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I always arrive precisely when I mean to.
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I may be slightly opinionated, but at this point I'm ready to pass a law arming garbage men sanitation engineers with pellet guns and permission to shoot out the windows of any cars that honk at them.
Have you ever seen a garbage strike? People don't want to haul garbage in their own precious cars, so the streets line up with filth alarmingly quickly -- I'm always astonished at just how much waste most households produce.
And yet almost every single week, our sanitation engineers are here cheerfully doing their jobs (they are uniformly really nice guys; I have yet to meet one of them who doesn't greet you with a wave and a smile when you rush to push out the cans for them. Of course, it's probably their morning entertainment and you're saving them from having to get off the truck to push out the cans themselves, but...). And some car pulls up right behind them and starts honking. "Stop doing your job on this narrow street! I can't possibly be bothered to back up and turn around! You need to stop what you're doing, skip this block, and come back once I'm through!"
The staggering entitlement of it is appalling.
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I am definitely more of an, "I want to know," rather than an, "Anticipation is fun" guy.
So even though she's in L.A. at the moment, I had GothBard grant me access to the DMV (the Celica is recorded as hers). And now the registration is listed as having been sent.
Any day now, our 8-month ordeal will be OVER!!
If I was going to wish for a projectile of choice for trying to hurry the garbage crew it would be the trash panda...
I may be slightly opinionated, but at this point I'm ready to pass a law arming
garbage mensanitation engineers with pellet guns and permission to shoot out the windows of any cars that honk at them.Have you ever seen a garbage strike? People don't want to haul garbage in their own precious cars, so the streets line up with filth alarmingly quickly -- I'm always astonished at just how much waste most households produce.
And yet almost every single week, our sanitation engineers are here cheerfully doing their jobs (they are uniformly really nice guys; I have yet to meet one of them who doesn't greet you with a wave and a smile when you rush to push out the cans for them. Of course, it's probably their morning entertainment and you're saving them from having to get off the truck to push out the cans themselves, but...). And some car pulls up right behind them and starts honking. "Stop doing your job on this narrow street! I can't possibly be bothered to back up and turn around! You need to stop what you're doing, skip this block, and come back once I'm through!"
The staggering entitlement of it is appalling.
You don't want to know what would happen if we tried what you suggest around here.
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You don't want to know what would happen if we tried what you suggest around here.I may be slightly opinionated, but at this point I'm ready to pass a law arming
garbage mensanitation engineers with pellet guns and permission to shoot out the windows of any cars that honk at them.Have you ever seen a garbage strike? People don't want to haul garbage in their own precious cars, so the streets line up with filth alarmingly quickly -- I'm always astonished at just how much waste most households produce.
And yet almost every single week, our sanitation engineers are here cheerfully doing their jobs (they are uniformly really nice guys; I have yet to meet one of them who doesn't greet you with a wave and a smile when you rush to push out the cans for them. Of course, it's probably their morning entertainment and you're saving them from having to get off the truck to push out the cans themselves, but...). And some car pulls up right behind them and starts honking. "Stop doing your job on this narrow street! I can't possibly be bothered to back up and turn around! You need to stop what you're doing, skip this block, and come back once I'm through!"
The staggering entitlement of it is appalling.
(1) Stereotypical New Yorkers are paragons of entitlement
(2) Stereotypical New Yorkers learn Honking as a Second Language (HSL) on turning 16
Last night was the first night I've been able to leave the windows open all night. We're moving into late Spring. (And yes, I'm going to capitalize the seasons whether or not it's grammatically correct, because I consider the seasons to be proper nouns, grammarians be darned!)
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(1) Stereotypical New Yorkers are paragons of entitlementYou don't want to know what would happen if we tried what you suggest around here.I may be slightly opinionated, but at this point I'm ready to pass a law arming
garbage mensanitation engineers with pellet guns and permission to shoot out the windows of any cars that honk at them.Have you ever seen a garbage strike? People don't want to haul garbage in their own precious cars, so the streets line up with filth alarmingly quickly -- I'm always astonished at just how much waste most households produce.
