Posts by Danielle
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PAS, I've missed you all and I recently started a new job in an open plan setting... first time in something like 12 years... I've not yet worked out the culture of "my online time".
Work out who the nosey-parkers are and tilt your screen accordingly! My theory is that most people are so busy skiving off with their own online stuff that they won't notice what you're doing. But there are always one or two...
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I wonder if members of the public are concerned about the healthcare proposals because they're believing the unreconstructed falsehoods being circulated by a lot of unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies and their bought-and-paid-for lackeys in the Congress and Senate? (Aided and abetted by a news media apparently incapable of doing some basic analysis to go along with their endless punditry.)
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"That's not being a fucking tidy kiwi!"
I can't even handle how fantastic that is. Can this be part of the Bollard tshirt order, just because? It would be excellent if a zombie was screaming the words in a speech bubble. (I've thrown someone's litter back into their car at them, but I didn't say anything that fabulous.)
Um, also, did someone seriously use the word 'underclass' way back on page two somewhere? Weird.
I thought Ry Cooder was playing with Nick Lowe? Which is quite awesome all by itself, because I like Nick Lowe.
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Local Man, Steve Barnes, Urges Young People to Remove Themselves From His Lawn Forthwith
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Caleb, I totally love you.
(I do actually know Caleb IRL, so this isn't as weird as it sounds. Or maybe it is. I don't care, because that was really hilarious reading.)
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Vic and its stupid repository
Tangentially, librarians have an uncanny knack for choosing names and acronyms which should make any normal person snort immaturely into their coffee. 'Digital repositories' - I mean honestly, does that not sound like something one would stick up one's jacksy? And then the public libraries had that mobile-capable catalogue, Airpac, which had the slogan 'your library in your hand', which just made me think of wanking. The absolute biscuit-taker was the Voyager Advisory Group: VAG, for short. People would use this abbreviation in meetings with totally straight faces, while I was dying in a corner, trying not to burst out laughing. It's dreadful to be an extrovert with the mental maturity of a twelve-year-old in libraries, really...
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I've always enjoyed being able to look my thesis up in the university library though. Made me feel all brainy, like.
If you work in the same library in which your thesis is housed, you can also check and see how many times it's been interloaned to other universities (presumably so some other poor hapless MA student can use it as a reference). Not that I did that very much or anything. Or searched Google Scholar for any citations. Ahem.
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I see a lot of people pulled over, but I believe the offence they have usually committed is Driving While Brown.
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a prestigious international conference on, oh, lets say 'Joan of Arc imagery in Vichy France'
Touche, old chap. Touche. :)
Here's my answer to your question: the engineer can design the plane and go home, and I'll have an entertaining, conversational dinner with the arts graduate. Sorted!
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In today's PC world, will people watch guys and girls take all kinds of crap and risk dying just for a few minutes of entertainment?
Two words: professional wrestling.