One can only imagine. I mean, it would be awful if you were IMing with some webwhore and mom at the same time and accidentally sent mom a message about giant cocks, y'know?
You know how Brad DeLong always says that the Bush administration is worse than you imagine, even taking into account that it's worse than you imagine? I'm starting to feel that way about b's sluttiness.
Oh, it was fine. I meant to invite the boyfriend and accidentally invited a blogreader who I was *just chatting with.* Don't get all excited. I just know how to tell a good story.
Or maybe I really am that slutty. I might need a new subtitle. "Worse than you imagine, like the Bush administration." Only somehow "Bush" and "slutty" in the same sentence just totally turns me off.
Personally, I don't think being invisible is so hot an idea. What if you're invisible and waiting for just one person to come online and they have the same great idea? Maybe something that lets you be selectively invisible would be best.
Questions of sluttiness aside, that "crap, the wrong window" problem is one of the reasons I use Trillian, which has a setting that causes new windows to appear minimized. Not only do I not type in the wrong window, but potentially compromising IMs received while at work don't pop onscreen while co-workers are watching.
Third-party apps generally are either better-behaved or more-configurable than AIM/YIM/MSN etc, and they all speak the relevant protocols. Whether you pick Trillian, Gaim, Ayttm or their various workalikes, you'll probably be happier.
Or just look up before you hit carriage return, two-fingers.
One can only imagine. I mean, it would be awful if you were IMing with some webwhore and mom at the same time and accidentally sent mom a message about giant cocks, y'know?
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 01-11-05 11:02 PM
I once invited the wrong man to come visit me.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-11-05 11:08 PM
You know how Brad DeLong always says that the Bush administration is worse than you imagine, even taking into account that it's worse than you imagine? I'm starting to feel that way about b's sluttiness.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 01-11-05 11:12 PM
profffgrl, you know what's worse than that? 20 minutes of following silence from your mom.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 01-11-05 11:21 PM
you can be logged in and invisible. just click on the open eye above the buddy list. it will close and then you'll be invisible.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 1:14 AM
Oh, it was fine. I meant to invite the boyfriend and accidentally invited a blogreader who I was *just chatting with.* Don't get all excited. I just know how to tell a good story.
Or maybe I really am that slutty. I might need a new subtitle. "Worse than you imagine, like the Bush administration." Only somehow "Bush" and "slutty" in the same sentence just totally turns me off.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 5:28 AM
Profgrrrl, that would be bad. Michael, that would be even worse-- but not as bad as an enthusiastic response (or salacious details) from dear old Mom.
Fortunately, it was nothing like that.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 7:51 AM
bitchphd,
Hmmm. That sentence has exactly the opposite affect on me.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 8:05 AM
EFFECT.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 8:16 AM
Also, capital B Bush, as opposed to lowercase b bush.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 8:18 AM
How about: Sluttier than you think, even taking into account she's sluttier than you think?
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 8:29 AM
Personally, I don't think being invisible is so hot an idea. What if you're invisible and waiting for just one person to come online and they have the same great idea? Maybe something that lets you be selectively invisible would be best.
Posted by Andrew Cholakian | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 9:41 AM
Questions of sluttiness aside, that "crap, the wrong window" problem is one of the reasons I use Trillian, which has a setting that causes new windows to appear minimized. Not only do I not type in the wrong window, but potentially compromising IMs received while at work don't pop onscreen while co-workers are watching.
Posted by Matt | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 9:49 AM
Third-party apps generally are either better-behaved or more-configurable than AIM/YIM/MSN etc, and they all speak the relevant protocols. Whether you pick Trillian, Gaim, Ayttm or their various workalikes, you'll probably be happier.
Or just look up before you hit carriage return, two-fingers.
Posted by wcw | Link to this comment | 01-12-05 10:08 AM
Matt,
Oh, yeah. How many of us has seen the laptop powerpoint presentation get interrupted by, ahem, a very 'interesting' IM?
It can be very funny.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 01-13-05 9:58 AM
bitchphd,
. Just checking to see if anyone reads my drek.
Thanks for the correction.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 01-13-05 10:00 AM
I've never seen a presentation interrupted by an IM! Shit, I must be in the wrong field.
(Though again, who doesn't think to turn their messenger off? I would be so paranoid about that happening I'd probably check it fifty times.)
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-13-05 2:07 PM