Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.

'Hell Bound'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 03, 2015 4:22:12 pm PST #8414 of 30003
"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

(waves hello to Matt)

And yes, the Moonrise Hotel would be wonderful. Have you ever been to the City Museum?

(waves hi back)

Nope, I've been to see the Blues play a couple of times back when the arena was the Kiel Center, and gone to the Tivoli before in the Delmar Loop, but I haven't had the chance to be touristy much in St. Louis. Is City Museum the one that has people crawling through tunnels and rope ladders and such?


Anne W. - Nov 03, 2015 4:34:10 pm PST #8415 of 30003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Is City Museum the one that has people crawling through tunnels and rope ladders and such?

Yes, it is. To make such things even more entertaining, they serve alcohol after 5pm.


Steph L. - Nov 03, 2015 4:46:16 pm PST #8416 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

No legal pot for Ohio. Boo.


-t - Nov 03, 2015 4:51:21 pm PST #8417 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

St Louis sounds fun!

Electronic voting doesn't have enough of a paper trail for many districts. How do you recount? How do you prove there wasn't a bunch of fraud? Also, all those times people voted for one candidate and got a confirmation of voting for another. Heard all about it when my parents were volunteering at polling places all the time.


Maria - Nov 03, 2015 5:02:23 pm PST #8418 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Dana, profile addy good? I'll send you the addresses of both potential meeting locations. Looking on a map doesn't give me a sense of which way could possibly be more fucked because of traffic. I'd be leaving for the airport right after the meeting at 3 PM.


Kat - Nov 03, 2015 5:17:24 pm PST #8419 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

sara, would that mean you would stop working for your contractor?


Maria - Nov 03, 2015 5:29:14 pm PST #8420 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

sara, would that mean you would stop working for your contractor?

If that is so, I will throw the damned going-away party myself! BFE corporation.


sarameg - Nov 03, 2015 5:43:37 pm PST #8421 of 30003

Yes. It's complicated. Not really sure how it is all shaking out.

I've got to think through this and figure out politics. My boss is panicked over my contract boss leaving us to retire and I'm pretty much next in line in her panic path. I've been ...difficult... this year, but everyone is screwed if I depart. So. I don't want to poison the well.


Burrell - Nov 03, 2015 5:53:20 pm PST #8422 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh that's hard sarameg, but getting away from the awful is pretty dang appealing.

back to filling in little circles on paper ballots which are then scanned. I guess because that's less likely to be hacked?

I think so, yes, but I'm not a programmer. LA has stuck with the paper ballots with inked-in bubbles.

It turns out I am done giving a shit today. I hope there's no crap left lying around that I need to pick up before I go to bed.


-t - Nov 03, 2015 6:00:59 pm PST #8423 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hope all that shakes out to the good for you one way or another, sarameg