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Speaking of things that warm my heart...
I truly wish more teams had the courage (and the means) to do things like this.
EDIT: On the other hand, MY company's dress code is pretty lax...
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Speaking of things that warm my heart...
I truly wish more teams had the courage (and the means) to do things like this.
EDIT: On the other hand, MY company's dress code is pretty lax...
So that's why you are liking working from home so much...
Speaking of video games, NobodysHome, have you and your coop gaming group paid attention to Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria? Have you any plans to play it? It definitely looks better than Deep Rock Galactic.
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So i guess according to British culture I'm the king now.
I shall keep my lording about to a minimum!
Good. We were overdue another civil war, and I rather fancy your chances against C. Saxburg-Gotha.
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Speaking of managerial abuse and why I stick with Global Megacorporation, I got back from my optometry appointment and my discussion with my manager was essentially:
NobodysHome: I'm back. My eyes are still dilated so things are a bit wonky, but otherwise I've got a clean bill of health, so I should be able to get two more practices done today before the holiday.
Manager: Rest your eyes. You're done. Have a good vacation!
So yes, my manager kicked me off work to start my 4-day weekend.
Speaking of video games, NobodysHome, haveyou andyour coop gaming group paid attention to Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria? Have you any plans to play it? It definitely looks better than Deep Rock Galactic.
I can honestly say I have virtually no say in what we play. I'll try any game that comes along. GothBard's pretty easygoing, too, except she, Shiro, and Lara Croft Guy are all ultra-competitive so any game that ranks players based on how well they do gets booted fast. Shiro has strong opinions on what he likes and doesn't like, and there are games Lara Croft Guy out-and-out rejects for reasons he keeps to himself.
So I know there hasn't even been a hint nor suggestion of ever playing a Star Wars or Lord of the Rings game. I have no idea why, but there's definitely some bias in the group against it.
But yeah, we're getting really bored in our second run-through of Baldur's Gate 3, only Shiro and GothBard have any interest at all in Deep Rock Galactic, and Final Fantasy XIV is one of those games that Lara Croft Guy won't play, period, so I have no idea what we'll be looking at next.
Got a g*&$!@n parking ticket for parking outside of a no parking area but inside a no standing zone. F~%%.
Got a g%#!+%n parking ticket for parking outside of a no parking area but inside a no standing zone. F*~#.
That's just not something that happens here.
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LOLOL. GothBard's stepbrother has made her official Star Wars canon.
He writes for one of the Star Wars series on Disney+, and apparently their writing is considered "canon" (at least by Disney). He was looking at a script and noticed, "Unnamed female officer," and quickly changed her name to "Major GothBard".
Then texted GothBard the video clip so she has proof she's canon.
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I am struggling with cannons, all right...
Ok, more of a rocket artillery.
I could use a rocket artillery right now to fire at journalist pushing their word count with meaningless corpospeak. They should be happy that I am merely translator and not a lead editor, or there would be a lot of text cutting and returning it for rewriting...
My brain is now a fine lumpy mush...
Half a (Google Drive) page left...
Done...
LOLOL. GothBard's stepbrother has made her official Star Wars canon.
He writes for one of the Star Wars series on Disney+, and apparently their writing is considered "canon" (at least by Disney). He was looking at a script and noticed, "Unnamed female officer," and quickly changed her name to "Major GothBard".
Then texted GothBard the video clip so she has proof she's canon.
That's AWESOME
Got a g%#!+%n parking ticket for parking outside of a no parking area but inside a no standing zone. F*~#.That's just not something that happens here.
Yeah tell me about it. F~*$ing can't stand the cops.
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Well, I have a Saturday off work!
I don't.
Got a g+*!#%n parking ticket for parking outside of a no parking area but inside a no standing zone. F&%%.
Ugh. I'm sorry.
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I finally saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High having completely missed it repeatedly over the last however many decades. I find myself completely baffled that it is considered such a cornerstone of American Cinema. It matches absolutely nothing in my experience. Was I just ridiculously sheltered? Or is it basically just exaggerated for comic effect?
What?
I finally saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High having completely missed it repeatedly over the last however many decades. I find myself completely baffled that it is considered such a cornerstone of American Cinema. It matches absolutely nothing in my experience. Was I just ridiculously sheltered? Or is it basically just exaggerated for comic effect?
Certain movies are geared towards certain audiences. Some of us think that Dude Where’s My Car is brilliant. Other folks hate it.
I finally saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High having completely missed it repeatedly over the last however many decades. I find myself completely baffled that it is considered such a cornerstone of American Cinema. It matches absolutely nothing in my experience. Was I just ridiculously sheltered? Or is it basically just exaggerated for comic effect?
Yes.
It is also a bit dated in that it takes place in the 80s, but has a lot more in common with the 70s. It is also a somewhat dark story.
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It's always amazing to me how much different a 3-day weekend feels from a 2-day weekend:
- On day 1 you're playing catch-up from the work week: House cleaning, laundry, dishes, shopping, and paperwork all pile up during the week and you end up spending much of the first day of your weekend doing stuff you'd rather not be doing.
