I went back to sleep for a bit after my meeting ended. I am less homicidal. (Also, there may have been doughnuts.)
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
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.
Dana - Dec 18, 2018 5:39:40 am PST #3114 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
-t - Dec 18, 2018 6:09:48 am PST #3115 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hooray for non-homicidal doughnuts!
-t - Dec 18, 2018 6:10:35 am PST #3116 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm off FB for the week per NAACP boycot, I may be even chattier than usual. Be warned.
meara - Dec 18, 2018 6:27:37 am PST #3117 of 30019
Yay doughnuts!
The boycott is a full week? Dang I didn't notice that somehow, I thought it was a day.
Laura - Dec 18, 2018 6:39:21 am PST #3118 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I didn't know about the NAACP thing at all, but it looks like just today, which means I already didn't comply at all. Ooops.
Calli - Dec 18, 2018 6:43:51 am PST #3119 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yeah, I didn't know about the NAACP boycott, either. Sorry. I don't usually cross picket lines.
-t - Dec 18, 2018 6:51:53 am PST #3120 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The thing I saw yesterday said a week, now I'm seeing just today. I may stay off for the week just because I already had that in my head. You could make one last post about it and stay off the rest of the day if you wanted.
I have been thinking about the various "day without" social media thingies that I did NOT take part in and why this feels different to me. I think it's that somehow the framing reminded me that we users are not FB's customers, we are their commodity, and logging out interrupts their supply chain and decreases their value to their customers. So it would need to really be a mass movement to have impact, I guess, but considering how tightly they track analytics maybe even a relatively small blip will get some attention.
Jesse - Dec 18, 2018 7:57:59 am PST #3121 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am terrible at boycotting, but didn't even know about this one.
Toddson - Dec 18, 2018 8:12:36 am PST #3122 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
On the lighter side, in Berkeley a delivery robot caught fire. No injuries, but someone's food was - so to speak - toast. And some students set up a candle memorial to it.
-t - Dec 18, 2018 9:17:36 am PST #3123 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, I got a Taco Bell box for lunch yesterday - this thing where fast food places will let you order on an app and pick it up through the drive through, I'm a sucker for it - and it included their Cinnamon Twists, which I didn't feel like eating yesterday but I thought might be good with my coffee this morning. I also picked up a piece of peppermint bark at some point during the day and likewiise never got around to eating it, so I kept them both in the same little cardboard box overnight on my desk. I think the cinnamon twists absorbed some mint flavor. It's interesting.