Caller: "My house is on fire!! Come quick!"
911: "Where are you? How do we get there?"
Caller: "Don't you guys still have those red trucks...?"
Caller: "My house is on fire!! Come quick!"
911: "Where are you? How do we get there?"
Caller: "Don't you guys still have those red trucks...?"
:Back and forth with my sons very WTDWTF-like:
Suddenly my daughter hollers :"STOP splitting hairs!!"
IJIJ: "...we're not splitting hairs...we're arguing about semantics...."
What lullaby did Peter The Great sing to put his son to sleep?
[spoiler] Twinkle Twinkle Little Tsar [/spoiler]
I'm still bitter at NASA for not accepting my assertion I'd make a bitching astronaut.
They did accept your assertion.
They decided they didn't want to hear "Houston... I have a problem" 200 times a day...
@loopback0 said:BEEEEP ....BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP
Man, their delivery service has really gone down hill...
And, apparently, they're backing up going down that hill....
So, my kids attend schools in the local school system - let's call it LSS.
LSS has a handy-dandy website for tracking assignments and grades.
Since it's a school system, it has a sillybold name to evoke feelings of Greater Purpose - LSSwow
If I want to see the cafeteria menu:
LSS.org
If I want to check grades:
LSSwow.LSS.org
If I want to choke my computer with Pop-up ads warning of dire infections and
instructions to call this number RIGHT NOW!!!
LSSwow.org
Thanks guys.
What do Zombie Vegetarians say?GRAAAAAAAIIIIIIINS!
Zombie Plumbers?
[spoiler]Draaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnnsssss[/spoiler]
What do you call a glass dinosaur?
[spoiler]Py-Rex[/spoiler]
Got home Friday, the usual "How was your day?"/"How was your day?" "Wally and the Beav did the cutest thing...." etc...
IJIJ: "... and I was doing some PL/SQL stuff... I even got to test part of it and it worked..."
Son: "Daddy?"
IJIJ: "Yes, Son of IJIJ."
Son: "Did you test it in Production?"
Filed under: Those Kojack[sic] Moments that make you proud to be a parent...
Laughing because my son just showed me a screenshot of his Kindle - scanned on the inkjet and printed out.
He even trimmed it to size.
Or maybe I should be crying - my son, might grow up to be.... a user.
Changing the bulbs should be relatively easy.
It should be. Depends on the car. Mine has lots of fiddly clips, springs and levers that you have to manipulate with one hand in a space less than inch across.
My mechanic looked at me like I had a screw loose when I asked him to change the headlamps on my Mazda - he didn't want to rip me off doing something so trivial.
When I picked up the car, he acted like he had the screw loose for taking on such a lousy job for so little money.
You know you've spent too much time on TDWTF when...
your kids are skipping around the house chanting "Belgium! Belgium! Belgium" and "Daddy is a Belgian!".
Cokes are free. Water costs.
I think we've moved past 1st world problems to 0th world problems.
And all restaurants are Taco Bell.
@anonymous234: said:To repeat what has been said hundreds of times... we've had this thing for almost (I think) a year and we're STILL finding a new site-breaking bug every two weeks. WHAT THE FUCK?!
We're in month 8 of regular usage.
I'd start a poll about whether you think the extra four months will help...
But I don't want to be responsible for someone laughing themselves to death.
a) Fuck off.
b) Choke on a thousand dicks.
Is there some contagion that swoops down on people who host forum sites that makes them mean and abusive? ;)
I mean maybe Jeff needs medical treatment instead of scorn, and we should stop Blakey before he hosts the archive for very much longer... for his own good...
Also, I am very impressed that you brought the archive up so quickly and smoothly. Way to get things done, dude.
Shouldn't the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum be empty??
Dude, that's the most confusing map, ever.
I-5 is the Red-Green-Black curling one?
How does this prove you can't find an electronics store?
So, to recap, Demoralize your employees by inviting them to a tribal riverboat that allows gambling when un-docked, but end the affair before the boat sails?
They keep their chips as momentos of a beautiful team-building excercise.
YKYBetc...
You tell stories about @blakeyrat's commute to your family and your family creates this:
(Unfortunately DiscoSearch - so cannot link to original post about hipster girl balancing checkbook)
@Another Sam said:
So I guess the auto headlights are really only a $10,000 option.
Ooooohhhh! auto matic headlights
Filed under: my auto has headlights. I didn't think they were optional.
Also: Discourse. Sigh.
That's what she tells me,
Lucky you... my wife tells me mine are Samuel L. Jackson's.
But that b**** did not rock them to sleep night after night...
I did. That makes them mine.
your'e
Then rename it to "Angular Classic 2.0" and the other one to "Angular Modern" for extra confusion. T
The obvious choices are Standard Angular or Common Angular.
If he used the bottles with the liners
AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO UNDERSTANDS STRONLY TYPED BABY BOTTLES????
My son was demonstrating the "balance quarter on your elbow - then catch them in mid-air trick"*
He balanced it, dropped his elbow, and I snatched it.
Other Status:
No, I couldn't do that again if my life depended on it.
chubertdev said:
They're all "walked in on parents getting it on in bedroom" looks now.
eww.
I'm sure my fiancΓ©e would agree
Then we're good.
While we're here tho', could you ask her to come get her makeup out of my medicine cabinet? My wife is getting suspicious ;)
(Hey, you brought it up.)
The implication being that the salary range mentioned doesn't seem too meld too closely to the salary already being paid to existing members of the team, either at the same level or higher:Basically everyone already here seems to be being significantly underpaid. Not really a surprise I suppose, but the point is rarely made quite that blatantly, and is instead usually based upon rumours.
