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So, this is SUCH a classic example of what frustrates me so much about working for Global Megacorporation that I don't know whether to laugh or cry:
(1) We received a mandate that the word "Custom" is far too confusing for customers, and needed to be excised from all training, documentation, and the product itself. While I'm not a big fan of, "Oh, it's obviously the words we are using that is confusing our customers, so let's just rename everything and that'll fix our customer satisfaction issues," it's really not a hard mandate to implement, so meh, whatever.
(2) As is absolutely, classically, 90% of "what is wrong with this company", it turns out that none of the developers were actually using the development tools they were supposed to be using. It's my biggest complaint about working here: We are provided software, templates, standards, training, and free reviews if we ask for them. Yet every single department does its own thing, because following the standards is apparently "too hard". (We are one of a handful of groups that actually uses the as-delivered standard templates, and even we have mild variations from them.)
(3) So the overall project has been pushed back TWO MONTHS because the devs didn't bother to use the correct tools.
(4) And yet, not a single person will ever be punished for this fiasco.
Ah, Global Megacorporation, will you never cease to amaze/amuse me?
Also, as usual, your job continues to fascinate me. I know I couldn't do it in any way, shape or form. But it is interesting to hear your complaints. I wonder how these problems can be solved without going to dilbert-esque levels of snark and unprofessionalism.
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I'm sure nudity is part of the solution, at least.
Why didn't they have all the Lego Star Wars kits when I was 12? I missed out on all the cool toys. Likewise: the ForceFX Lightsabers, the Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer Drones, the different Make: build kits, and so on.
As cap noted: you haven't, technically, missed them... :D
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You'll never guess what!!
:)
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We do Rosati's, which the internet tells me is Chicago style. But we do their thin crust, so I imagine we are heathens to everyone. (They make bombing chicken tenders tho.)
I'll have to try the tenders sometime, Rosati's makes dam good pizza. My only complaint is how they slice it up grid-style. Good for large parties, bad for family meals.
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Why didn't they have all the Lego Star Wars kits when I was 12? I missed out on all the cool toys. Likewise: the ForceFX Lightsabers, the Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer Drones, the different Make: build kits, and so on.As cap noted: you haven't, technically, missed them... :D
I was in a Legos store just this Saturday with the family, and I was envious of the homunculi that they are children in an era of elvish Legos people.
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We do Rosati's, which the internet tells me is Chicago style. But we do their thin crust, so I imagine we are heathens to everyone. (They make bombing chicken tenders tho.)I'll have to try the tenders sometime, Rosati's makes dam good pizza. My only complaint is how they slice it up grid-style. Good for large parties, bad for family meals.
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I was in a Legos store just this Saturday with the family, and I was envious of the homunculi that they are children in an era of elvish Legos people.Why didn't they have all the Lego Star Wars kits when I was 12? I missed out on all the cool toys. Likewise: the ForceFX Lightsabers, the Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer Drones, the different Make: build kits, and so on.As cap noted: you haven't, technically, missed them... :D
I just want my life-sized Y wing.
That really works.
And is not made out of legos.
And a few lessons on how to operate it.
Is that too much to ask?
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I want to *own* a FLGS. But Backwater, Middle-of-Nowhere County, TN isn't exactly a location with good business prospects in that regard. Some friends and associates are in the industry, but they've got good things going in the likeliest places for me to set up a shop.
We've all gotta have dreams, though. :)
Man, I want a Nerdporiumbrary.
I mean, it's not going to happen, but there's a fantastic lot at the end of my suburb. I could just see it, three stories tall, open atrium, trees growing, and rows upon endless rows of books, with engraved Scripture everywhere, and dozens of gaming rooms. Also extensive restrooms, including some showers.
All I'd need is:
- the land
- the money
- the time
- the ambition
- the effort
- the life
- the employees
- all the materials (like, thirty copies of each AP, minimum)
... to put it all together and make that dream a reality!
(No but seriously, I really want to make this happen, and it never will. Dreamin' big, though.)
EDIT:
"Nerdporiumbrary"
n.
1) portmanteau of "Nerd" and "Emporium" and "Library"
2) a hypothetical mecca-cum-utopia-like place for "nerds" and "geeks"
You'll never guess what!!
