Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


-t - Sep 22, 2014 11:33:29 am PDT #6757 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We don't have squirrels in my neighborhood. Maybe because we don't have a lot of trees? The area wants to be a marsh more than it wants to be a forest.


brenda m - Sep 22, 2014 11:37:14 am PDT #6758 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I think I have a mouse in my house.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 22, 2014 11:51:01 am PDT #6759 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

My grandmother was able to grow big beds of irises without any interference from the squirrels. (We couldn't get a single tomato to ripen before they made off with it, though.)


Calli - Sep 22, 2014 11:52:50 am PDT #6760 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

My work password had to be updated every six months. It had to have a non-alphanumerical character (!@# etc.) as well as at least one capitalized letter and one number. I just went up the keyboard changing the !@# etc. When I was fired I was on my third round.


Sheryl - Sep 22, 2014 12:37:20 pm PDT #6761 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I'm so sorry, Lee.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2014 12:51:05 pm PDT #6762 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My general password standard is to pick a word (say, paragraph), and then replace all the as with 6, . or *s, if punctuation is required and if both are required I get something like p2$2f$2ph, and that password will continue to be all paragraph related, just swapping out the replacement characters, and maybe the timekeeping password will be a similar set of variants on eternity,


Steph L. - Sep 22, 2014 1:32:28 pm PDT #6763 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I am a crazy obsessive person. I missed a call from the doctor's office with my cholesterol test results because Caller ID just said "Incoming call" (if there's no actual phone number/name, I let it go to voice mail, especially after 5:00). And who expects their doctor's office to call after 5:00? So I can call tomorrow to get the results.

But because I am crazy and obsessive, I've decided that "I would like to discuss your results with you" means either (1) Oh my god your cholesterol has gone up to 500 and your heart is going to explode right now, OR (2) Your cholesterol went down to 160 and we would like to give you a gold star for eating all that oatmeal.

I just can't decide which.

t edit It's probably more like "Hey, your cholesterol went down/up by 2 points. Way to maintain."


billytea - Sep 22, 2014 1:35:57 pm PDT #6764 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Late last year, our whole network here at work crashed. In the process of recovering it, everyone was issued passwords of random strings of characters. I found that the one they gave me was surprisingly easy to bang out on the keyboard, so I've kept it. Just change the numbers on the end.

That's really my main criterion for a password: how quickly can I reliably type it out? A good password can save you milliseconds in your day. Milliseconds, I say!


Zenkitty - Sep 22, 2014 1:43:49 pm PDT #6765 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I still use the random-string password I got for Lotus Notes ~10 years ago. I favor passwords that I can type entirely with my left hand, for speed of banging it out.


Tom Scola - Sep 22, 2014 2:28:45 pm PDT #6766 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Shows! Shows to watch! On my teevee!!