The Official Status Thread
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@Intercourse said:
Just like with anything, you will always find idiots who don't know what the hell they are doing.
Yes, and that idiot is often me!
But trying it out on scrap, that I can remember.
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Yes, and that idiot is often me!
But trying it out on scrap, that I can remember.
That is the great thing about building basement shelves and such, they are great learning opportunities. If you mess something up, a little ugly spot on a set of garage shelves is no big deal as long as they still hold stuff. Then you are less likely to make the mistake when aesthetics matter.
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@Intercourse said:
Really? I am 35 and it has been a part of my procedure for my entire life, for vehicles that have plug wires anyway. I have always replaced the plug wires when I did plugs. It is likely overkill to do it every time, but they do fail and subtly so when they do.
Misfires aren't always subtle.
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Misfires aren't always subtle.
neither is your thransmission throwing a gear causing the engine to attempt to jump out of the bonnet and perforn a hextuple lutz in the air before landing on the road about 50 feet in front of the car.
that was fun explaining what had happened to the cop that responded to the accident report.... we sounded like five college students that had been smoking weed and driving!
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Misfires aren't always subtle.
Sometimes they are. My diesel V8 had two dead cylinders due to plugged injectors and it wasn't terribly obvious from the sound. No check-engine light, no loss of power, just a slightly-rough idle and occasional white smoke out the tailpipe.
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Misfires aren't always subtle.
True, but long before you get to that point there is usually a period where you are not getting full spark and have reduced power. They don't usually suddenly fail catastrophically.
I kind of dig newer engines with coil on plug systems. They have removed this weak point. Of course, a set of coils for my vehicle is ~$175, but they do seem to last a lot longer. I am at 150K without issue.
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Did they actually come see you in person? Or phone call? Or email? Emails are easy to handle. I just do a reply to all and include the responsible party. Once I've let it age appropriately, of course.
That only takes care of the one situation, not the fifty times it happens later the same day, no matter how much training you try to do.
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the fifty times it happens later the same day,
Sounds like a job for out of office auto-reply or whatever.
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I do have my phone on DND more often than not.
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Misfires aren't always subtle.
One reason I took it in for service is that I have been noticing occasional subtle hesitation on the highway, and I have a 1600 mile road trip in a couple of weeks. Apparently there was a not-so-subtle misfire when the mechanic started it after replacing the plugs and discovered he had swapped two of the wires. At least that didn't cost me any extra money, just an extra hour of sitting there reading TDWTF and watching the Seahawks game while he dug around in inaccessible places again.
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Current status: pretty much zero motivation for anything happening in my life right now.
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Status: Stuck in a teleconference for a client project. This is really frustrating given that last Friday I submitted an aggressive timeline for our current in-house project with a deadline of next Wednesday. I made it very apparent when I submitted said timeline that there was no way to do the project any faster. Despite this, I was told this morning that the project has to be pushed to production by next Monday morning. :rage1: :rage2: :rage3: :rage4:
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I had a friend in high school who drove an old "V7" Chevy van. The misfire wasn't subtle, but we just didn't give a shit.
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Status: the best part of an interview, the "waiting for feedback". Oh wait that's the worst part. Oh well.
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IT Security team just revoked everyone's permissions to dev DB server, costing the company who knows how many lost hours of work right now.
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IT Security team just revoked everyone's permissions to dev DB server, costing the company who knows how many lost hours of work right now.
Wait, what? Why did they do that? Didn't they do something similar like a week ago?
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Current status: Got my flu shot today and now my shoulder is killing me. Like a toothache deep in the joint.
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I had a friend in high school who drove an old "V7" Chevy van. The misfire wasn't subtle, but we just didn't give a shit.
His nickname was not "Walt" by any chance, was it?
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@Intercourse said:
Current status: Got my flu shot today and now my shoulder is killing me. Like a toothache deep in the joint.
That happened to me last month, too. The next day or so it was like I'd been punched by, uh, something really strong. Did you get the trivalent or quadrivalent form?
And then this morning I saw an article suggesting they may have done a bad job guessing which strains to protect against this year.
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Did you get the trivalent or quadrivalent form?
Quadrivalent. Why do they have two different ones?
"Would you like the shot that protects you against 3 strains? Or the one that protects you against 4?"
"Is that a joke?"
"No. We have a trivalent and a quadrivalent shot."
"Why would anyone get the trivalent one?"
"It is $10 less"
"Yeah, for $10 I will go for the better protection against dying or feeling like I am."
But then, you tell me this:
And then this morning I saw an article suggesting they may have done a bad job guessing which strains to protect against this year.
Figures.
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@Intercourse said:
"Why would anyone get the trivalent one?"