- On day 2 you may have a little left over from day 1, but there's also the social obligations (gaming, etc.), movies you might want to see, and the stress of knowing you're doing back to work the next day.
- By day 3 all your obligations are done with and you truly have the time to do whatever the heck you feel like doing.
Even back in the 1990s I was jealous of Lockheed's 5/4/5/4 work schedule (5 8-hour days, 4 10-hour days, 5 8-hour days, 4 10-hour days) because of the number of 3-day weekends it gave you.
Now that I've experienced it a bit (we had all Fridays in August off, and this Friday was a holiday), I must say I'm a huge fan, and I really do think it increases my productivity for the rest of the week, so it's a win-win for employer and employee. I fully endorse it. Let's try it at once.
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Now that I've experienced it a bit (we had all Fridays in August off, and this Friday was a holiday), I must say I'm a huge fan, and I really do think it increases my productivity for the rest of the week, so it's a win-win for employer and employee. I fully endorse it. Let's try it at once.
The company where I work does 4 10-hour shifts per week from roughly the end of March through the beginning of November, and I hate it.
Monday through Thursday, you're just getting progressively more and more burned-out, with little time for anything other than work, food, and sleep, and when Friday rolls around, you end up just crashing out for 24+ hours (or spending the day running errands, then crashing out all day Saturday). Depending on how the week went, you spend another day catching up on everything you couldn't get done during the week because you didn't have time (laundry, cooking, dishes, etc.), and then you have to get to sleep early Sunday night because you need to be up at 5 AM the next day.
With 5 8-hour shifts, it gives me enough time to finish all of my daily tasks during the week (instead of all stacked up over the weekend), and still be able to get to bed at a reasonable hour every day.
Maybe it's different if you have a desk job...
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Maybe it's different if you have a desk job...
I think that's the long and the short of it. I work a desk job from 6:30 am - 4:00 pm. Adding a couple of hours to 6:00 pm would mean I'd have to cut online gaming by a bit, but since it's not physical labor I wouldn't be any more exhausted.
10 hours of physical labor per day for extended periods is indeed ridiculous.
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A very mildly political tirade:
And I realized that the answer is 9/11: Once we succumbed to security theater, you can't carry a pocket knife into any screened locale: No amusement parks. No museums. No concerts. No courthouses. It became far too inconvenient to carry a pocket knife because of all the places that screen for it. Even Impus Major has been burned several times, "caught" accidentally carrying his pocket knife into a concert or museum.
For the first 34 years of my life, I wore through pocket knives on a regular basis; I must have gone through at least half a dozen, because I carried them every day (even to school) and used them all the time. And post-9/11, it became so inconvenient to carry them that my latest one (obtained when my father died in 2007) looks practically brand new.
And for me, the frustration of it all is just how ludicrous it is to imagine someone threatening me with a pocket knife. I'd be more afraid if they took a fighting stance with their fists so it looked like they knew what they were doing. "Give me all your money or I'm going to slash at you with this hinged 2.5-inch fragile blade," hardly instills fear. Even a cheap kitchen knife would be more threatening.
So why do we ban pocket knives? Theater. Plain, simple theater. And I'm tired of losing a useful tool to theater.
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10 hours of physical labor per day for extended periods is indeed ridiculous.
A lot of guys don't really have an issue with it. My problem is that I tend to get more wound-up as the day goes on (especially if I'm doing something physical), and if I don't get some time to wind back down at the end of the day, I end up getting really mentally scattered and can't sleep for s##~ until I run out of energy and crash.
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A very mildly political tirade:
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Agreed.
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Which is ridiculous, considering I was in the wilderness maybe 4 weeks a year growing up, and in urban areas the other 48 weeks, yet I still wore through pocketknives through constant use.
And yeah, been there, done that. I used to carry a Buck knife on backpacking trips. It eventually became VERY obvious that the extra 2 pounds of weight for a knife that was no more utile than a pocket knife made me abandon it.
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i've been on the wrong end of a gun before, and it wasn't fun. some of that was due to foul intent, and some of it was because I wasn't prepared. none of it, though, was "because gun".
and against the passive, unprepared, and/or fearful, even a tiny lock-blade or boxcutter will be a massive force multiplier.
i'll make one last inflammatory callback before i go: track down Jordan B. Peterson's commentary about "the meek shall inherit" from Matthew 5.
next thing you know, we'll have to go back to paper instead of plastic at the grocery because some enterprising bad-actor takes down a small town with a "Thank You" bag.
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You joke, but New York State banned plastic bags several years ago. I mean, I'm all for supporting the paper industry, but easily breakable grocery bags with no handles are kind of a headache.
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I used to carry a Buck knife on backpacking trips. It eventually became VERY obvious that the extra 2 pounds of weight for a knife that was no more utile than a pocket knife made me abandon it.
Yeah, I learned that one pretty early on. If you think you're going to need a big knife when you're out in the backcountry, you're probably better off just bringing a hatchet. The only time I'll take a single-purpose knife out into the woods is if I'm deer hunting.
