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"Insanity isn't talking to yourself. It is arguing with yourself and then losing the argument."
Ha!
That's just another Wednesday in IT...
Shut up. Today is Wednesday.
You know what, I don't care, and I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now. Hope your f^*(_P# happy!
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I'm sorry, what was this about again?
I'm sorry, what was this about again?
Being relatable.
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thank you all for the kind words!
Greetings will be passed on to Sabine.
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today is my once-a-week office day, the rest is still working from home (we call it home office in Germany) as per company policy.
I can‘t say that I miss commuting 1.5 to 2 hors every day
Yeay for the Home Office
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Welcome back everyone who has been gone for a while.
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Apparently the gentrification in our neighborhood is so bad, they're writing about it in The Guardian. And every word of the article is true.
Full disclosure, we live in the "haves" side, the northern part, because WW's great-grandparents helped his folks buy the house in the 60s.
gentrification...
I could go on for hours about what it has done here, neighborhood by neighborhood.
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I have spent the last 4.5 hours doing laundry. I am tired, my back and knees are killing me, and I'm only about halfway through it all. Clearly, I'm not finishing it, and if anyone says anything about "Why didn't you get it all done and put away?", I might just quit. When I came in, the dryer was showing that it had been finished for over 2 hours, and instead of doing her job, 2nd shift was doing homework. So, yeah, I've been thinking some not nice things about her tonight.
Is it time to go?
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Hi Aeglos! I'm glad to hear Sabine is doing well.
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I'm almost finished with my wall and pillar/miniature castle portion of the job, I'll be sure to post it on Instagram. After that I get to do a bluestone patio with three separate inlay areas one of which utilizes a 3-D pattern and then several boulders I have to cut to and around.
So basically the perfect job for me.
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Gentrification doesn't just hit minority neighborhoods. I think I've mentioned this before, but it's a visceral, personal, real-life stat:
- When my parents first started teaching, the house they bought in Albany cost just under 4 times my mother's starting salary.
- When I first started teaching, that exact same house cost just over 19 times my starting salary.
- As of today, I checked the salary schedule and the estimated home price, and the exact same house is just over 24 times a teacher's starting salary.
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"Insanity isn't talking to yourself. It is arguing with yourself and then losing the argument."
Ha!
That's just another Wednesday in IT...
Shut up. Today is Wednesday.
You know what, I don't care, and I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now. Hope your f^*(_P# happy!
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I'm sorry, what was this about again?
*gives up and lies down on the floor*
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And here we go... a quarterly all-hands meeting for 22,000 people.
And they intentionally start 5 minutes late to allow latecomers not to miss anything.
Let's say even half the group shows up on time. That's 11,000 x 5 = 55,000 minutes = 916.66 work hours lost...
...just to accommodate people who can't be on time for a meeting we've known about for a month.
I am... incensed.
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Gentrification doesn't just hit minority neighborhoods. I think I've mentioned this before, but it's a visceral, personal, real-life stat:
- When my parents first started teaching, the house they bought in Albany cost just under 4 times my mother's starting salary.
- When I first started teaching, that exact same house cost just over 19 times my starting salary.
- As of today, I checked the salary schedule and the estimated home price, and the exact same house is just over 24 times a teacher's starting salary.** spoiler omitted **
I just read that my city became the second more expensive city in Poland after the capital when it comes to buying apartments, passing 9800 per square meter (around $2.5k).
Current minimum wage is 2400 per month, before taxes.
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Gentrification doesn't just hit minority neighborhoods. I think I've mentioned this before, but it's a visceral, personal, real-life stat:
- When my parents first started teaching, the house they bought in Albany cost just under 4 times my mother's starting salary.
- When I first started teaching, that exact same house cost just over 19 times my starting salary.
- As of today, I checked the salary schedule and the estimated home price, and the exact same house is just over 24 times a teacher's starting salary.** spoiler omitted **
I just read that my city became the second more expensive city in Poland after the capital when it comes to buying apartments, passing 9800 per square meter (around $2.5k).
Current minimum wage is 2400 per month, before taxes.
Wow -- I think that beats us out. Let's see...
$680 per square foot = $7,319.45 per square meter. California's minimum wage for small shops is $13/hour, or $2080/month.Poland: 9800/2400 = 4.0833
Albany: 7319.45/2080 = 3.5190
Congratulations? You beat us!
