The Official Status Thread
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I think @Weng will get that, and he may be the only one
Have I directly mentioned my undying manlove for that Canadian bastard, or did I call something skookum?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Have I directly mentioned my undying manlove for that Canadian bastard, or did I call something skookum?
Yes. Or maybe it was "chooch" that gave you away? I can't remember.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
So, at 9:20PM I got all my shit out, milled up a new piece of stock for the ledger board to hold up the box spring on my half of the bed, fired up the drill press and figured out the appropriate combination of countersink bit, screw length and stock width to get maximum screw holding but not poke through the show face of the bed rail.
Then I go back in the house with my shoulder plane and clean up the mating surface, glue and screw the new ledger board in to place and it should be a couple of orders of magnitude stronger than it was, and very unlikely to fail again. But, since the glue needs some time to cure I am sleeping on the couch tonight.Well at least you seem to be fortunate enough to have your crap organized well enough that it doesn't take an hour to pull out the equipment necessary...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well at least you seem to be fortunate enough to have your crap organized well enough that it doesn't take an hour to pull out the equipment necessary...
9:20 to 11:00 to accomplish a pretty simple task...
You may want to reconsider that statement.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well at least you seem to be fortunate enough to have your crap organized well enough that it doesn't take an hour to pull out the equipment necessary...
9:20 to 11:00 to accomplish a pretty simple task...
You may want to reconsider that statement.
Oh, well didn't mention the end time of the frame.Still, little more than 1.5 hours is nothing to spit at for an emergency patch that's better than the original. Here it would have taken an hour to locate, extract, and prep the required tools, an hour to moan and complain that something couldn't be found, a few minutes to find out that we don't actually have the necessary materials, half a minute to shout that all the stores are closed, and now we have a mess all over the place and it's still broken.
I was talking about projected scenario with a broken bed, but this happens unnervingly often at the workplace....
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah, fair enough. I tend to stockpile shit for odd occasions. Plus, I do woodworking. I keep a lot of stock around for those occasions where I want to do something. Cheap SPF stock is kept around in a fair quantity because it is used for non-show areas. Spacing out drawer runners, buttressing corner joints, etc. So I have a full wood rack of it in wide widths, because you can always cut it down to a narrower width, but it takes a bit longer to make it wider.
Also, I have all the tools necessary to...well...build a house. And most of the tools necessary to build a city. Minus the heavy machinery. And I may have some of the on RPO pretty soon.
But it still takes a while to locate everything, as I am horrible about not putting shit away after I use it.
As far as preparedness, whether in personal life or work, I live by the rule: "It is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it". I keep spare shit on hand at all times.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I am horrible about not putting shit away after I use it.
Since everyone's gone, i managed to pile up the stuff inside the house (that's not supposed to be there, but whatever) into a corner behind the front door.
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@Tsaukpaetra shit, I need to Google up your real name and call Hoarders Anonymous
onfor you.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra shit, I need to Google up your real name and call Hoarders Anonymous
onfor you.Oh, that's not even mine . Mine is in my room. Nobody goes in there, and when they do I blame it on the young 'uns.
....
Probably TMI. . ..
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Kuro said in The Official Status Thread:
Have you disabled your anti virus software? Because some of those don't play nice with
VS installermalware...FTFY.
OTOH, some play very nicely with malware, even giving them an easy target to attack.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
All I got was a red 🔴!
Ooooh, you are one of the dotted ones! I'm so sorry!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just noticed that our new name labels they put on our cubes Monday say "Software Developer" and not "Senior Software Developer" and now I'm a little bit cheesed off. If my job title changed, certainly nobody told me about it.
My title in my email signature use to be "Dogsbody". Someone complained and now I've being demoted to "Apprentice Dogsbody". :(
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
All I got was a red 🔴!
Ooooh, you are one of the dotted ones! I'm so sorry!
It seems anti-contagious: The dots appear when you're not there!
Strangely enough, the empty cubes seem to be immune to the dots....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Technically no. If it's on, it's on, off it's off. You get a bit of choice the period of when it's on/off, but not really.
Look, all I know is that I set my home A/C to 23°C and it stays at 23°C. It might as well accomplish that by sacrificing leprechauns to mighty god
RhinocerosUnicorn, I care not, there's a setting, it works.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Technically no. If it's on, it's on, off it's off. You get a bit of choice the period of when it's on/off, but not really.
Look, all I know is that I set my home A/C to 23°C and it stays at 23°C. It might as well accomplish that by sacrificing leprechauns to mighty god
RhinocerosUnicorn, I care not, there's a setting, it works.Gotta remember: your home A/C is settable by you. If they gave over such controls at work, the same would apply at work too!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
work
Train. I actually do have access to A/C controls at work, though I don't have a need to mess with them since it's not operated by idiots most of the time.
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@aliceif Well, I'm always the one first to complain about cold anyway.
I demand my honorary boobs!
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@Onyx Remember, the train company does care about keeping the temperature right. It's just that they're a bit slow to respond to the changes of seasons; summer always manages to catch them out, sneakily coming along every year!
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
I demand my honorary red boobs!
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I just realized that we already have 95% of the tech necessary to turn someone into a proper cyborg: tiny but very powerful computers, microscopic sensors of every kind, and ubiquitous wireless internet.