** spoiler omitted **:)
Dang it, man, I'm busy!
I'm tryin'!
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St. Louis style. Imo's is the best; screw both y'all's coasts.Well, having a long and storied history of being "different", I have always bristled at people who say, "This is the best, and if you don't like it then you have no taste."
It's definitely an East Coast thing. West Coasters are more laid-back.
A good example is Impus Major: He doesn't particularly care for Rivoli. Yet I am still of the opinion he has excellent taste. His tastes just don't match mine. So when we're treating him to a restaurant, we go to Skates instead, which *I* think is inferior to Rivoli, but he feels is far superior.
And, being Californian, I see nothing wrong with that.
The New York-style, get-in-your-face-and-yell-at-you-that-you're-wrong is just irritating to me...
Completely agree. I just never get a chance to rep for the Midwest. :D
The New York attitude is why, despite being a theatre fangirl who would love Broadway, I have zero interest in ever visiting the city.
New York City does definitely have an...energy to it, as all big cities do. But FWIW it's all "Go, go, go, time is money" and isolation-in-a-sea-of-people, rather than the sort of "We're better, you're wrong" attitude that Freehold is putting on. I say this as a guy who grew up in upstate New York, where the closest town was 45 minutes away and hardly a speck on the county map. And the isolation may have had more to do with my circumstances and state of mind at the time I lived in NYC.
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You'll never guess what!!
** spoiler omitted **:)
Dang it, man, I'm busy!
I'm tryin'!
But, . . . but, . . .
I just . . . .Whoa.
:)
A friend of mine went to Cuba. He sent me a postcard that said "I'm Havana good time."Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time
I'm having a ball
Don't stop me now
If you want to have a good time just give me a call
Don't stop me now (because I'm having a good time)
Don't stop me now (Yes I'm having a good time)
I don't want to stop at all(wow that was well placed)
I literally just linked this somewhere else while I was trying to sign in, again, today.
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My home group chat had that realization last night. We were all happy chatting, then the realization hit, "oh crap I have work tomorrow, g'night".It's Monday, already.
F~%+ you time!!
My wife and I were thinking of watching another Dark Matter last night, when we realized she had to get up at 6 the next day. And had a fever. WELP.
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New York City does definitely have an...energy to it, as all big cities do. But FWIW it's all "Go, go, go, time is money" and isolation-in-a-sea-of-people, rather than the sort of "We're better, you're wrong" attitude that Freehold is putting on. I say this as a guy who grew up in upstate New York, where the closest town was 45 minutes away and hardly a speck on the county map. And the isolation may have had more to do with my circumstances and state of mind at the time I lived in NYC.St. Louis style. Imo's is the best; screw both y'all's coasts.Well, having a long and storied history of being "different", I have always bristled at people who say, "This is the best, and if you don't like it then you have no taste."
It's definitely an East Coast thing. West Coasters are more laid-back.
A good example is Impus Major: He doesn't particularly care for Rivoli. Yet I am still of the opinion he has excellent taste. His tastes just don't match mine. So when we're treating him to a restaurant, we go to Skates instead, which *I* think is inferior to Rivoli, but he feels is far superior.
And, being Californian, I see nothing wrong with that.
The New York-style, get-in-your-face-and-yell-at-you-that-you're-wrong is just irritating to me...
Completely agree. I just never get a chance to rep for the Midwest. :D
The New York attitude is why, despite being a theatre fangirl who would love Broadway, I have zero interest in ever visiting the city.
I must note that I only get this way where pizza is involved.
Or chinese food.
Or people stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to gawk at something when I'm late for work.
Or asking me really, REALLY stupid questions.
Note the double and all caps on the really. I have no problem with stupid questions or really stupid questions.
I just watched Coco tonight. It was a great movie!
** spoiler omitted **
Man, I would have gone around collecting all the photographs of everyone I possibly could. I know the Frienza (sp?) has to be a family-or-living-person-knows-them-and-passed-down-the-stories-thing, but, dang, man, go around asking - or at least post a thing on a board - until you find people who knew people or had stories about them or had lost a photo or pretty much anything.
Seems like the right thing to do.
