You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


Kat - Jan 31, 2012 6:13:42 pm PST #19474 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Maybe?

Of course, now K says, "I would have gone to urgent care. I thought you wanted me to go to the minute clinic."

No. I offered it as option for your impatient self. Sigh.


sarameg - Jan 31, 2012 6:21:18 pm PST #19475 of 30001

I am pretty feral in that mode. I knew I wasn't going to be able to deal with the ER, but had you given me choices, wouldn't be able to do that either. Pretty much need a keeper at that point to handle everything. Someday that might be a Brian or A, but that night, I was still finding out insurance crap (which is really hard when you can't see.)

In the future, I'll do better by using my friends.


Zenkitty - Jan 31, 2012 6:35:43 pm PST #19476 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I have a love/hate relationship with Ancestry.com. Well, a like/annoyed relationship, really. I got information on my (putative) father's family from Ancestry, and I couldn't find that anywhere else, because only my mom knew any of it, and she wouldn't talk about him. Like, I never knew his father immigrated from Canada! And he was a beekeeper! And that was worth knowing.

I pay for the service and I rarely use it. I tried building a family tree and it just annoyed me. For one thing they wanted me to enter first names, but my mom didn't go by her first name, neither did my granddad, and neither do I. And I can't figure out how to create a "family tree" when my sister and I don't have the same fathers.


§ ita § - Jan 31, 2012 6:43:44 pm PST #19477 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't figure out how to create a "family tree" when my sister and I don't have the same fathers.

That's a major usability fail. That should be pretty key to a decent system. I figure if they can handle my family, they should be good. But no system I got ten years ago handles the FTM issue. I hope they're updated for more gender flexibility.

I never did work out how to track adulterous relationships properly, though, in any of the ones I used.


Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2012 6:47:31 pm PST #19478 of 30001
brillig

The genealogy program I use has options for multiple spouses and attendant kids. I create the trees in the program then import them into online databases.


P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2012 6:49:03 pm PST #19479 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It is pretty easy to add different parents for siblings. I have done it often.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2012 6:57:06 pm PST #19480 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

You'd think a LDS database would have allowed for multiple spouses long before most dealt with the issue...


§ ita § - Jan 31, 2012 7:04:11 pm PST #19481 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What every genealogy program worth its salt needs is an "It's complicated" relationship.


DavidS - Jan 31, 2012 7:08:50 pm PST #19482 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What every genealogy program worth its salt needs is an "It's complicated" relationship.

That's why they have dotted lines on the family tree.


Consuela - Jan 31, 2012 7:12:08 pm PST #19483 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

or a fosterage relationship.

Curse you Buffistas: I just spent 2 hours on ancestry.com, looking for my mother's family. I found her mother, and her mother's aunt, but I can't find my gmother's parents, and I can't figure out her mother's maiden name, because I don't know if the aunt is on her mother's side or father's.

Basically, when my grandmother was a child, her parents both died and she was sent to live with her aunt, who already had four older sons, and my grandmother was the live-in help until she married and moved out. At which she became the live-in help for my grandfather.

I was hoping the data on the aunt would lead me to her parents, but it doesn't. Feh.

And let me tell you: there are way too many Currans/Currens in NY and PA in the late 1800s.