Rather than carry my smartphone with me all day, why can't I carry it in me? Just embed a plastic "pocket" somewhere in my body to hold the electronics (so they can be easily upgraded), and some kind of mechanism to create electricity from the muscles so I don't have to recharge it, done.
The only missing part is the "user interface", but there's progress being made in those fields, it's just a matter of a decade or two.
...I should start my own cybernetics company.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just noticed that our new name labels they put on our cubes Monday say "Software Developer" and not "Senior Software Developer" and now I'm a little bit cheesed off. If my job title changed, certainly nobody told me about it.
Cheer up, maybe you just got fired.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I should start my own cybernetics company.
Call it Sirius Cybernetics.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just realized that we already have 95% of the tech necessary to turn someone into a proper cyborg: tiny but very powerful computers, microscopic sensors of every kind, and ubiquitous wireless internet.
Rather than carry my smartphone with me all day, why can't I carry it in me? Just embed a plastic "pocket" somewhere in my body to hold the electronics (so they can be easily upgraded), and some kind of mechanism to create electricity from the muscles so I don't have to recharge it, done.
The only missing part is the "user interface", but there's progress being made in those fields, it's just a matter of a decade or two.
...I should start my own cybernetics company.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Call it Sirius Cybernetics
Sure, if he wants to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Sure, if he wants to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes
That's just the marketing division, to be fair.
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Status: I just realized, while making coffee this morning, that I didn't have any caffeine at all yesterday and also I didn't have headaches. Have I lost my addiction!?!?!?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Have I lost my addiction!?!?!?
Probably not, but you can likely survive on one not very large coffee every few days. It takes a few days to really clear your system out.
But why would you want to do that?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I should start my own cybernetics company.
Are you Sirius?
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@Polygeekery Keep your slick... in some rice.
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@Polygeekery He said both in the same post, actually. I looked it up.
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Status: dropped off Blakeycat for her surgery today.
Now I.
Uh.
Sit here I guess for the rest of the day. Sit here with no Blakeycat.
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Status: Looking for a birthday e-card. Found one with Shatner saying happy birthday. Have to sign up for an account to even preview the card, and the "send me spam" "opt-in" checkbox on the sign-up form is neither really opt-in nor really a checkbox; it's mandatory and can't be unchecked.
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@HardwareGeek, do you really not have a source of disposable email addresses?
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@PJH Sure, but I don't want to deal with the kind of outfit that pulls that shit.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: the "send me spam" "opt-in" checkbox on the sign-up form is neither really opt-in nor really a checkbox; it's mandatory and can't be unchecked.
Open your developer tool and fix this shit ;)
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Open your developer tool and fix this shit
That sounds like work. And it still doesn't solve the problem of dealing with douche-bags.
Edit: Huh, weird. I can't repro if I did want to fix the shit; I get a completely different, multi-page sign-up form when I try again.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Have to sign up for an account to even preview the card
And it turns out this isn't correct. The reason I couldn't preview it was that I hadn't filled in the recipient's name and event fields.
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Status: got Firefox working again on my work computer this week. But either there's still something wrong with it or (I got a couple of notifications that 'new security policies' had been applied) they've found a way to lock it down even further.
I now have no history - and I don't mean clear history on shut-down or even on closing the browser, if I want to get back to a tab I just left, I have to navigate to it manually.
Ctrl+shift+tab doesn't work either, nor does the back button. Nor does creating bookmarks.
It's almost but not quite worse than IE9.
In other news, having finally got the webservice that had haunted me for the best part of two months and almost caused me a breakdown handed over to test, I'm now fixing defects in it. Currently I've been asked to 'fix' the fact that an integer field in the request accepts numbers like '03' as well as '3'. This is an integer in the spec, not a numeric-patterened string or anything, and it's not introducing any wierd bugs: both are treated identically. In what way is '03' not an integer?
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Status: Wonderful memories.
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http://i.imgur.com/rGO0i9g.jpg
... in bed.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
...I should start my own cybernetics company.
With our intelligences combined, we shall take over the world!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
With our intelligences combined,
we shall take over the worldI am Captain Planet!!FTFY
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@accalia Of course, if RPGs taught me anything relevant, it's that you run the risk of tanking your Humanity stat.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Sit here I guess for the rest of the day. Sit here with no Blakeycat.
You should stream Stardew Valley or something.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
With our intelligences combined,
we shall take over the worldI am CaptainPlanetBorg!!FTFY
Captain Borg yeah, he's the future, gonna take the stupid down to zero!
Gonna help him, put asunder, bad guys who love to, code out terrors!We're the Collective! You can be us to! 'cause forwarding humanity's the thing to do!
Terrible code practice is not the way, hear what Captain Borg here, has to say!(anonymous) you'll pay for this, Captain Borg!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Sit here I guess for the rest of the day. Sit here with no Blakeycat.
You should stream Stardew Valley or something.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Have to sign up for an account to even preview the card
Yay, mailinator.com's alternate domains!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The reason I couldn't preview it was that I hadn't filled in the recipient's name and event fields.
Hey, this post is like how a customer called in yesterday, upset that I wouldn't drop a scheduled call with another customer to help with their problem (to the point where they asked if they should call my supervisor and I told them they were welcome to, but since they couldn't clone me it wouldn't help much) and suddenly lost a lot of their attitude then their IT guy noticed he hadn't actually applied the update I sent him to fix the thing he was calling about.