Oh my. Continuing ~ma
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
-t - Dec 23, 2020 4:54:03 pm PST #1550 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Volans - Dec 23, 2020 5:16:35 pm PST #1551 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Do you still have the list of terms?
Somewhere, I will look for it. It was the usuals: leverage, synergy, center of excellence, etc. There were a few that turn out to be fairly unique to this demographic ("let's circle the wagons" misused to mean "let's get together and coordinate on that;" "the camel's nose under the tent;" "azimuth check;" and "tour d' horizon;" "close to the flagpole") but most were business drivel (KPIs, playbook, dodged a bullet).
Jesse - Dec 23, 2020 5:36:09 pm PST #1552 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My favorite jargon joke is renaming silos "cylinders of excellence."
ugh new report from my parents' place. Currently 16 staff out positive. 4 residents' tests from Monday are positive. They have cancelled housekeeping in the apartments for the time being.
Ooof. Continued good thoughts.
meara - Dec 23, 2020 5:46:43 pm PST #1553 of 30000
I’ve never heard those last few starting with the camels nose. What do those even mean?
dcp - Dec 23, 2020 6:02:05 pm PST #1554 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Camel's nose is a variation on "thin end of the wedge."
I can't remember the source, but I seem to recall hearing about this phrase used in all earnestness: "We must strategize our conformity."
-t - Dec 23, 2020 6:18:49 pm PST #1555 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The jargon convo reminds me that Google recently notified me they were making some change to something (Drive, maybe, one of those cloud things I use all the time and don’t think about a lot) to better align with industry standards and I was just so affronted. You used to be cool, Google. You didn’t let anyone else set standards, you made up your own. What happened to you, man?
hippocampus - Dec 24, 2020 4:20:57 am PST #1556 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Sending continuing good wishes, msbelle
Calli - Dec 24, 2020 4:31:37 am PST #1557 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Continued health~ma to your parents, msbelle.
So it looks like my senator (pthui, if only I could never speak of him again) is trying to mess with Fair Use. Not sure what fanficcers and TikTokers ever did to him, but there’s nothing here that seems actually helpful to, say, professional authors getting screwed by Disney and lots that could get AO3 taken down. [link] It’s not up for a vote yet, and AO3 legal is on it. But damnit, can’t we keep one nice thing in 2020?
JenP - Dec 24, 2020 8:39:28 am PST #1558 of 30000
Going to the store to get stuff for my mom's fudge recipe. That's about the only productive thing I plan to do today other than wrap some presents and make dinner. Well, and make the fudge.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 24, 2020 8:43:31 am PST #1559 of 30000
What is even happening?
Don't forget to eat the fudge, Jen.