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Thank you, everyone, for the PMs meant to cheer me up. I don't mean to be a sad sack. But this is my only place to socialize online really so it is going to be the first place to get hit with the newest and heaviest information. Let me know if it gets to be too much and I will spoiler or move to PMs entirely.
Never. :-)
Whoops. CLOTHED.
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Thank you, everyone, for the PMs meant to cheer me up. I don't mean to be a sad sack. But this is my only place to socialize online really so it is going to be the first place to get hit with the newest and heaviest information. Let me know if it gets to be too much and I will spoiler or move to PMs entirely.Never. :-)
Yes, I am sure THAT will cheer him up!
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So it's pretty sad.
I've been tasked with finding examples of excellent online training that I can provide to our division heads to help them rebuild our own inscrutable training web site into something navigable.
And I'm very quickly learning that nobody in the software industry seems to know anything about creating a navigable training site.
No, I don't want to have to select a role, or scroll through 223 different offerings trying to figure out which one applies to me. I want to be able to type a search term into a search box (for example, "JavaScript") and get the relevant training offerings returned to me. It's not rocket science. w3schools does it just fine, as does Khan Academy.
Yet the moment you move to enterprise-level software (which is where I'm supposed to be looking), ALL of the companies are horrifically incompetent at making a navigable web site.
What the heck, people?
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Freehold, my only regret with your venting is that I'm not in a position to help.
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You can always move to Wisconsin and become a plumbing god but then you'd have to leave CH and NYC behind.
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An actual conversation in my classroom today...
Kindergartner: "Ms. LM, I'm just tired and bored."
Me: "Are you Bruce Springsteen?"
Kinder: "Huh? No. Why?"
Me: "Bruce Springsteen wrote a famous rock song called Dancing in the Dark, in which he sang, I'm just tired and bored with myself. When you're Bruce Springsteen, you can get away with it. If you are not Bruce Springsteen, I'm happy to help you with some work choices."
Kinder: "You're weird, Ms. LM."
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I will not k--l my cat! I will not k--l my cat! Dratted cat ate through my monitor's power cord. Now I will have to order a replacement from the maker of the monitor.
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(1) I haven't seen a monitor in at least 10 years that didn't take a standard power cord. Want me to mail you 5 or 6?
(2) I have to give it to this IT guy, he really knows his stuff. After making me update my firmware and my BIOS and still having the issue, he swore it had to be my ISP. He said instead of testing on my Mac I should try another Windows 10 machine. Yep. Exact same symptoms. I'll be abusing my router tomorrow morning while everyone's asleep, since no one likes firmware updates while they're gaming.
(1) I haven't seen a monitor in at least 10 years that didn't take a standard power cord. Want me to mail you 5 or 6?
(2) I have to give it to this IT guy, he really knows his stuff. After making me update my firmware and my BIOS and still having the issue, he swore it had to be my ISP. He said instead of testing on my Mac I should try another Windows 10 machine. Yep. Exact same symptoms. I'll be abusing my router tomorrow morning while everyone's asleep, since no one likes firmware updates while they're gaming.
Monitors or power cords? Sadly a standard power cord plugs into the ac to dc converter block.
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Yes! I was in the Leshy game! I even have a picture of it!There certainly were no other dutch people, except for MrT, and he is not young. Or a woman. So it must have been me! Was it at MrSlankie's game? With Pirate Rob and the gang?I was there in 2017! And I remember there being a young woman from the Netherlands in one of the games I was playing. I wonder if we actually gamed together?I was supposed to go to PaizoCon this year. I don't get to cons often, but when I do I like the gaming, and I like to hear from designers, etc. Plus, it's always fun to see Paizo folks.
All the online cons I've been doing this year have been mostly about the gaming, but there have been a few panel discussions that have piqued my interest.
We were planning on going to paizocon again this year (we went one time before in 2017).
It was just so relaxed. Everyone there to do some gaming, talk gaming, hang out, paint some minis, get tormented by cosmo. Do the silly quizzes. It was real cool.I wish I could remember!
That game doesn’t ring a bell. Were you in the Leshy game run by badger/Mike Welham?
