Ahaha -- there's a guy here who I haven't worked with directly, but heard my boss call "unpleasant," which she mostly attributed to poor social skills, not actually ill intent. I was just copied on an email thread with him, and his full response to being sent something for review was, "I will have comments but can't send them now." Yeaaaahhhh, people usually use a LOT more social niceties than that here.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
Jesse - Oct 12, 2018 9:20:34 am PDT #705 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
msbelle - Oct 12, 2018 11:14:37 am PDT #706 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
That sounds like a work email from me.
Jesse - Oct 12, 2018 11:24:34 am PDT #707 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But you know I mostly work with major gift officers! It's not that there is anything wrong with this guy's email per se, it's just so unexpected here! It's making me laugh again to look at it.
Anyway. Yay Friday.
Jesse - Oct 12, 2018 11:32:02 am PDT #708 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I just freaked out in the mail room because they moved the mailboxes around. My bar is VERY LOW today.
Dana - Oct 12, 2018 11:34:13 am PDT #709 of 30019
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
A joke for my fellow tech writers:
Listening to a presentation about standardizing terminology to facilitate translation (structured authoring blah blah blah), and someone in the chat said:
"Just create a style guide that everyone adheres to."
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Sheryl - Oct 12, 2018 11:34:31 am PDT #710 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Heading to the FSGW annual retreat soon. Lots of music. (And lots of toddler wrangling, sigh)
msbelle - Oct 12, 2018 11:38:31 am PDT #711 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will find out tomorrow if I have my first BOSTON Terrier foster. He is a stray in a nearby shelter on stray hold seeing if any owners come forward.
Toddson - Oct 12, 2018 11:42:47 am PDT #712 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The storm went through last night and my neighborhood was littered with sticks. As I was waiting for the bus, a man walking his husky stopped nearby to wait for traffic to clear. The dog was having a hard time deciding which stick was his One True Stick and finally found one that was several thin branchlets in a group. He carried it around and stopped to look up at me with his pale blue eyes for a minute, then went back to enjoying his stick.
lisah - Oct 12, 2018 11:54:23 am PDT #713 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
Nice one, Dana!
Topic!Cindy - Oct 12, 2018 12:56:01 pm PDT #714 of 30019
What is even happening?
Finally, the important news we all need: The difference between "assclown" and "asshat", explained.
I honestly thought asshat might have been coined here, before reading that.
Thank god. I can finally sleep well at night.
And maybe by Teppy.
From the article Tom Scola linked [link]
The OED identifies the Jan. 4, 2002, Usenet post "You're an asshat too" as the word's first known inscription in written English, making the newsgroup rec.sport.paintball sort of like asshat's own Chauvet Cave.
I live to drop tags.