Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.

Cordelia ,'End of Days'


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.


Jessica - Sep 01, 2015 1:38:26 pm PDT #4599 of 30003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So, tomorrow morning I'm supposed to be videotaped giving a ten minute presentation and critiqued on my presentation skills, and I have *nothing* to present. I've been looking through old PowerPoints I have to see if there's anything I can recycle, and they're all terrible.

t /whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine


EpicTangent - Sep 01, 2015 1:44:37 pm PDT #4600 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I fumbled it and the carton split. Milk everywhere.

You're OK as long as you didn't cry!


Connie Neil - Sep 01, 2015 1:47:12 pm PDT #4601 of 30003
brillig

I have a customer who needs to move 3.75 gb of data between computers. He only has a 2gb flash drive, so the data has to be moved in chunks. I've showed him three times how to open windows and copy and paste data, but each time he says "But I don't understand! You have to help me!" So unless I tell him to go talk to someone at Best Buy, I have to help him divide his data and move it in chunks.

And the drive just decided to protest being filled up that much. So I told him to get a bigger flash drive and call us back.


Kat - Sep 01, 2015 1:49:39 pm PDT #4602 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Having the new logo be introduced by a cartoon hand drawing with crayon only emphasizes that it looks like a Sesame Street spelling lesson.

But not even an appealing Sesame Street, like the kind that will be paid for HBO. It's a terrible logo.


Connie Neil - Sep 01, 2015 1:51:45 pm PDT #4603 of 30003
brillig

I actually don't mind the new logo, so long as they continue with the specialized logos.


Calli - Sep 01, 2015 1:55:41 pm PDT #4604 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I usually search with Google by typing in the url bar, so I rarely see Google.com. The new logo doesn't bother me much except for the "e". It looks unfinished to me. Maybe it's supposed to be jaunty? I rarely jaunt, so it's hard to say.


Dana - Sep 01, 2015 2:08:55 pm PDT #4605 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

My cousin, who I know is not an idiot, just posted that the Black Panthers in Texas have "declared war" on the cops. I searched for any kind of confirmation and found a bunch of Breitbart-type sites.

Sigh.


Dana - Sep 01, 2015 2:50:40 pm PDT #4606 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And for my next trick, I will somehow misplace both my DragonCon lanyard and my DragonCon postcard that's used for registration. What the hell.


msbelle - Sep 01, 2015 2:55:31 pm PDT #4607 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

to be contrary. I LOVE IT!


sarameg - Sep 01, 2015 3:01:00 pm PDT #4608 of 30003

In a funny coincidence, it was just announced that they're redesigning our logo of 25 years. Make a bit of sense, since the mission has expanded, though the current logo is generic enough, not totally necessary. I predict angst and wrath.

So that thing that might've happened today was complicated by the router refusing to restart, hypothetically, but it's a service contract and they were like ' oh, we might be able to get someone out there today' which is a big ball of no (and probably might get the hypothetical contract terminated) so then one of our people grabbed a schmancy router, in theory, for something else and reconfigured it and saved the day (and should be highly rewarded.) Of course, now a new project is down a router. Oops.

When said guy was stomping down the hall muttering Worst.Day.Ever, I might've said, ' hey, at least the halon didn't go off!' And got a hysterical giggle out of him.

All of us around for THAT incident are scarred for life. It's our measuring stick.

Oh!OH! And because of my stellar record of breaking shit this summer, everyone is all 'Sara broke the Internet.' FOR ONCE IT WASN'T ME!!