The Official Status Thread
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... both?
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Lots of the US doesn't celebrate it, or at least not in a noticeable way (five teens/college kids doing something doesn't really count).
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a thing that people actually celebrate?
Mostly in Europe and North America. Also Australia.
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I think pilots don't celebrate Mayday ...
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May Day ≠ m'aidez ;)
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Mostly in Europe and North America. Also Australia.
Yeah, I knew foreigners did stuff. And the US is big enough that there's probably a constituency for just about any cockamamie celebration someone has dreamed up at some point.
Lots of the US doesn't celebrate it, or at least not in a noticeable way
Yeah, and it has the stink of Communism on it, which helps (or helped, anyways) keep most of the US from getting caught up.
We have more fun with Cinco de Mayo, even though few people know what the original is about.
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Fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost ;)
But yeah, m'aidez is French for help me
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I knew that, Lister!
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Yeah, and it has the stink of Communism on it, which helps (or helped, anyways) keep most of the US from getting caught up.
Well the commie bit also is how it ties in to labor (or the other way, can't remember which way the relation went and don't care enough to look it up again) which is why you get some minor stuff with unions. The pagan bits of it don't really have any noticeable grip in the US (unless you happen to have some kind of ties to those roots).
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Status: Listening to a song on the radio with the lyric Pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard
Still, not as weird as He reminds me of parsley when he's standing there alone
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He reminds me of parsley when he's standing there alone
The decorative vegetable nobody actually wants?
That's a pretty good metaphor.
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Status: Due to my being on vacation, we dropped the ball on an issue earlier this week. A DVR went down at a client's location that runs their security cameras. I made the decision to let it wait until I get back as other stuff came up and the guys were short-handed.
Just now the client called me and their cash drop from yesterday is missing a chunk of money and he needs access to that DVR. I explain what happened, apologize profusely and tell him that I will discount my invoice for this month to make up for the cash shortage (There is never more than $200 in the cash drawer). His reply: "Oh. I don't give a fuck about that. You need to take vacations also. I just want to know who I need to fire."
Good news: It may take a little digging, but I am pretty sure I can figure out who it was anyway so the customer gets to fire someone and I stay in his good graces.
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"Oh. I don't give a fuck about that. You need to take vacations also."
A client that understands you're not his slave, bent to his every whim? Well, I suppose there had to be one somewhere
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A client that understands you're not his slave, bent to his every whim?
Meh, they are not all like that.
I have mentioned before that we have a client that is very "Ready, fire, aim". The week before I left he decides that it is time to upgrade their server...this week. I tell him no worries, I will send one of my guys over on Wednesday.
"Will you be on-site?"
"No, I will be on vacation."
-incredulous- "What? You cannot just leave for a week without letting us know!"
(I had a conference call starting in just a couple of minutes) -pause- "OK, I have to get off of here to jump on a conference call that is starting right now. I want you to take the next 30 minutes to think about what the difference between an employee and a contractor is. I will also be expecting an apology from you when I call you back after this call."
So yeah, some of them can be dicks. In the asshole's case, they are very low dollar volume for us so I really don't give a shit what he does. He did however apologize and the upgrade went off Wednesday by an employee of mine who is more talented than I am and certainly did it more quickly than I could have and at a lower cost per hour to the client. And I was able to get drunk on a beach and get a sunburn. Win/win.
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Status: Office mostly empty, so going home myself.
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my phone's camera allows me to adjust the white balance manually (between a few presets anyway), and I have an old digital camera that can do the same (a Fujifilm A310; 12 years old!); surely any modern digicam can do the same?
Using a camera that can shoot RAW will let you adjust the white balance losslessly after taking the picture as opposed to just choosing what you want it to be before, which is all you get with most cameras.(Software can do this with non-RAW photos too, though not losslessly. Though you probably wouldn't notice. RAW also gives you more leeway in exposure.)
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Status: Today was a pretty proud moment as my 3.5 year old son decided to swim all on his own today and then you could not stop him. All over the pool, even in the deep end, all by himself.
Then, tonight, at the beach he takes off out in to the ocean.
"Where are you going son?"
"I am swimming to over there."
"Over where?"
"Mexico"
"Son, Google Maps does not show how far that really is...get your ass back here."
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Status: Just finished a delicious salmon dinner. Yum!
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Status: Just finished a delicious salmon dinner. Yum!
