When Life Hands You Lemons

[izmeina]

This would be funny if it weren't so true




Been very slack with posting stuff lately and not even been doing much slinking in Cyberia these days

Izzie's been busy catching up in Coursera land. Tomorrow is the start of the freaky fringe festival so will be sniffing about for half price tickets. So online time will be very limited in the next few weeks

Will not be able to pig out like last year but still managed to indulge in tickets for two shows so far.

Been slacking on the job front but have decided to go over to the Dark Side. Not heard from the HR Block goblins yet but already signed up for their taxation course starting in late February. So here's hoping that will lead to more interesting job prospects. Only Hermione Granger wannabees who score more than 80% will be considered for goblin jobs and that is not even guaranteed. But still it beats buying lotto tickets. But the big minus is that their software is Windoze only and they expect all the trainee goblins to bring our own lap tops. So the ancient eenie weenie Acer netbook is no use at all as it uses Linux.

Must get back in the squiggling habit. Camp Nano will be in April this year. Now that Script Frenzy is gone it's just the thing to fill in that big 30 day gap. It suits the serpent better than July being exactly half way between Novembers.

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[catness]

"All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" ~Cave Johnson, the CEO of Aperture Science (Portal 2).

Sorry, couldn't resist :) You'd so love Portal if it were a movie...

Did you check my recommendations for the software (Wine and Virtual Box) for emulating Windows under a different OS? I gave you the links for Mac, but with Linux it should be even easier.

[izmeina]

Mr Cave Man Lemon is just so so cool. Well guessing that 'cool' is not quite the right word in this context. Flaming hot and mad as hell would be more appropriate. Guess that's him at the lemonade stand when he was a kid.

Been thinking a bit lately that the source of much of this lazy serpent's problems is a distinct lack of fire in the belly. Even the stars said so ;). There must be sneaky ways to replace faulty spark plugs and that would be a trick well worth learning

Will check out your linkies for Linux since even if Mac works it's no good. They expect us not just to have windoze but windoze laptops that we bring to the class. Fussy little buggers aren't they?

[ozfille]

That is a great Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. It is so true, these so called entrepreneurs so hate assistance given to the poor and needy, labelling it horror of horrors "socialism" and yet have no conscience when demanding their cut of the taxation pie but not willing to contribute any of their over-the-top profits for the good of the country.

[izmeina]

It's just about the best summary of capitalism ever. Even a six year old can understand it

Snatched it from an LJ community called politicartoons

Some of the regulars there make Ayn Rand look like a pinko leftie lovie dovie liberal. Let's see how long it takes you to spot them. Discussion on gun control usually brings them out in droves.
I love being the impartial Martian reading some of these posts trying to work out just what it is that makes so many US citizen so devoted to their guns.

Views that most of us consider completely wacko and off the planet in Oz are pretty much mainstream there. People will invent the most amazing arguments and create all sorts of convoluted logic in order to maintain their emotional attachment to their 'right to bear arms' and 'the scientific truth of the Bible'