I honestly took this as re-confirmation that you all are underpaid, and that they're working on finding people to pay even less than you.
Translation:We offer:
permanent employment
steady paycheck
Yakoff: "I love $cartman-land... here, permanent employment is a gooood thing!"
"Back in my country, 'Permanent Employment' meant .....'Siberia' "
Filed under: 0 kopeks/hr is steady, why are you complaining?
When, IRL you start looking at people like this:
When the defect is encountered, how bad is it?
How commonly is the defect encountered?
How important is it that we fix the defect?
This may be Doing It Wrongβ’ but this is always important in our shop:
How difficult is it to fix the defect?
whatever the equivalent is in the USA these days
Don't know about anybody else, but I'm paid in $1-off coupons, bus tokens, left-over pizza in the kitchen and an healthcareinsurance voucher.
Should ask for a raise?
Signed,
These bus tokens are getting heavy.
A checkbox that disables the safety interlocks.
at least them add an "are you sure?" dialogue with an electronic signature that displays the user name next to the checkbox after you signed it.
Then it would be as secure as my timesheet at least.
John Doe is taking responsibility if anything bad happens.
I can't top letter-avatar generation....
but (is this even the right place for this complaint, there are so many to pick from...)
ONE: after some update or other I now have to 1) realize that I'm logged outnot logged in because I'm told I can't do something 2) actually logout 3) log back in. - five to ten times a day. THX!!
TWO: IRONY - after the most recent update THEY HAVE MOVED THE LOGOUT BUTTON to make this stupidity even more cumbersome. MORONS!
THREE: WHY DID YOU ALLOW ME TO BEGIN TO REPLY IF I"M NOT ALLOWED TO?? and then trash my reply, and now I can't even find @poly's thread on freaking trucks because it's not new anymore and where did it go?
Yes, Jeff, WE are the problem, not you. Obviously.
What I meant was that I want to effect business outcomes by opportunizing synergies while efficiently leveraging cloud dynamics for great justice.
Pregnant women are pretty disgusting
... and you haven't even gotten to the whole "birth" thing yet...
BWAHAHAHAHA!
2nd Protip: when you do get to the birth thing... yes. it is your fault. All of it.
She might forgive you eventually. This will be measured in years.
Or you have a daughter, but that's not as interesting
You'd better not find my daughter interesting.
Background:
I like to tease my children about being assigned busy work as homework, as in "So, tonight, do you have to write out in longhand, Volume 'B' of the Encyclopedia?"
Dumb joke:
IJIJ "Greetings, Youngest Spawn"
YS: "Greetings, Noble Father"
IJIJ: "What onerous, soul-crushing task has the Enslaver given you this night...?"
"...Are you to enscribe The Code of Hammurabi in Cuneiform??"
YS: "No, Dad, we don't use clay tablets anymore... they've got this new, cheap papyrus-knock-off...you know, paper?"
I roll out of bed this AM, before dawn, shuffle to the kitchen...
My wife is there with her laptop open...
"Dear, do you want to help me debug this SAS macro that implements Quicksort?"
Status: My life is either really awesome... or... the opposite.
SAS Macros: "It's full of ...globals..."
Down the back of the sofa, perhaps?
Sweet! FOUND IT!
Sneaky bugger.
Man, I'm relieved... I thought somebody let it outside by accident... And it doesn't have tags.
[Setting: DC beltway headed to Legion bridge - 4 lanes each way, jersey-wall separating the directions, minimal inside shoulder. Pre-dawn hours]
So, tooling along in the 2nd-leftist/fastest lane. Flicker of motion to my left... a guy passing smartly by, hmm, no problem, there's an empty lane between me and him.
Wuuuut?
70+mph on the shoulder.
I guess he had something stuck to his mirror he was trying to scrape off.
Jeff's reputation and his stated ambitions for the product. If I was buying services from someone with a big reputation, known for writing blog posts on software quality and security, I might assume that those traits would feature in the products they created. In the case of Discourse, I would be quite wrong.
THIS.
And knowing this, if you review his blogging, it dawns on you that while it appears he's writing about making quality software... he really writing about writing about making a successful software-based business.
To people that dream of quality software (e.g. the TDWTF ) forum) this feels like bait-and-switch.
But, but, these guys are Professional Scientists ....
What could possibly go wrong?
A sentient TDWTF discourse would:
And a story:
Topside of the Outer Loop of the DC beltway, a snaking nightmare of 4-lane highway. Non-work day with very light traffic[1] , driving with my son in the car.
It was dim and foggy morning...it had been dry for days, and overnight rained enough to lift the oil off the road... slick enough that I backed off to around 50 - and I still felt a little sliding going on.
Get past the Mormon Temple curve. Oh look, red-lights, firetrucks, ah, a spin-out involving three cars...
Back to highway speed, taking the left split in the road and whoosh... guy whips past me, a mile from the curve with the 20' high 50 MPH sign...
I tell my son: "Man, I know I'm going too fast... what's he doing... he's not going to make this..."
He come's loose, somehow hits the inside barrier first, outside barrier, inside barrier, and back to the outside... spinning the whole time.
"Dad, you are AWESOME!!"
[1] by any standard, not just DC-beltway standards
This is by far not the worst thing I've seen, just on this stretch of road - just the best story.
And...people wonder why if I'm up at 3am, I go ahead and go to work.
.... if he starts programming an AI to play the game for him..... run.
I dunno... wouldn't it be better to start bringing him Jolt and [more] Chips?
Then maybe I can tie an onion to my belt, retire and start watching Matlock that much sooner.