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And here we go... a quarterly all-hands meeting for 22,000 people.
And they intentionally start 5 minutes late to allow latecomers not to miss anything.
Let's say even half the group shows up on time. That's 11,000 x 5 = 55,000 minutes = 916.66 work hours lost...
...just to accommodate people who can't be on time for a meeting we've known about for a month.I am... incensed.
Hey now, I've lived on the west coast, I know how late people are to work EVERY DAY.
Even giving people a five minute grace period is pretty harsh for the west coast.
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And here we go... a quarterly all-hands meeting for 22,000 people.
And they intentionally start 5 minutes late to allow latecomers not to miss anything.
Let's say even half the group shows up on time. That's 11,000 x 5 = 55,000 minutes = 916.66 work hours lost...
...just to accommodate people who can't be on time for a meeting we've known about for a month.I am... incensed.
Hey now, I've lived on the west coast, I know how late people are to work EVERY DAY.
Even giving people a five minute grace period is pretty harsh for the west coast.
Oh, showing up to work? Yeah, anything within around half an hour is totally reasonable.
But planned meetings? For those we actually expect people to show up on time.
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Ah! See meetings are the one thing people from Wisconsin will be late to.
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Fun fact: There is no record of me ever being late to a job (Toys R Us doesn't count, that was more of a hobby for me then an actual job) because the three times I've been late everyone else was late so I still got there before everyone else.
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Gentrification doesn't just hit minority neighborhoods. I think I've mentioned this before, but it's a visceral, personal, real-life stat:
- When my parents first started teaching, the house they bought in Albany cost just under 4 times my mother's starting salary.
- When I first started teaching, that exact same house cost just over 19 times my starting salary.
- As of today, I checked the salary schedule and the estimated home price, and the exact same house is just over 24 times a teacher's starting salary.** spoiler omitted **
I just read that my city became the second more expensive city in Poland after the capital when it comes to buying apartments, passing 9800 per square meter (around $2.5k).
Current minimum wage is 2400 per month, before taxes.
Wow -- I think that beats us out. Let's see...
$680 per square foot = $7,319.45 per square meter. California's minimum wage for small shops is $13/hour, or $2080/month.Poland: 9800/2400 = 4.0833
Albany: 7319.45/2080 = 3.5190Congratulations? You beat us!
And Warsaw is even more expensive.
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I expected around 10k, but it is actually 11k złotych, and prognosis is 11 250 by the end of the year. With the same minimum legal wage, though actual wages are almost universally higher there.
Funnily (or not so funnily as it shows how nuts the market became), recently (like a day or two ago) one of my friends complained that facebook showed him an advert "last micro-apartments, buy and lease to students, singles, couples"...
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Ooopsie. You might want to tell Imps to stay home tonight...
I just caused a big firefight between police and gangs in Alameda-Elmhurst region...
Apparently some folks weren't particularly happy that I entered their neighborhood to manually hack a connection box there.
...
Hmmm... Maybe I should have tazed the guy first instead of starting with dog.
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Ooopsie. You might want to tell Imps to stay home tonight...
I just caused a big firefight between police and gangs in Alameda-Elmhurst region...
Apparently some folks weren't particularly happy that I entered their neighborhood to manually hack a connection box there.
...
Hmmm... Maybe I should have tazed the guy first instead of starting with dog.
Shadowrun?
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Oh, come one!
After all that talk about gentrification here on FAWTL?
The side quest I am doing is explicitly mentioning a conspiracy to jack up all the rents in Elmhurst to gentrify the neighborhood.
And they are doing it by manipulating computer system...
Y'Know... I am not saying that NobodysHome is deliberately pushing up the price of his house and only complains to avoid being suspect in that matter...
But...
He will profit from it. Or at least Imps will in the future.
Say... How good are Imps at hacking?
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Ooopsie. You might want to tell Imps to stay home tonight...
I just caused a big firefight between police and gangs in Alameda-Elmhurst region...
Apparently some folks weren't particularly happy that I entered their neighborhood to manually hack a connection box there.
...
Hmmm... Maybe I should have tazed the guy first instead of starting with dog.
That's some long-range fire.
