Department Assistant: "Hi, I'm calling from the XXXX department. We need to order a computer for our lab, and it has to be an HP, how do we do that ( Read more... )

elibalin: Any progress?

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In general, I am happy in my work (and I have a longer post I need to make on that head), but every now and again I get a reminder that perfect serenity is not granted to us this side of the grave. Vide, a cow-orker voicemail I received today ( Read more... )

Snapped awake this morning from a dream in which I was managing a desktop support team at NBC, and saw a call come in for an issue that I said "oh well I'll take this one", because it was put in by Jensen Ackles[1], who needed some sort of phone or VOIP or something attached to his computer. And I go to his office, which was also his apartment[2 ( Read more... )

syringavulgaris: PSOT
syringavulgaris: PSOT
syringavulgaris: PSOT NAO
elibalin: M
elibalin: UST EAT
syringavulgaris: hee.
elibalin: GRR GRR GRR YUO PSTOT
syringavulgaris I NOT HAZ PIX
elibalin: YUO
elibalin: YUO
syringavulgaris: I BEDZ0R
elibalin: I EATZ0R
syringavulgaris: YAY
elibalin: YAY
** You have disconnected

elibalin: Speaking of abysmal movies, we eventually need to grit our teeth and watch "The Spirit."
syringavulgaris: Yes. We do.
syringavulgaris: Alas, The Goddamn Spirit is not on streaming. I can add it to the regular disc queue, though.
syringavulgaris: Though one sees all kinds of random shit when searching for "spirit".
syringavulgaris: Vide:
syringavulgaris: "She was a shy country girl who would become "the People's ( Read more... )

A conversation with the PFY, upon the sharing of this old Geocities ad:

Your humble correspondent: "Oh, Geocities. How I do not miss you."
PFY: "I had a Geocities web page once."
YHC: "I'm so sorry."
PFY: "Don't be. I was a little kid, it was right for me to have an awful web site."
YHC: *head go foom*

syringavulgaris: !!!
syringavulgaris: Nigella has a recipe that she came up with after having Nobu's cod-in-miso.
elibalin: Nifty.
syringavulgaris: And it's scaled for 1 or 2 people.
elibalin: SUBSCIRBE!
syringavulgaris: I don't know what mirin is. Please hold.
syringavulgaris: Oh, it's like sake with a lower booze content.
elibalin: "O'Doul-San"

elibalin: Goat grabbing!
syringavulgaris: This appears to be what, a millenium ago, they did and called "polo".
elibalin: If I remember correctly, it's called "Buzkazhi" in one of the places it's practiced.
syringavulgaris: "A mounted version of the game has also been played in the United States. In the 1940s young men in the Cleveland area of Ohio played a game they called Kav Kaz. The men - ( Read more... )

syringavulgaris: Harrumph. Someone has the band name "stellastarr", I see.
syringavulgaris: Which means that "Stella Starr and the Funboy Two" is off the table.
elibalin: So that makes four people who like "Starcrash."