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- If you don't send me feedback, I will sob uncontrollably for hours on end, until finally, in a fit of depression, I slash my wrists and bleed out on the bathroom floor. My death will be on your heads. Murderers
. -- Unknown, on feedback
BTS List - That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ - Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ - Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003 - I could rape a goat and it will DIE PRETTIER than they write.
-- anonymous, on terrible writing
AIM, 2/17/2004 - In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
-- silverkyst, on wtf
AIM, 3/25/2004 - Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004 - silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005 - You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005 - Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005 - It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006 - Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006 - Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
LJ, 9/1/2007 - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Fan Fiction is John Cusack standing outside your house with a boombox.
-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
Twitter - I will unashamedly and unapologetically celebrate the joy and the warmth and the creativity of a community of people sharing something positive and beautiful and connective and if you don’t like it you are most welcome to very fuck off.
-- Michael Sheen, on Good Omens fanfic
Twitter, 6/19/2019 - Adding for Mastodon.
-- Jenn, traceback
Fosstodon, 11/6/2022
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From:on the ribbon there's a single button that changes everything to All Caps or All Lower or All Something Else, did y'all know about that?
Yes, I did. It's kind of wonderful -- although these days I work so much in Excel that I tend to use the =LOWER/UPPER/PROPER formulas to do that work for me.
Mostly, I know it because I've done those basic computing courses, In 98, I was finishing high school and for some reason, they were offering free short technical courses to families on welfare -- so I spent a saturday learning about Excel, and another one on Word, and Powerpoint. And then a few years later, I was doing 18 months work experience as part of my degree, and was offered an business admin apprenticeship. (In hindsight, it meant that if I completed the course, my employer got a $4K grant -- hence the suggestion.) But it was a fairly easy 6 month course with monthly meetings and while some of it wasn't needed (like professional ways to answer a phone call, or how to maintain a filing system), the basics of Excel and Word were good to have. Especially things like MailMerge, which are so useful but not something you need often.
I mean, if you had a gun to my head and told me to relive my childhood RIGHT NOW I remember 'pen pals' and 'encyclopedias' and 'microfiche searches of multiple libraries to find this book I really wanted when I was in my teens'.
Yes, I remember microfiche and encyclopedias (mostly because I read Wikipedia the way I used to read encyclopedias -- look something up, read about it, and then look up the "read more" types and find yourself reading about somethign completely random half an hour later), but fandom has been email and mailing lists since I was 16.
it was like eeevverryyone but me had PhD's in Computer Shit and the Internet Thing
You know what? It did feel like everyone else knew the Computer Magic. Personally, apart from a brief stint with Geocities, I was quite happy not to drill down too much into that widardry and just accept whatever other people could share for setting up pages. Honestly, the best part of AO3 becoming a huge thing was no longer having to do the html coding to maintain a (very lousy) site.
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