high fives Lee.
Did I leave my lunch at home, or in my car? hmmm
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
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.
msbelle - Feb 28, 2012 8:02:56 am PST #24186 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Consuela - Feb 28, 2012 8:17:07 am PST #24187 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I brought in homemade gingerbread to the office today. If I could, I'd share it with all the Buffistas having hard times.
Allyson - Feb 28, 2012 8:25:22 am PST #24188 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I ordered a print from a local artist I like, and he googled me and was very stoked about Sam the Bat. So I sent him a copy with my check. In addition to the print I ordered from him, he's sending me this:
His version of Sam. SO CUTE.
All of his stuff is adorable. This is the print I got a few years ago: [link]
JZ - Feb 28, 2012 8:30:55 am PST #24189 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.
Allyson, that is *adorable*. Do you mind if I send a link to my mom, who is another of Sam's biggest fans?
Allyson - Feb 28, 2012 8:36:42 am PST #24190 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oh please link away! I'm stoked that I'm getting my own little art print inspired by a character I wrote. That's just boggling.
DavidS - Feb 28, 2012 9:08:32 am PST #24191 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ugh, Mother Jones has a dispiriting piece about warehouse workers for online retailers. Reporter went undercover.
It's like everything unions ever fought for just completely got plowed under by temporary staffing, and outsourcing shipping. Hard to believe there isn't more OSHA requirements to prevent people from getting massive static electricity shocks all day when they're moving books for your Amazon order.
In the books sector, in the cold, in the winter dryness, made worse by the fans and all the paper, I jet across the floor in my rubber-soled Adidas, pant legs whooshing against each other, 30 seconds according to my scanner to take 35 steps to get to the right section and row and bin and level and reach for Diary of a Wimpy Kid and "FUCK!" A hot spark shoots between my hand and the metal shelving. It's not the light static-electric prick I would terrorize my sister with when we got bored in carpeted department stores, but a solid shock, striking enough to make my body learn to fear it. I start inadvertently hesitating every time I approach my target. One of my coworkers races up to a shelving unit and leans in with the top of his body first; his head touches the metal, and the shock knocks him back. "Be careful of your head," he says to me. In the first two hours of my day, I pick 300 items. The majority of them zap me painfully.
"Please tell me you have suggestions for dealing with the static electricity," I say to a person in charge when the morning break comes. This conversation is going to cost me a couple of my precious few minutes to eat/drink/pee, but I've started to get paranoid that maybe it's not good for my body to exchange an electric charge with metal several hundred times in one day.
"Oh, are you workin' in books?"
"Yeah."
"No. Sorry." She means this. I feel bad for the supervisors who are trying their damnedest to help us succeed and not be miserable. "They've done everything they can"—"they" are not aware, it would appear, that anti-static coating and matting exist—"to ground things up there but there's nothing you can do."
Jesse - Feb 28, 2012 9:10:36 am PST #24192 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm stoked that I'm getting my own little art print inspired by a character I wrote. That's just boggling.
That's fantastic!
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2012 9:10:37 am PST #24193 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That sounds like a challenge.
Warm? Yes, at the times not featuring ice cubes. Healthy? Possibly partially recommended against by your Chief Surgeon person.
Typo Boy - Feb 28, 2012 9:31:50 am PST #24194 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I would say it is another reason to avoid Amazon, except I gather B&N outsources to the same or similar warehouses. I guess it is one hell of a reason to buy through your local independent bookstore if you have one. Or use the library. (My publisher is as thrilled at people getting on a waiting list at their local library as at direct sales, because it increases library orders, which is the core of their business.)
Zenkitty - Feb 28, 2012 9:37:38 am PST #24195 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Kat, I'm sorry Grace couldn't get the cannula out today. She's an amazingly strong little girl, isn't she? And Noah is a great big brother.
Burrell, sorry about kitty-Burrell.
Hec, I read that Mother Jones piece yesterday and was so appalled I almost cancelled my Amazon account. But it wouldn't help anyone if I did. That list included almost every online retailer I use regularly, and if I stopped shopping at all of them it still wouldn't help anyone. Something needs to be done to make the working conditions acceptable in those places, but damn, what? Anyone who fights it is up against like three huge industries. And the people working there need those jobs desperately.