Dammit, and I have only meet Gorbacz. Whom I will see next weekend by the way.
Y'know what's really refreshing?
To get an IT guy on the phone, have him talk to you for two minutes, and then have him just say, "Yeah, OK. You know the drill. Go ahead and run the manufacturer's update software to update your BIOS and firmware drivers and let me know if that doesn't fix things."
In other words, "I have spoken with you and determined that you have a brain, and I am therefore trusting you to take care of this on your own and then let me know how it goes. Thanks for saving me time."
Yeah, I've run a few BIOS updates in my lifetime, dating back to the old, "Put it on a 3.5" floppy and boot from the floppy" days..
Yeah. That is my MO as well. There are a few users I trust to do things and I'll give them free reign.
Other people not so much.
I don't think I have ever dared to run BIOS update. Screwing up motherboard if something goes wrong wasn't really an option for me as I rarely had capacity to replace it.
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Noo the world will be going out soon! Bye bye cruel world!
(there is some power grid maintenance scheduled for today so I will be out of power for approximately 6 hours... Or so the note on the doors said.
I would be having roasted cat if she were not so small. Not enough meat on her bones, little pain in the...!!!
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FYIF!!
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FYIF!!
FYIF aaaaand the last day of school before "early fall break"!
I worked straight through Spring Break in March to prepare for Home Learning. I got no summer break because of committee work to prepare the Covid mitigation plan for our school.
All I have to do next week is write my progress reports for next month's parent teacher conferences.
FYIF!
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Thank you, everyone, for the PMs meant to cheer me up. I don't mean to be a sad sack. But this is my only place to socialize online really so it is going to be the first place to get hit with the newest and heaviest information. Let me know if it gets to be too much and I will spoiler or move to PMs entirely.
Talk to us Freehold. You always do your best to cheer us up. Now its our turn.
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Thank you, everyone, for the PMs meant to cheer me up. I don't mean to be a sad sack. But this is my only place to socialize online really so it is going to be the first place to get hit with the newest and heaviest information. Let me know if it gets to be too much and I will spoiler or move to PMs entirely.Talk to us Freehold. You always do your best to cheer us up. Now its our turn.
Well, you and I could always join forces, steal Freehold away to our secret Abscondi-lair somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, dress up as his favorite characters, and serve him takoyaki and lots of alcohol while he watches the northern lights in the snow.
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According to my email today is a panty party.
If that doesn't cheer Freehold up I'm all out of ideas.
Noo the world will be going out soon! Bye bye cruel world!
(there is some power grid maintenance scheduled for today so I will be out of power for approximately 6 hours... Or so the note on the doors said.
And I am back. The world (and my power) here again.
I slept for a later part of the time and by the time I woke and got up, the power was back.
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Well, you and I could always join forces, steal Freehold away to our secret Abscondi-lair somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, dress up as his favorite characters, and serve him takoyaki and lots of alcohol while he watches the northern lights in the snow.Thank you, everyone, for the PMs meant to cheer me up. I don't mean to be a sad sack. But this is my only place to socialize online really so it is going to be the first place to get hit with the newest and heaviest information. Let me know if it gets to be too much and I will spoiler or move to PMs entirely.Talk to us Freehold. You always do your best to cheer us up. Now its our turn.
And now Freehold needs to change his pants.
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I get to build steps, and the job site is big enough that despite having 3 other people working on site I'm pretty much working solo.
Today is a good day.
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There is something frustrating about having a map of a greenway system that shows all sorts of ways to get from where I am or where I am likely to be to one of my long bike paths only to dig further and see that every branch that gets me from A to B has a closure on it. And that those closures will be until mid to late 2021.
Grumble.
https://raleighnc.gov/home/content/PRecDesignDevelop/Articles/GreenwayRepai rs.html#paragraph--259031
In less grumblesome news, online gaming, while not a patch on the real thing, does scratch the itch somewhat.
We fell down the hole in Harrowstone and explored. Not sure if anyone still needs to play Carrion Crown, but will avoid further commentary.
Not sold on all the 2E mechanics yet, but they don't get in the way of fun (at least as far as I can tell yet).
