Dark Mirage

$3 Bill

Ever more pathetic Mikey continues to insist he has Secret Tapes. He cannot name anyone who seen them, but he says they exist.

fickle liars

how quickly they forget
darkmirage
2004-07-14 12:34 (link)

Iris won't tell you that I made her a copy of S1 complete from the UK DVDs. She also won't mention the fact that I copied the first few episodes of S3 for her--but she was too rude to even acknowledge receipt of those.

And Iris won't tell you that I work with PIGMENTS, among other things, for a living, OR that I am an accomplished painter who used to sell artwork at science fiction conventions. I wish Iris would tell us some REAL color theory, with emphasis on wavelengths, the physics of vision--the REAL stuff, not the emotional artsy fartsy color wheel (which is invalid anyway; a perusal of any serious discussion will tell you that color wheels are crude tools for beginners.)

And Iris won't tell you that she promised to set up PureMX, then dodged emails and was evasive for weeks before finally admitting she was reneging on her promise.

Iris, you are fickle, immature, and less than honest.

By the way, anyone who can read and interpret numbers correctly will note that my journal was not created this week or even this month. Try to get your facts in order before making yourself look not-credible.

Too Cool to Drool

I may have just created the first fanfiction character with the potential of drooling.

Sooner or later, everybody drools. Why not fanfiction characters?

Liars

A good analytical chemist has to have a special respect for the truth. I've seen people try to make things up as they go along (which is probably how they got through school) and when they get caught, it not only is not pretty, but typically creates a lot of rework (or batches and batches of product that now go to an incinerator instead of a customer).

Telling lies well is harder than people think. Liars with intelligence tend to be people who were told as children that they were Special, and they never noticed that there are a LOT of smart people in the world, people with the ingrained habit of sifting evidence and sorting it out into a logical order. They've never noticed that a lot of people have the patience to sit quietly and let the evidence accumulate, either.

Which is probably why liars don't like me.

Candy Ride

Candy Ride is being walked, which is nice. As impressed as I was with his win laughing Pacific Classic, I am suspicious of his soundness. He's unbeaten, but has only a handful of races behind him.

Whining about food. Whining about coworkers.

I was raised not to complain about food. I don't, unless there is something very wrong about it (flies in the carafe of wine, etc.) I work with people who will go through an entire box of chocolates, punching the bottoms in search of the 2 pieces in a box of 45 that they have any liking for, and throw out the rest. Waste like that I have never considered.

Today I was treated to at least 90 minutes of stories about coworker Mike. Yes, Mike keeps very odd hours, coming in today at...2.35 PM? But I'm not his supervisor. If his supervisor doesn't care, and it's been tolerated for 20 years, he obviously has dirt on someone and can do what pleases him...but I still had to listen to the same tired round of past Mike misadventures from assorted people dredged up from the last 15-20 years. Maybe it's the rumor that Mike is about to be THEIR supervisor...but how would he do that? He's never there much, and when he is, he's on the phone with his wife?

Cats are better than people.

If you treat kitty well, feed her good food, talk to her, keep her in fresh litter, she will treat you well in return.

People are not like that. Treat people well, generously even, and you never know what kind of fecal matter will be slung back at you. About all you can do is be amused by such irrational conduct, and have a nice talk about it with kitty.

There even seems to be an inverse relationship between how well people will treat you: the more you do, the more they expect, and the bigger whoppers they tell about you.

Fortunately, 30+ years of keeping scientific notebooks and 7 years in the divorce courts of New York state have taught me to document well. Liars can lie, but the can also be exposed and chased back into the snake holes they emerged from. The part I am never sure of is whether they are psychotic or naive.

A cat will never lie to you, unlike a dog. Dogs have been around humans too long: dogs are prevaricators by nature, fawning over the perceived pack leader. Cats? If they don't like you, they'll just avoid you. They take care of themselves.