Yeah, not being in agonizing pain would help with the whole fulfilling job expectations too.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Laura - Sep 23, 2026 1:20:15 pm PDT #14077 of 14151
Our wings are not tired.
Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2026 3:35:50 pm PDT #14078 of 14151
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.
Hoo boy, JD Vance is achieving *EPIC* levels of dumbass. It’s pretty amazing to see.
-t - Sep 23, 2026 3:37:58 pm PDT #14079 of 14151
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Unrelatedly - I have run out of usable brain for today and decided what I want for dinner (did I use up my last working neurons think about what to eat for my next meal? Maybe!) but I'm supposed to work for the next hour and a half. Woes.
Calli - Sep 23, 2026 4:10:08 pm PDT #14080 of 14151
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Vibe coding sounds like something an evil scientist would do. “Bwah ha ha! Quick! Let us code the vibe mechanism and bend the population’s intuitive state to our will!”
I had to go to the office yesterday to pick up a newer shredder and have my three month evaluation. My manager is pretty happy with me, so I feel a bit more comfortable updating LinkedIn and whatnot. The drive is 1.5 hours each way, and having to be social and on for dozens strangers for 8 hours was pretty draining. They all seem quite nice, but it’s a lot. On the upside, it was the monthly birthday celebration, so there was cake. On the downside, cake turned into networking? With people discussing golf? One of the auditors is a bit of a silver fox, though, and he sent me a teams message with a grammatical question later, so I guess I made a good impression.
erikaj - Sep 23, 2026 4:10:32 pm PDT #14081 of 14151
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Scola, always amazing to see a creature in its natural habitat, ex cloaca.
-t - Sep 23, 2026 4:34:06 pm PDT #14082 of 14151
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Are you mostly remote, Calli? How often do you have to be in office? 1.5 hours is a long drive.
You may be onto something with the evil scientist thing....
I managed to pull myself together enough to do some math, which someone probably would prefer to just ask AI about somehow but I haven't been told to do that yet. I think that's it for me to today.
Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2026 9:26:49 am PDT #14083 of 14151
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Office has flu shots today. In three weeks we have flu and COVID.
My inclination is to wait and get them both at once.
-t - Sep 24, 2026 9:33:01 am PDT #14084 of 14151
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I got my COVID booster right before the new shot for the Fall got approved/released, so my input on when to get what is clearly no use at all. But I got flu and COVID and Hep B all at once and had no side effects, fwtw, not even really sore arms. OTOH, not much gained by waiting on the flu, just less protection meanwhile.
Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2026 10:55:03 am PDT #14085 of 14151
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think I'm doing both next time.
ION, in the dining room we have a guy walking around with one of those Cigarette Girl Trays making mini cannoli. Its about the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. They're amazingly crispy because they're made fresh, they're small so its not a very big cheat at all. I am a big fan of this concept.
So, basically, I left the shot and took the cannoli.
-t - Sep 24, 2026 10:58:56 am PDT #14086 of 14151
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OMG, Cannoli Man is amazing! Our broken vending machine recently got fixed but not refilled. Not the same.
I just added RSV to my next vax appt (Hep B is two doses) so I should be well protected by mid-October. And I am traveling towards the end of October, so it'll probably be good to have preventive measures in place. Feels like a long time since I have traveled, but that's really just by airplane, my epic train month was just a few months ago but feels like ancient history already...