Alameda is a "man-made island" (they took a peninsula and carved a shipping canal across it) that has a definite Opie/Mayfield flavor; it's considered one of the "hidden gems" of the Bay Area.
Elmhurst is a suburb of Sacramento, 87 miles from Alameda (140 km for you furriners).
That's a heck of a long-running gunfight.
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Oh, come one!
After all that talk about gentrification here on FAWTL?
The side quest I am doing is explicitly mentioning a conspiracy to jack up all the rents in Elmhurst to gentrify the neighborhood.
And they are doing it by manipulating computer system...
Y'Know... I am not saying that NobodysHome is deliberately pushing up the price of his house and only complains to avoid being suspect in that matter...
But...
He will profit from it. Or at least Imps will in the future.
Say... How good are Imps at hacking?
so...
Shadowrun?
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Ooopsie. You might want to tell Imps to stay home tonight...
I just caused a big firefight between police and gangs in Alameda-Elmhurst region...
Apparently some folks weren't particularly happy that I entered their neighborhood to manually hack a connection box there.
...
Hmmm... Maybe I should have tazed the guy first instead of starting with dog.
That's some long-range fire.
Alameda is a "man-made island" (they took a peninsula and carved a shipping canal across it) that has a definite Opie/Mayfield flavor; it's considered one of the "hidden gems" of the Bay Area.
Elmhurst is a suburb of Sacramento, 87 miles from Alameda (140 km for you furriners).
What next?! Maybe north of Oakland should be Berkeley and further north Albany or something?!
That's a heck of a long-running gunfight.
Hey, everything is bigger in America!
Seriously, though - those are two different Elmhursts. The one I just left is a neighborhood of Oakland : Elmhurst, Oakland (wiki article), google map showed me it as East 14th Street Business District, and it is on the other side of San Leandro Bay from Alameda island.
Still, the region looks quite differently in Watch_Dogs 2, starting with the fact that Alameda is not an island there.
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Oh, come one!
After all that talk about gentrification here on FAWTL?
The side quest I am doing is explicitly mentioning a conspiracy to jack up all the rents in Elmhurst to gentrify the neighborhood.
And they are doing it by manipulating computer system...
Y'Know... I am not saying that NobodysHome is deliberately pushing up the price of his house and only complains to avoid being suspect in that matter...
But...
He will profit from it. Or at least Imps will in the future.
Say... How good are Imps at hacking?
so...
Shadowrun?
Close, but not so far in the future and not so magical.
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Sorry to keep everybody waiting for Cheese News, but here it is.
Cheese News.
Today I ate Limburger cheese for the first time. I had read (in the Book of Jazz Anecdotes, where it was frequently used by musicians to play pranks on one another) that it was legendarily stinky; while it was pungent, and tasty, it wasn't the ripe steamer I was expecting, or maybe they tone it down a bit for people who don't play the bass saxophone in 'One-Eyed' Artie Gruber and his Eight Galveston Groovers.
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Seriously, though - those are two different Elmhursts. The one I just left is a neighborhood of Oakland : Elmhurst, Oakland (wiki article), google map showed me it as East 14th Street Business District, and it is on the other side of San Leandro Bay from Alameda island.
LOLOL. The "San Leandro Bay"? I'm learning all kinds of interesting geography from that game.
I can practically guarantee it's a Southern California game development company. Los Angeles is SO huge that districts are monumentally important. Similar to New York, nobody is "from L.A.". Instead, it's, "I'm from Compton," or "I'm from Inglewood".
Up here nobody knows the names of any neighborhoods. I was surprised to find "Elmhurst Park" is indeed a district in the middle of Oakland. But all the gangs I've heard of around here use street names ("The 12th Street Boys") or descriptive names. Nobody I've ever met goes by district.
So yeah, telling someone around here you're from Elmhurst will immediately make them think of Sacramento. Most likely even if they live in Elmhurst.
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Seriously, though - those are two different Elmhursts. The one I just left is a neighborhood of Oakland : Elmhurst, Oakland (wiki article), google map showed me it as East 14th Street Business District, and it is on the other side of San Leandro Bay from Alameda island.LOLOL. The "San Leandro Bay"? I'm learning all kinds of interesting geography from that game.
