I didn't expected that it will be your literal birth...
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Happy Pacific Islander's Pride month, Celestial Healer!
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A joke I just read:
"If you spend over a hundred and fifty years in a single house, you can be sure it is haunted."
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Not too many new stop lights around here. Maybe a new one every couple of years. Not THAT big iof a college town that we have that many new streets! :P
What IS popping up around here is the BANE of ALL intelligent drivers.
Traffic. Circles.
Everywhere.Not bad enough they're putting them at intersections that are too tiny for the amount of traffic that they get. They are putting them in NEIGHBORHOODS. Where no truck & trailer can EVER get through it. Legally.
Your opinion may vary. But in MY long wizzie lifetime, I have found that traffic circles do NOT, EVER 'increase the speed and flow of traffic at a given intersection in a safe and reliable manner, and reduce traffic accidents'.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Yet somehow, they are the 'great new thing' here.Old wizzie's theory? Some one in local government has a relative who owns a construction company. (Or said local rep owns his own business too) The only possible explanation for such a major and sudden influx of road construction stupidity.
O_o(Sorry, but I REEEELY don't like traffic circles.) ;P
That just proves that you're 'Merican.
Traffic circles work wonderfully in Europe... because people know how to use them.
In the U.S., even the people who build them have no clue what the **** they're doing. "We should put a Stop sign at every entrance to the circle."
No no no no no no NOOOOOOOO!!!!!There's a great Mythbusters episode where they test traffic circles to see whether they actually improve the flow of traffic, and it's pathetic to see the Americans unable to work with the concept for a while, then once they get it the traffic flows MUCH more smoothly than with Stop signs.
As usual, traffic circles are a learned art, Americans don't learn that art, people put in traffic circles anyway, and everybody suffers. (In Berkeley and El Cerrito they literally use traffic circles as 'calming measures' to slow down traffic because they're so confusing to people that...
We have a lot of roundabouts here. They work great!
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Here it is. The roundabout allowed almost 20% more cars through in busy traffic, *and* you don't have to stop in light traffic. They beat Stop signs in all ways except pedestrian and bicyclist safety, though I'm sure Woran can regale us with how Utrecht solved the bicycle issue...
Well, do you have separate paths for bicicles? Or to they cycle on the road?
Here it is. The roundabout allowed almost 20% more cars through in busy traffic, *and* you don't have to stop in light traffic. They beat Stop signs in all ways except pedestrian and bicyclist safety, though I'm sure Woran can regale us with how Utrecht solved the bicycle issue...Well, do you have separate paths for bicicles? Or to they cycle on the road?
It is a very rare city in the U.S. that even has bike lanes in the road; most places you go you're just riding with traffic with no designated lane.
Here in the Bay Area we typically have bike lanes (in the road but with a white line that both cars and bicyclists ignore with alarming regularity). We *finally* got "dedicated" bike lanes about a decade ago, and they promptly became clogged with joggers and pedestrians so you can't actually ride a bicycle on them, in spite of all that signs that say, "Bicyclists ONLY" and big indicators that pedestrians and strollers are forbidden.
Typical U.S. response: If it's more convenient for me, then its intended purpose is irrelevant, I'm going to do it.
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They don’t call it a birthday suit for nothing!
DANCE ON THAT BAR! WOOOOOOOO!
Here it is. The roundabout allowed almost 20% more cars through in busy traffic, *and* you don't have to stop in light traffic. They beat Stop signs in all ways except pedestrian and bicyclist safety, though I'm sure Woran can regale us with how Utrecht solved the bicycle issue...Well, do you have separate paths for bicicles? Or to they cycle on the road?
we do. They are often blocked by cabs or filled with trash, but we do have them. Sometimes they are very well marked and show ways through complicated traffic circles, but that is rare.
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Just no motivation today. Want to work on a kickstarter idea and paint miniatures. Sadly, neither of those are likely to pay the bills.
We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.
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Why You Need An Upper Executive Reviewing Your Product:
We sell enterprise-level applications, so we implement role-based security, which is pretty much standard practice.
Unfortunately, because our engineers were unimaginative, to implement security we created five types of security role. Think "green role", "blue role", "red role", "yellow role", and "orange role".
This would have been confusing enough.