"It is $10 less"
"Yeah, for $10 I will go for the better protection against dying or feeling like I am."
It was free either way for me, thanks to my insurance, so I figured getting the 4th strain was more bang for the buck. Unfortunately, it turned out to be bang to my shoulder.
@Intercourse said:
But then, you tell me this:
FrostCat:
And then this morning I saw an article suggesting they may have done a bad
job guessing which strains to protect against this year.Figures.
That's about how I felt too.
[Ugh. Discurse wouldn't nest my quote and I CBA to figure out why. I should probably macro that last sentence.]
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@Intercourse said:
Wait, what? Why did they do that? Didn't they do something similar like a week ago?
Yeah, our parent company is clamping down on security "standards", so it's a weekly event.
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Heh...my favorite part about that was how he told us how terrible these guys were after admitting to scamming them.
Mine is this:
I am one of these people. But I'm also someone who tries to use money in socially conscious ways. I invest in companies screened as socially responsible. I mostly avoid businesses like Wal-Mart that exploit their own workers and the people who make their products. Do I really want to be giving money to a man like John Menard?
I've thought about it, and come to some conclusions. First, the beleaguered managers and employees at Menards would not benefit from my decision to shop elsewhere. Second, shopping elsewhere for certain items means giving money to places like Home Depot, which I doubt is run by people who are less corrupted.
I will not give my money to Wal-Mart, they're eeeevil... oh wait, those guys are evil too, but have nice promotions and cheap stuff? Uhh, I guess that's not that important anyway...
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Status: 5 minutes until clock-out, just one five-line change to check-in...
"oh hai we made a new branch, download and commit there".
30 minutes of mega-solution download and one tram breaking down on my way home later, fuck this shit. At least I have a new Rishloo album, which is nice.
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How do you think it went?
What I think doesn't matter. Whenever I think I do well, I don't get the job and whenever I think I did lousy I do.
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Added a whoooooooooole bunch of exception reporting to a big app last night. I'm the only one getting the emails for now, but they're logged in the database as well (to a table that already existed). One of the DBAs had a lot of questions for me this morning. Especially about this one operation that tried to delete temp files and had the
Try
/Catch
in a loop.
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Status: Why is this working in SIT but not locally?
Status: WTF now randomly working again.
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Status: let some idiot on this forum talk me into giving a shitty game another chance. Game is still shitty. Natch.
Still waiting for interview results. Ugh.
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Status: employed. Fuck.
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Status: Money?
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Status: The door-to-door newspaper-selling girls with the "Buy a subscription from me or I can't go to college" stories are getting more devious1. Now they hide where you can't see through the peephole and know it's them, and they're on crutches now.
1Term possibly exaggerated by my naturally skeptical, cynical, and paranoid personality.
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Status: The door-to-door newspaper-selling girls with the "Buy a subscription from me or I can't go to college" stories are getting more devious. Now they hide where you can't see through the peephole and know it's them, and they're on crutches now.
Next year: wheelchairs.
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Can't get up to the front door with those.
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More than my previous position.
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Next year: wheelchairs.
I'd know they're scamming then. I'm on the second floor and we have no elevators.
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Crack addicts?
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Can't get up to the front door with those.
Hmmm ... ADA lawsuit! They'll definitely get to college now!
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No, they're genuinely selling newspapers. But it's almost 2015 and nobody cares about newspapers anymore, so apparently they've resorted to sob stories to get sales.
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Congrats on not fucking up.
Enjoy the free time you have left.
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But it's almost 2015 and nobody cares about newspapers anymore
Not true. I get them for the coupons and ads. The coupons save me more than enough in groceries to cover the cost of the newspaper.
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Now they hide where you can't see through the peephole and know it's them, and they're on crutches now.
I would probably just not answer the door.
But I am also pretty abrupt at shutting these people down; my apartment complex has "no soliciting" signs.
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Both.
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Current status...
Stupid company: "ok, we'll bill you for your meds on day X. but we need to see how much your insurance will cover. then you'll have C days after then to pay it. but we'll send it to collections C days after day X, not when we figure out your amount. and day X plus C days is before the time that we figure out how much you owe."
Guess who I'm never doing business with again...
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Bah they want me to start next week. I was hoping I could delay the start date until the first full week of Jan, since I'm going to be out of state between Christmas and New Years, but oh well whatever.
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Bah they want me to start next week. I was hoping I could delay the start date until the first full week of Jan, since I'm going to be out of state between Christmas and New Years, but oh well whatever.
Hopefully it will be nice and quiet for a while. I started my current job at this time of year, and everything was slow, so it was nice not having to ramp up too quickly.
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Next week: Blakeyrat ranting about not having a computer.