Good luck, Consuela! It is ridiculous that you have to apply for your own job, though.

I was just filling up my bottle at the water fountain near the bathroom. As I was putting the cap back on, someone emerged from the cubicles near the bathrooms, walked past me, and said, "You look fantastic!"

I've never officially met this woman in my life nor exchanged any words with her, just seen her around the office.

It made me smile all the way back to my desk.

Well today turned out to be crap. Something I was working on got reviewed and there were errors in it. Not major ones, but still. My responsibility, I totally accept that. But to make matters worse, my boss decide to point out my "sloppy" ways in front of other people. I am still wishing the ground could swallow me whole.

They already took away the traditional 'two spaces after a period.' And now they're going after the serial comma. Is this what the start of the Singularity feels like?

I was just reading a letter by Andrew Carnegie recently, and for a minute, I thought that he was crappy speller....until I remembered he was a spelling reformer. I'm pretty sure he would have spelled "thought" "thot".

Oh my fucking god, people. Do I really have to tell you that you can't convert US dollars to Euros by copy and replacing the symbol ??

What the hell is wrong with you?

t still death-glaring at UK

Do I really have to tell you that you can't convert US dollars to Euros by copy and replacing the symbol ??

Heh. Yet exasperating, I'm sure.

Pop-Up Chapel in Central Park for people who want to get married once same-sex marriage is officially legal: [link] (The sister of an old friend of mine is the officiant.)

Congratulations, msbelle!

I've been in New York less than six hours and a pigeon (I hope it was a pigeon) has shit IN my bag. I missed this place.

I think this is an interesting question. What was your first online handle? I think mine was phoenix, at university. I'm not embarrassed at all. Now, if computers had come along in my life five years earlier I'd have gone online as daleyfan, and that would have been blush-inducing to recall.

Heh. I still use my original internet handle, fatou dust. Which I chose when I still thought the internet was going to be all geeks and everyone on it would get the math reference. No one does. But it was a pretty good unique id for a long time. There are some others out there now, but it was mostly me.

Umm.

Bifster. Because it was funny for about 30 seconds. I used it on the high school in-house system. My first one in wide use, though, was Cloister the Stupid, which I used for years and years and years, and ran my boards under and everything. (Fannishness. Always a part of me.)

I think I've been active as Minim Calibre longer than I was as Cloister. Huh.