The Official Status Thread
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I'm sure British tax-payers appreciate this use of their money.
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We'd have appreciated it even more if they turned the engine up to full outside Broadcasting House.
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It didn't really cost them anything. In fact, we had to pay for our own (cold) pasty in the cafeteria AND we provided seating for the other guests, the Hairy Bikers, in the boat. So that's at least a fiver each we saved them ;)
I did eat a couple of packets of stem ginger biscuits the beeb thoughtfully provided in the green room though.
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We'd have appreciated it even more if they turned the engine up to full outside Broadcasting House.
It would have woken everyone up that's for sure, it's a whole lot of engine (Rolls Royce Viper):
I can't share my own pictures but that still from TOS does show it off quite nicely. Somewhere in the region of 10,000 horsepower equivalent!
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Awesome! Fuck yeah! Superior boat coming through! :D :)
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Status: ugh.
Task: create reports for 16 different products. Report #2 is just like report #1 except for a sliiightly different model, report #3 is kinda like #2 except it has to be grouped differently, report #4 is like #1 except #1 has that column calculated the other way... and by the time you get to #16, there probably isn't a single line of code you can abstract out. And even if there was, there's an almost 100% probability that something about report #7 will change, but not about #9 which shares the code with it.
So oh well, control-fucking-C, control-fucking-V...
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Does anyone in a first-world country that actually uses their phone regularly and heavily have a Moto G?
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Paging @Groaner
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Been given the OK now to mention one of the amazing things I've had a (very small) involvement with this year. A jet-engined boat for a great new TV show
Very cool. So were you piloting the boat?
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Very cool. So were you piloting the boat?
Sadly not. The pilot was Engine Addict presenter Jimmy de Ville (with the broken leg in the above image). It's an interesting show because Jimmy is a very accomplished engineer, so no fakery on the presenter's actual skills.
I can't wait to see the show air, it will be very interesting to see how the mountain of footage has been condensed down to fit!
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(with the broken leg in the above image
I was wondering why somebody was wearing a blue sock outside....
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Hey, I just started on a project that's exactly like this....
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Status: Made a poll in a course. Then I had to go back and remove the ERR_POLL_NOT_FOUND that somehow had snuck in there.
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Status: Deleting emails is cathartic. ~100 of those bastards gone without even reading them.
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It's really the worst thing. I mean, you're always this close to working out some generic solution for at least a part of the code, and then it gets slowly ripped apart, piece by piece, by every single business requirement.
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Are you micro-aggressing me?
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Would you prefer a macro-aggression? But no, a micro-aggression would be more like:
If you Belgians weren't always busy with the hookers and the chocolate and smoking weed, you might see the need for better phones. Oh, wait, that is the Netherlands. Whatever, you Europeans all look the same to me.
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That wouldn't be micro-agression ... that would be a rather fair assessment of the situation
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that would be a rather fair assessment of the situation
So would lots of things on that microaggression list that was linked a while back. ;)
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Are you microagressing me over microagressions?
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That wouldn't be micro-agression
How about these qualifiers then? If you are caucasian, male and speaking, it is a microaggression.
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The list itself was considered a microagression anyway.
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Drag queens with mustaches fall squarely in the category of macroaggression.
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There are no drag queens only Ladies!
I am a pretty liberally minded fellow. I will refer to humans with male genitalia as female if they want me to. But I draw the line on that one at mustaches. My suspension of disbelief does not go that far.
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If you Belgians weren't always busy with the hookers and the chocolate and smoking weed, you might see the need for better phones. Oh, wait, that is the Netherlands. Whatever, you Europeans all look the same to me.
Distance from Brussels to Amsterdam: 131 miles
Distance from Dallas to Houston: 247 milesI'm pretty sure at least some Belgians are making day trips for the activities you listed.
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Status: Deleting emails is cathartic. ~100 of those bastards gone without even reading them.
You can delete emails???
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I'm pretty sure at least some Belgians are making day trips for the activities you listed.
I'm pretty sure that if I lived 131 miles from a place where I could legally indulge in hookers and weed, I would probably be divorced by now.
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day trips
When I was in high school: less then 1 hour by bike.
The trip back might take longer.
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Status: Seen adverts on TV for Stoptober and for Go Sober for October. Why would I choose the same month to do both of those?!
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Raise some money for charity, if you're that way inclined.
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Raise some money for charity, if you're that way inclined.
No thank you, I will just write a check.
This reminds me: In our neighborhood, the kids are all selling trash bags and cookie dough to raise money for something school related. My wife asked me if I would be willing to walk our little ones around door-to-door when the time comes. When I told her, "Fuck no, I will just write a check and donate all that crap to charity. They can deliver it all to the homeless shelter." She was not surprised.
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And especially the second, considering that October is known above all other months for drinking.
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October is known above all other months for drinking.
#5, if you have to spend the entire next day with your extended family, you may as well get on the piss the night before.
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I'm pretty sure a particular 'fest is still better known than this.
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Good call, but not so much in the US of A.
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I'm still talking in more of a popularity sense. I'm pretty sure that if you were playing catchphrase or something, and said "Month, lots of drinking" even here, you wouldn't get Thanksgiving.
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I may be the oddball for even knowing that the night before Thanksgiving is the biggest drinking night of the year.
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My wife asked me if I would be willing to walk our little ones around door-to-door when the time comes. When I told her, "Fuck no, I will just write a check and donate all that crap to charity. They can deliver it all to the homeless shelter." She was not surprised.
But I am.
This is their first chance to learn to sell themselves...
It fuels their Entrepreneurial Spirit.
Status: surprised.
What killed it at our school was when they decided to stop selling wrapping paper and went "green".... no one really wanted to buy $8 reusable sandwich wrappers that have a 25% chance of disappearing each day they are used.
I listened to hours of Peter, Paul & Mary and Dylan, and I could still not convince myself that any of those products were worth buying.
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This is their first chance to learn to sell themselves...
Meh, I can teach them that in much better ways. That style of "sales" is more akin to panhandling.
That is my opinion and pursuant to blakey's law is entirely unimpeachable and unassailable and any attempt to do so will only open you to abuse. ;)
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Meh, I can teach them that in much better ways. That style of "sales" is more akin to panhandling.
Status: not surprised ;)
I have a law too... its late and traffic is building.
ERGO QED you are correct.
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I forgot to add a "Filed under" to my response:
Filed under: What do I have to do to get you to buy a case of cookie dough today?
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I may be the oddball for even knowing that the night before Thanksgiving is the biggest drinking night of the year.
I strongly suspect that statistic applies only to the US, since Thanksgiving is primarily a US holiday. (I know Canada also has a Thanksgiving, but I think it's on a different day (but I'm too lazy to check).) I would have guessed New Year's Eve.