The Official Status Thread
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Status: I'm disappointed with the eclipse; it didn't even get darker. Whom do I talk to to get my money back?
Same here. Maybe we could start a class action?
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it didn't even get darker.
It was noticeably darker here but nothing else too see
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I learnt today that there are people that think that electricity can only exist because of the earth's magnetic field.
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Status: NOTHING and i mean NOTHING is scarrier than a room full of hangry geeks on a very tight deadline with a robot that is not working and none of their debugging has worked.....
What about nuclear proliferation in a world full of territorial nation states with unresolved issues and incompetent diplomats guided by commercial interests?
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Status: What an underwhelming solar eclipse. Didn't see anything. Still can't.
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Status: Migrating a WCF API to Web API. Because raisins.
I may be a vegetable by COP…
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Status: Migrating a WCF API to Web API. Because raisins.
I may be a vegetable by COP…
Update: Spent an hour migrating just one method. That never gets fucking called.
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what? with the import still chugging presumably away?
I have my doubts about that...
@ben_lubar?
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What about nuclear proliferation in a world full of territorial nation states with unresolved issues and incompetent diplomats guided by commercial interests?
you've obviously never been the centre of attention of a room of 30 stressed out hangry geeks before.
trust me. there is nothing scarrier.
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what about a room full of hangry geeks with nukes, unresolved issues and incompetent diplomats guided by commercial interests on a very tight deadline with a robot that is not working and none of their debugging has worked?
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Status: Wondering why everyone's being so mean to my queen…
Mucho hugs for @accalia
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what about a room full of hangry geeks with nukes, unresolved issues and incompetent diplomats guided by commercial interests on a very tight deadline with a robot that is not working and none of their debugging has worked?
Why do they use a robot to debug a nuke while waiting for pizza?
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can you think of a cooler use for a robot?
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…and that's the second thing I've seen to day I want (the first is a cheese grater that looks like a hedgehog).
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Status: Not a bad eclipse (95–98%?) and was able to stare straight at it the whole time because of the “special” Manchester cloudy weather. (Then had to go to a talk on journal publishing…)
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Status: trying to concentrate on trying to work out how to (or indeed if I can) fix an issue that was reported as a specific issue with a specific template-thing (to say exactly what it is would require me to explain the workings of our CMS system, which can be summed up as 'you don't want to know').
Turns out the thing they thought was wrong isn't, but it sort of looks as though it is because of what seems to be a 'feature' in the general framework in which specific template-things are constructed.
Possibilities are:
- It is actually a bug in something we implemented, which I can fix.
- It's in the bought-in system, so I can't fix it and since it's not important I can get away with saying we can't fix it.
- It's in the bought-in system and even though it doesn't matter I'll have to arrange for a support case to be raised with the vendor and owing to reasons that's a major headache.
- It's in the bought-in system but I end up implementing some horrid javascript hack to conceal it.
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Eureka!
I think I can fix it by swapping two lines of Javascript around in two places. The 'feature' that's ultimately causing this is probably out of our control or at least a headache to change but if it works the way I think it does then I can make sure the precise condition doesn't arise.
Status: going to have another chocolate thing in celebration.
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That's true though.
Without the Earth's magnetic field, DNA would mutate like crazy, and it's doubtful we'd have even gotten to the point of building dynamos. We'd all be born with cancer.
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I learnt today that there are people that think that electricity can only exist because of the earth's magnetic field.
I was going to say what blakey already said, but more poetical and stuff:
It would, but only in the same way that trees make sounds when they fall and no one is around to hear them.
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you've obviously never been the centre of attention of a room of 30 stressed out hangry geeks before.
trust me. there is nothing scarrier.
Kids. Room full of hangry kids.
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easier to deal with. they'll actually take the cookie they need when you give it to them. the teens won't because of pride and the adults won't because they won't...
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Status: played a bit of ESO last night.
When you decide to skip the intro with a character, the game gives you a cuirass but no pants. That's an interesting choice.
Also Chrome's spell-checker doesn't include "cuirass" for some reason.
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Also Chrome's spell-checker doesn't include "cuirass" for some reason.
cuirasser and cuirasser
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the teens won't because of pride
This sounds like no teens I've dealt with.
they'll actually take the cookie they need when you give it to them.