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I want to *own* a FLGS. But Backwater, Middle-of-Nowhere County, TN isn't exactly a location with good business prospects in that regard. Some friends and associates are in the industry, but they've got good things going in the likeliest places for me to set up a shop.
We've all gotta have dreams, though. :)
Man, I want a Nerdporiumbrary.
I mean, it's not going to happen, but there's a fantastic lot at the end of my suburb. I could just see it, three stories tall, open atrium, trees growing, and rows upon endless rows of books, with engraved Scripture everywhere, and dozens of gaming rooms. Also extensive restrooms, including some showers.
All I'd need is:
- the land
- the money
- the time
- the ambition
- the effort
- the life
- the employees
- all the materials (like, thirty copies of each AP, minimum)... to put it all together and make that dream a reality!
(No but seriously, I really want to make this happen, and it never will. Dreamin' big, though.)
EDIT:
"Nerdporiumbrary"
n.
1) portmanteau of "Nerd" and "Emporium" and "Library"
2) a hypothetical mecca-cum-utopia-like place for "nerds" and "geeks"
Freehold focused on one word in this entire post and is giggling immaturely.
Can you guess what that word is?
St. Louis style. Imo's is the best; screw both y'all's coasts.Well, having a long and storied history of being "different", I have always bristled at people who say, "This is the best, and if you don't like it then you have no taste."
It's definitely an East Coast thing. West Coasters are more laid-back.
A good example is Impus Major: He doesn't particularly care for Rivoli. Yet I am still of the opinion he has excellent taste. His tastes just don't match mine. So when we're treating him to a restaurant, we go to Skates instead, which *I* think is inferior to Rivoli, but he feels is far superior.
And, being Californian, I see nothing wrong with that.
The New York-style, get-in-your-face-and-yell-at-you-that-you're-wrong is just irritating to me...
Now it's just like you're trying to ignore me...! ;P
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My wife and I were thinking of watching another Dark Matter last night, when we realized she had to get up at 6 the next day. And had a fever. WELP.My home group chat had that realization last night. We were all happy chatting, then the realization hit, "oh crap I have work tomorrow, g'night".It's Monday, already.
F~%+ you time!!
Please heal, tacticslioness/other name that I have forgotten, for some reason.
Why is everyone sick all of a sudden? It isn't even cold yet.
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In the Midwest if we think you're wrong we'll say "oh yah! That's nice!" and then gossip about how wrong and or stupid you are, often while you're standing right there.
Well... similar down south east... bless your heart.
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I still remember Crookshanks asking us when she was two "Do I have to answer questions if they're dumb"
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And if grease is the mark of a good pizza, then I hate pizza.
Amen.
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*Blegh* Feeling nauseous right now. I don't know why. Have to wait for my stomach to settle before I even think about having some soup. I hope that this isn't an indication about how my day is going to be. *Blegh*
Hope you recover soon, my dude! :/
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In the Midwest if we think you're wrong we'll say "oh yah! That's nice!" and then gossip about how wrong and or stupid you are, often while you're standing right there.Well... similar down south east... bless your heart.
We just say you're wrong, around these parts, and start a good old fashioned argument over it.
As evidenced earlier.
You guys are just so wrong. Swedish pizza is where it's at. Thin crust, tomato sauce and cheese, plus whatever other stuff you want on it. A specialty is chicken, banana and curry pizza. Sometimes with pineapple.
Your words intrigue me and I would hear more.
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I still remember Crookshanks asking us when she was two "Do I have to answer questions if they're dumb"
yes.Dumb questions are answered the fastest.
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And if grease is the mark of a good pizza, then I hate pizza.Amen.
I'm going to send you two pizza from spumoni gardens to show you the error of your ways.
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Also, as usual, your job continues to fascinate me. I know I couldn't do it in any way, shape or form. But it is interesting to hear your complaints. I wonder how these problems can be solved without going to dilbert-esque levels of snark and unprofessionalism.
Ah, there are days that I'm sure Crookshanks would be a fine addition to our department, considering the requirements seem to be:
(1) Assume everyone speaking to you is intentionally lying,(2) Fiddle around with the product until you figure out what it actually does,
(3) Write that up in a nice standardized format and present it to said liars,
(4) Have them declare you a genius...
