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Mar. 30th, 2012


[info]icanhazfeanor
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I need a person!


[info]icanhazfeanor
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YOU might be that person!

Do you like cats? Do you like Newport Beach?

More importantly, do you like MONEY?

Feanor is old and tired and hates driving his car. It's bad when he drives his car, he wishes his car was a horse, but his car doesn't listen when he talks, and the wheel doesn't work at all like he imagines reigns on a horse would. Also, you can't ride on top of a car, it just doesn't work like that. Feanor was sad when he learned that.

Maybe Feanor should design a car that works like a horse!

Maybe Feanor should stop talking about himself in the third person.

So... right! I need a person. This person would do things like buy my groceries for me, pick up dry cleaning and gyros and other things like this sort of thing. It's errand running, but you get to also stick around if you want, as long as you don't mind cats. The cats are staying and you have to deal with them.

It would be an extra plus if this person knew how to reheat gyros that are frozen, and knew how to play World of Warcraft, because sometimes I just really need someone to cut gems for me while I'm cutting gems in that other game.

The pay is good, because even Feanor knows that Feanor is hard to put up with.

Post here!

Mar. 26th, 2012


[info]notjimsnanny
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Right then.


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Remember a few weeks ago, my friend Geoff and his crazy friends who he didn't know what to do with? Turns out, he's found out that those people aren't so crazy when they've got a goal and focus and they actually impressed him when they all went out for a wild and crazy golfing weekend.

Turns out the kid he's been so worried about knows a damn sight about golf, and the...course and what you do to survive in the sandtraps and he taught them all a lot. He said he was surprised to be honest, but was also really impressed too.

Geoff's also made some better friends with one of the saner people in the gang and they had a good talk one night about a lot of shit that's probably gonna bring them closer together, and the situation's getting actually hopeful instead of kind of crazy and fucked up instead.

So they're maybe proving Geoff's worst fears are wrong, and just in case, he's meeting people who are gonna back him up and they've got a project going to do amazing things and it's getting pretty comfortable, like somehow Geoff and all his friends are meant to work together. How the hell that's happened, I don't know, but I get the impression that he's gonna take it as a gift instead of some kind of curse or thing that he's dreading.

All is well that's going well with that I guess. Thanks for following my drama around this thing, we both appreciate it a lot.

Now I'm grabbing a third shower and then going to crash. Crazy weekend on my own part too, but one that's probably worth it in the end.

Edit: you people like cat pictures? I've got a cat picture like my weekend:

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Jul. 26th, 2012

[info]cupidsnotblind
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Not looking for advice... and yet...

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So, I have this friend. She is not a hypothetical person, she is not a stand-in for me. We've been friends since college. She lives in Oregon so she doesn't use this network. Well, she recently got engaged and they visited last week. I absolutely detested the guy. He's crude, he can't carry a conversation, pretty sure he can't get a credit card....

I'm making a long story very short, but I may have gone to far in telling her what I thought of him. Now she's mad at me. I'm willing to admit that I didn't hold back, but she did ask for my opinion. I gave it. The guy is a loser. I don't want my friend to marry a loser. Considering what I do for a living, I thought my opinion would matter more to her. For some reason, she's choosing him over me. I know it's because she thinks she's in love with him, but love only gets you so far. One day, I can see her waking up beside this guy and realizing she's made a huge mistake.

This... sucks.

Mar. 25th, 2012


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Notice:


[info]icanhazfeanor
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To discourage complacency, all water dishes have been replaced with cat food dishes, and all cat food dishes have been replaced with water dishes.

Gyros have been replaced with hot pastrami sandwiches.

My Little Ponies have been replaced with Avatar: The Last Airbender (how do these people tell eachother to get bent? Would getting bent involve fire, water, earth, and air in interesting places?)

Beers have been replaced by fizzy pretentious water from France.

Proceed.

Mar. 21st, 2012


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Busy...