And yet almost every single week, our sanitation engineers are here cheerfully doing their jobs (they are uniformly really nice guys; I have yet to meet one of them who doesn't greet you with a wave and a smile when you rush to push out the cans for them. Of course, it's probably their morning entertainment and you're saving them from having to get off the truck to push out the cans themselves, but...). And some car pulls up right behind them and starts honking. "Stop doing your job on this narrow street! I can't possibly be bothered to back up and turn around! You need to stop what you're doing, skip this block, and come back once I'm through!"
The staggering entitlement of it is appalling.
No, someone turning around on one of our side streets that sanitation loves to use and driving the wrong way down a one way street(unless youre in Queens, naturally) would create a massive, massive car accident, followed by someone popping a trunk open and things getting ugly.
(2) Stereotypical New Yorkers learn Honking as a Second Language (HSL) on turning 16
No, 18.
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Another random question for the masses: Since the Feds destroyed the USPS in 2006 (if you haven't ever heard of it, look up the utterly appalling Postal Act of 2006), for us Tuesdays are now "junk mail Tuesdays". We never get First Class mail on a Tuesday. If there's no junk mail, we get no mail at all.
I'm sure it's a cost-cutting measure, but I'm wondering whether everyone else has one day of the week where they never get any "real" mail?
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Another random question for the masses: Since the Feds destroyed the USPS in 2006 (if you haven't ever heard of it, look up the utterly appalling Postal Act of 2006), for us Tuesdays are now "junk mail Tuesdays". We never get First Class mail on a Tuesday. If there's no junk mail, we get no mail at all.
I'm sure it's a cost-cutting measure, but I'm wondering whether everyone else has one day of the week where they never get any "real" mail?
Thursdays here.
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(2) Stereotypical New Yorkers learn Honking as a Second Language (HSL) on turning 16
My tired brain interpreted this as "New Yorkers become the Untitled Goose at 16."
OMG. Even worse. Shiro claims that, "Trash day and junk mail day always work together."
For me that's true. Trash day is Tuesday. Junk mail day is Tuesday. To ensure you have the junk mail around for as long as possible.
CY, does your trash day happen to be Thursday?
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(2) Stereotypical New Yorkers learn Honking as a Second Language (HSL) on turning 16My tired brain interpreted this as "New Yorkers become the Untitled Goose at 16."
No, that's 15.
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I've mentioned this before, but I'm really bothered by modern contests that use online voting. I think I posted a couple of years ago that a parent was broadcasting to our 3,000+ person channel to vote for their kid's science project in their middle school science fair. Now we've got our SVPs encouraging their entire organizations to vote for projects submitted to a public competition.
I am (mostly) Lawful. I'm not going to vote for a project I've never seen in a contest I've never even heard of. Unfortunately, I am in the tiny minority and hundreds of my co-workers are responding, "Oooooh, yeah! Go team!" and throwing down their votes.
I suspect that it was because I was remarkably unpopular as a kid, but turning any kind of competition into a popularity contest (even in the form of, "How many co-workers do you have?") really rubs me the wrong way.
"But everybody does it! That's how contests are done now!"
That doesn't make it right.
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I've mentioned this before, but I'm really bothered by modern contests that use online voting. I think I posted a couple of years ago that a parent was broadcasting to our 3,000+ person channel to vote for their kid's science project in their middle school science fair. Now we've got our SVPs encouraging their entire organizations to vote for projects submitted to a public competition.
I am (mostly) Lawful. I'm not going to vote for a project I've never seen in a contest I've never even heard of. Unfortunately, I am in the tiny minority and hundreds of my co-workers are responding, "Oooooh, yeah! Go team!" and throwing down their votes.
I suspect that it was because I was remarkably unpopular as a kid, but turning any kind of competition into a popularity contest (even in the form of, "How many co-workers do you have?") really rubs me the wrong way.
"But everybody does it! That's how contests are done now!"
That doesn't make it right.
Hark! The paladin is against voting! I knew it! Down with Law! Up with Chaos!
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"But everybody does it! That's how contests are done now!"
Saying "everybody is doing it" is a sure-fire way to get me to not do something.
My first AI apocalypse!
We are doomed! Doomed, I say!!!
