I faced my quarantine fears, masked up and went to a graduation party for a friend's daughter over the weekend. At said event I ran into an ex-girlfriend and had a weird, job-interview-style conversation that lasted entirely too long. When the event wrapped, said ex had apparently been picked to be on the clean-up crew with me.
I now have one more reason to socially distance. Awkward run-ins with ex's are awkward. Sadly she looked amazing while I looked like a shlub, so as if I NEEDED more reasons to be self conscious...
Anyway, happy Monday. Carry on.
Whenever someone claims to know me I just give them a mystified look and tell them they must be mistaking me for someone else.
Everyone says I look like someone they know I might as well use that to my advantage.
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Uh-oh.
The computer is on its way.
I have spent at least an hour or two on two days a week for the past 3 weeks in remedial training sessions with 4 people to do a particular task...and today I find yet more fresh cases of them doing it wrong and it takes myself or my top tech 30-45 minutes to get each individual case straightened out. It takes 5 minutes to set it up properly the first time.
I'd love to make the perpetrator(s) straighten it out, but I don't have that kind of time and the users don't have that kind of patience when they can't use any Office application.
And I've been informed several times that I'm not allowed to fire them all either.
Whiskey.
I will bring them along next time we go out so we can get drunk and make them drive us wherever we want to go
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The new computer is here!
It is going thru full factory reset now.
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Laptop got moved into the sleeping room. There were issues with network - with the laptop not recognizing the signal over a cable that wasn't used for four years now (since my friends moved out). When I switched the cable to a different port on the modem/router, the connection was immediate.
I am using old mouse with the laptop now, and until I buy batteries for the new keyboard, my usb keyboard is occupied... Writing on on-screen keyboard here again is annoying.
I could use a mousepad too - I don't like the feel of mouse moving on the bare table.
Reset at 33%. Once it's done, I'll start installing the most necessary things.
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So, if you ever want to truly understand the issue with politics/religion/interpersonal relationships/what-have-you these days, all you have to do is have a corporate Slack account.
Step 1: Users were using @here and @channel to send high-priority alerts to the entire channel for posts such as, "Hey, is anyone else planning on attending the meeting at HQ tomorrow? I'm looking to carpool!"
*SO* useful on an international channel.
Multiple users posted and very politely asked people to stop this practice. It didn't help.
Step 2: IT got fed up with the constant broadcasts and if you added an @here or @channel to your announcement, you got a warning, "This will broadcast to hundreds, if not thousands of users. Is your message really that important?"
People kept doing it.
Step 3: IT has now enabled the SlackBot of shame. Every time someone posts using @here or @channel, the bot responds with, "In general, using @channel and @here should be reserved for when something important and time sensitive is happening. Some examples of this are production outages... and being trapped in a stairwell..."
People are still doing it.
And it really summarizes modern society to a "T": Everyone wants to talk, no one wants to listen. And if we're all talking and never listening, we'll never understand each other nor come to terms about anything.
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They should add to the SlackBot of shame warning note "abuse of this option will result in cuts to premium/bonuses.
And then stick to it.
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Step 3: IT has now enabled the SlackBot of shame. Every time someone posts using @here or @channel, the bot responds with, "In general, using @channel and @here should be reserved for when something important and time sensitive is happening. Some examples of this are production outages... and being trapped in a stairwell..."
People are still doing it.
The problem with this is that the people doing this feel that their message, no matter how banal, IS that important.
And it will not stop until they actually start seeing penalties of some sort from overusing the feature. Or until it's disabled and they no longer can.
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They should add to the SlackBot of shame warning note "abuse of this option will result in cuts to premium/bonuses.
And then stick to it.
This. This is the only thing that will actually put an end to it.
It's sitting at 33% for a while now. I know, I know, resetting Windows to factory settings can take a long time.
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In other news, I'm starting an elimination diet this weekend. I'm hoping that my digestive problem over the last year is caused by some allergy that I'll discover, though honestly I'm pessimistic. But g#$**&n I'm tired of eating like a bird and still feeling like a stuffed turkey.
IT'S WORKING!!!
Into my third week of dieting (no gluten or dairy), and I can eat a decent meal again!!! Anyone care to lay odds on which it is? Mrs Sunrise thinks it's gluten, and I do have a lifelong love affair with pasta...
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Also, s#&#'s getting serious in AZ as it is everywhere. Spoilered for incidental politics:
Luckily it happened overnight so nobody was there to be hurt, and the office's two flags -- state and national -- are unsinged due to being on the opposite side of the office from the bomb. But from the pic I saw, most of the office is cinders.
No suspects yet so far as I know, but this all happened on the eve of our big summer convention, so you can do the math. Many of us are rattled, but as 9/11 proved, terrorism just brings good people together.
