The Official Status Thread
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Touché. I always call baseball by its other name, "More boring than watching paint dry".
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Before we got married, my wife paid for her Obamacare online, no checks required.
How was she your wife before you got married?
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@Intercourse said:
I just caught my 4th mouse in less than 24 hours. Thankfully, only one of those was in the house. The rest were in the garage.
I somehow misread that as "moose". I blame the caffeine withdrawal symptoms.
now there's a site i havent heard about in years... are they still as much of a time sink as i remember?
Not really, sometimes there's something funny but it's either retarded stuff nobody out of their mind would find amusing, trollbait, or old memes you've seen 123849732094u09284 times since 2004.
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That name is already taken by baseball.
Once again the need for a "Dislike" button becomes apparent.
Actually, this needs an "Eternal Hatred" button.
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Status: Monday morning after a week of vacation. Seven days without caffeine. That won't last much longer.
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Had one of those Indian Windows support scammers call. I decided to simply abuse him. He took it for several minutes. I think it totally cured my case of the Mondays.
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I really want to get one of those. I feel it's a public service for anyone who knows their shit to waste as much scammer time as possible.
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Someone should build a voice recognition app designed specifically to waste scammers' time.
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I once kept them online for over an hour. I got handed off three or four times. Eventually, the "supervisor" started cursing at me right before he hung up.
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Status: having fun with the unemployment office. Now coffee and raisin bran.
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Status: Stuck at home because the street surface is being relaid (for the first time in decades).
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Seven days without caffeine. That won't last much longer.
Caffeine detox ended. Retoxification in progress.
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How was she your wife before you got married?
Because using a current title to describe past events is allowed.
Filed under: pedantry fail
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I somehow misread that as "moose". I blame the caffeine withdrawal symptoms.
That would have made the traps a lot harder to clean...
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Just got this email regarding a meeting next week for the new help desk system:
"Please come to this session with at a minimum one positive and one negative lesson from this project."
I'll be unable to attend since I cannot come up with one positive lesson.
So this meeting is about to start...
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"So @chubertdev, what do you have positive to say about the new help desk system?"
"Well, it has not burned the building to the ground...yet."
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@Intercourse said:
"So @chubertdev, what do you have positive to say about the new help desk system?"
"Well, it has not burned the building to the ground...yet."
I'll let you know how that goes
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Status: had a great chat with recruiter, two potential interviews.
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>Keith:
How was she your wife before you got married?Because using a current title to describe past events is allowed.
Also, common-law marriage is valid is some jurisdictions. For those unfamiliar with common-law marriage, some jurisdictions allow a marriage to come into being merely by living together as husband and wife, and publicly referring to each other as being married, usually for some extended period of time. Thus, one's wife must be one's "wife" before she actually becomes one's wife. Note that neither the jurisdiction in which @chubertdev currently resides, nor that in which I believe he formerly resided, recognize this as a basis for forming a valid marriage* (although if entered into in a jurisdiction where it is valid, it will be accepted as valid throughout the US), but it is hypothetically possible.* Note also that many jurisdictions in which it is commonly believed to be valid do not, in fact, recognize common-law marriages as legally valid.
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Status: Surge
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Status: Surge
Is that like "Jolt!" cola?
Found as a related item on that page for me:
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Surge was a drink from the 90's It was supposed to compete with Mountain Dew but failed apparently. It was delicious and now Coke has brought it back for the reasonable price of $14/12 pack of 16oz cans.
A couple weeks ago, I learned that it was the cause of many schools banning soda sales in school because it was thought the high caffeine content would harm children, even though Mountain Dew actually contained more caffeine than it.
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Interesting. So, I assume you ordered a truckload?
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I ordered one case a couple of weeks ago. Today I ordered two more.
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Status: Surge
This made me think of Tantrum first, for some reason.
Amusingly, the third Google result for "tantrum soda" was wikipedia on the Surge soda.
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It was delicious and now Coke has brought it back for the reasonable price of $14/12 pack of 16oz cans.
Amazon actually talked them into this, believe it or not. I have some AmazonBuxzzz and considered ordering some but didn't.
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nor that in which I believe he formerly resided
I've never lived in Massachusetts.
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A new cocktail for parties coke and pussy.
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@Intercourse said:
Video would be appreciated.
The entire meeting went much differently than I had anticipated. This was not necessary...
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This was not necessary.
What was not necessary, the video, the meeting (true of most meetings, of course), your anticipation, or something else?
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Mentioning the fact that the application has not required the local fire department.
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I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that you were not unique in having nothing positive to say about the system.
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I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that you were not unique in having nothing positive to say about the system.
Partly, but the meeting was more about the process of implementing the system, rather than the system itself. So the gripes that people felt were not applicable in the meeting.
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The process of implementing the system should consist of going back to the drawing board and specing a system that is actually usable.
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The process of implementing the system should consist of going back to the drawing board and specing a system that is actually usable.
In the words of The Dude, thanks to this meeting, "new s*** has come to light"
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Current status:
Trying to figure out if you can dam the Amazon with a mole of pianos.
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One mole of Steinway Model D grand pianos would mass almost 2.9E26 kg. The mass of the entire Earth is 5.97E24 kg. I will allow you to draw your own conclusion as to whether a mass 48.4 times that of the entire earth would be sufficient to dam a single river.
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One mole of Steinway Model D grand pianos would mass almost 2.9E26 kg. The mass of the entire Earth is 5.97E24 kg. I will allow you to draw your own conclusion as to whether a mass 48.4 times that of the entire earth would be sufficient to dam a single river.
I'm glad that someone overthought this so much
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Status: Monthly reports time
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Status: Puttering about the airport waiting to start the long trip back south after my vacation.
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Status:
Alice/Tollbooth moment of the day: feeling that I get a ton done every day, and I have more to do at the end of the day than when I started.
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Just after 7am and I'm already caught up. WTF TDWTF.
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Just after 7am and I'm already caught up. WTF TDWTF.
should we post more so it takes longer to catch up?
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Status: Resisting the urge to send my boss an "I told you so" email. At the beginning of November, he asked me to write up an estimated timeline for our outstanding projects. When I got it to him, he told me to trim a month off. I did so (reluctantly). Due to bugs, new "urgent" features, unforeseen technical issues, and some delays on his part, we are now hitting my original timeline almost perfectly.
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Due to bugs, new "urgent" features, unforeseen technical issues, and some delays on his part, we are now hitting my original timeline almost perfectly.
Pfffffbt, reality is no fun for management.
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@Intercourse said:
Pfffffbt, reality is no fun for management.
Also, my boss is the CIO. He started here writing code, so it's not like he's unfamiliar with the process. I think he's just been separated from the working reality for too long.
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Just after 7am and I'm already caught up. WTF TDWTF.
My day got off to a wonderful start. First, I stayed up way too late last night catching up, but I still have a long way to go. Partly as a result of this, it took me almost half an hour to drag myself out of bed after the alarm went off this morning.
Started my morning routine: Make tea, eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast, multitask by drinking tea while doing subsequent tasks, sit down to take a dump. Notice too late that I am sitting on, and taking a dump on, the hem of my bathrobe. Yeah, wonderful way to start the day.
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Status: I just sent off an important email. One that will likely make a big difference in our cashflow over the next few years and now I have to wait for a response. This feels like the nervous jitters I remember before my first date, etc. Kind of crazy how so much can ride on just a few words...
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Notice too late that I am sitting on, and taking a dump on, the hem of my bathrobe.
Good argument against bathrobes.