Ha! I emailed my mom for sympathy about my dad (because she had to live with it for 14 years), and she replied "Oh sweetie, shut him down fast when he does that. I wanted to punch him in the mouth every time he used 'female' as a noun."
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Steph L. - May 04, 2016 6:32:48 am PDT #20902 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Toddson - May 04, 2016 6:43:51 am PDT #20903 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The coffee came in a silver-colored pot with a rustic mug for decanting into and drinking from. The milk steamed in a jug. Jack lifted coffee in his right hand and milk in the left, pouring both simultaneously into red stoneware. The rich, brown scent, mellowed by dairy sweetness, rose on coils of steam. The first sip floated him on a bubble of well-being. He closed his eyes and sighed, hands caged loosely around his cup.
sigh ... my coffee experience is never quite like this .... (from "The White City" by Elizabeth Bear)
Steph L. - May 04, 2016 6:45:57 am PDT #20904 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Bummer.
Calli - May 04, 2016 6:53:53 am PDT #20905 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
my coffee experience is never quite like this
I don't have a silver pot. But the bubble of well-being is spot on.
Gudanov - May 04, 2016 7:16:17 am PDT #20906 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
I've decided that I'm finally going to release my book 'Cog'. I feel like if I keep waiting for the right time, then I'll never release it.
Theodosia - May 04, 2016 7:17:09 am PDT #20907 of 30003
'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"
Gudanov, yes, JavaScript, which is evidently notoriously picky about event listeners and closures -- I feel like I accidentally walked into a land war in Asia that I didn't know was there.
BUT, I found an understandable explanation and example on the web, and triumphed in getting my program in line with it, and the icon-switching that I wanted (where you have buttons to click the pictures of, and the JS adds the onclick function to do it) works like whoa.
I feel like I should stand up in front of a temple and proclaim "TODAY I AM A PROGRAMMER."
In other news, Muppet is hanging in there without any evident distress and my bridge still hurts, but at least I got this one thing working for me....
Zenkitty - May 04, 2016 7:25:49 am PDT #20908 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Gud, I support you in that. There's never a precisely right time. Release the book!
I am not even thinking about the possibility that Trump might win because it is unthinkable.
Tom Scola - May 04, 2016 7:33:39 am PDT #20909 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Kasich is gone now, too.
Steph L. - May 04, 2016 7:35:58 am PDT #20910 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
t Hamilton GIF
Gudanov - May 04, 2016 7:37:40 am PDT #20911 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
Kasich is gone now, too.
That's been true for a long time.