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Readies the fire extinguisher , duct tape, screwdrivers, sage, salt, rubber chicken, and hard cider.....
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Reckon a fella could have a pretty damn good weekend in Vegas with all that...
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I lost my sweet bippy in an earlier wager. What other things might I offer. I would like to get back my bippy. It was sweet.Do you have someone else's sweet bippy to wager?
Personally, I've always preferred a saltier bippy.
It happened to my in-laws.Put up a sign pool closed due to alligators and hope there isn't a druid for whom that's a bonus?I worked at 2 hotels in Florida that had outdoor pools. Gators were always a possibility. Never happened while I was there, but heard about it happening previously, and another hotel nearby had it happen while I was down there.
I worry for Amby and Solnes and other Florida folks as a result.
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First thread I see "I'm searching for how to make money without woman sacrifice"
Jesus f#%$ing christ the spam has gotten dark!
Really makes you wistful for the Korean gambling sites spam.
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First thread I see "I'm searching for how to make money without woman sacrifice"
Jesus f#%$ing christ the spam has gotten dark!
Really makes you wistful for the Korean gambling sites spam.
What I love about FaWtL: People can reappear after who-knows-how-long gone and don't even have to acknowledge their absence.
I'm going to anyway. Welcome back!
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Reckon a fella could have a pretty damn good weekend in Vegas with all that...
You were SUPPOSED to delete that tape...
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I got up early this morning to feed the cats, went back to bed, then got up again a couple of hours later. I went downstairs, followed by the cats, and reflexively went to the catfood box and opened a couple of packets, until I thought, 'Hold on - I've already done it!'
Oh, the looks of disappointment and betrayal on their furry little faces when they found out they weren't getting the second breakfast they'd been led to expect.
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I saw a note that a Mom left for her (presumably teenage) kids before leaving them alone for the weekend. It said:
"Don't add to the population. Don't subtract from the population. Don't damage or destroy physical property. Stay out of the hospital, newspaper, and jail."
Maybe that would some in helpful for some of you.
That is practically what I told my kids when I turned them loose. Truly fantastic advice.
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Life update.
Still divorced, my ex-wife is going the born again route, so insert your crazy train memes as you will.
Because of that I haven't seen Milo in 2 years and she's completely cutoff Crookshanks.
Crookshanks works with me now and recently moved downtown, so easier to pick her up.
Because of a lack of snow last year I started driving for Uber, but in a professional and contrary way. In that i never cancel on a rider until at least the required 5 minutes, I never hit on the riders, and I NEVER play jazz.
So naturally I average 6 bucks more per hour then the average.
Otherwise I'm kicking ass at work, I'm in charge of all the artsy projects and instead of working with the same guys for the last 20 years I'm now working with and training their kids. And they still can't keep up.
Life is weird, in the last 4 years we lost our dog, my best friend for 25 years passed away, Crookshanks moved out, and I got divorced.
So don't be surprised if I start ghost writing country songs.
Impus Major found an amazingly apropos statement about modern news coverage that really opened my eyes. Since even the news is political these days,
If you write an article that says something along the lines of, "So-and-so said it was raining, and so-and-so said it was sunny," you are useless and should lose your job.
It is your job as a reporter to go out, look at the sky, find out whether it's sunny or raining, and report that.
After he shared that astonishingly simple bit of wisdom with me, it is depressing and astonishing to realize that the majority of "news" from all outlets fails that basic test.
EDIT:
So don't be surprised if I start ghost writing country songs.
I'm sure Impus Major will download them on Spotify.
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Don't mind the multiple claws, it's the stingers that you should be worried of...
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Life update.
Still divorced, my ex-wife is going the born again route, so insert your crazy train memes as you will.
Because of that I haven't seen Milo in 2 years and she's completely cutoff Crookshanks.
Crookshanks works with me now and recently moved downtown, so easier to pick her up.
Because of a lack of snow last year I started driving for Uber, but in a professional and contrary way. In that i never cancel on a rider until at least the required 5 minutes, I never hit on the riders, and I NEVER play jazz.
Not even mid to late '70s Herbie Hancock?
