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I’ve never had an order go missing, but we have had a number of mistakes on what we received. Usually it’s Cyz’s items that get done wrong. :/Come to the correct Coast, Cyz' first Uber Eats driver beating is free.
We don’t use Uber Eats, we order from places with actual delivery staff. And we tip 30%.
(Maybe not entirely accurate every time but it’s the ideal.)
I swear.
Impus Major: Dad, are grapes toxic to cats?
NobodysHome: Yes, why?
IM: They're Lenore's new favorite toy.
So now we have to hide our grapes. Because I can put out cat food all day and the cats won't touch it. But something poisonous? Nom nom nom!
I’ve never had an order go missing, but we have had a number of mistakes on what we received. Usually it’s Cyz’s items that get done wrong. :/Come to the correct Coast, Cyz' first Uber Eats driver beating is free.We don’t use Uber Eats, we order from places with actual delivery staff. And we tip 30%.
(Maybe not entirely accurate every time but it’s the ideal.)
Unfortunately, restaurants around here can't afford delivery staff. The wonderful Indian restaurant that delivered used the owner's son, so once he went to college delivery stopped. So I think the whole, "There are no other options," landscape contributes to the terrible delivery drivers around here.
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I swear, one of my greatest furies working in modern tech is the complete abandonment of the idea, "What if something goes wrong?"
So, our company uses Slack as our internal messaging client. I have a fairly standard American first name, so every month or so someone accidentally adds me to a Slack group chat.
And nope. There's no way to get out of it.
I was looking at something similar for Discord: The family's been sharing photos and I want to download the photo to my desktop then delete the message so I know I've processed it. Nope. If I didn't send it, I can't delete it. And I can't delete a conversation, either.
The idea that these companies are producing massive messaging apps with no ability to leave conversations or delete old messages is aggravating, to put it mildly.
I have invented (but not perfected) a new dance to do when listening to C&W instrumentals set to a moderate polka beat, called the 'Dandy Walk'. I think it has potential.
I have to admit, my IT department does some really stupid stuff (we each have 4 different passwords, 3 of which have to be changed every 90 days and the fourth (our primary password) that doesn't). But I'm appreciating their anti-phishing campaign.
Another phishing email came in. This one patently obvious. So I reported it. And got another, "Good job! You caught another of our test emails!"
So every month or so it seems like they're sending out a fake phishing email to try to educate employees.
My *big* concern is that there will be no discipline involved for people who continuously fall for these emails. If there are no consequences for being wrong, then why worry about being right?
Holy crap. Speaking of fireable offenses, one of our directors just sent out an email to our entire division (over 800 people) saying, "Hey! I just got this spam email and I found out that if you report it you get credit for security awareness! Here are the instructions!"
I liken it to having the fire alarm go off in your building and having a manager say, "Oh, no! I know a guy in facilities and this is just a drill! Everyone ignore it and keep on working!"
I feel like filing a formal ethics complaint against her is going a bit far, but I'm d**ned close. "What part of, 'We are testing employees' security awareness?' did you not understand?"
OK. Mephisto has (barely) passed his first intelligence test.
We have the first "decent" rain of the season this morning. The rest of you would likely qualify it as "sprinkling" because it might be raining at a rate of 0.1"/hour (2.54 mm). For us, that counts.
I've carried each kitten outside into the rain so they understand why I'm not letting them out.
Morrigan got it immmediately.
Lenore got it immediately.
It took 3 trips outside, during which he glared balefully at the sky and wished he could bat at it, but Mephisto finally seems to understand why I'm not letting him out.
I made chili yesterday. Usually I put in a dozen or so large jalapeños, but the store didn't have any. So I bought habaneros instead. I put in 3, seeds and all. And there is basically no spice at all. They smelled plenty spicy when I was chopping them, but I sure can't tell they're in there. Maybe I got a bum batch?
