Joy, all of the 500 public computers in my building that aren't Macs (we have about 40 of those) have a worm of some kind and are being shut down. I am so glad I am just the librarian and not responsible for all the angry or disconsolate students at midterm time.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Feb 25, 2010 4:39:20 am PST #10795 of 30001
information libertarian
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2010 4:40:11 am PST #10796 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was going to be all "who changed??" but I kinda don't recognise myself from early B'crazy. Why so serious? I still hate thread proliferation, though.
Aurelia quoted just the sentence about "Buffy writer Tim Minear" upthread. I'm blown away by how pervasive that is.
I have never watched The Wire, although I understand it's quality. I'm not sure what the hesitance is. I should drop it onto my queue.
msbelle - Feb 25, 2010 4:40:51 am PST #10797 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Yes, Tom I love the retro fridges. Sadly, not really doable right now. I do need to start looking for a fridge though. Maybe that is how I will spend my time today. Bills be damned.
Steph L. - Feb 25, 2010 4:43:18 am PST #10798 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Did anyone keep a copy of the original version for posterity?
Something struck me in reading that io9 article. Didn't Gus claim to be (in addition to Somali and Irish) a Traveler? The article talks about how the 3 founders (if indeed there were 3 founders) of TVTropes "met at MIT's Russian House, where they were drawn together over their interest in a role-playing game called Traveller."
Huh.
tommyrot - Feb 25, 2010 4:43:20 am PST #10799 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.
ita, would it be easy to check the server log to see how many people ended up here from io9?
msbelle - Feb 25, 2010 4:44:33 am PST #10800 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I do NOT like that there is now a link.
flea - Feb 25, 2010 4:45:21 am PST #10801 of 30001
information libertarian
Steph, I noticed that too.
§ ita § - Feb 25, 2010 4:48:51 am PST #10802 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
would it be easy to check the server log to see how many people ended up here from io9?
I don't have a copy of WebTrends anymore, but I can peek by hand. Maybe the webhost has a parser.
Oh, look--The Wire is in my queue. At 200-something. Let me bump the first disc higher and see what the noise is about.
sarameg - Feb 25, 2010 4:48:53 am PST #10803 of 30001
I just started watching The Wire. I think I've only made it through 2 discs because of The Busy but I'm enjoying it well enough. It's funny to recognize places. Wonder if season 1 has my old apartment complex in it.
Jesse - Feb 25, 2010 4:51:53 am PST #10804 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still haven't seen the last season of The Wire, and should really re-watch the whole thing without commercials and with all of season 2 -- I was watching it on BET and most seasons they ran each episode as 1.5 hours instead of cutting stuff out, but they chopped the second season episodes.