It's not you, it's him!
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 14, 2008 2:52:41 pm PDT #3383 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nilly - Aug 14, 2008 2:55:11 pm PDT #3384 of 10003
Swouncing
Thank you.
See, computer? The internet tells you to behave.
Problem is, you can't convince me to dump him. Not until Sunday, anyway.
[Edit: remember that line Kaylee told Simon in "Firefly" about not using swear words? That's where I am right now. The perfect time for a swear word. Though I tend to choose chocolate. I have the best chocolate-chips cookies in the world. I should add them to the "acknowledgments" page.]
sarameg - Aug 14, 2008 3:08:26 pm PDT #3385 of 10003
It's him!
You poor thing. Nothing like computer psychosis when you're on such a deadline. Uhg. LaTex always made me spit.
Another crazy day.
Nilly - Aug 14, 2008 3:12:58 pm PDT #3386 of 10003
Swouncing
OK, on pretty much the exact second I typed the "perfect time for a swear word" line? The Windows machine I'm connecting to (the one that's not mine) decided it's the perfect time to install updates and restart itself, no matter how I tried to click the"restart later" option.
It apparently was a perfect time for *something*.
sara, I'm sorry your day was crazy. I wish this crazy-time-for-me could at least spare other people some of the crazy!
sarameg - Aug 14, 2008 3:21:52 pm PDT #3387 of 10003
Hey, I should be eating up the crazy for the next 4 months. NO idea why it appears to be bleeding over to you.
msbelle - Aug 14, 2008 3:21:59 pm PDT #3388 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Today was the only day this week that I did not take umbrellas, only day it has rained on the way home.
Anyhoo mac and I sang "rain rain go away" and mac even yelled a few times at the sky to "just stop it".
Nilly - Aug 14, 2008 3:27:34 pm PDT #3389 of 10003
Swouncing
NO idea why it appears to be bleeding over to you.
Nah, I think it comes as a package deal with the whole deadline notion. Oh, well. We can share. I wish I could share my cookies with you, too, at least.
Anyhoo mac and I sang "rain rain go away" and mac even yelled a few times at the sky to "just stop it".
This made my day middle-of-the-night better. I'm sorry it had to be on the expanse of you getting wet, but still. Thank you.
sarameg - Aug 14, 2008 3:31:23 pm PDT #3390 of 10003
Yeah, why doesn't the sky listen to mac?
This is charming: [link] ETA: the audio slideshow linked to it is neat too. The cyclist is a great narrator.
Nilly - Aug 14, 2008 3:49:52 pm PDT #3391 of 10003
Swouncing
So, the let's-do-the-exact-same-thing-I'm-not-kidding-it-was-exactly-the-same-from-scratch thing seems to begin to work. So far, tfu tfu, things seem to talk to each other, when I have to use three (!) different computers in order to take the part-which-works in each one of them.
One small step, one giant leap, and all that.
Phew. A mini-phew.
(Right before clicking "post" I realized - is there anywhere else where they say "tfu tfu", against the "evil eye"?)
sarameg - Aug 14, 2008 3:53:32 pm PDT #3392 of 10003
I hadn't heard that before! The neck of the woods I grew up in, it was sign of the cross (large catholic population.) Probably less common a habit in Israel...