I can practically guarantee it's a Southern California game development company. Los Angeles is SO huge that districts are monumentally important. Similar to New York, nobody is "from L.A.". Instead, it's, "I'm from Compton," or "I'm from Inglewood".
Up here nobody knows the names of any neighborhoods. I was surprised to find "Elmhurst Park" is indeed a district in the middle of Oakland. But all the gangs I've heard of around here use street names ("The 12th Street Boys") or descriptive names. Nobody I've ever met goes by district.
So yeah, telling someone around here you're from Elmhurst will immediately make them think of Sacramento. Most likely even if they live in Elmhurst.
Actually it was made by Ubisoft Montreal, though of course people working there could have come from wide and far.
The game map names various locations though the level of detail from which the names are taken really varies.
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Of course I might also be partly at fault because it was my choice to define the place where I messed up by by picking the nearest name on the map. Local denizens could probably refer to it with more appropriate and accurate name/description to convey where it was happening to other locals.
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Sorry to keep everybody waiting for Cheese News, but here it is.
Cheese News.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY
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Sorry to keep everybody waiting for Cheese News, but here it is.
Cheese News.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY
Which prophecy? One about the Doom of the Earth or one of those lame Cheese prophesies?
(The worst ones are a bit of both!)
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I like the idea of lamé cheese prophecies (Liberace the Sage Derby Sage), or even llama cheese prophecies.
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Not only is it Friday, but I'll finish my pillars today (there was an unfortunate setback with one of them, things had to destroyed and started over), I got my essential shopping errands finished last night, every single minute of the day will be on overtime, and my 768 page giant book o' plants arrived yesterday, so I'll have something fun to look through on my lunch break.
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Imagine, if you will, a wonderful place where one gets to stare at spreadsheets while, in a 30 minute period, listening to Ace of Base (twice), Backstreet Boys, Vanilla Ice and Hanson - and getting paid.
'Such a paradise cannot exist!', I hear you explain, amazed and envious beyond reckoning, but, friends, I'm here to tell you that it can.
And I work there.
An appropriate listing of illegal self-defense measures does not exist, but if we were to attempt it alphabetically, I'd start with "arson".
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How about "anaphylactic assault"? Like chucking a PB&J at someone in the hopes that their throat swells up and they can't breathe.An appropriate listing of illegal self-defense measures does not exist, but if we were to attempt it alphabetically, I'd start with "arson".Imagine, if you will, a wonderful place where one gets to stare at spreadsheets while, in a 30 minute period, listening to Ace of Base (twice), Backstreet Boys, Vanilla Ice and Hanson - and getting paid.
'Such a paradise cannot exist!', I hear you explain, amazed and envious beyond reckoning, but, friends, I'm here to tell you that it can.
And I work there.
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I believe history demonstrates that fire is more universally effective for retributive strikes than hoping for a "percent chance of allergy".
But mayhaps the target is far younger than I realize, and I'd wrap said sandwich with a few rubber bands for the latex reaction . . . .
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Fire deals with both perpetrator *and* apparatus of evil.
Never said I was trying for deniability.
A balmy six months to you, Freehold!! Muggy, even!!
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Fire deals with both perpetrator *and* apparatus of evil.
Never said I was trying for deniability.
A balmy six months to you, Freehold!! Muggy, even!!
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Fire deals with both perpetrator *and* apparatus of evil.
Never said I was trying for deniability.
A balmy six months to you, Freehold!! Muggy, even!!
Screw Freehold, send it to me! He wouldn't appreciate it anyway!!
Also, if you want a flame thrower I have two of them. Technically they're for work but if the cause is just I bet I could get permission to bring one home for the weekend.
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How about "anaphylactic assault"? Like chucking a PB&J at someone in the hopes that their throat swells up and they can't breathe.An appropriate listing of illegal self-defense measures does not exist, but if we were to attempt it alphabetically, I'd start with "arson".Imagine, if you will, a wonderful place where one gets to stare at spreadsheets while, in a 30 minute period, listening to Ace of Base (twice), Backstreet Boys, Vanilla Ice and Hanson - and getting paid.
'Such a paradise cannot exist!', I hear you explain, amazed and envious beyond reckoning, but, friends, I'm here to tell you that it can.
And I work there.
This would have worked against my ex-wife.