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No jazz! They made me watch a video about maximizing profit and they told me to only play jazz and hand out mints and water bottles to everyone.
It turns out all you have to do to maximize your profit is have a playlist including Piano Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, Kokomo, Black Hole Sun or anything from Nirvana Unplugged.
I should mention i mostly give rides to the bar crowd and college students, in fact on my snow route we do all the frat houses and apartment buildings i drop kids off when I uber, it's definitely handy having 20 years experience driving downtown through every snow and ice storm.
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I'm doing great though I'm keeping positive, I've learned how to live alone for the first time in my life, I have a new car (obviously) with a short loan and I'm kicking ass at work, which is easier to invest yourself in when half the people you work with are basically family.
Life update.
Glad to see you and Crookshanks are doing as well as you can be in that regard.
A big OOF from me on the "born again" nonsense. Been down that road and I do not envy either of you having to be in that situation, and especially Milo being stuck in it. Hopefully they (he?) can get out of there ASAP and back into the sane(-ish) world.
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We are delaying the apocalypse!
Oh sure keep making me wait for walkies...
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We are delaying the apocalypse!
Oh, I'm starting in on it.
My "AI project" is to create an AI where I feed in documentation and out comes video storyboards so we can easily produce video training.
Got Phase I done (convert documentation to formatted numbered steps) and did Sanity Check I: "Does the original document work?"
It didn't. Manager and I spent hours debugging, and she finally got one record to work (out of thousands). So we met with the doc team. Their response, "Wow! You got one to work! We never did!"
SO HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY BE "DOCUMENTATION" IF YOU NEVER GOT IT WORKING!?!?!
Thus, this afternoon's work was, "Try feeding a different doc into the AI."
Yet again, passed Phase 1. Tested the original doc. It failed again.
So we are putting out documentation that fundamentally doesn't work.
Manager now has me testing two more docs at random and if they don't work we're immediately escalating to VP level. The idea that these people are putting out documentation that simply doesn't work as-written and they've never actually tested it is...
...mind-blowing is an understatement.
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One of the interesting things that Google Maps fails at is the inability to select the "easiest route". If you look up the trip from San Francisco International Airport to Berkeley, there are two obvious paths: Head north through San Francisco and across the Bay bridge, or go east across the San Mateo bridge and north along the eastern shore of the bay.
Timewise, going through San Francisco is almost always the best choice, because there's a bypass that drops you in downtown San Francisco, so instead of miles of bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic you only have to do a few blocks of bumper-to-bumper city traffic. But that city traffic is cutthroat and nasty and incredibly stressful. So on your desktop it gives you all three options (stay on the freeway through San Francisco, do the bypass, or do the San Mateo bridge instead). But for reasons I don't understand, on the phone it gives you just the shortest-time option; we haven't managed to convince it to change the route for any reason.
So, it already has an, "Avoid freeways," option. Why not an, "Avoid city streets in the middle of the trip" option? Soooo many of my Google trips become incredibly stressful because, "OK, now get off in this random city and take these side streets you've never been on before to avoid a 5-minute jam on the freeway..."
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We are delaying the apocalypse!Oh, I'm starting in on it.
My "AI project" is to create an AI where I feed in documentation and out comes video storyboards so we can easily produce video training.
Got Phase I done (convert documentation to formatted numbered steps) and did Sanity Check I: "Does the original document work?"
It didn't. Manager and I spent hours debugging, and she finally got one record to work (out of thousands). So we met with the doc team. Their response, "Wow! You got one to work! We never did!"
SO HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY BE "DOCUMENTATION" IF YOU NEVER GOT IT WORKING!?!?!
Thus, this afternoon's work was, "Try feeding a different doc into the AI."
Yet again, passed Phase 1. Tested the original doc. It failed again.
So we are putting out documentation that fundamentally doesn't work.
Manager now has me testing two more docs at random and if they don't work we're immediately escalating to VP level. The idea that these people are putting out documentation that simply doesn't work as-written and they've never actually tested it is...
...mind-blowing is an understatement.
And then people are surprised that no-one (Nobody?) reads manuals...