It's sitting at 33% for a while now. I know, I know, resetting Windows to factory settings can take a long time.Even longer when it can feel your eagerness.
That's why I am sitting in the other room.
Still at 33%. It might be an all night before I start installing anything.
Well, I did asked for that, didn't I?
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Step 3: IT has now enabled the SlackBot of shame. Every time someone posts using @here or @channel, the bot responds with, "In general, using @channel and @here should be reserved for when something important and time sensitive is happening. Some examples of this are production outages... and being trapped in a stairwell..."
People are still doing it.The problem with this is that the people doing this feel that their message, no matter how banal, IS that important.
And it will not stop until they actually start seeing penalties of some sort from overusing the feature. Or until it's disabled and they no longer can.
I've always been a huge fan of:
#1: If you invite people to a meeting and you're late starting it, you're penalized for the salaries of everyone whose time you just wasted. So a manager with 6 reports, each of whom makes $50/hour, would get fined $50 for starting a meeting 10 minutes late. No big deal. But, as frequently happened, when our CEO demanded that 60,000 of us wait 15 minutes for him to bother to show up, he'd have to pay $750,000. He might even notice that!
#2: If you Reply All to a mailing list, you're charged $1 for every person on the list. Period. No excuses. Your response that important? Are you willing to spend $1500 to send it? No? I thought not.
The Slack one is harder, because you need someone to judge whether or not an @here or @channel was merited. But 99.9% of the time, it wasn't.
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Still at 33%. It might be an all night before I start installing anything.
Well, I did asked for that, didn't I?
Another look and it is...
Wooohooo!
99%!
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That was reset, though. Now the actual installation starts.
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Also, s@+!'s getting serious in AZ as it is everywhere. Spoilered for incidental politics:
** spoiler omitted **
I read about that on Friday night and was quite relieved no one was injured. What alarms me is how little national press it got.
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I had to check how to skip adding m$ account during installation.
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Steam is essential, right?
RIGHT?!
Now, I can start cleaning the laptop disc from all the games I won't play there anymore...
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Well, I think this pretty much states the state of the country: GothBard was overjoyed and I was relieved when her renewed passport finally came in the mail today (we sent them in in March), meaning that if need be she can flee with the kids at a moment's notice.
Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.
I really don't think that's how you're supposed to feel living in a "First World" country...
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I should probably get a passport. Thanks to Schengen, I could flee with ID alone (like I had done while going to UK, before Brits did their thing), but second ID could get useful. Also, who knows what might be needed in a few years if I'd like to visit my parents.
Ooookkkk...
Far Cry New Dawn downloaded and installed in... 15 minutes?
And I haven't even placed it on the system SSD, going with much more spacious mechanical HD.
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Well, I think this pretty much states the state of the country: GothBard was overjoyed and I was relieved when her renewed passport finally came in the mail today (we sent them in in March), meaning that if need be she can flee with the kids at a moment's notice.
Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.
I really don't think that's how you're supposed to feel living in a "First World" country...
Living south of the boundary waters, we don't even need passports, just a couple of canoes, which you can bet I know who has decent canoes, and where they keep them.
Ooookkkk...
Far Cry New Dawn downloaded and installed in... 15 minutes?
Laptop took around 37 minutes to do that.
Obviously, the internet connection was unchanged. I think that the memory alone did that difference - both because of size (16 GB vs 8 GB), and the frequency 2666 vs 800 MHz.
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Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.
But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
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Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
In spite of initial screw-ups, we have not done too shabby with Covid. So keeping people who are in the U.S.A. (which has done a terrible job) so our numbers don't go horrid makes sense. It is sad for cases like that, but we Canadians in general (though not unanimously) feel that a few people not seeing their dying parent one last time trumps A LOT of people seeing their parents for one last time.
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Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
When I saw that Albania was no. 1 on the list, I wanted desperately to link a clip of Willie Nelson singing "Albania, Albania" from Wag the Dog. But I couldn't find it.
Now I want to watch Wag the Dog again. For the 87th time.
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In spite of initial screw-ups, we have not done too shabby with Covid. So keeping people who are in the U.S.A. (which has done a terrible job) so our numbers don't go horrid makes sense. It is sad for cases like that, but we Canadians in general (though not unanimously) feel that a few people not seeing their dying parent one last time trumps A LOT of people seeing their parents for one last time.Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
I have a very dear, if colossally misguided, friend who lives in New Zealand who is furious at Jacinda Ardern for her "dictatorial, fascist, unnecessary police state". Yes, she's also an anti-vaxxer and rabid conspiracy theorist.
Seems all the countries that have actually done things more or less right are facing the wrath of an ungrateful and disbelieving public. Me, I'd rather be in either Canada or NZ than in Texas right now.