Except half of them will decide they don't want it because it looks a little off and they don't like that cookie and anyways you can't get them to stop running around long enough to notice that there even are cookies.
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status: if I don't get a cookie soon I'll be hangry
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This sounds like no teens I've dealt with.
how often do you deal with stressed out hangry teens?
stop running around long enough to notice that there even are cookies.
that's just a matter of catching them. i find cookie in one hand and standign just round the corner of a table works well. catch them around the waist with your free hand, place the cookie in their hands and set them back down again. Then you just repeat until critical mass is achieved and everyone comes to you looking for cookies (usually only need to repeat about 6-10 times)
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Also Chrome's spell-checker doesn't include "cuirass" for some reason.
It's not that common a word; at least it's not like the Firefox spellchecker, which doesn't recognise 'Firefox'.
Or, as it turns out,cuirass
; wants to change it to 'Jurassic'.
@boomzilla said:@accalia said:
the teens won't because of pride
This sounds like no teens I've dealt with.
Exactly; they're more likely to just think you're old and stupid, and refuse for that reason.
@accalia said:that's just a matter of catching them. i find cookie in one hand and standign just round the corner of a table works well. catch them around the waist with your free hand, place the cookie in their hands and set them back down again. Then you just repeat until critical mass is achieved and everyone comes to you looking for cookies (usually only need to repeat about 6-10 times)
How big are the groups you normally deal with? Because 6-10 sounds like a lot to achieve critical mass; I'd have thought just 2 or 3 would be enough.
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Exactly; they're more likely to just think you're old and stupid, and refuse for that reason.
IME, they don't even wait for you to open the package, and have grabbed it and ripped it open and started fighting over them.
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IME, they don't even wait for you to open the package, and have grabbed it and ripped it open and started fighting over them.
Why are they so angry about it though? Maybe they just need a coo- oh…
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How big are the groups you normally deal with? Because 6-10 sounds like a lot to achieve critical mass; I'd have thought just 2 or 3 would be enough.
for 3-5yo? usually about 40-50, but that's not all by myself. I'd be one of about 8-12 adults in the group.
you get very good at manipulating groups when you work that many micros.
you're old and stupid
HEY!
also probably more true.
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for 3-5yo? usually about 40-50
That's a scary-large grou-
@accalia said:but that's not all by myself. I'd be one of about 8-12 adults in the group.
Ah. Not so scary then
@accalia said:you get very good at manipulating groups when you work that many micros.
So, you're saying you're a micromanager? (INB4 paging @Groaner)
@accalia said:@RaceProUK said:
you're old and stupid
HEY!also probably more true.
I'd never call you old and stupid, for two reasons:- I wuv you
- I'm a year older than you
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Status: Having a cookie, because I'm old enough to take a cookie when I want one
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Status: Want a cookie now.
Should have bought one when I was at Tesco an hour ago…
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Oh man you could have bought some horse-beef too.
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That's a scary-large grou-
yep
Ah. Not so scary then
that mitigates it, btu only so much....
So, you're saying you're a micromanager?
if you're using the same definition of micro as me: >=3yo && <6yo then yes.
otherwise: -_-
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@RaceProUK said:
So, you're saying you're a micromanager?
if you're using the same definition of micro as me: >=3yo && <6yo then yes.
otherwise: -_-
Was my joke really that bad?
INB4 @blakeyrat says 'Yes'
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if you needed a rimshot to pull it off.... yes.
sorry. :-(
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Without the Earth's magnetic field, DNA would mutate like crazy, and it's doubtful we'd have even gotten to the point of building dynamos
Or maybe we'd be talking birds or something... it might've worked out OK.
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Status: Misplaced the phone... no, really...
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It's in the car or on the kitchen counter - at home...
...so I guess I could dial it - just to make it feel better, I suppose.
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Status: Fuming. But of sound mind.
Managed to get something like 10-11 hours of sleep (surprisingly, no headache as a consequence). That helped a lot. Still frustrated by this shit I'm working on but at least I don't feel fried.
Getting off work in about 30mins and can't finish anything I'm currently working on, so, procrastination time.
Can't wait to get home and forget about this week, at least partially. And I have a game to finish that's waiting for me to come back to it since the weekend. Yeah. That's a plan.