Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.

'Get It Done'


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.


Dana - Feb 08, 2010 6:02:50 am PST #7010 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Coming out of halftime, trailing 10-6, Payton decided to dial up an onside kick. The Saints had worked on it in practice over the past two weeks, but kicker Thomas Morstead was stunned when he was told they were putting it into action right before he took the field.

"I wasn't worried, " Morstead said. "I was terrified."


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2010 6:19:43 am PST #7011 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I might check LA listings

Hmm. One theatre. Why not closer to me? WX guy said he got it on TV.


Gudanov - Feb 08, 2010 6:26:11 am PST #7012 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Yikes.

Tea Party Convention organizer: Tancredo gave 'fantastic speech'

The organizer of the Tea Party Convention says he agrees with Tom Tancredo's description of President Obama as a socialist.

The former congressman from Colorado and 2008 Republican presidential candidate blasted Obama, saying "people who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

I believe Tancredo also advocated for a civics-literacy test for people to be allowed to vote.

This may not be the speech or the guy you want giving the speech when you have an movement that some people think has racial undertones. When advocating for a return to Jim Crow laws, it gets a little difficult to complain that people are reading racism into it. Sort of like complaining about reading racism into Dread Scott ruling.


Dana - Feb 08, 2010 6:26:25 am PST #7013 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Augh. I think a well-meaning coworker might have done something that I will have to spend a while fixing. Nothing major, but worthy of a sigh.


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2010 6:32:13 am PST #7014 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We sit next to a support desk now. Not only does at least one of them project a great deal, they are very difficult to not listen to. One guy is having a great deal of difficulty having the user type in the word "exchange." It's epic. I think he's on to the second person on that machine now, and he's explaining the backspace key. And that it's okay if you backspace too far, because you can just type it in again.

I can't wrap my head around the patience required. Now he's spelling "office."


Jessica - Feb 08, 2010 6:37:16 am PST #7015 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Finally watched the Superbowl ad my department worked on...SO NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE.

(It's the "Seasons change, football is always here" one for NFL Films. It has exactly nothing to do with their original pitch, which has me wondering why exactly we did all those hours of expensive research for them?)


Jesse - Feb 08, 2010 6:39:54 am PST #7016 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My boss totally folded on the fight I was trying to instigate on Friday. @@ I'm totally right, and yet will never win.


Gudanov - Feb 08, 2010 6:43:29 am PST #7017 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

@@ I'm totally right, and yet will never win.

It's like marriage.


Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2010 6:44:04 am PST #7018 of 30001
brillig

I believe Tancredo also advocated for a civics-literacy test for people to be allowed to vote.

As if that's not an idea that would blow up in the teabaggers' face.


Gudanov - Feb 08, 2010 6:46:43 am PST #7019 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

True, if we had a civics-literacy test the elections would be decided primarily by immigrants.