...except that some days I write something up, and the PMs and engineers respond with, "OMG! We didn't know the product could do that! Can we have your code and example so we can integrate it into the next iteration of the product?" that makes you think, "Damn, I'm good..."
This makes me smile. So much.
Me, too, my man. That's awesome!
I want to *own* a FLGS. But Backwater, Middle-of-Nowhere County, TN isn't exactly a location with good business prospects in that regard. Some friends and associates are in the industry, but they've got good things going in the likeliest places for me to set up a shop.
We've all gotta have dreams, though. :)
Man, I want a Nerdporiumbrary.
I mean, it's not going to happen, but there's a fantastic lot at the end of my suburb. I could just see it, three stories tall, open atrium, trees growing, and rows upon endless rows of books, with engraved Scripture everywhere, and dozens of gaming rooms. Also extensive restrooms, including some showers.
All I'd need is:
- the land
- the money
- the time
- the ambition
- the effort
- the life
- the employees
- all the materials (like, thirty copies of each AP, minimum)... to put it all together and make that dream a reality!
(No but seriously, I really want to make this happen, and it never will. Dreamin' big, though.)
EDIT:
"Nerdporiumbrary"
n.
1) portmanteau of "Nerd" and "Emporium" and "Library"
2) a hypothetical mecca-cum-utopia-like place for "nerds" and "geeks"Freehold focused on one word in this entire post and is giggling immaturely.
Can you guess what that word is?
Noooooooooooooope, but I'm out of time, so. Byyyyeeee~!
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My wife and I were thinking of watching another Dark Matter last night, when we realized she had to get up at 6 the next day. And had a fever. WELP.My home group chat had that realization last night. We were all happy chatting, then the realization hit, "oh crap I have work tomorrow, g'night".It's Monday, already.
F~%+ you time!!
So... Dark Matter Season 1 is beyond-the-pale amazing. Season 2 drops off... fast. We stopped watching it even before it got canceled.
For a similar flavor but a series that gets better and better as it goes along, try Killjoys.
I'm going to send you two pizza from spumoni gardens to show you the error of your ways.And if grease is the mark of a good pizza, then I hate pizza.Amen.
I will not object. But it will be napikin'd to remove some of the grease. Just so you know.
My wife and I were thinking of watching another Dark Matter last night, when we realized she had to get up at 6 the next day. And had a fever. WELP.My home group chat had that realization last night. We were all happy chatting, then the realization hit, "oh crap I have work tomorrow, g'night".It's Monday, already.
F~%+ you time!!
So... Dark Matter Season 1 is beyond-the-pale amazing. Season 2 drops off... fast. We stopped watching it even before it got canceled.
For a similar flavor but a series that gets better and better as it goes along, try Killjoys.
We're actually enjoying S2 (the whole alternate reality thing aside), but I do miss the focus on Five's personal arc (she's still cool, but they've mostly dropped the memory thing).
Also, as usual, your job continues to fascinate me. I know I couldn't do it in any way, shape or form. But it is interesting to hear your complaints. I wonder how these problems can be solved without going to dilbert-esque levels of snark and unprofessionalism.Ah, there are days that I'm sure Crookshanks would be a fine addition to our department, considering the requirements seem to be:
(1) Assume everyone speaking to you is intentionally lying,
(2) Fiddle around with the product until you figure out what it actually does,
(3) Write that up in a nice standardized format and present it to said liars,
(4) Have them declare you a genius......except that some days I write something up, and the PMs and engineers respond with, "OMG! We didn't know the product could do that! Can we have your code and example so we can integrate it into the next iteration of the product?" that makes you think, "Damn, I'm good..."
interesting.
This only encourages my belief/theory that others have put into words better than I can that there are many, many different types of intelligence, and sometimes shoving people who think differently into the same room results in more headaches than "ah-ha" moments.
Yes, I'm talking about you, math.
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Shiro's son was in town over Thanksgiving, giving us more anime recommendations, so here we go:
And of course, it doesn't bother to answer any of the questions it asks. We didn't have the patience for it, and didn't even get through the end of episode 1.
Very generic and formulaic, but people are liking it, so...
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I will not object. But it will be napikin'd to remove some of the grease. Just so you know.I'm going to send you two pizza from spumoni gardens to show you the error of your ways.And if grease is the mark of a good pizza, then I hate pizza.Amen.
