Holy shit, AO3 won the Hugo.
That is so goddamn fantastic!
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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. - Aug 18, 2019 12:56:48 pm PDT #10559 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
DXMachina - Aug 18, 2019 1:41:35 pm PDT #10560 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I first read that as AOC and was very confused.
In other news one of the potential mass murderers mentioned in this news story [link] is a student at a school I teach at (although currently under indefinite suspension).
Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2019 1:54:46 pm PDT #10561 of 30019
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh, jeez, DX.
currently under indefinite suspension
Before or after he got busted, may I ask?
DXMachina - Aug 18, 2019 2:00:37 pm PDT #10562 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
After. Banned from campus, too. (Not that the last is really a deterent, since the campus is wide open.)
Jesse - Aug 18, 2019 2:03:27 pm PDT #10563 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yikes.
msbelle - Aug 18, 2019 4:50:10 pm PDT #10564 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
today I picked up the dogs from sitters and then had a pretty lazy day. I got my new printer/scanner set up and then I tried to do one or two bits of straightening or putting things away each time I got up. I have a half filled box of things to get rid of from my kitchen and I got a pile of clothes put away into storage bags. Not bad.
I think I am going to take a book and go to bed early. Back to work tomorrow seems like a cruel joke.
-t - Aug 18, 2019 5:09:05 pm PDT #10565 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo, AO3!
Yikes, DXM
aurelia - Aug 18, 2019 6:25:32 pm PDT #10566 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
So my parents are looking at burial plots. They want to know if I want a plot with them. I have until Friday to decide. I really have no idea.
Consuela - Aug 18, 2019 8:31:20 pm PDT #10567 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So stoked about AO3.
I've seen people arguing that only the infrastructure of AO3 got nominated; but without the content there would be no reason for the nomination. Who pays attention to an empty database? So I'm totally happy claiming one-one-millionth of a Hugo for myself.
Theo, I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin, that's just horrifying.
Go go msbelle with the new house!
I did almost nothing useful today, but I met my niece's new puppy and went for a walk and bought wine and made cookies.
Theodosia - Aug 19, 2019 12:41:00 am PDT #10568 of 30019
'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"
aurelia, based on my recent experience, say yes -- if you predecease your parents it will be one less decision they have to make (and even if you pass at 110, whoever is around doesn't have to find you a plot) and it will probably also give them some peace of mind to picture all three of you tucked away in a pretty cemetery plot.
I am seriously thinking about setting money aside to be buried in Mt Auburn Cemetery, which still accepts new internments, on the basis that it's super pretty (people walk around it just to look at the graves) and if I'm ever going to be dug up by archaeologists in 3000 AD, its more likely to be there.