You guys, I have so much time to actually do work this week -- a lot of people are out, so few meetings -- and I am just wasting and wasting all of my time! I have the whole afternoon free, so let's hope I can actually get my shit together.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
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.
Jesse - Apr 19, 2018 6:25:14 am PDT #24524 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-t - Apr 19, 2018 6:37:37 am PDT #24525 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good luck with that, Jesse.
I have a class and a meeting today and actual work to do and really would like to be sleeping all day instead. Why couldn't some of this work come at me yesterday when I was actively looking for things to do?
And I flailed this morning and missed my meds and breakfast, so cranky.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2018 7:16:10 am PDT #24526 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ugh. I just got cc-ed on an email chain about an article that I edited in February. There was a problem with some hyperlinks, and my coordinator said "I'm not surprised that the problem was with the one freelancer who uses a Mac." And then the IT person on the email chain said "Tell her to not [technical thingamabob]."
Here's the problem: I don't even know HOW to [technical thingamabob], because (1) no one ever told me to do it, and (2) no one ever showed me HOW to do it (probably because no one ever told me to do it). And wow, I really hate when people fall back on the excuse of "Well, she uses a Mac, which is clearly a devil machine that destroys all it surveys." That's not how this works, you jackass. I've been editing for you for almost 5 years with this computer and this problem has never occurred before. Wouldn't you think I'd be fucking *every* article up if the problem was actually caused by my devil machine?
I didn't really know how to reply to that email chain, other than to say "Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I definitely don't want to introduce errors into the workflow, but I also don't even know how to do [technical thingamabob], so it doesn't seem likely that I did it. Could you explain the process to do [technical thingamabob] so I can troubleshoot and see if I did it accidentally?" [SPOILER: It's actually impossible to do [technical thingamabob] "accidentally". That's like saying "Oh, I was washing dishes and accidentally baked a cake!" It's impossible to get Result A when you're doing Action B. You have to do Action A to get Result A, and I was doing Action B.]
When I fuck something up, I do want to know, so I can fix it and avoid it in the future, but you can't just decide my devil machine did a thing that I don't even know how to do.
-t - Apr 19, 2018 7:18:48 am PDT #24527 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, Tep. Yeah, your response seems like the way to go. You definitely need clarification and they probably need to find the actual cause rather than assume it's your Mac.
I am dealing with my crankiness by eating all the chocolate.
Jessica - Apr 19, 2018 7:21:25 am PDT #24528 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That's like saying "Oh, I was washing dishes and accidentally baked a cake!"
Oh man, this happens to me ALL THE TIME. I have so many cakes and no clean plates to eat them on. It's a legitimate problem.
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2018 7:33:35 am PDT #24529 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That's like saying "Oh, I was washing dishes and accidentally baked a cake!"
Oh man, this happens to me ALL THE TIME. I have so many cakes and no clean plates to eat them on. It's a legitimate problem.
Were you using a Mac? Because if you were, I think I know the source of the problem. APPARENTLY.
Fred Pete - Apr 19, 2018 7:43:29 am PDT #24530 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Strange -- I usually end up with pies.
What am I doing wrong?
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 19, 2018 7:50:33 am PDT #24531 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Wait, did I miss something? How does Hannity being Cohen's client mean that he has significant ties to Trump? Unless Cohen made payments to Hannity on Trump's behalf (which I would not put past him). I suppose that Cohen could have done some legal work other than pay off people for Trump.
I think the big problem is that Hannity was ranting about the unfairness of Cohen being investigated on national TV while failing to divulge that he was "reporting" about his *own* lawyer.
Jessica - Apr 19, 2018 7:56:11 am PDT #24532 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Were you using a Mac? Because if you were, I think I know the source of the problem. APPARENTLY.
Oh crap, was I supposed to wash my dishes using a PC? Do I have to wash them all over again now?
Steph L. - Apr 19, 2018 8:01:27 am PDT #24533 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Strange -- I usually end up with pies.
What am I doing wrong?
Are you running Linux? That may be your problem.
Were you using a Mac? Because if you were, I think I know the source of the problem. APPARENTLY.
Oh crap, was I supposed to wash my dishes using a PC? Do I have to wash them all over again now?
Yes, and -- I know this will be hard to hear -- you have to use Windows ME.