Oh, wait, I just needed to clear cookies and log in into ChatGPT manually after the previous session ended...
Never mind.
After three months of working with ChatGPT as main tool for translations, perspective of having to rely solely on Google Translate filled me with dread...
Another minor success of today... I managed to not eat the whole 1 kilogram lasagna at once!
One two thirds.
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OMG. Even worse. Shiro claims that, "Trash day and junk mail day always work together."
For me that's true. Trash day is Tuesday. Junk mail day is Tuesday. To ensure you have the junk mail around for as long as possible.
CY, does your trash day happen to be Thursday?
No, Madison has their s~@+ together so trash day is always the day after junk mail day.
New apartment uses a trash service though and they empty the dumpsters on Monday.
Well, either my ex-wife moved to Illinois or hackers have gotten ahold of the Playstation account.
Either way, if they want to change anything they need to verify their identity through my phone and there is no financial information stored on there anyway.
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It's amusing/baffling how IT workers live in a different universe than the rest of us.
At the moment, I have to follow two-factor authentication: I put in my username and password, then use my phone app to confirm access.
Global IT is rolling out "passwordless sign-on". So instead of a username and password, I use a username and "biometric access". But facial recognition will only use the laptop camera, which won't work since the laptop is in a cubby and can't even open. Fingerprint recognition has never worked on me. So I put in a PIN instead.
In other words, my "passwordless" sign-in is me using a PIN instead of a password. Because somehow changing the name of what I'm doing makes it more secure.
EDIT: OK. Shiro explained it to me: My issue is that I never access work sites from anything other than my laptop. By switching to this system, if I were to try to access the network from a different computer I'd be S.O.L., even with the password, the PIN, and the phone. So now a miscreant would need access to my computer and not just my phone. That makes sense.
Also, SSO means you have one account that is shared across many services, instead of having a separate account for each unique system, all with different credentials and reset methods and support teams.
And that is *exactly* the issue: We've supposedly had SSO for over a decade now. But every team has implemented it differently so, for example, if I go to our file server I put in my SSO credentials and get access to the files. But if I then go to our review page it doesn't recognize that I'm signed in and I have to put in my SSO credentials again.
I may have a single username and password, but I have to enter it over a dozen times a day because it's not implemented in a reasonable manner.
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It's amusing how you mellow with age.
The kids were up until past 2:00 am gaming last night.
Instead of being jealous that I went to bed at 9, I'm reveling in my good night's sleep and enjoying their exhaustion.
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From an Intel report in Far Cry 6
"We have begun surveillance on their surveillance position. They cannot out-surveilance us"
From an Intel report in Far Cry 6
"We have begun surveillance on their surveillance position. They cannot out-surveilance us"
that literally evoked an audible belly laugh. peak sophistication.
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It is truly rewarding when your approach to your kids is, "Raise them to be decent human beings and the rest will work itself out."
Impus Major spent 11 miserable years of middle school, high school, and community college as a barely-passing layabout. Even in classes he enjoyed (differential equations and quantum physics to name a couple), it was a Herculean effort just to get him to pass.
I didn't despair. Eventually he would find his calling.
He finally did: He wants to go to med school and become a forensic pathologist.
I've done nothing differently. Yet now he's ahead in all his classes, hasn't had a single late assignment, and just got his second 100% midterm in Chemistry.
College is useless until you know what you're striving for. Now that he does, he's on fire. I am very proud.
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I firmly cemented my status as Funniest Man In The World today.
While restocking the first aid kits, I asked a colleague if they wanted to buy an iPad for £10, but what they actually got in an empty tablet box was an *eye pad*. They sound the same when you say them out loud, you see, and this is very hilarious.
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My phone has decided to implement a 3-6 hour delay on text messages.
I think it says everything you need to know about me that I find this barely an inconvenience.
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...but... THE CELICA'S REGISTRATION FINALLY CAME!
The ordeal is over! I texted everyone. Who knows whether they know now?
From an Intel report in Far Cry 6
"We have begun surveillance on their surveillance position. They cannot out-surveilance us"
Are you playing as Dani or Dani?