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Things are about to get crazy for the next few weeks. Book is going to the printer. There's going to be a big party at UCI. So that will be... something to attend. Trying to convince my wife to go on a quick getaway before everything starts. *wink*

Mar. 20th, 2012


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This feels stupid but...


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It's been coming to my attention that I need a wardrobe upgrade. Work standard's pretty boring and I don't think it's gonna change, but far as casual, I'm thinking ripped jeans and tshirts don't work when you're at the bar and over thirty.

The thing is, I have absolutely no idea how to dress myself when I'm not in my "uniform" and lab shit. Anybody got suggestions for a poor slob who wants to look like an adult but not a dressed up monkey?

Also, kids? remember when you want to murder someone not to use a real distinctive samurai sword to do that. Cops are on your trail now, honey. Made for a good story though.

Mar. 19th, 2012


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As it seems the past few days have been dedicated to what can only be described as "hypothetical" questioning, I am now going to attempt to steer the community in a different direction. Polling.

How old is the average poster here? If you feel uncomfortable divulging your age, you may pick a range.

Mar. 18th, 2012

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So since it's Hypothetical Question Sunday...

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If a girl shows up at a party that she knows will have lots of single men, in a skimpy dress, with sparkly green underwear on, in the hopes she gets to strip and show it off... does that make her a slut?

Does it make her more of a slut if she does, in fact, strip? What about if she kisses another girl for fun, or suggests a man sandwich and/or orgy?

Or does that just make her the girl at the party that you wish was always at your parties, because she's so much fun?

And if a girl likes changing sexual partners as often as she changes her underwear, does that make her a whore, or what?

The lines are a bit blurry in my friend's life today, so I'm just wondering.

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...


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I've got this friend from school who met a girl who he thinks is kind of awesome. But he's got a really shitty homelife and he doesn't really want her to know about it, or about what a loser he is right now. He's kind of decided not to say anything and just pretend it's all normal. Good idea? Bad idea? Just wondering.

[info]icanhazfeanor
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Cats!


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Specifically, mine!

I know you're all so sad I missed Caturday. Well this is ... Catursunday. Or something.

Here, have cats! I made a table or something, okay I stole the code from somewhere and fiddled with it forever and then I had to figure out how to make the pictures smaller. Well before that I had to figure out how to get the pictures from the picture stick into the computer but...

Anyway there's cats now, and you can get to know them!

Here's a link: Yes This Table Actually Exists

Mar. 15th, 2012


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The new su-chef decided it was a really good idea to break nearly everything possible within her reach. I felt bad for her but she had to go after three nights of causing more problems than not. I told her to come talk to me when she was a little more put together. I put it better to her but I felt really bad for it.

Mar. 9th, 2012


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Idea. I has it.


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So I watched Scotty rip an engine out of a hybrid, stick it in a robot, make it work, and then put it back. And make the hybrid run even better. I mean, I can rip an engine out and put it back and make it work, mostly, but to repurpose something like that? I can’t do that. But this man could, and he did.

And it gave me an idea. Maybe it’ll give me purpose, if he’s willing. And my idea is insane enough he just might agree. We’ll need others. A pilot at least.

Yeah, I think we can do this. I just need to be very convincing.

Mar. 6th, 2012

[info]cupidsnotblind
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Just Passing Through?

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Everyone's so transient these days. Doesn't anyone feel the need to put down roots, take off their proverbial coat, and actually make a friggin' life for themselves?

Shut up. I'm know I'm mixing metaphors. I don't care. I'm. Pissed. Off.

I knew Derek Grutter wouldn't stay long the moment we met, but hiring him wasn't my job. Now I'm short a graphic designer when I really cannot afford to be short a graphic designer. Do you know how many segments I do every day? A lot of segments. Do you know how many of them need graphics? All of them.

My studio is not a gas station for you to take a piss at while you're driving through the night to San Francisco!

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How do people actually live in this place? I haven't been in Orange County a year and I'm already bored. I guess that's what you get when you have Disneyland right down the street. Where is the action?