It also amuses me that Impus Minor has taken to hiking in the Berkeley hills in the wee hours (much cooler, no sun, no other pedestrians) and I have to warn him that the only truly dangerous thing he might run into during his hikes is deer.
Yes, excluding insects they're the #1 killer in the U.S., and I believe that's true even if you exclude, "A driver ran into a deer and got killed." Because if you startle a deer at night, it will sometimes attempt to vault over you to safety. And they're pretty darned clumsy with those sharp, sharp hooves and manage to cleave people's skulls while trying to run away with amazing frequency.
Deer. Don't mess with 'em.
I just hit em with my car.
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So, surprise, surprise, us west coasters have virtually no experience with hurricanes (with a lot of good articles recently as to why). But it surprises me that we're roughly 500 miles away from Hillary's eye, yet for the past two days it's been warm, humid, and overcast. Kind of staggering how widespread these storms are. Usually around here if you want to get out of a storm you just drive for a couple of hours north or south and you're in the clear. A storm whose effects are obvious over 1000 miles? Not something we're used to seeing.
I just hit em with my car.It also amuses me that Impus Minor has taken to hiking in the Berkeley hills in the wee hours (much cooler, no sun, no other pedestrians) and I have to warn him that the only truly dangerous thing he might run into during his hikes is deer.
Yes, excluding insects they're the #1 killer in the U.S., and I believe that's true even if you exclude, "A driver ran into a deer and got killed." Because if you startle a deer at night, it will sometimes attempt to vault over you to safety. And they're pretty darned clumsy with those sharp, sharp hooves and manage to cleave people's skulls while trying to run away with amazing frequency.
Deer. Don't mess with 'em.
That's a great way to ruin your car.
That's a great way to ruin your car.I just hit em with my car.It also amuses me that Impus Minor has taken to hiking in the Berkeley hills in the wee hours (much cooler, no sun, no other pedestrians) and I have to warn him that the only truly dangerous thing he might run into during his hikes is deer.
Yes, excluding insects they're the #1 killer in the U.S., and I believe that's true even if you exclude, "A driver ran into a deer and got killed." Because if you startle a deer at night, it will sometimes attempt to vault over you to safety. And they're pretty darned clumsy with those sharp, sharp hooves and manage to cleave people's skulls while trying to run away with amazing frequency.
Deer. Don't mess with 'em.
Have you seen my car lately? I'm more than okay with that!
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Application for an apartment is being processed!
I should know more in a day or two. Fingers crossed!!
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Application for an apartment is being processed!
I should know more in a day or two. Fingers crossed!!
Leave a deer on their doorstep to sweeten the deal.
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You might be reading too much ancient history, when you see that a historian speaking he cover the topic in three parts, the annotation notes "1. like all of Gaul", and you chuckle.
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Want to be buried in a replica of a prehistoric barrow? You can be, at least in parts of England.
I've always had it in the back of my mind that if I ever get a decent plot of land, I'd build one.
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Bouncing around between 3 job sites this week. As in I was at the base today, I'm going to the job in Waunakee tomorrow, then back to the base on Wednesday and then Thursday helping another crew install a bar top and then back to Waunakee, and then Friday and Saturday I'll be back at the base. Also it's expected to hit 100 degrees at least once or twice this week. Yay.
At least I'll definitely be able to afford all the furnishings I want when I get my new digs. Assuming I survive.
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An actual recent conversation...
WW: Oh, I downloaded "Are you there God, it's me, Margaret", so we can add it to the list of possibles for family movie night.
Me: WTF would you do that for?
WW: ...er... because it's one of the most popular bestselling young adult novels ever?
Me: Have you ever read it?
WW: No...
Me: It's a bestseller because every girl of my generation was bought a copy and forced to read it by her mother so they could get out of having The Conversation. It's not literature and it's not fun.
WW (who had no clue): ...oh.
Wierd Weird. I googled that, I clicked on the link to wikipedia page and got... NoScript warning about potential attack (Firefox, NoScript)?!
I opened wikipedia separately, searched for that book and went there. Nothing. I entered the link to the movie. No warning either.
Weird, as I said...
NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack
from https://www.google.com to https://en.wikipedia.org.
Suspicious data:
(URL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_There_God?_It's_Me,_Margaret._(film)
With the option to block request, block the site, allow the request and always allow the site.
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Deer. Don't mess with 'em.
I've had a pitbull latched onto my arm, my hand in a wolfs mouth*, bitten by a snapping turtle, pet a porcupine, wingbapped in the head by a swan, scratched by a hawk, and nommed on by a giant hoary bat.**
My worst critter related injury is from a rabbit. My sisters fat rabbit escaped the cage, so of course I just went to pick it up and scooped him into my arms. Free from the confines of gravity, the untrimmed claws that could normally propel a rabbit near 40 miles an hour turned the legs into a carrot powered cheese grater. I didn't have skin from my left wrist to my left elbow. My sister of course, was freaked out by the blood... all over her rabbit.
