I did this briefly years ago for a hotel chain (the booking, not the stealing). We got an extra quarter for everyone we transferred to another department for deals or some shit. We were supposed to ask people if they would like to hear about it but I found out that as long as it transferred they could immediately hang up and I still got my bonus. After that every caller I had got transferred to the other department for the rest of the time I worked there.

I made an extra few hundred bucks and got canned about the same time I found a job in my field. No FBI involved, though.

I always wondered about FtM DIY because of that. I know there are bodybuilder sites and overseas sites for it and generally people aren’t getting prosecuted for having it. It just seems like something they’ll start prosecuting in order to get to trans folks.

I’m old as fuck. I definitely show my age as often as possible.

Seconded. This is an excerpt from a comment I made the other day about it:

If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

Entities from other realities are listening and waiting for our computers to summon them.

I’m making this comment from a magical device that sends bottled lightning though rocks inscribed with very exact runes in order to display information from people all over the world.

Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.

White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.

These are my favorites because of their common name. Destroying Angel.

Fun fact: the survival rate without treatment is about half, but that goes up to ~90% if you get treated quickly. However, it can still destroy your liver. The toxin is thermostable so cooking doesn’t break it down. It is excreted in urine so a lot of the treatment consists of pumping you full of fluids and making you pee a lot. There is no actual antidote to the toxin.

I already voted so I can’t vote for him either.

I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.

When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That’s it for me.

You’ve got to spell and pronounce it slightly incorrect.

I’ve got a friend who was slightly too old when the word yeet became popular. He decided he would use it confidently, often, and incorrect. He still does.

He’s excited to embarrass his kids by doing that with whatever the current slang is when they are 12 or 13.

After the first three he doesn’t write them as pastiches of other authors and I think they get better.

If you enjoyed this fun fact, start reading The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Once you get to book 4 come back here and thank me. Tongue eating isopods from beyond the stars play a role there, and appear briefly later in one of his New Management books, although I don’t have the page handy so I’m not sure which one.

Their nastier cousins make an appearance later in the Laundry Files, but I’ll leave what they do a mystery.

If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

I’ve had DataTraveller sticks since the late 90s/early 00s. Never given me a problem.

Also in Texas and I was surprised at the line for early voting when I went. Usually I just walk in and walk out because there’s no one there before election day.

Some states (I want to say Mississippi?) have no early voting and only absentee ballots with a good excuse. So yeah, a federal holiday or some provision for time off to vote would be awesome.

This is what I looked like back when I jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace.

You’ve never been proud of me at all!

Hey, I’m sorry I missed you while I was in town. I love your face anyway and now I’m out here in H-town making bad decisions.

I’ve never had a bad con experience, luckily enough. I love Billy Zane, but I’m afraid if I ever meet him I’ll just ramble about Winter Dragon.

Now I have things to do. I’ll catch you either later this evening or tomorrow.

Frakes was supposed to be here but he has family stuff or something going on. I’m excited about LeVar Burton but I’m afraid I’m going to sit on the floor crying and singing the Reading Rainbow song.