Need to finish up my Black Company world arc, then can run plaguestone.
And after Plaguestone, will open floor to discussion by my group as to what, if anything, i should run. Given my preference for DF terrain, I imagine it will be home-brew to some extent. So few of the AP are DF friendly.
That reminds me. Need to check if vorpal board is up and out of beta yet.
I'm on a roll now.
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Is that your final answer?
My mystery 5-minute disconnect is no longer a mystery, and I have to give credit where credit is due:
- An unbelievably diligent IT support person
- A user willing to try everything to see what worked, and to communicate clearly with said IT person
- Cisco for continuing to produce the most bug-ridden, incompetently-made software and hardware known to man (outside of Adobe Flash)
After I pointed out that my Mac was running rock solid and both my Windows 10 machines had the 5-minute bug, the IT guy immediately recognized a known issue between Cisco VPN and Windows 10 IPv6. He had me disable IPv6 on my laptop and voila! Everything's running perfectly.
Thanks, Cisco, for burning 4 hours of my life! Ah, well, at least they were paid hours. That's something!
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Dammit, and I have only meet Gorbacz. Whom I will see next weekend by the way.
He's been missing from the boards for quite a while. Tell him that at least a few of us actually enjoy his snark.
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Dammit, and I have only meet Gorbacz. Whom I will see next weekend by the way.He's been missing from the boards for quite a while. Tell him that at least a few of us actually enjoy his snark.
I am pretty sure he got another (most likely temporary) ban, so he should be back in a month or so.
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Wow, that's crazy, they only ban me for 24 (very long) hours when they ban me.
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Wow, that's crazy, they only ban me for 24 (very long) hours when they ban me.
I've only been tbreatened with a ban once. Clearly I'm doing something wrong.
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I have somehow managed to not get banned yet.
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I was about to say, is it sad that I'm sad I haven't been banned?
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I was about to say, is it sad that I'm sad I haven't been banned?
Yeah. DM Goody Twoshoes is gonna get his a** banned for writing someone a polite but pointed letter. LMAO.
And now Freehold needs to change his pants.Well, you and I could always join forces, steal Freehold away to our secret Abscondi-lair somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, dress up as his favorite characters, and serve him takoyaki and lots of alcohol while he watches the northern lights in the snow.Thank you, everyone, for the PMs meant to cheer me up. I don't mean to be a sad sack. But this is my only place to socialize online really so it is going to be the first place to get hit with the newest and heaviest information. Let me know if it gets to be too much and I will spoiler or move to PMs entirely.Talk to us Freehold. You always do your best to cheer us up. Now its our turn.
Not just Freehold.
I have somehow managed to not get banned yet.
Neither have been I. Coincidence? Preferential treatment for dragons?
I have somehow managed to not get banned yet.Neither have been I. Coincidence? Preferential treatment for dragons?
Definitely the dragon thing.
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Definitely the dragon thing.I have somehow managed to not get banned yet.Neither have been I. Coincidence? Preferential treatment for dragons?
Does that mean that NobodysHome is really a dragon shapeshifted into a innocently-looking form?
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Does that mean that NobodysHome is really a dragon shapeshifted into a innocently-looking form?Definitely the dragon thing.I have somehow managed to not get banned yet.Neither have been I. Coincidence? Preferential treatment for dragons?
That all just depends on what part they need him to play at Pornhub. Probably just coincidence.
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Goddamn dragons, taking all the meaty roles!
Also never been banned, but I also avoid the really contentious threads so the chances of me saying something that would get me banned is pretty minimal.
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I’ve never been banned, or even gotten a warning, and that’s saying something because back in the day I liked to push buttons. I was also responsible for this thread.
Edit: Reference point
And a post where I claimed Dick Cheney had been hired by Paizo (which Lisa Stephens actually replied to).
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I was about to say, is it sad that I'm sad I haven't been banned?Yeah. DM Goody Twoshoes is gonna get his a** banned for writing someone a polite but pointed letter. LMAO.
Yeah, I always think of this...
Yeah, I always think of this...
I thought about that but I didn't want to bring back any alcohol related memories or make light of them.