The Official Status Thread
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Words containing the letter A
Words containing the letter H
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@anotherusername Disagreed, if both them are similar trash, I'm better of voting for something else, and let the trash-eaters chose what trash they'll make us eat.
I can't really know what other people will chose, and by chosing a flavor of trash I'm forcing other people that would rather avoid trash to play this same game.
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</r00d>Your responses are too simplistic to be accepted as answers.
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Status: Working on reports. Already don't want to be at work anymore today.
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@JazzyJosh All right, 45 minutes with no more guesses. Last clue:
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Words that start with one of the letters in "WHAM".
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@JazzyJosh they've all had unrelated or semi related things named after the original (anything-gate, anything big can be called a marathon, other typed of burger and things like chocoholic)
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That's one big floppy...
It's no llonger fIoppy, I can assure you!
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I prefer these
What's the connection between these four seemingly random clues? Here's the first.
No cheating.
What clues? I see maybe half...
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@JazzyJosh hitchikers guide to the galaxy.
Marathon: 42
Hamburger: perfectly normal beast.
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Nouns
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Status: Just noticed that "Click here to return to the last read post in this thread" does not work with a posts-per-page size of 2.
edit: also, there's always a bogus empty page at the end of the topic now.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
edit: also, there's always a bogus empty page at the end of the topic now.
Or maybe this topic is just special, because that didn't happen in the Spam Emails thread.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
posts-per-page size of 2.
WAT.
Well how else can I read as many posts from BAD IDEAS as possible on either side of the one post that apparently makes the page NOT LOAD EVER.
edit: well it looks like the post was either fixed or jeffed to Someplace Else. Based on the relative offsets of the other posts, I think the latter (where there was supposedly a page with 2 posts that wouldn't load, there is now just 1 post that does load).
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Saturday: It's five degrees out, looks like a good day to change to winter tyres. I get the jack out, get the tyres out, all that is needed is to back the car out and start changing.
Before I do that, I figure I'd better remove the covers that they put over the wheelnuts. I haven't really looked too closely at them, but have assumed they are either torx 40 or torx 45. None of these fit, though. I look closer:
Damn. I am going to need a special tool for those. I look in the trunk but can't find anything that might fit. Carry the tyres back to where I keep them, restore the jack.
Today, at the garage:
Hi, there's a plug over the wheelnuts, and I need the tool to remove them.
umm. You just pull them out. There's a small wire thingy with a hook on the end for that.This is the tool, which indeed I did have in my dickie but did not think was for anything important:
Status: just changed to winter tyres. It is -3 degrees, dark, and snowing.
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Status: I'm not used to machines rebooting and being fully operational in 37 seconds.
Where have I been?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm not used to machines rebooting and being fully operational in 37 seconds.
Where have I been?!?
Based on your past posts about machines that you use...I am guessing ~1998?
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm not used to machines rebooting and being fully operational in 37 seconds.
Where have I been?!?
Based on your past posts about machines that you use...I am guessing ~1998?
Nah, at least 2004! (based on some manufacturing dates )
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Employee <sends me spreadsheet>: "Please change the port in the attached spreadsheet from x to y so <system> registration can be updated."
Boy, I wish you knew how to use Excel.
Got a reply to the updated spreadsheet asking me to update their version of the spreadsheet so they could send it to their POC-- it was the same version of the spreadsheet. And they even named the LINES I needed to update.
... This is a great use of contractor time, guys. Just so you know. I almost begin to suspect I'm being punked.
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Nope.
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@anotherusername Too Vague.
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@Jaloopa any guesses?
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@heterodox
Please to update my version of the status thread, so I can respond as necessary.Filed under: Do the needful
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername Too Vague.
Nouns with three or more syllables.
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Clues to the stupid question.
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Richard Nixon's legacy.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Got a reply to the updated spreadsheet asking me to update their version of the spreadsheet so they could send it to their POC
Our black guy?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
i ended taking those out with a screwdriver. we found what was the purpose of that tool a year or so later...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox
Please to update my version of the status thread, so I can respond as necessary.Filed under: Do the needful
In retrospect I guess he may have gotten confused because I added today's date to the end of the file name. I made sure my reply had the original file name.
That's what I get for trying to add some sanity to the whole revision-by-email process.
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sick days while actually being sick SUCK
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
POC
I have been spending far too much time in the Garage. I read this as "Person Of Color".