Maybe it's different if you have a desk job...I think that's the long and the short of it. I work a desk job from 6:30 am - 4:00 pm. Adding a couple of hours to 6:00 pm would mean I'd have to cut online gaming by a bit, but since it's not physical labor I wouldn't be any more exhausted.
10 hours of physical labor per day for extended periods is indeed ridiculous.
Yeah, I was just giving one of the hardscape foremen crap because he refused to work more than 8 hours a day.
Mostly because this isn't a year round job and he'll be off work complaining about unemployment soon enough.
But really it's because it's Hankey, and he deserves all the crap I give him.
I took my Swiss Army knife to Ireland in checked luggage. It does take some planning to make sure the knife gets packed away for security checks. Another time, while taking a cruise in Hawaii, I walked off the ship with my knife in my pocket. I thought for sure I was going to lose it when I came back on board, but I just put it in the tray. Security let it through. If it had been in my pocket and set off the buzzer, they would have confiscated it for sure.
But really it's because it's Hankey, and he deserves all the crap I give him.
You joke, but . . . .
do I?
surely it sounds implausible, but where there's a will, there's a way.
humans are notoriously resolute about being absolutely horrible to one another.
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humans are notoriously resolute about being absolutely horrible to one another.
If not horrible, then monstrously impractical...
I come from a long line of plastic shopping bag hoarders. The things are terribly useful.
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I carry a pocket knife (technically, it's on a chain with my house keys/work keys/bottle opener/etc.) all the time, and it's constantly useful. I've never had any bother for carrying it, but rarely or never go into anywhere that might require me to go through a metal detector.
But really it's because it's Hankey, and he deserves all the crap I give him.Hankey?
Yes. There's a reason why Alfredo calls him "magical poop man" in Spanish.
But, it's not just because he's full of s~$~, he's also an a*%*$&@.
He's the guy that was hired this year and told me "Yeah, some people say I'm as good as you!" So of course I've been showing him he is not even close.
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Is not pretty. They can and will do damage.
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Gaming convention. I have the cheapest hotel near the convention. Walking to the con in the morning
Random guy flashes knife. "Hey man want to buy a knife?"
Not sure if this is a knife sale or mugging. But squint at knife and give the same answer.
"Too. Small." like lurch.
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Hotel staff are setting up. "hey I need another wrench for this sign."
"Here you go" hand him a multi tool and one of those pieces of scrap metal with all the different bolt head sizes stamped on it.
"Geek convention. there's probably like 20 if these here already"
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I'm in the living room, rest of the family is in the dining room. Niece is talking to the nephew on Ipad playing a game
"No, take a break for 5 minutes let him go out.
" try not tilting the ipad when you're turning the wheel
" Don't separate you're going to die sheesh. Stick with your party.
Mom "... who are you talking to?"
Me "... I take it you can't hear both sides of that conversation ?
Moms old enough to be a little hard of hearing. Sister has way less excuse, her kid has that volume cranked....
Apparently me actually hearing people on the phone they don't know I can hear from the next room/through a closed door and talking to them being mistaken for talking to people that aren't there has been a thing for a while...
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The guy they sent with me, his initiative lacks initiative.
I could order him around constantly and not get anything done. But considering it's chilly out I'm just letting him mill about aimlessly.
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Doctor Who Season 2, Episode 33, "Journey Into Terror", is surprisingly prescient:
(1) The group finds themselves in a haunted middle European castle, complete with Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and, for whatever reason, a banshee screaming about.
(2) The Frankenstein's monster goes berserk and starts killing some of the "guests".
At the end of the episode, it's revealed that it's a closed-down carnival from 1996.
Cheesy carnival animatronics killing the guests in 1996? Sounds accurate enough to me...
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What a day.
The guy they sent with me, his initiative lacks initiative.
I could order him around constantly and not get anything done. But considering it's chilly out I'm just letting him mill about aimlessly.
I decided I'd see how long it took him before he asked me what he should do.
The bastard went the entire 10 hour day without once asking me what he should do.
Fortunately, just one more day with him!
And the only reason I'm putting up with it is because one of the foremen's wife is on the hospital with a health emergency and I don't want to bother the boss with it when I can just put up with it for a couple of days.
We continue to have an unending streak of unseasonably warm weather: On Sunday we went to Monterey and it was 75°F. Yesterday I was cleaning the rain gutters at 9:30 in the morning and quickly overheated. This week we finally have a series of storms moving through... but the daily highs are still listed in the high 60s.
At some point it's going to get cold enough for us to need to turn on the heaters at night, but the forecast through Thanksgiving says, "Not yet."
Me (to new guy): Can you get the hoses out of the back of the truck!
New guy: Sure thing! *grabs one hose and then stands around *
Me: Can you grab the other hoses!
New guy: Oh! Do they connect?!
Me: Yes...
We continue to have an unending streak of unseasonably warm weather: On Sunday we went to Monterey and it was 75°F. Yesterday I was cleaning the rain gutters at 9:30 in the morning and quickly overheated. This week we finally have a series of storms moving through... but the daily highs are still listed in the high 60s.
At some point it's going to get cold enough for us to need to turn on the heaters at night, but the forecast through Thanksgiving says, "Not yet."