*the wolf was just done with his belly rubs, and because the spot he picked was on a path, he really couldn't get up without me stopping and the assist. Doesn't sound as cool though!
** yes animals like me why do you ask? maybe people set a low bar...
WierdWeird. I googled that, I clicked on the link to wikipedia page and got... NoScript warning about potential attack (Firefox, NoScript)?!I opened wikipedia separately, searched for that book and went there. Nothing. I entered the link to the movie. No warning either.
Weird, as I said...
** spoiler omitted **
With the option to block request, block the site, allow the request and always allow the site.
When I did my own Google search and clicked the link to the film, I got the same NoScript pop-up window.
But when I went to that page from within wikipedia, there was no warning.
How does wikipedia protect from malicious scripts being on their pages?
My guess would be that either the Google search result was infected, or more likely, part of the overly long and incomprehensible link from there to wiki article triggered NoScript suspicion.
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Deer. Don't mess with 'em.
I've had a pitbull latched onto my arm, my hand in a wolfs mouth*, bitten by a snapping turtle, pet a porcupine, wingbapped in the head by a swan, scratched by a hawk, and nommed on by a giant hoary bat.**
My worst critter related injury is from a rabbit. My sisters fat rabbit escaped the cage, so of course I just went to pick it up and scooped him into my arms. Free from the confines of gravity, the untrimmed claws that could normally propel a rabbit near 40 miles an hour turned the legs into a carrot powered cheese grater. I didn't have skin from my left wrist to my left elbow. My sister of course, was freaked out by the blood... all over her rabbit.
Where is the holy hand grenade of Antioch when you need it?
My guess would be that either the Google search result was infected, or more likely, part of the overly long and incomprehensible link from there to wiki article triggered NoScript suspicion.I click from Google search results to wiki articles all the time. I don't recall getting that popup before.
And obviously it is location independent (unless you're using a VPN that just happens to map to my ISP).
Me too, though I only recently switched back from Opera to Firefox as my second browser, and even more recently installed NoScript on it, so I did not have a lot of time to get such warning.
Weirdly, doing the same on Chrome (with NoScript installed for much-much longer time) doesn't trigger any warning...
An actual recent conversation...
WW: Oh, I downloaded "Are you there God, it's me, Margaret", so we can add it to the list of possibles for family movie night.
Me: WTF would you do that for?
WW: ...er... because it's one of the most popular bestselling young adult novels ever?
Me: Have you ever read it?
WW: No...
Me: It's a bestseller because every girl of my generation was bought a copy and forced to read it by her mother so they could get out of having The Conversation. It's not literature and it's not fun.
WW (who had no clue): ...oh.
I heard negative things about it but I didn't know it was that bad.
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Where is the holy hand grenade of Antioch when you need it?
Rabbit: The enemy cannot push a button pull a pin if you disable his hand!
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The "pet" rabbit at my old school in Cali was my nemesis.
He was the size of a badger and was mean and ornery. I nicknamed him hassenpfeffer. He managed to claw my neck once and drew blood, and that was pretty scary.
Happily, when my coworker took him home for the weekend, someone stole him out of her yard. I'm pretty sure he ended up as a meal.
The rabbit we got after that was much sweeter and more docile.
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Where is the holy hand grenade of Antioch when you need it?
Rabbit: The enemy cannot
push a buttonpull a pin if you disable his hand!
MEDIC!
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We’re these rabbits black and white and named Oreo? While correlation is not causation, I have noticed a disturbing trend that approximately 4 out of 5 rabbits I’ve met that met these criteria were also associated with devilish behavior (I.e. growling, biting, red eyes, levitating, etc)
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Mr Hankey: Yeah, in my old company I used to be like you, I used to do all the fancy cuts!
College Kid I trained a few years ago (after Hankey walks away): I haven't seen him cut s#$#! He makes me do everything! All the cuts! I laid every paver! Everything!!
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We’re these rabbits black and white and named Oreo? While correlation is not causation, I have noticed a disturbing trend that approximately 4 out of 5 rabbits I’ve met that met these criteria were also associated with devilish behavior (I.e. growling, biting, red eyes, levitating, etc)
White with black spots and named Tsuki, which means Moon.
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Had a cookout today at work. We were the meat.
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$10 more per month?
I spend $10 on phone total... Over approximately two years.
Back before the chaperoning fiasco, I was paying $100/year for a pay-as-you-go plan. And that's was as cheap as I could find it in the U.S.; minutes you don't use expire at an alarming rate, so just to ensure I had phone every month I had to spend that much.
