Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


msbelle - Nov 23, 2009 6:46:12 am PST #20869 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

IthereishopeforhumanityyetN - my church was down to 3 children in need holiday gift letters when we got there after service on Sunday. They usually have them out for 3 Sundays, and I asked the volunteers if they had only put out part of what we have, but no, they had put out all that our church had been given.

Then today I email our HR lady who had similar letters that our company had taken on for employees to take voluntarily. Now this workplace has NOT ONCE in the 2 years I have been here pushed volunteerism or charity donations, NOTHING. I got the very last letter and they were first available 2 weeks ago.

So woohoo for people!


-t - Nov 23, 2009 6:49:48 am PST #20870 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I heard something on the radio about problems with how persistent vegetative states are determined, focussing on someone in a similar situation (possibly this guy, I don't remember well enough to be sure), but the way they figured out that the supposedly comatose person was awake was not simple or inexpensive. The doctor who did the figuring out was horrified at the thought of all the people he had pronounced brain dead that may not have been.


Dana - Nov 23, 2009 7:10:28 am PST #20871 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Aw, Carl Kasell is leaving NPR's newscasts (but staying on Wait Wait).


Dana - Nov 23, 2009 7:16:22 am PST #20872 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

On the other hand, listening to Carl imitate Sarah Palin on this week's WWDTM is a little...ew.


flea - Nov 23, 2009 7:23:47 am PST #20873 of 30001
information libertarian

Oh, gosh, Wait Wait has a page where you can listen to things people got Carl to record for their answering machines! [link]


Sue - Nov 23, 2009 7:39:24 am PST #20874 of 30001
hip deep in pie

You know, on the best of days my motivation to get work done is very small. Discovering that somehow all the work I did on Friday didn't get saved, and that there's no backup completely kills any motivation I have.

Also, there was an email form our big, big, big boss (as in elected official) this morning inviting us to come to a meeting this afternoon where he will deliver a "personal message." There will be a webcast for those who can't make it. And it was sent employees at all the departments he presides over. People are going bananas trying to figure it out...are we all fired? Is everyone getting a car? Will there be cake?


Vortex - Nov 23, 2009 7:40:22 am PST #20875 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Oh, gosh, Wait Wait has a page where you can listen to things people got Carl to record for their answering machines! [link]

I see one called "Trapped in the Basement". Now I want him to do "Trapped in the CLAW-sit"


Jessica - Nov 23, 2009 7:41:03 am PST #20876 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Guys, please post more today. I haven't gotten a single email at work and am so bored I'm reading comments on Salon articles. I beg you. Save me from myself.


§ ita § - Nov 23, 2009 7:42:04 am PST #20877 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

A mass email got sent out Friday afternoon saying that all week this week is casual dress week. But not everyone is in jeans. And when I check the recipient list, neither of the guys who sit by me are on it. I wonder if they think I lost my nut.

Sue, I hope there's cake. There should always be cake.


Dana - Nov 23, 2009 7:42:49 am PST #20878 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The hamster hotel made it to the Bluff the Listener game on Wait Wait.