The Official Status Thread
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Status: just realized that due to all the friggin' TVs hanging in the open space, I've managed to pretty accurately learn the rules of cricket.
Namely "hit the ball very hard".
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Status: just realized that due to all the friggin' TVs hanging in the open space, I've managed to pretty accurately learn the rules of cricket.
Namely "hit the ball very hard".
It only took a century to learn...
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Brain fog. Need caffeine.
Heavy fog has resulted in multiple brain crashes. Several multi-neuron pile-ups in the frontal cortex have slowed synapse traffic to a stand-still. Avoid strenuous intellectual activity until further notice.
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oh but what an awesome moster it be.
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Status: just realized that due to all the friggin' TVs hanging in the open space, I've managed to pretty accurately learn the rules of 20-20 cricket.
Namely "hit the ball very hard".
I think you'll find test match cricket is more about stopping the ball hitting the three little sticks and occasionally nudging it away from the opposition players then scampering down to the other set of sticks. For 5 days with regular meal and tea breaks.
Played well, it's just about the greatest sport there is but you need to have grown up watching it to have any chance of feeling that way.
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The great thing about a test match is that you can take a nap for a while without missing any significant play.
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The great thing about a test match is that you can take a nap for a while without missing any significant play.
That describes soccer as a whole.
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Status: groaning at the code I saw. One of those back-end designs where the user's request gets feed to a "director" program, that calls a two-stage response pipeline: first does all the DB work and produces a bunch of temp tables that get fed to the second page. 15 parameters, 5 of which were temp tables.
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I think you'll find test match cricket is more about stopping the ball hitting the three little sticks and occasionally nudging it away from the opposition players then scampering down to the other set of sticks. For 5 days with regular meal and tea breaks.
Played well, it's just about the greatest sport there is but you need to have grown up watching it to have any chance of feeling that way.
And let us not forget that it is a freakish racial memory that the rest of the universe shuns us for, for 'tis but a memory of the Wikkit gate, sealing the Krikkits in their Slo-Time envelope.
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Status: pantsless and confused.
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Status: wondering if markov chain game commentary is a GOOD IDEA or a BAD IDEA.
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If it's about DF, BAD IDEA. But you already knew that.
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I was thinking more:
- Record INSERT_ESPORT_HERE commentary for LARGE_NUMBER matches.
- Use !!SCIENCE!! to split the commentary into small pieces.
- Markov chain magic
- Semi-coherent commentary for when the commentator has a stroke.
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status: I have located pants (they were under the bed), am still confused
maybe i'm in the wrong thread, but that is my status so i think it's on topic.
now, if my phone wasn't in my pants where did i put it?
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Aren't we in the wrong thread for that?
That didn't sound like a PDA to me, just an observation.
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now, if my phone wasn't in my pants where did i put it?
If you're about to call it to see where it is, look in your hand first.
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That didn't sound like a PDA to me, just an observation.
I was going more on 'shouldn't this really be a question' or 'isn't this a bit TMI for this thread' given the way things seem to go around here.
Meanwhile, status: fighting with code dragons of scary.
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Doing a TL3-earn-bot test run
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Pondering what a good post rate, like rate, and new topic creation rate would be for an insane bot to avoid detection.
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Status: Finally succeeded in tearing my bed apart, locating the giant spider, and killing it.
I'd seen it around the apartment for a couple weeks now, but I'm not particularly bothered by spiders so we had a "You leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" arrangement. But I went to get into bed, lifted the blankets, and there's a giant spider web and he's right in the middle. I draw the line at that. I swatted at him and he ran for cover. Took me 20 minutes to locate him, but he's done for. Sorry bud. Don't mess with my bed.
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Status: having wrought some terrible evil machination in PHP (working around architectural issues in SMF for an edge case that was simply never conceived of, and frankly, I don't blame them), I'm wondering why I doubt myself as much as I do.
I have a Zend certification in PHP 5.3. I was nervous as hell before taking it. Two hours pacing up and down outside the test centre. Walked in, 35 minutes to complete the 70 question test (allowed 90 minutes, IIRC), walked out with a pass. (It's only pass/fail)
And here I am, having just wrought some almost-WTF-worthy code given what it does and how, knowing that there is literally no better way to do it, and I apparently cannot let myself accept that, actually, I am good at what I do. I continue to be TRWTF.
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Friday friday friday.
I'm glad that this week is almost over.
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Status: Writing server software. The corresponding client was written by another team, and is supposedly already complete and working, although its networking code has never been tested (since there was no server to test it with). Let’s see if it works...
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Let’s see if it works...
Guess what, it starts by opening a connection and closing it immediately, without negotiating the SSL connection, checking server certificates or anything. Looks promising already.
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Status: waiting for Vladimir from Microsoft Support to get our SharePoint368 back to something actually workable.
Well seems Vladimir did his job. That unfortunately means for me there are no further barriers that are holding me back from doing some SharePoint work. Need more coffee before I embark again.
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I was thinking more:
- Record INSERT_ESPORT_HERE commentary for LARGE_NUMBER matches.
- Use !!SCIENCE!! to split the commentary into small pieces.
- Markov chain magic
- Semi-coherent commentary for when the commentator has a stroke.
We don't need that. @MottBott is already up to the general level of comprehensibility and relevance of the average cricket commentator, whose usual instruction is to “burble on for 3 hours while we wait for the rain to stop”.
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If you're about to call it to see where it is, look in your hand first.
I have located my phone. it was on top of one of the blades of my ceiling fan.
why the [copulation-vulgar] it was there i have no idea, but i have found it.
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How did you find it? By switching the fan on? Or by just randomly looking up there?
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turning it on... Lucky it landed on the couch.
Status: at work with the dog (friday is dog day) i suspect i will be less productive than usual...
isn't he adorable?
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Status: feeling lethargic. Can't work. Just like every other day.
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Couldn't find your pants, and your phone was on the ceiling fan. Must have been one [punishment-eternal] of a party.
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Status: Accidentally entered this thread because the Blue Notification Bar of Death popped up and moved the topic list milliseconds before I clicked. Decided to post since I was already here.
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Status: Friday afternoon so I'm here rather than doing any work
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Couldn't find your pants, and your phone was on the ceiling fan. Must have been one [punishment-eternal] of a party.
I would have said so myself, but none of my booze is missing...so it must have been one [afterlife: bad end] of a sober party...
That is impressive.
around here we call that normal, i should post a sidebar writeup about some of the weird things around here... maybe next month (perpetually because procrastination)
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I would have said so myself, but none of my booze is missing...so it must have been one [afterlife: bad end] of a sober party...
I would have lied about that part. At least the booze would have given you a decent excuse.
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Status: Getting confused by legitimate posts, apparently I've already trained my mind to deal with Cleverbot and the MarkovBots.
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Current status: wondering why the first things that I do when putting a website together are the last things that my company would ever do.
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Phone sex is never good at $4.99/minute <It's fucking fantastic.>
At that rate, it better be.
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in a meeting, because i might be needed..... fun....
why haven't i brought my knitting to work for these things?
Because posting on TDWTF's forum looks like you are doing important work, whereas knitting might be conceived as a subversive message.
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1. Might be?
- and your point?
Is of course non-existent if you want to send a subversive message ;-)
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oh but what an awesome mo(le|n)ster it be.
better?
*sigh* Give me a couple of minutes and I'll come over. Just don't complain on Monday!Filed under: wrong thread, I know