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Got a reply to the updated spreadsheet asking me to update their version of the spreadsheet so they could send it to their POC
Our black guy?
Yay!! I was not the only one.
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@JazzyJosh they've all had unrelated or semi related things named after the original (anything-gate, anything big can be called a marathon, other typed of burger and things like chocoholic)
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@Jaloopa Ding!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Saturday: It's five degrees out, looks like a good day to change to winter tyres. I get the jack out, get the tyres out, all that is needed is to back the car out and start changing.
Before I do that, I figure I'd better remove the covers that they put over the wheelnuts. I haven't really looked too closely at them, but have assumed they are either torx 40 or torx 45. None of these fit, though. I look closer:
Damn. I am going to need a special tool for those. I look in the trunk but can't find anything that might fit. Carry the tyres back to where I keep them, restore the jack.
Today, at the garage:
Hi, there's a plug over the wheelnuts, and I need the tool to remove them.
umm. You just pull them out. There's a small wire thingy with a hook on the end for that.This is the tool, which indeed I did have in my dickie but did not think was for anything important:
Status: just changed to winter tyres. It is -3 degrees, dark, and snowing.
FWIW, that is a Triple Square bit. VW Group is fucking addicted to those, so if you intend to do any work on the car, you may as well buy a set.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Why don't you vote Libertarian right now?
That is not pragmatic, and the orange orangutan scares the shit out of me
I have never heard Hillary described that way before.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
It is -3 degrees, dark, and snowing.
So, like a summer evening in ?
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@JazzyJosh I don't think "-burger" is generic enough for hamburger to be included in that list. That's like saying "hotdog" is the origin of the "-dog" suffix, i.e. "corndog", "chilidog", "veggiedog"...
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: OMFG I KNOW YOU'RE SOCIALLY AWKWARD PROGRAMMERS BUT STOP FUCKING DEBATING POLITICS AT WORK.
Yeah, get a TDWTF account like the rest of us!
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh I don't think "-burger" is generic enough for hamburger to be included in that list. That's like saying "hotdog" is the origin of the "-dog" suffix, i.e. "corndog", "chilidog", "veggiedog"...
Hey! Hey! Hey fucker!!
I resent your lumping of "veggiedog" in with the rest of those. "Veggiedog" goes in the category of feces and other excrement.
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@Polygeekery I'll never trust a vegan who has fewer than 3 stomachs.
Those pandas are shifty motherfuckers.
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Status: No, Edge, and in fact I don't care...
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Status: ExFAT driver crashed my CarPC? Wtf.
Whatever, needed a proper reboot anyways ...
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status: incredulous
So I came back to work today after two weeks of holiday. Before I left the boss-man introduced a new system for our support teams. Every time they close out a customer issue they need to send out a resolution statement and wait 24 hours before the case can be closed.
First question the boss asked when I came in today: "So Poet, we seem to have a problem in support. Our one-day-fix rate has dropped dramatically. I have run the numbers 4 times and I can't explain it."
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: ExFAT driver crashed my CarPC? Wtf.
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
status: incredulous
So I came back to work today after two weeks of holiday. Before I left the boss-man introduced a new system for our support teams. Every time they close out a customer issue they need to send out a resolution statement and wait 24 hours because the case can be closed.
First question the boss asked when I came in today: "So Poet, we seem to have a problem in support. Our one-day-fix rate has dropped dramatically. I have run the numbers 4 times and I can't explain it."
This is about the same level of intellect some of my pupils showed on today's exam.
First question (multiple choice):
Magnetic field lines point in what direction?
a) North-to-south
b) South-to-north
c) North-to-northThe following task then instructed them to roughly sketch the field lines around several permanent magnets (with the location of north and south pole indicated by N and S).
I honestly don't get how you can first select, say, a) as your answer and then draw lines pointing from north to north.
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@Rhywden
I'd say that's just intelligent hedging. You're not sure if it's one or t'other, so you split your answers between the two questions.Of course, the truly
evildevious instructor configures his grading rubric so that getting either question wrong scores 0 points for both, or that you lose more points for answering them differently than for getting them both wrong with the same answer.
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@Rhywden the hands on a clock turn in which direction?
a) 12:00 to 6:00
b) 6:00 to 12:00
c) 12:00 to 12:00