Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


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.


DavidS - Dec 04, 2009 8:08:08 am PST #22956 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

If I could just rework the candy industry to take out half the sugar, I'd be a happy puppy.

One of the cool, lamentedly lost things about the store Yum was their collection of "adult" sodas, which were delicious and purposefully not sweet.

They were intended mostly for bartenders who wanted to have a less sugary but complex variety of cola and tonic.


Polter-Cow - Dec 04, 2009 8:09:12 am PST #22957 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I am having oatmeal for the first time. It is not as bad as I thought it would be. That's probably the maple and brown sugar talking.


smonster - Dec 04, 2009 8:10:55 am PST #22958 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

For the Friday blahs and crankies: [link] baby otter with toys! (video with music)


Cass - Dec 04, 2009 8:13:34 am PST #22959 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I have never had a bad day that otters couldn't fix. bweeeeeeeee!


Jessica - Dec 04, 2009 8:14:47 am PST #22960 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Diane Savino, NY Senate, is pretty frickin' awesome. [link]

LOVE HER. Thanks for the link.


smonster - Dec 04, 2009 8:20:31 am PST #22961 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Diane Savino, NY Senate, is pretty frickin' awesome. [link]

Totally posting to FB.


§ ita § - Dec 04, 2009 8:50:53 am PST #22962 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Waah. SQL guy just asked me when I want to go through his scripts. Avoidance can only go so far. Maybe I can get it to go past lunch...

Meanwhile it means I should fish or cut bait on my current SQL syntax expedition, I suppose.


tommyrot - Dec 04, 2009 8:53:28 am PST #22963 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Ask him some really technical question to throw him off his guard.

Is this Microsoft SQL Server?


msbelle - Dec 04, 2009 8:53:55 am PST #22964 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

sad. my babysitter's grandfather died this week. poor thing.


§ ita § - Dec 04, 2009 9:11:27 am PST #22965 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is this Microsoft SQL Server?

Oracle 10g. He wrote some queries on data that I know really well from a business POV, so I know what the results should look like. His look wrong, and don't match the app or the simple queries I run. I'll be damned, though, if I can tell where in his nested SELECTs he's gone awry. I just watch the guy flip around Toad and I blanch. I'm still stumbling around that app. I haven't used it in years, and it far exceeds my needs or abilities.

They have the good tea on my floor now! No more stealing from the bigwigs! This is, of course, just as they run out of the good hot chocolate, but good tea is more important to me. Let us not speak of the Krispy Kreme that showed up today.

my babysitter's grandfather died this week. poor thing

Is this your regular babysitter, or the new black guy? Do race issues come up a lot in your adoption? I wonder what it's like when everything is so different. I never identified well with black America, but I've been a fish out of water my whole life, and not one seeking wetness. Mac's experience and needs are very different. I know a lot of African people who see black Americans as practically white, but to a kid visual like is like.

My migraine specialist looks so like Mac. He's not East African. Black and Spanish, he told me, with some disappointment. He just found out about the Spanish part, and wasn't excited. My non-African roots are very simple. Scot to about the last ribosome. Such is Jamaica.