Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.

'Serenity'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


Jesse - Mar 17, 2016 1:54:29 pm PDT #17808 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Went to the eye doctor, and bifocals are in my future, but not yet. Since my distance vision is basically the same, I think I'm just going to get computer glasses for now and keep the main ones the same. That feels awkward, but we'll see. For now, my eyes are all dilated, so I can barely see the computer screen....


Jesse - Mar 17, 2016 1:55:25 pm PDT #17809 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I swear I would have muttered Hail Hydra as they left. You can put me in an office but you can't make me act professional.

I don't know if I could actually bring myself to say that out loud!


-t - Mar 17, 2016 2:42:49 pm PDT #17810 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have computer glasses and I like them! definitely makes a difference for that in between distance. I am doing okay with just taking off my glasses for close up seeing and reading.

Start throwing out the occasional "On your left", Jesse. Maybe don't bring up Tahiti.


sarameg - Mar 17, 2016 2:51:10 pm PDT #17811 of 30003

Who the fuck designs a web based app that allows you to paste image data, but doesn't actually save it to the server? And displays it as long as you're in that login session, so you think it's been saved? What the fucking fuck?!?

And. AND! Instead, you have to upload the individual files to another location through a multi-step process (and no batch mode) and the go "discover" it in the app. And it only takes .png. And of course, my image grabber in .tiff. So first I have to go remake all the goddamned images, convert (at least a batch mode for that) then waste my goddamned time loading them, then go link to them.

testlink is a piece of shit.

I hate everything.


sarameg - Mar 17, 2016 3:08:51 pm PDT #17812 of 30003

(I know that's all gibberish, but I spent most of today trying not to scream at the computer and actually banging my head on the desk.)


Jesse - Mar 17, 2016 3:24:01 pm PDT #17813 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Maybe don't bring up Tahiti.

I hear it's a magical place.


sarameg - Mar 17, 2016 3:28:37 pm PDT #17814 of 30003

And I was going to plant the buckets this weekend except they're calling for snow Sunday night.


Kalshane - Mar 17, 2016 3:45:56 pm PDT #17815 of 30003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Health-ma to lisah's father.

I understood that, sarameg, and you have my sympathies.

I have some percentage of Irish on my father's side and my wife is half-Irish, but I failed to wear green today (though I did support my Finnish heritage by wearing purple yesterday) because we have to wear ties at work and I have neither a green tie nor green dress shirt.

Having one of those "Fuck you Facebook friend of a friend!" moments right now. Someone is going off on how "rape culture is feminazi bullshit, BTW women rape men too" in response to something my brother posted and I know from past experience that engaging this person is an exercise in futility.

Though I am tempted to ask him if his fedora is a little too tight.

(Side rant: as a long time fedora-wearer it pisses me off that these MRA douche bags have taken it as their symbol.)


Steph L. - Mar 17, 2016 3:56:00 pm PDT #17816 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Okay, so, to be clear, it's just a fungal rash, but why does it have to be called "ringworm"? Gross. It's not a worm.

Relatedly, maybe don't pet every single cat or dog you encounter when you take walks. Ask me how I know.


billytea - Mar 17, 2016 4:02:59 pm PDT #17817 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Relatedly, maybe don't pet every single cat or dog you encounter when you take walks. Ask me how I know.

How you know they're single?