But that's the sign of a good pizza!!!!
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It's 54 degrees.
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Shiro's son was in town over Thanksgiving, giving us more anime recommendations, so here we go:
Noir: A stylized "girl assassin" anime. It looks like a late-80's anime until you see the flat-screen computers, cell phones, and other items that show it's much more recent than that. It also wants to be stylishly-mysterious. "Wait, who's that? Why are they after her? What's going on? How does she know her?"
And of course, it doesn't bother to answer any of the questions it asks. We didn't have the patience for it, and didn't even get through the end of episode 1.
Restaurant to Another World. I *loved* this series; a seeming cross between Food Wars and Spider Robinson's classic Callahan's Crosstime Saloon books. Unfortunately, while I loved it, the rest of the group voted to change series. I'll be watching the rest of it myself.
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?. This had the opposite effect: I find it cute and perfectly entertaining, but the rest of the group was much happier with it than with Restaurant. So we watched it, and so far it's good, but pretty generic, "I'm a guy who starts off worthless, but quickly grows stronger. And oh, all the women around me fall immediately in love with me, except the one I'm interested in."
Very generic and formulaic, but people are liking it, so...
I don't have the words to ecapstulate just how much I love Is it Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon.
I am so upset that it isn't longer.
I have watched that opening so many times, my eyes have bled.
The cheesecake quotient is such that my cholesterol shot up through the roof.
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"Such and Such* wouldn't do something so cray cray, Such and Such* just hits people in the crotch" - Tiny T-Rex, talking about someone trying to punch him at recess. He possibly watched a lot of Gravity Falls over the holiday weekend.
*not their real name.
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It's 54 degrees.
Unholy.
But that's the sign of a good pizza!!!!I will not object. But it will be napikin'd to remove some of the grease. Just so you know.I'm going to send you two pizza from spumoni gardens to show you the error of your ways.And if grease is the mark of a good pizza, then I hate pizza.Amen.
Having less grease? Yes, I agree!
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Those Who Design vs. Those Who Do, Episode #328: The Deck
My father-in-law designed our studio and deck. Noting that the sump pump was already 30 years old, his design called for the section of the deck over the pump to be a separate self-contained section that you could just lift off to remove the pump.
The contractors ignored this design and built the deck over the pump, arguing that:
(1) They'd never seen a sump pump go bad, and
(2) A separate deck section wouldn't be as structurally sound, and would probably wobble.
Well, 10 years later, the deck is wobbly in spite of the missing separate section, and now my sump pump is dead and I'm going to have to disassemble a huge chunk of my deck for what should have been a very simple 1-hour operation. I would have rather had the separate deck section.
Designers win this one.
(And for a great episode on "Doers" winning, check out Season 24 of Nova, where archaeologists can't for the life of them figure out how the great pyramids were built, and a contractor just says, "Well, here's what *I* would have done," and they argue that if they did that there would be physical evidence in such-and-such a location...
...and they dig there and prove the contractor right).
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I broke my walking stick last week when doing cane fighting with someone who had a rather sturdier walking stick.
I fixed it over the weekend using No More Nails and electrical tape.
Will it survive another bout this evening?
Probably not.
And I was right - it didn't, though it lasted longer than it did the last time...
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Grar!
I have bought FarCry 3 and 4 in HumbleBundle Store only to discover those are not played via Steam, but via ubisoft own service...
Urgh.
Redeeming the keys was annoying, though supposedly after the activation process you can play offline.
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Though I must admit it installs quickly...
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Oh, don't get me started on companies with their own "services".
I loved Quicken because I could easily track my finances, and connect to my financial institutions to download data to the application. Then a few years ago, along came "Quicken Cloud", where they load all your financial data into their "secure cloud" so they can mine it for personal details help you manage it.
So now I have to manually enter all of my data into Quicken, like a neanderthal.
And they keep asking, "Why won't you upgrade?"
And my answer is the same: "Because I'm worried your next update will disable manual entry entirely."
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10 GB install in a bit over 5 minutes?
It takes an extra time for the first run additional thingies, like installing DirectX crap.
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Oh. Mom got out of the hospital on Saturday and is enjoying being home.