And yeah, I know, I know. "In Europe it's illegal for minutes you buy to expire," or whatever. Not in the U.S. If you don't spend a certain amount, they can expire every month.
Person after my own heart.
It's a bit of a long-running thing with me -- I had managers at former Employer offering to buy me a top-of-the-line smart phone AND pay the subscription on it out of pocket and I would turn them down hard.
As some who post infrequently here on the forums may recall
"Wei Ji hates technology".
No, I do not hate technology.
I hate unproven, expensive, costs more than it's worth and takes too much time to maintain technology.
It used to be a long, long time ago that companies would alpha, beta, and release test their products before actually releasing them to the wild.
Now one's lucky if they alpha the thing before it hits the public.
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We’re these rabbits black and white and named Oreo? While correlation is not causation, I have noticed a disturbing trend that approximately 4 out of 5 rabbits I’ve met that met these criteria were also associated with devilish behavior (I.e. growling, biting, red eyes, levitating, etc)White with black spots and named Tsuki, which means Moon.
Tsuki rhymes with cookie
Moon is white like milkMoon is white and round like Oreo filling.
This fits within my dataset. Thank you for your contribution.
Had a cookout today at work. We were the meat.
Yes, pretty much.
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Got approved for my apartment!
Moving in starting September 1st! With the bulk of the moving happening on the 2nd.
This is why I always volunteer to help people move. Sometimes the turntables turn!
If only I worked somewhere with a lot of trucks and trailers or with people used to heavy lifting and moving stuff on and off a trailer.
Oh well, I'm sure I'll think of something!
It's all a bit earlier than I expected but it is absolutely necessary!
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Also, I ordered a love seat.
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Also, I ordered a love seat.
What did you order it to do?
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It is that time of year when chittering hordes of gigantic arachnids charge out of the darkness, eyes glittering with malign, inhuman intelligence, and mandibles dripping with venom. Thankfully, Dauntless Ranger Longears is on hand to vanquish the danger, spending last night in battle with a particularly large and vicious specimen, almost one and a half centimetres across.
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It is that time of year when chittering hordes of gigantic arachnids charge out of the darkness, eyes glittering with malign, inhuman intelligence, and mandibles dripping with venom. Thankfully, Dauntless Ranger Longears is on hand to vanquish the danger, spending last night in battle with a particularly large and vicious specimen, almost one and a half centimetres across.
Spiders are super pissed this year, I don't know about what but I've had more spiders try attacking me then any other year! Even Seattle, which is literally crawling with spiders.
Unfortunately for them, they're attacking a giant with a sturdy German mallet so it's definitely not the best decision-making on their part. But at least my patio still gets to feast on blood that isn't mine (also every patio I've built this year has a banana peel buried underneath it, don't ask me why it just sorta started happening and I figured if it works why not continue).
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Had a cookout today at work. We were the meat.
ah the long pork.
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On the one hand, I understand that IT support is a thankless job and automated responses take a HUGE load off support personnel.
On the other hand, yet another round of:
"I am having this problem. I checked these support articles (link to articles) and none of them helped. At this point I need to talk to an IT person to proceed."
"Hi! I see you're having this problem! Here are some helpful articles for you! (links to same articles)"
Is not good for my temper.
It's sad; the longer the Celica sits in the shop, the more I'm thinking we lease a new car instead. Except then I walk down the street and I see all the damage to all the cars parked here (did I mention we live on a narrow street?), and I think about the heartbreak of when the Celica got its first dent, and the constant worry about collisions the last time I leased a car, and I think that maybe there's great value in owning an old beater where you just don't care when someone dings it. The insurance costs are far lower, and the reduced stress will likely add days, weeks, or even months to your life.
And yeah, little news on the progress:
(1) The guy started looking for parts on the 11th, and I figure at least 2-3 weeks to find them, so I'm not going to bug him again until September rolls around with no word.
(2) Considering that Progressive has now twice sent me letters that they're totaling the Celica with no supporting documentation, no requests for signatures, and nothing else, I think they're notifying me that Progressive is marking the car as totaled in their records, and they'll never again pay to repair it. If that's the case I'm fine with it; $5000 for the Celica was generous, and as long as the DMV doesn't consider it totaled and salvaged I'm fine with whatever Progressive wants to do in their teeny tiny brains.
Anyway, I don't expect to see the Celica again before October. Shiro's betting on December, but I don't think a car shop would want an old car cluttering up their lot for that long, so I expect them to act on it before then.
All that testing costs money, so why should they do that when they can get people to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to test it for them? And feel happy (and smug) about it?$10 more per month?
I spend $10 on phone total... Over approximately two years.
Back before the chaperoning fiasco, I was paying $100/year for a pay-as-you-go plan. And that's was as cheap as I could find it in the U.S.; minutes you don't use expire at an alarming rate, so just to ensure I had phone every month I had to spend that much.