However, every other group used the term "role" every time they wanted to distinguish two people. "This person handles hardware repair requests, and this person handles software issue requests. How do we label them?"
"I know! 'Service role'!"
"We need to separate the various people who get commissions. How do we label them?"
"I know! 'Commission role'!"
So quite literally in a single class I have to describe 8 roles, and how 3 of those 8 roles aren't related to security at all, while 5 are, and of those 5 these three are interchangeable, these 2 aren't, this one is unique, etc.
And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'. And I'm up to 4 different uses of the word 'Resource'.
And people wonder why customers think our application is hard to use.
It ain't the user interface, guys...
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.
Which REALLY says something about our society....
I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
They're paved, better than the streets in some places. From Monroe to Baraboo.
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The General: the kids have homework so don't feel like you have to take them somewhere because you have the day off!
Ten minutes later..
The General: Oh my god, you have to take the kids somewhere!!
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They're paved, better than the streets in some places. From Monroe to Baraboo.I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
visiting you will whip Freehold back into shape.
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....
Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I'm adapting an old Julia Childs recipe to make human capital stock, but I'm still working out the ratios. How many pounds of peeled & chunked carrots, celery, & onions to pounds of billionaire does it take to get that rich well-seasoned stock with plenty of gelatin and umami? How many bay leaves? What herbs should I use in the bouquet garni to bring out the subtle minerally bourgie flavors in the long pork? Red vs white wine? Asking for the proletariat a friend.
(Hit me with your best shot, Fritzy.)
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I'm adapting an old Julia Childs recipe to make human capital stock, but I'm still working out the ratios. How many pounds of peeled & chunked carrots, celery, & onions to pounds of billionaire does it take to get that rich well-seasoned stock with plenty of gelatin and umami? How many bay leaves? What herbs should I use in the bouquet garni to bring out the subtle minerally bourgie flavors in the long pork? Red vs white wine? Asking for
the proletariata friend.(Hit me with your best shot, Fritzy.)
Is this aged billionaire, or more of a new money/tech genius billionaire?
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I just got word that the Technocracy M20 kickstarter went through.
One of the SLIGHTLY less bad guy factions in the Technocracy, the Syndicate, refers to people in a similar fashion, and has a very powerful(and vulgar, in the game terminology, meaning you cannot do this in front of people who are not mages/vampires/werewolves[GAROU NATION FOREVER] or reality itself will freak the f+#* out)magic spell that can reduce a person to the level of pure magical energy that they are worth. I believe it is called Liquidating Assets or something similar.I just checked, its Liquidating Living Assets and it is far far more powerful than I thought.
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I'm adapting an old Julia Childs recipe to make human capital stock, but I'm still working out the ratios. How many pounds of peeled & chunked carrots, celery, & onions to pounds of billionaire does it take to get that rich well-seasoned stock with plenty of gelatin and umami? How many bay leaves? What herbs should I use in the bouquet garni to bring out the subtle minerally bourgie flavors in the long pork? Red vs white wine? Asking for
the proletariata friend.(Hit me with your best shot, Fritzy.)
Anothet faction in the Technocracy, The Progenitors, do something very similar with people that piss them off royal essentially turning them into goo that they can re use to make someone who...doesnt piss them off royal.
And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
Yeah I had to explain to someone recently what that phrase meant.
Happy ALmost Friday! :)
(Even if you DO like traffic circles) ;P
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Here it is. The roundabout allowed almost 20% more cars through in busy traffic, *and* you don't have to stop in light traffic. They beat Stop signs in all ways except pedestrian and bicyclist safety, though I'm sure Woran can regale us with how Utrecht solved the bicycle issue...Well, do you have separate paths for bicicles? Or to they cycle on the road?It is a very rare city in the U.S. that even has bike lanes in the road; most places you go you're just riding with traffic with no designated lane.
Here in the Bay Area we typically have bike lanes (in the road but with a white line that both cars and bicyclists ignore with alarming regularity). We *finally* got "dedicated" bike lanes about a decade ago, and they promptly became clogged with joggers and pedestrians so you can't actually ride a bicycle on them, in spite of all that signs that say, "Bicyclists ONLY" and big indicators that pedestrians and strollers are forbidden.