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we Canadians in general (though not unanimously) feel that a few people not seeing their dying parent one last time trumps A LOT of people seeing their parents for one last time.
When I was a young engineer at Ford, we used to go to Windsor for lunch. White tablecloth French restaurant. We also had a favorite Chinese restaurant. Going to Windsor was as easy as going to any other Detroit suburb for lunch. Crossing the boarder was simple and fast.
I don't for a moment blame any country from barring entry to residents of a place that has had uncontrolled virus running rampant for six months.
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That... That is completely different game...
*gasp* It is dynamic! The enemies really run around. Even when they are actually walking!
Also, it crashed, which is sort of new.
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Things my kids do that piss off their uncles.
1. Quote Family Guy Star Wars when watching Lucas Star Wars
2. Watch them out of order (why is Tiny T-Rex watching Return of the Jedi before Empire?!!)
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Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
We're Californian. We always flee to Mexico.
Then figure out where the heck to go from there...
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In spite of initial screw-ups, we have not done too shabby with Covid. So keeping people who are in the U.S.A. (which has done a terrible job) so our numbers don't go horrid makes sense. It is sad for cases like that, but we Canadians in general (though not unanimously) feel that a few people not seeing their dying parent one last time trumps A LOT of people seeing their parents for one last time.Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
I have a very dear, if colossally misguided, friend who lives in New Zealand who is furious at Jacinda Ardern for her "dictatorial, fascist, unnecessary police state". Yes, she's also an anti-vaxxer and rabid conspiracy theorist.
Seems all the countries that have actually done things more or less right are facing the wrath of an ungrateful and disbelieving public. Me, I'd rather be in either Canada or NZ than in Texas right now.
I'm sure there's a proper term for it, but I call it the Y2K Effect.
If you do something with sufficient head-start and support and the problem gets solved in a timely manner and with minimal disruption to everyone's lives, then the general populace will not recognize you did anything at all and will wonder what the big fuss was about and complain that "the experts" were overreacting.
Which means the next time something like that happens, the people in authority - who in the US at least are more interested in placating the whims of the general populace than listening to people who actually know what they're talking about, nine times out of ten - are even less likely to listen to the experts and respond properly in sufficient effort and in a timely manner, and the problem will inevitably be bigger than it had to be. And then the general populace will complain that "the experts" didn't fix the problem.
Y2K is probably the biggest and best example of this that most people here will recognize, though I'm sure there are a few who due to age or location will not quite get the reference. The Y2K glitches were fixed before they became problematic thanks to the hard work of a lot of skilled programmers and computer scientists, and the general reaction of casual knowledge of the subject to this day remains "Oh Y2K, that was a whole lot of nothing, what were we so worried about anyway? Just a bunch of stuffed-shirt know-it-alls getting their ties in a twist over nothing, apparently.".
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When I saw that Albania was no. 1 on the list, I wanted desperately to link a clip of Willie Nelson singing "Albania, Albania" from Wag the Dog. But I couldn't find it.
Here's that clip. (He he he he)
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When I saw that Albania was no. 1 on the list, I wanted desperately to link a clip of Willie Nelson singing "Albania, Albania" from Wag the Dog. But I couldn't find it.Here's that clip. (He he he he)
Sorry Amby. Not the one she's talking about. Don't get me wrong, Coach from Cheers is pretty funny, but it's just not on that dryly absurd level that the Willie Nelson scene from Wag the Dog achieves.
Night John.
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Sorry Amby. Not the one she's talking about. Don't get me wrong, Coach from Cheers is pretty funny, but it's just not on that dryly absurd level that the Willie Nelson scene from Wag the Dog achieves.When I saw that Albania was no. 1 on the list, I wanted desperately to link a clip of Willie Nelson singing "Albania, Albania" from Wag the Dog. But I couldn't find it.Here's that clip. (He he he he)
Wag the Dog trailer. 1:30 mark is the "Albania Albania" moment.
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Yeah I got about the same thing happening too except it's the assistant manager leaving me laundry that she should of folded. IF she were busy I would of understood but she was sitting around watching TV when I got in.
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In spite of initial screw-ups, we have not done too shabby with Covid. So keeping people who are in the U.S.A. (which has done a terrible job) so our numbers don't go horrid makes sense. It is sad for cases like that, but we Canadians in general (though not unanimously) feel that a few people not seeing their dying parent one last time trumps A LOT of people seeing their parents for one last time.Yes. I actually felt palpable relief that my wife can now escape the country on a moment's notice.But where will she go?
Places Americans can go without a visa
Canada will not allow even adult children of dying parents to enter.
I'm thinking we can get into Canada under refugee status now. Canada officially declared us an unsafe country with human rights violations.
No no that's fair