Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!

Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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.


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!!


shrift - Sep 01, 2015 3:18:23 pm PDT #4609 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

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

I'm confident you will find them.

(Psst. Don't forget VVC DVDs.)


Dana - Sep 01, 2015 3:22:01 pm PDT #4610 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The DVDs are by my luggage. I am more or less convinced, however, that I didn't register for DragonCon. I am trying to tell myself that this is not that big a deal, I can check on-site and register there if I didn't do it already.

I am not being terribly successful, and am instead trying to fight back a panic attack.