Dang it...and I didn't have anything to drink tonight. I feel like I'm #losing.
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#losing.
What kind of social media do you think this is? Do tags like a proper WTDWTFer!
Filed Under: We don't need no stinkin' hastags
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Do tags like a proper WTDWTFer!
Sorry, I'm having trouble reading what you wrote. I think I got some of my #TigerBlood on the screen.
Filed Under: Charlie Sheen jokes are a to no hashtags
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Status: I need to win the lottery. These aren't for sale very often...
http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=1359069&LP=CONTROLLER&ForcedDeskTop=True
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a famous train painter
Is that a guy who paints the company colors over the graffiti again?
I think I want to be a famous paint-by-numbers painter ... I would be ultra-famous.
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she's black and enjoys being unphotographable
Black cats are terrible photo subjects. The background can't be to dark or they blend in but also not too light or you are end up with a black smudge.
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Status: Finally done with the week. Two face-to-face meetings every day, and they were the ones where you have to be seen to pay attention or even to lead discussion too.
At least it's a long weekend. I'm worn out.
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I am worried. That's a lot of
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Status: I always get Pre-Check at airport security. The NSA has obviously not been reading my emails.
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Status: @accalia is strong in this one today...
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I wonder why it's styled wrong...
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Status: They sell 'Penthouse Letters' at the airport magazine stand. I am glad I have never sat next to someone on an airplane reading that.
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Have a
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Status: I really wasn't kidding
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Is there really a 513 bus to Belgium?
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Status: Far too many topics and posts to catch up on.
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Status: trying to figure out why marine bots with both weapon slots taken up by healing items are dying.
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Some people (I'm dating one) would like to know that when they ask for "rum and Coke" they're not really getting rum and Pepsi.
Save for the fact that I don't even see much of a difference between the two (I've heard that Pepsi is "more sweet", "less sweet", "more carbonated", "less carbonated", or any combination of those, so it's pretty much a superstition to me)... does it matter much once you have rum in it?
Haven't had rum&Coke, but I've had whiskey&Coke, and it tastes just as atrocious no matter what brand of soda is in there - Coke, Pepsi, Tesco Value...
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Have a
status: just spent twenty minutes looking for a movie references to paper swords and reliable office chairs, including re-watching the 14.5 minutes "Crimson and Permanent Assurancw" scene, convinced that it was a whoosh-badge I had earned, before going back to the original post and noticing the likes-count.
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Status: trying to figure out why marine bots with both weapon slots taken up by healing items are dying.
Because they can't defend themselves, and the opposition has not signed the geneva convention?
I'm going to assume you are not talking about sockbots...
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I could still flag now, upon admission... rosie
Filed under: admit, admitting, admission, WTF English?
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Turns out the reason was there was a check for "do I have any offensive weapon ammo" and if that failed the bot would select a new schedule. So a peace medic would have effectively no ammo and would move one step, stop, recompute their entire path, and take another step, and so on.
And if there happened to be an alien attacking them, they would think about punching it, stop, recompute the fact that they wanted to punch it, and so on.
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Once you're adding spirits to Pepsi/Coke/etc they do indeed taste the same - including rum & Pepsi, which is actually quite tasty.
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status: just spent twenty minutes looking for a movie references to paper swords and reliable office chairs, including re-watching the 14.5 minutes "Crimson and Permanent Assurancw" scene, convinced that it was a whoosh-badge I had earned, before going back to the original post and noticing the likes-count.
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Status: trying to figure out why marine bots with both weapon slots taken up by healing items are dying.
They're probably trying to shoot aliens with them. Check and see if your aliens are dying less than they should.
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Nah, there's specifically code to make sure they have an offensive weapon before they shoot at an alien.
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Save for the fact that I don't even see much of a difference between the two (I've heard that Pepsi is "more sweet", "less sweet", "more carbonated", "less carbonated", or any combination of those, so it's pretty much a superstition to me)... does it matter much once you have rum in it?
Haven't had rum&Coke, but I've had whiskey&Coke, and it tastes just as atrocious no matter what brand of soda is in there - Coke, Pepsi, Tesco Value...
I drink Jack and Coke. I absolutely cannot drink Jack and Pepsi. I also much prefer Coke to Pepsi when drinking it straight.
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Is there really a 513 bus to Belgium?
Maybe it's just mentioned there to throw the cops off the trail.