And yeah, I know, I know. "In Europe it's illegal for minutes you buy to expire," or whatever. Not in the U.S. If you don't spend a certain amount, they can expire every month.
Person after my own heart.
It's a bit of a long-running thing with me -- I had managers at former Employer offering to buy me a top-of-the-line smart phone AND pay the subscription on it out of pocket and I would turn them down hard.
As some who post infrequently here on the forums may recall
"Wei Ji hates technology".
No, I do not hate technology.
I hate unproven, expensive, costs more than it's worth and takes too much time to maintain technology.
It used to be a long, long time ago that companies would alpha, beta, and release test their products before actually releasing them to the wild.
Now one's lucky if they alpha the thing before it hits the public.
Testing is one of those fields that priced itself out out of business.
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Testing is one of those fields that priced itself out out of business.All that testing costs money, so why should they do that when they can get people to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to test it for them? And feel happy (and smug) about it?It's a bit of a long-running thing with me -- I had managers at former Employer offering to buy me a top-of-the-line smart phone AND pay the subscription on it out of pocket and I would turn them down hard.
As some who post infrequently here on the forums may recall
"Wei Ji hates technology".
No, I do not hate technology.
I hate unproven, expensive, costs more than it's worth and takes too much time to maintain technology.
It used to be a long, long time ago that companies would alpha, beta, and release test their products before actually releasing them to the wild.
Now one's lucky if they alpha the thing before it hits the public.
Only if you consider setting your price at $1 to be "pricing yourself out of business".
I've known tons of QA testers over the years. They were uniformly underpaid, overworked, and unappreciated. Corporate's mantra has always been, "Can't you just script that?", so I watched our own product for years with a bug where you had to click an inch away from a radio button to make the page work. The code looked fine to a script, and corporate no longer wanted to pay for someone to manually walk through the steps.
Once it's all scripted and bugs continue to slip through the cracks because *gasp* you can't possibly script for everything a user might do, corporate decides, "If bugs are getting through anyway, then why do we have a QA department at all?"
And QA is now uniformly dumped on the customer. Customers now accept it, and QA is "free" for corporations.
I've never seen an argument that testing priced itself out of the market. I've only seen corporations learn that customers will willingly accept un-QA'ed products, so why should they pay for QA?
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Testing is one of those fields that priced itself out out of business.All that testing costs money, so why should they do that when they can get people to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to test it for them? And feel happy (and smug) about it?It's a bit of a long-running thing with me -- I had managers at former Employer offering to buy me a top-of-the-line smart phone AND pay the subscription on it out of pocket and I would turn them down hard.
As some who post infrequently here on the forums may recall
"Wei Ji hates technology".
No, I do not hate technology.
I hate unproven, expensive, costs more than it's worth and takes too much time to maintain technology.
It used to be a long, long time ago that companies would alpha, beta, and release test their products before actually releasing them to the wild.
Now one's lucky if they alpha the thing before it hits the public.
Only if you consider setting your price at $1 to be "pricing yourself out of business".
I've known tons of QA testers over the years. They were uniformly underpaid, overworked, and unappreciated. Corporate's mantra has always been, "Can't you just script that?", so I watched our own product for years with a bug where you had to click an inch away from a radio button to make the page work. The code looked fine to a script, and corporate no longer wanted to pay for someone to manually walk through the steps.
Once it's all scripted and bugs continue to slip through the cracks because *gasp* you can't possibly script for everything a user might do, corporate decides, "If bugs are getting through anyway, then why do we have a QA department at all?"
And QA is now uniformly dumped on the customer. Customers now accept it, and QA is "free" for corporations.
I've never seen an argument that testing priced itself out of the market....
Yes that counts as well. There is something to be said for getting what you paid for, and increased skepticism the lower a price goes. I've also had to deal with testers undercutting each other as private consultants constantly until the price is so low that everyone involved is suspicious of each other.
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Is not good for my temper.
I absolutely HATE when the help support leads in a circle instead of to the "this is how you get a human"
If someones tech support page does that, the first thing I'm telling the human I find is "please pass me up the chain to someone being paid enough to be sworn at"
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I on the other hand, detest any tries to redirect me to humans. I want the information put there in writing, dammit, not a human to talk to!
Ordered furnishings for the apartment, the style I'm going to go with is modern stone age.
Yaba daba doo?
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At the risk of enraging Freehold, it looks like we're finally going to break 80°F today. The outdoor thermometer currently reads 81°F, but in the afternoon it's consistently high by 3°F because the sun is warming the concrete between the two houses. But with a couple of hours to go before peak temperature, I think it'll be our first 80°+ day of the year. Which in my mind says quite a bit about just how screwy this year has been weather-wise.