Typical U.S. response: If it's more convenient for me, then its intended purpose is irrelevant, I'm going to do it.
I think a lot of the safety here is because everyone learnd how to ride a bycicle.
Once you learn to drive a car you realize you've done dangerous s@@& as a cyclist and dont to that anymore.Dedicated bikelanes (usually in red asphalt) away from the road and separate from the sidewalk. Only in residential areas (where the max speed of cars so low you probably cycle faster/as fast as a car), you share the road with a car.
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we do. They are often blocked by cabs or filled with trash, but we do have them. Sometimes they are very well marked and show ways through complicated traffic circles, but that is rare.Here it is. The roundabout allowed almost 20% more cars through in busy traffic, *and* you don't have to stop in light traffic. They beat Stop signs in all ways except pedestrian and bicyclist safety, though I'm sure Woran can regale us with how Utrecht solved the bicycle issue...Well, do you have separate paths for bicicles? Or to they cycle on the road?
We have two types of roundabouts. One where the bike lane is separate of the road and one where they share space (but the cyclist path is clearly marked. In all cases cars have to let cyclists on the roundabout go first.
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I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?
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I'm wrapping up this week taking recorded training courses.
So I moved my desk chair away, pulled up the cuddler, curled up with a huge drink (diluted grape juice, silly!), and started watching.
Impus Major came out and started laughing. He asked, "That's how you work?"
"Yep. This is how I take online classes. You should learn!"
"Yeah, but I don't get paid for it."
"I do!"
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Is this aged billionaire, or more of a new money/tech genius billionaire?And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I'm adapting an old Julia Childs recipe to make human capital stock, but I'm still working out the ratios. How many pounds of peeled & chunked carrots, celery, & onions to pounds of billionaire does it take to get that rich well-seasoned stock with plenty of gelatin and umami? How many bay leaves? What herbs should I use in the bouquet garni to bring out the subtle minerally bourgie flavors in the long pork? Red vs white wine? Asking for
the proletariata friend.(Hit me with your best shot, Fritzy.)
Either way, I recommend a slow braise. Billionaires don’t go down easy.
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I just got word that the Technocracy M20 kickstarter went through.
One of the SLIGHTLY less bad guy factions in the Technocracy, the Syndicate, refers to people in a similar fashion, and has a very powerful(and vulgar, in the game terminology, meaning you cannot do this in front of people who are not mages/vampires/werewolves[GAROU NATION FOREVER] or reality itself will freak the f#&+ out)magic spell that can reduce a person to the level of pure magical energy that they are worth. I believe it is called Liquidating Assets or something similar.I just checked, its Liquidating Living Assets and it is far far more powerful than I thought.
More powerful than "inflict seven levels* of unsoakable health damage by turning those levels into Quintessence and then drain the remaining excess Quintessence from the corpse?"
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And since we can't call people 'people', we call them 'Resources'.Which REALLY says something about our society....Or, as a presidential advisor said a couple days ago:
"human capital stock"Just another line on the balance sheet
I'm adapting an old Julia Childs recipe to make human capital stock, but I'm still working out the ratios. How many pounds of peeled & chunked carrots, celery, & onions to pounds of billionaire does it take to get that rich well-seasoned stock with plenty of gelatin and umami? How many bay leaves? What herbs should I use in the bouquet garni to bring out the subtle minerally bourgie flavors in the long pork? Red vs white wine? Asking for
the proletariata friend.(Hit me with your best shot, Fritzy.)
Amby gets cookies. All the cookies.
I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.
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I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.
*hugs*
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I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.
Ugh. I'm sorry. Hope they call you back.
Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
...oh my god.
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...oh my god.Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
Is it wrong that I heard that in Daveed Diggs' voice from Hamilton?
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JUST FINISHED THE YOUNGEST’S GRADUATION!!!!
WOOOOOO!!!
Yyyyyyyueagh, baaaeeebiiii~!
School! Is! Over!
Long reign summer!
(All two months!)
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And now I go sleep for a year.
Is it wrong that I heard that in Daveed Diggs' voice from Hamilton?...oh my god.Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
...no?
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I'm on call right now. I'm about to throw my phone into the Illinois River. I might have sounded a bit...penile...by the end of this, but I've had it.
Me: IT, this is Vany.
