Jessica, I have those same awful people in my house!
This must be what going mad feels like.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
amych - Jan 17, 2018 12:47:11 pm PST #21115 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
-t - Jan 17, 2018 1:04:12 pm PST #21116 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Come on, now, there's a finite probability that they just ended up like that by chance.
lisah - Jan 17, 2018 1:45:07 pm PST #21117 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
Argh I'm on my hour long train home and I forgot my ear buds at work. The horror!
Jesse - Jan 17, 2018 1:48:37 pm PST #21118 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That is a horror. You're just supposed to listen to the world?? At least you have the internet.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2018 2:26:51 pm PST #21119 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Here's a work problem I haven't run into yet: I'm editing an article with 2 figures. When I opened the figure files, they are -- I'm not kidding -- photos of hand-drawn figures on spiral-bound notebook paper.
Pretty sure we can't use those, broheim. How the fuck did that even get accepted for publication???
I did have fun writing the query to the author for that, though. ("These files appear to be photos of hand-drawn figures on spiral-bound notebook paper. As such, they do not meet the minimum requirements for figure files for the AMA. Please resubmit files that have been created in a computer graphics program.")
Connie Neil - Jan 17, 2018 2:35:29 pm PST #21120 of 30002
brillig
Author probably expects you'll configure them.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2018 2:44:38 pm PST #21121 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
They are total chicken scratch. I can't fathom how they would think we would reproduce them. But of course they didn't think about that.
(And I checked all the correspondence to be sure that the higher-ups didn't say "Oh yes, our Graphics Department can create your figures for you!" There is no such correspondence in any of the files.)
Jesse - Jan 17, 2018 3:30:29 pm PST #21122 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I kind of love that. I can just picture a mad scientist like, "And it's like this, see?"
We just had a thing where someone had to sign a formal document and instead of a scan back, we got a phone picture of their signature, not even obviously on our document.
Dana - Jan 17, 2018 3:33:04 pm PST #21123 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Like the good old days when we asked for a screenshot from a client and they faxed us a printout.
Jesse - Jan 17, 2018 4:05:54 pm PST #21124 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good times.