Yeah, that should have been plenty. I have many unpleasant stories about preparing food for our aikido dojo, and one of them was when a group of the yudansha, our sensei included, asked me to make "the hottest lamb curry I possibly could."
I obliged, putting 10 habañeros in to maybe 6 quarts/liters of curry, and it was at the edge of my tolerance. So 3 should have been very noticeable.
And of course, I put a sign on the top of the curry, "Warning! Very very spicy!" and people talked about how insanely hot it was and it didn't matter. One of the yudansha (our host, in fact) who hadn't been part of the conversation ignored the signs, ignored other people's warnings, and then spent a solid 5 minutes berating me for being an a****le for bringing such a hot curry, for perpetrating such a "sick joke", and for being such a horrible person in general. He said he'd considered throwing me out of the house and banning me, but since his kid was getting along so well with my kids he wasn't going to do it.
And yes, I have multiple stories like that.
Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.
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Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.
For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
I have to admit, my IT department does some really stupid stuff (we each have 4 different passwords, 3 of which have to be changed every 90 days and the fourth (our primary password) that doesn't). But I'm appreciating their anti-phishing campaign.
Another phishing email came in. This one patently obvious. So I reported it. And got another, "Good job! You caught another of our test emails!"
So every month or so it seems like they're sending out a fake phishing email to try to educate employees.
My *big* concern is that there will be no discipline involved for people who continuously fall for these emails. If there are no consequences for being wrong, then why worry about being right?
Yeah my old job did this all the time, and then every three months we had to go through a 20- to 50-minute series of slideshows and panel-style essay videos telling us about office safety, digital privacy, and loyalty to the capitalist overlords.
I typically watched YouTube and/or played video games while the videos ran in the background, gave the obvious answers to the little quiz sections, and submitted the thing several minutes after it was technically done because it was an excuse to goof around on company time.
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Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
I have many, many, many bad things to say about life in the South - and have, and will, and will continue to do so for the rest of my life - but the one thing I can say for certain is that they have potluck etiquette down.
And a part of that is "If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it, and if you eat it and don't like it, then that's your problem - not the host's, not the cook's or the person who brought it, not the potluck's."
I absolutely hate that I can say this, but for once I think this is something California could stand to learn a bit from the South about. And yes, that did put a rancid taste in my mouth to admit.
I have to admit, my IT department does some really stupid stuff (we each have 4 different passwords, 3 of which have to be changed every 90 days and the fourth (our primary password) that doesn't). But I'm appreciating their anti-phishing campaign.
Another phishing email came in. This one patently obvious. So I reported it. And got another, "Good job! You caught another of our test emails!"
So every month or so it seems like they're sending out a fake phishing email to try to educate employees.
My *big* concern is that there will be no discipline involved for people who continuously fall for these emails. If there are no consequences for being wrong, then why worry about being right?
Yeah my old job did this all the time, and then every three months we had to go through a 20- to 50-minute series of slideshows and panel-style essay videos telling us about office safety, digital privacy, and loyalty to the capitalist overlords.
I typically watched YouTube and/or played video games while the videos ran in the background, gave the obvious answers to the little quiz sections, and submitted the thing several minutes after it was technically done because it was an excuse to goof around on company time.
Well, the part that bothers me is that all these data breaches you hear about? They're primarily caused by either by phishing attacks or impersonation, both of which are human, not coding error. And since you can't beat stupid out of someone, you have to make it extremely consequential to fall for such attacks. But if your title is "Director" or above and you fall for a phishing attack, you'll most likely get nothing more than a slap on the wrist and a "don't do it again" as the company spends tens of millions in damage control. It's... enraging.
(The latest breach I was reading about was the most appalling impostor attack I've ever seen -- a miscreant went onto LinkedIn, found an admin working for a large company, mocked up a gmail address with a variant of that person's make, wrote the company's IT department and said, "Hey, I forgot my password! Can you sent a password reset link to this email address?" and they did. No level of (usable) software security will protect you from that level of abject stupidity.)
