You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

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.


lisah - Nov 19, 2025 4:19:58 pm PST #10265 of 11178
Punishingly Intricate

2 days in a row of kind of obscure pangrams


-t - Nov 19, 2025 4:35:03 pm PST #10266 of 11178
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Didn't get yesterday's


bennett - Nov 19, 2025 4:36:30 pm PST #10267 of 11178

I generally add kahlua to my hot chocolate.


aurelia - Nov 19, 2025 5:46:38 pm PST #10268 of 11178
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Connections: I was pretty sure that the blue answers would be purple.

Right? I really thought I was getting purple first. I did get both pangrams off the top and made it to QB during morning coffee. Wordle took 5 tries though.


Jesse - Nov 19, 2025 5:48:17 pm PST #10269 of 11178
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

While you people were talking about delicious boozy hot chocolate, I was making Swiss Miss in the office. Sad.


aurelia - Nov 19, 2025 5:54:56 pm PST #10270 of 11178
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'm in my office, listening to the Fezziwig party, drinking hot water.


Hil R. - Nov 19, 2025 9:06:02 pm PST #10271 of 11178
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Frustrating day today.

Tried to do the annual enrollment thing for health insurance and so on, but the network refused to recognize that I was logged on.

Student came to class wearing a mask. I asked if she was feeling OK, and she said, "Yeah, I tested positive for Covid on Monday, but I met all the requirements to come back to class." So, I put on my N95.

I had to send out exams for high school students taking my online calculus class. I email the exams to teachers at their schools, and those teachers print them out, supervise the students taking them, and then scan them and send them back to me. I can't just send the same exam file to each one, because we use a system where each exam had QR codes on it, so I needed to be careful to send the right exam to each person, and to make sure not to send the same file to two different people. It took me a while to get the individual emails put together and the files attached and to double-check that I'd matched up the names and the files correctly. And then one of the teachers emailed me to say that she couldn't open the attachment. I checked, and none of the files had downloaded to my computer correctly, which meant that none of the attachments were right, and I had to redo the entire thing, after downloading each individual file (I'd done it as a batch before, which apparently you can't do.)


Dana - Nov 20, 2025 5:14:05 am PST #10272 of 11178
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Even one of those things is too shitty for a single day. Three is just rude.


-t - Nov 20, 2025 8:20:14 am PST #10273 of 11178
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, that is some unneccessary piling on


Calli - Nov 20, 2025 10:49:11 am PST #10274 of 11178
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

-t, if you want to give it a go, maybe nab one of those airline minis that liquor store often have? You’d just be out a dollar or so if you don’t like it.