One of the interesting things that Google Maps fails at is the inability to select the "easiest route". If you look up the trip from San Francisco International Airport to Berkeley, there are two obvious paths: Head north through San Francisco and across the Bay bridge, or go east across the San Mateo bridge and north along the eastern shore of the bay.
Timewise, going through San Francisco is almost always the best choice, because there's a bypass that drops you in downtown San Francisco, so instead of miles of bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic you only have to do a few blocks of bumper-to-bumper city traffic. But that city traffic is cutthroat and nasty and incredibly stressful. So on your desktop it gives you all three options (stay on the freeway through San Francisco, do the bypass, or do the San Mateo bridge instead). But for reasons I don't understand, on the phone it gives you just the shortest-time option; we haven't managed to convince it to change the route for any reason.
So, it already has an, "Avoid freeways," option. Why not an, "Avoid city streets in the middle of the trip" option? Soooo many of my Google trips become incredibly stressful because, "OK, now get off in this random city and take these side streets you've never been on before to avoid a 5-minute jam on the freeway..."
Lol, that was basically my commute for a year! The school I was working at was just a couple of exits south of SFO, and we were living just north of you. It sometimes took me over two hours to get home, even knowing every sneaky route around SF that I could find. Not fun with a screaming infant Hermione in the back.
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We have a new app we're using at work to improve efficiency.
It should be noted, we're a construction company.
Alfredo punched in one day and never punched out, supposedly if you go out to the job site during a full moon you can see him leaning on his rake under a tree saying "f+&~ this s*##, man!".
Jose did punch out but it still recorded him working 1,600 hours on the job site and locked him out.
Don almost quit because of it.
Greg's never even used it.
And me, well they have a whole sideshow on how NOT to use the app made up entirely of my Xbox screenshots and notes (if they're going to require notes for drive time I'm going to make s@&% up).
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Lol, that was basically my commute for a year! The school I was working at was just a couple of exits south of SFO, and we were living just north of you. It sometimes took me over two hours to get home, even knowing every sneaky route around SF that I could find. Not fun with a screaming infant Hermione in the back.One of the interesting things that Google Maps fails at is the inability to select the "easiest route". If you look up the trip from San Francisco International Airport to Berkeley, there are two obvious paths: Head north through San Francisco and across the Bay bridge, or go east across the San Mateo bridge and north along the eastern shore of the bay.
Timewise, going through San Francisco is almost always the best choice, because there's a bypass that drops you in downtown San Francisco, so instead of miles of bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic you only have to do a few blocks of bumper-to-bumper city traffic. But that city traffic is cutthroat and nasty and incredibly stressful. So on your desktop it gives you all three options (stay on the freeway through San Francisco, do the bypass, or do the San Mateo bridge instead). But for reasons I don't understand, on the phone it gives you just the shortest-time option; we haven't managed to convince it to change the route for any reason.
So, it already has an, "Avoid freeways," option. Why not an, "Avoid city streets in the middle of the trip" option? Soooo many of my Google trips become incredibly stressful because, "OK, now get off in this random city and take these side streets you've never been on before to avoid a 5-minute jam on the freeway..."
Our all-time record was 3 hours on Thanksgiving weekend after picking up older brother. In a stick shift 1970 Volvo. Unpleasant.
You have to love the sheer stupidity of the modern world. As I might have mentioned, our phones all stopped getting automated text messages a couple of weeks ago -- turning off WiFi helps, but we live in a cell signal desert so sometimes the texts just can't get through. The only solution is to have the company send 3-4 automatic texts; this somehow "purges" the queue and we get them.
So, I want to complain to Verizon to fix the d**ned thing. But I have to sign in. And it won't let me sign in without... an automated text that I can't receive.
Grr...
GothBard: Holy carp! Over the next decade there will be over $70 trillion in inherited wealth transfer worldwide.
NobodysHome: And is the next sentence, "And Gen X will see $0 of it?"
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I did the thing.
And I swear, speaking of the desire to fire people for not doing their job...
Our overall job description is extremely simple: Every course has a "course design document" that lists all of the slides in the course. For each release, you:
(1) Review the update documentation and note down all changes that affect the course.
(2) Update the course design document to show where you're making changes and send the design document out to stakeholders so they know how the course is going to change.
