On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
I was a little nervous when I read the newsletter, but the sample you provided looks pretty good! I like the nesting and sorting features.
Agreed on the no Facebook verification, though. I don't like posting any personal info on Facebook, and I like being able to put anything in the comments here.
PS Your cat pinterest board? LOVE. I only wish it were updated more frequently!
1
On A Survey Of The Funny, Haunted Dreams People Have About Their Jobs
@juliamark Heh, when I worked retail in college, I never had actual dreams about work, but every single dream I had would have the Musak playing in the background. It wasn't bad enough that I had to listen to that stuff on a 3 hour loop all day at work, no....I had to listen to it in my dreams too!
1
On Tooth Market Collapses
@Brian I'm with ya! I got a quarter for the first tooth, and a nickel for the rest (when the tooth fairy remembered to come, that is!) Sigh. I am an old.
0
On Football Pick Haikus For Week 17
@Brunhilde Yes, yes! I demand playoff haikus as well!!!!
0
On Santa's Sinister Sidekick
@Keith Kisser YES. (shudder) I am still terrified at the sight of that!!!!!!!
0
On Santa's Sinister Sidekick
Oh my god. This brings back some serious childhood trauma. When I was a kid my family lived in Germany for several years, and one year around Christmastime my mom took my little sister and I to Austria to see the church where “Silent Night” was written. We must have been there on Krampusnacht, because there were a bunch of dudes dressed up in costumes (they looked like furrier versions of the monsters from Where the Wild Things Are) that ran through the streets knocking people over and hitting them with sticks. They knocked over my sister (who was FOUR!) and grabbed my mom. A lot of the adults were laughing but as a child it was TERRIFYING. But, you know, I guess it was good for my parents - after that all they had to do was threaten us with Krampus to get us to behave.
0
On This Thanksgiving, Remember You Will Die
@gfrblxt Oh, it was delicious when we finally got to eat it around 10:30 pm!
0
On This Thanksgiving, Remember You Will Die
"Instead of focusing on the dry, tasteless turkey on your plate, be grateful the six-hour roasting process killed any toxic bacteria."
Yeah, unless your grandfather with (at the time undiagnosed) Alzheimer's disease is in charge of cooking the turkey, and does not set the oven for the correct temperature, so when he goes to serve it, it is still raw and bloody......which happened to our family about 10 years ago. Fun times!
0
On A Field Guide To Your Office Nemesis
They obviously did not include my answers for the poll in the first graph. At my previous job, my favorite nemesis-related activity was identifying which Simpsons or Office character my nemesis most resembled and emailing my coworkers the resultant photoshop mashup. For example my previous boss was a creepy combination of Montgomery Burns and Michael Scott, and another co-worker was a disgusting combination of Creed Bratton and Barney Gumble.
0
On President Endorses States' Rights
@jfruh I don't think there's any way a statement from Obama would have made a difference in the NC vote, but I think you're right that this may definitely help the cause here in Maryland. I'm just shocked that as liberal as this state is and has been for so long, that the issue is polling at 50-50!!