I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.

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Laura - Oct 20, 2025 5:52:37 am PDT #9807 of 9814
Our wings are not tired.

Pout. My NYT games seem to be broken this morning. I can log into my main NYT page, but the games go in as not logged in.


brenda m - Oct 20, 2025 6:09:56 am PDT #9808 of 9814
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh yeah, I just noticed it’s not showing any stats. Something must be up.


JenP - Oct 20, 2025 6:15:20 am PDT #9809 of 9814

Same, Brenda. The app is working, but I don't have stats.


bennett - Oct 20, 2025 6:26:31 am PDT #9810 of 9814

Amazon Web Services is/was down - not sure if it has been fixed - and that took a bunch of places down.


Jessica - Oct 20, 2025 6:46:54 am PDT #9811 of 9814
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I assume the NYT Games outage is AWS' fault and will recover when the rest of the internet does.

(I have no inside information on the outage because, thankfully, I am not part of the team that had to wake up and go to work at midnight on a Sunday because their thing broke the entire internet. People in Books get to sleep on the weekends.)


Laura - Oct 20, 2025 6:50:10 am PDT #9812 of 9814
Our wings are not tired.

Amazon Web Services is/was down - not sure if it has been fixed - and that took a bunch of places down.

Ah yes, my doctors are telling me that they can't prescribe controlled substances because of the AWS issue.

eta: but clearly the Wordle and other puzzle streaks are far more important!


-t - Oct 20, 2025 8:43:38 am PDT #9813 of 9814
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have been able to get to all my games by now, hope y'all can too. The outage does not appear to have affected my work connections so far, no idea whether/how much we might depend on AWS...From what I hear East Coast is more directly affected, so best wishes to y'all


Laura - Oct 20, 2025 8:45:43 am PDT #9814 of 9814
Our wings are not tired.

I was able to go in and solve Wordle, but it wouldn't sync so I have to go in later and solve again. Since I know the solution I can do it in one now. I did the ones that don't have history. Waiting on the others. I think it is sporadic at this point.


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