(3) Update the course based on the design document, including testing through everything you show to make sure it's still technically accurate.
So, one of my co-workers got laid off and I inherited one of his courses. The first thing I noticed was that even when the update documentation noted significant changes to the course, he told our manager that "no changes were needed" to the course. Now I'm finding that his course design has little resemblance to the course -- chapters are rearranged, whole sections are missing, etc. Most of the practices could no longer work as-written.
So, what the f*** was he doing with all his time given that he wasn't doing his ONE JOB?
I did the thing.
California lets you register to be a permanent mail-in voter. I did it way back when I traveled for a living. It was so convenient that the whole family followed suit. Now we sit down on a convenient Saturday in October, go over everything on the ballot, everyone fills out their ballots and seals the envelopes, then whoever's passing by city hall drops them all off. And we get convenient emails that say, "Congratulations! Your vote has been counted!"
All weeks before the actual election...
I did the thing.California lets you register to be a permanent mail-in voter. I did it way back when I traveled for a living. It was so convenient that the whole family followed suit. Now we sit down on a convenient Saturday in October, go over everything on the ballot, everyone fills out their ballots and seals the envelopes, then whoever's passing by city hall drops them all off. And we get convenient emails that say, "Congratulations! Your vote has been counted!"
All weeks before the actual election...
Washington only had mail in ballots when we lived there.
This months Humble Choice collection is terribly unimpressive...
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Sheesh, can't we check US election results without running into a Polish surname anymore?
Today's the kittens' first actual "storm" -- they've seen rain before, but today we're getting strong gusts of wind so leaves and small branches are falling along with the very light rain.
In what seems like absolute prescience, but was actually blind luck, this should be arriving later this morning.
I expect joyful chaos.
Today's the kittens' first actual "storm" -- they've seen rain before, but today we're getting strong gusts of wind so leaves and small branches are falling along with the very light rain.
In what seems like absolute prescience, but was actually blind luck, this should be arriving later this morning.
I expect joyful chaos.
Please keep the little fellows safe they may not be ready for the havoc this will play with their headspace.
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Please keep the little fellows safe they may not be ready for the havoc this will play with their headspace.Today's the kittens' first actual "storm" -- they've seen rain before, but today we're getting strong gusts of wind so leaves and small branches are falling along with the very light rain.
In what seems like absolute prescience, but was actually blind luck, this should be arriving later this morning.
I expect joyful chaos.
Animals are surprisingly smart about storms; as if evolution hard-coded it into their brains.
I picked up each kitten who was eagerly at the back door begging for outsies, carried them outside, and let them sniff the air and feel the wind, then put them back inside. And they were basically, "Yup. Not going out today! Let's wreck the house!"
And after an hour of that, now they're napping.
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The kittens have woken up from their naps and Morrigan is now screaming at me that she's bored. And yes, she's a screamer. C'mon, toy! I NEED you delivered NOW!
EDIT: It's here! And Morrigan's a fan! I am saved!
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Speaking of being unabashedly mercenary, I'm sick of U.S. candy and the fact that it doesn't even pretend to put chocolate in any more. (The best description of what they use now is "brown solidified high-fructose corn syrup".) So for Halloween I bought a few bags of Lindt Lindor balls and a couple of cases of Ferrero Rocher fine hazelnut chocolates. And we had 4 total kids come by, so the kids and their friends are going through the leftovers.
Impus Major: Dad, I formally approve of buying fine chocolates for the Halloween kids.
Yes. I'm sure you do.
Where does white chocolate fall in that consideration?
Do any U.S. companies actually make white chocolate? I think Hershey's produces... something... but I'm not sure what it is.
As for the Lindt balls, Talky already very carefully looted all the white chocolate from the first two bags. So we have a fan.
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Keetons of the storm.
Keetons of the storm.
Around the house they swarm.
Around the house they swarm.
Take a long holiday, and let the keetons play.
You sanity depends on them to learn to swim.
Take them to the gym, take them to the gym.
There’s a keeton on the road. Probably hunting for a toad.
If he don’t move it soon, a car soon by will zoom.
Keeton on the road, keeton on the road.