WX just posted in the fallout shelter that the $11K went for the new server that's causing the trouble. But nothing on when it'll be back full time.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Fred Pete - Jun 18, 2003 8:02:20 am PDT #2618 of 10005
Ann, that's a ferret.
DXMachina - Jun 18, 2003 8:12:59 am PDT #2619 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
WX has been up on occasion. I was able to get in the other day. Not today, though.
Typo Boy - Jun 18, 2003 12:01:23 pm PDT #2620 of 10005
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
They can't can get large files transferred out of the database. Which is why using proprietary databases suck.
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2003 12:02:40 pm PDT #2621 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's their damned database! WX is a marketing site for the product.
What a lousy testimonial.
Jesse - Jun 18, 2003 2:05:54 pm PDT #2622 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, you up for keeping the records of charitable donations? If so, send me your addie, and I'll make a copy for me in case the IRS starts questioning me and all of my glorious charity work.
I'd be happy to, but legally the donation is from you. You sent a personal check, right? We don't have a legal entity through which to make donations.
brenda m - Jun 18, 2003 2:22:29 pm PDT #2623 of 10005
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It is designed to take the stigma out of homelessness. When one is applying for a job, or talking to other random people, they can say, "I'm staying at my friend's place." And that's easier than saying, "I'm staying at the shelter."
A slightly less uplifting version of this is the bar in downtown Milwaukee called "My Office."
Daisy Jane - Jun 18, 2003 2:24:19 pm PDT #2624 of 10005
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
There was a short lived bar here called Home.
Allyson - Jun 18, 2003 2:44:20 pm PDT #2625 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hm. I would be happy to be Chick What Keeps Charity Records, since I have the records of who gave what and it's my arse if IRS comes a knocking. I can send a record of the amount, charity name, when the donation was received by charity, reason for giving, any other pertinent but not personal info to ita or you for Buffista record keeping/posterity.
It's been a few hundred, not much, but still, I think important as a community to have a record of charitable deeds, so that well hellfire comes to lick our asses, we can maybe use such deeds for a free snowcone every century.
Typo Boy - Jun 18, 2003 9:14:14 pm PDT #2626 of 10005
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Allyson, if you remember back when I talked to the IRS for you, they said if you called them, they would be glad to talk to you about how incorporating as a non-profit fan organization (it fits under cultural activities). Don't know if your income is high enough for this to do you any good. (And it is none of my business. don't want to know.) You could deduct some of your rent and utilities, most of your book and DVD purchases, part of your internet costs, purchase of action figures. As at present you would not deduct these chartiable contributiosn (unless they came from you rather than other people) because you would never count them in your income. But the people who donated could also count them.
vw bug - Jun 19, 2003 6:05:04 am PDT #2627 of 10005
Mostly lurking...
A slightly less uplifting version of this is the bar in downtown Milwaukee called "My Office."
I *just* got this as I was driving this morning. I had been trying to figure out why a homeless person would want to tell a potential employer that he lived in his office. Would whoever stole my brain please return it? I need it...obviously pretty badly.