck to trust three out of three
Not if you're an asshole or an idiot.
Or unlucky.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2013 2:23:14 pm PDT #6363 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I want to ask more questions, but I don't know this person well enough to pry to this degree.
I don't know her as well as a buffista, for example.
WindSparrow - Sep 23, 2013 2:23:26 pm PDT #6364 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.
Until ten minutes ago, I had no idea that there was any connotation to the word "spade" outside of gardening, playing cards, or misspelled veterinary procedures. On the other hand, I was also unaware of the fig and trough origins. Knowing now that there was quite likely an earthy double entendre in that, I may amuse myself by adopting that.