User: Hi Vany!
Me: Hi.
Silence
User: What do you need from me?
Me: How about your name?
User: Oh! (Name)
Me: And what is the issue?
User: I need to log into my phone...
Me: And?
User: I don't know my extension or the password.
Me: ...I don't know it either...
User: (rudely) Well why not? Aren't you IT?! What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to log into my phone?!
Me: If you aren't able to remember your own phone number I suggest you talk to your supervisor.
*hang up on user*
This is the emergency line. It's meant for major outages, like entire departments or offices are down. They have been informed of this many, many times, yet they persist. Supervisors out of three offices just default to "call this number" rather than go through the right procedures. I'm absolutely done with waking up to my phone ringing at 2:30 in the morning because of a printer jam in Atlanta GA.
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I'm on call right now. I'm about to throw my phone into the Illinois River. I might have sounded a bit...penile...by the end of this, but I've had it.
Me: IT, this is Vany.
User: Hi Vany!
Me: Hi.
Silence
User: What do you need from me?
Me: How about your name?
User: Oh! (Name)
Me: And what is the issue?
User: I need to log into my phone...
Me: And?
User: I don't know my extension or the password.
Me: ...I don't know it either...
User: (rudely) Well why not? Aren't you IT?! What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to log into my phone?!
Me: If you aren't able to remember your own phone number I suggest you talk to your supervisor.
*hang up on user*This is the emergency line. It's meant for major outages, like entire departments or offices are down. They have been informed of this many, many times, yet they persist. Supervisors out of three offices just default to "call this number" rather than go through the right procedures. I'm absolutely done with waking up to my phone ringing at 2:30 in the morning because of a printer jam in Atlanta GA.
how polluted is this river? Would the phone climb out of the river as a sentient being wanting to serve you?
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how polluted is this river? Would the phone climb out of the river as a sentient being wanting to serve you?I'm on call right now. I'm about to throw my phone into the Illinois River. I might have sounded a bit...penile...by the end of this, but I've had it.
Me: IT, this is Vany.
User: Hi Vany!
Me: Hi.
Silence
User: What do you need from me?
Me: How about your name?
User: Oh! (Name)
Me: And what is the issue?
User: I need to log into my phone...
Me: And?
User: I don't know my extension or the password.
Me: ...I don't know it either...
User: (rudely) Well why not? Aren't you IT?! What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to log into my phone?!
Me: If you aren't able to remember your own phone number I suggest you talk to your supervisor.
*hang up on user*This is the emergency line. It's meant for major outages, like entire departments or offices are down. They have been informed of this many, many times, yet they persist. Supervisors out of three offices just default to "call this number" rather than go through the right procedures. I'm absolutely done with waking up to my phone ringing at 2:30 in the morning because of a printer jam in Atlanta GA.
It's right in the name, the Illinois River, of course the phone is climbing out of the river an unholy abomination.
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I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.Ugh. I'm sorry. Hope they call you back.
Me too, but admittedly my hopes aren't high, I missed the message and it's been a few days. There's every chance someone who replied more promptly already has the job.
I'm crossing my fingers but didn't hear anything back today, and if I don't hear anything by Monday I'm pretty sure the opportunity is gone.
Again, my own fault, I'm very out of practice at job-hunting and didn't notice the message until well after it had been left. Hopefully if this doesn't work out - and I'm really hoping it does, this was one of my highest hopes in apps since my arrival in KS - something else will come along soon.
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My Link has developed a highly distinct set of separate personalities depending on who has the controller at the time.
If Scint's playing him, he's a wide-eyed pioneer of the extreme places of the world, eager to make friends with animals and ride them majestically through the wilderness. Also with a penchant for ecological terrorism and high explosives.
If I'm playing him, he's a wandering gourmet and alchemist, only interested in animals for their capacity to be turned into food and monsters for the ability to collect their bones and innards for making elixirs. The wilderness is a vast wide source of spices, flavorings, and additives for dishes the likes of which even Hyrule's royal chefs could never match.
Neither one of us is particularly interested in fighting Ganon.
Zelda's going to be waiting a while on that rescue.
...oh my god.Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
So, I'm old, so I'm not ashamed to admit I Googled it.
Freehold's an Australian one percenter?