he actually said "I'm above average in all the sciences. Except perhaps social."
Well he's half-right?
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
River ,'War Stories'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Nov 18, 2010 9:05:59 am PST #6098 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Burrell - Nov 18, 2010 9:06:30 am PST #6099 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
snort!
JZ - Nov 18, 2010 9:07:39 am PST #6100 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have to polish up my cover letter and submit applications for two different jobs at my campus, both of which would be essentially the same stuff I'm doing now, but for much more money and in divisions where I would never, ever again have contact with Rage Nurse or Vengeance Doc. Why is this onerous? Why am I not all over this? I don't understand me.
Polter-Cow - Nov 18, 2010 9:08:27 am PST #6101 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Change is hard, even when it's good for you.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2010 9:08:45 am PST #6102 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, msbelle. I hope you can work something out, because that does Not sound like good times.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2010 9:12:22 am PST #6103 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh my god. The author who put a hard return at the end of every line e-mailed back and said -- I swear to you -- "I don't know what a paragraph return is. Please advise."
I don't even know how to explain what the fuck a paragraph return is. It's A PARAGRAPH RETURN!
Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2010 9:15:16 am PST #6104 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Can you just ask him to make it more obvious where the paragraph breaks are in his manuscript?
Jessica - Nov 18, 2010 9:15:38 am PST #6105 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh my god. The author who put a hard return at the end of every line e-mailed back and said -- I swear to you -- "I don't know what a paragraph return is. Please advise."
Wow. That's...wow.
I'd keep things as simple as possible and say "hit the enter key twice". And if he asks what the enter key is, punch him in the face.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2010 9:18:15 am PST #6106 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Can you just ask him to make it more obvious where the paragraph breaks are in his manuscript?
Oh my god. The author who put a hard return at the end of every line e-mailed back and said -- I swear to you -- "I don't know what a paragraph return is. Please advise."
Wow. That's...wow.
I'd keep things as simple as possible and say "hit the enter key twice". And if he asks what the enter key is, punch him in the face.
That's what we finally decided on -- to ask the author to put extra returns in to separate the paragraphs. And then we'll run find/replace to take out single returns.
We're all just sitting here laughing in utter bogglement because none of us can figure out how to explain what a hard return is without going into a 3-page dissertation. ("Well, you know how when you're typing and the words appear on the screen and proceed toward the right side of the screen?")
Jesse - Nov 18, 2010 9:22:21 am PST #6107 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's the Enter key. I can see not knowing a different name for that, if that's not your business.