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Well, it took a day and a half, then my neuron finally triggered and I rebooted my phone. Texts are working normally again...
...both of them.
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Are you playing as Dani or Dani?From an Intel report in Far Cry 6
"We have begun surveillance on their surveillance position. They cannot out-surveilance us"
Chick Dani. Say what you want about the game, the actress playing Dani Rojas absolutely nailed it.
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I actually get a weekend this weekend! Meaning, I don't have to do much of anything beyond take Val to tennis and piano, do some laundry, and make a batch of sangria for the game on Sunday.
No work from school to take home.
No big cooking projects.
No other social engagements.
Dobby is a free elf!
...both of them.
Neurons or texts?
Chick Dani. Say what you want about the game, the actress playing Dani Rojas absolutely nailed it.Are you playing as Dani or Dani?From an Intel report in Far Cry 6
"We have begun surveillance on their surveillance position. They cannot out-surveilance us"
Definitely.
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Definitely.Chick Dani. Say what you want about the game, the actress playing Dani Rojas absolutely nailed it.Are you playing as Dani or Dani?From an Intel report in Far Cry 6
"We have begun surveillance on their surveillance position. They cannot out-surveilance us"
If it had the rpg elements from Far Cry 5 it easily could have been game of the year, but they had to dumb down the progression system. I love the story and characters but the actual game play can get repetitive.
Yesterday when Impus Major declared that he was going to go for a walk in the late afternoon, I told him to watch out because it was cold outside (in the high 40s, which is almost unheard-of during the daylight hours around here). I ended up having to pick him up because an impromptu hailstorm started pelting him during his walk.
It turns out it wasn't just cold yesterday, it was record-breaking cold. I should've known when we got in the car and the outside temperature was 46°F at 5:00 pm, but we're known to have the occasional cold days in February with lows occasionally straying into the high 20s (though that's a "one every 5-19 years" phenomenon), so I'm not surprised it's one of those ridiculous, "This was the coldest April day in history."
And yeah, everyone says, "Big deal," until they actually try living here and realize the people who built our houses had never heard of insulation nor weatherstripping so 46°F outside = 46°F inside and they realize why we always complain about even relatively minor cold.
4.8 earthquake in jersey felt in new york.
Here it's just a little shaking.
4.8 earthquake in jersey felt in new york.
Here it's just a little shaking.
That's big enough to actually knock stuff off shelves. Hope everyone out there is OK.
I am okay.
Didn't feel anything but i work in the Bronx so it was different here.
One of my staff is freaking out. HE felt a lot a little ways down the street from the job(he lives in the Bronx, I am an idiot who commutes from Brooklyn.)
Apparently it was worse in Brooklyn. Mom is freaking out and friends DEFINITELY felt it.
This makes the 3rd earthquake where I felt nothing.
Aren't there pills for that?
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I truly wish I'd been able to send Impus Major to one of your classes.
Oh, he of the, "An advantage of the potato blight virus was that it killed Irish people," fame. Yes. On a real, turned in, graded assignment.
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I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not...I truly wish I'd been able to send Impus Major to one of your classes.
Oh, he of the, "An advantage of the potato blight virus was that it killed Irish people," fame. Yes. On a real, turned in, graded assignment.
English ancestry, I see.
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English ancestry, I see.I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not mark down presentations for using Comic Sans. I will not...I truly wish I'd been able to send Impus Major to one of your classes.
Oh, he of the, "An advantage of the potato blight virus was that it killed Irish people," fame. Yes. On a real, turned in, graded assignment.
Now I want to see Impus Major as 18th, 19th, or early 20th century British idle rich aristocrat or at least landowner.
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Today, we introduced the new guy on the crew (I say "new"- he's got pretty much the same experience I do, he just switched over from a different company) to a time-honored tradition when doing grading or excavation work:
Me: "Hey, Kid, I found you a new wrench."
The Kid: "Sweet, just gotta soak it in some rust remover, then I'll put it in my toolbox."
New Guy: "What's that all about?"
Me: "Me and The Kid have a deal going-- if we find any tools, they're all his, and I get to keep any silverware we find."
New Guy: "Y'all are some weird-ass white people..."