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I absolutely hate that I can say this, but for once I think this is something California could stand to learn a bit from the South about. And yes, that did put a rancid taste in my mouth to admit.
Shiro loves to point out all the Southern things that California could stand to learn.
The difference in my experience is that if you tell a Californian, "Hey the South does this better than you. You should pick up on it," they'll respond, "That's a good point. We really should."
If you tell a Southerner that California does this better than you, you'd better be prepared for a duel.
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NobodysHome: If AI could clean my house, do dishes, and keep my budget up to date, I'd be all in.
GothBard: Oh, gods, yeah. If AI could do dishes that would be all I needed.
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....<snip>But I'm appreciating their anti-phishing campaign.
Another phishing email came in. This one patently obvious. So I reported it. And got another, "Good job! You caught another of our test emails!"
So every month or so it seems like they're sending out a fake phishing email to try to educate employees.
My *big* concern is that there will be no discipline involved for people who continuously fall for these emails. If there are no consequences for being wrong, then why worry about being right?
Or you can do what I do:
Set a rule for every email I suspect is not real work and send it to the Junk Mail folder and then never look at anything in that folder.If a manager asks me about an email I haven't seen I suggest it got caught in server-level filters.
Or you can do what my 'slower' colleagues have been trained to do by the consequences of getting pseudo-phished. Just manually delete everything they're not 100% certain about and play dumb when asked about something legit that they whacked. Same result, less effort on my part.
Hey, at least they're doing something other than clicking through unsolicited links. I approve.
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NobodysHome: If AI could clean my house, do dishes, and keep my budget up to date, I'd be all in.
GothBard: Oh, gods, yeah. If AI could do dishes that would be all I needed.
AI, in this case, may have to stand for 'An Individual' for the time being.
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NobodysHome: If AI could clean my house, do dishes, and keep my budget up to date, I'd be all in.
GothBard: Oh, gods, yeah. If AI could do dishes that would be all I needed.
If you get AI to wash the dishes and clean the house, send it my way.
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I had a thought. But then I had another unrelated thought and lost the previous one...
I could use a built-in AI that could keep track of all my ideas for me.
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I'm taking prompt engineering training and I loved the AI expert who said, "A.I. is a lovable, imaginative, idiot robot."
I don't think I've heard a better description.
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Yes, praise the Great Intelligence!
I'm taking prompt engineering training and I loved the AI expert who said, "A.I. is a lovable, imaginative, idiot robot."
Mmph.
Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
FEAST UPON INVERTEBRATES DAMN YOU
More seriously I am interested in finding out what you think is spicy, as I have been disappointed before...
Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
FEAST UPON INVERTEBRATES DAMN YOU
More seriously I am interested in finding out what you think is spicy, as I have been disappointed before...
I think a good measure is the Chinese red peppers they put in stuff like Mongolian beef or Kung Pao chicken. I chew those up and eat them and it gives the dish a pleasant spiciness. Though apparently even native Chinese people don't do that, as I had a waiter exclaim, "No, don't do that!" at me while I was doing it. Pickled jalaneños are ignorable, raw jalapenos are noticeable.
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*discussing hot food*
I don't think it was supposed to be that kind of hot food...
Fantasy NPC: Enner Liesth, Tangler Of Lineages
When you need a wingman to romance the Queen behind the King's back...
I think a good measure is the Chinese red peppers they put in stuff like Mongolian beef or Kung Pao chicken. I chew those up and eat them and it gives the dish a pleasant spiciness. Though apparently even native Chinese people don't do that, as I had a waiter exclaim, "No, don't do that!" at me while I was doing it. Pickled jalaneños are ignorable, raw jalapenos are noticeable.Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
FEAST UPON INVERTEBRATES DAMN YOU
More seriously I am interested in finding out what you think is spicy, as I have been disappointed before...
Szechuan peppers?
Szechuan peppers?I think a good measure is the Chinese red peppers they put in stuff like Mongolian beef or Kung Pao chicken. I chew those up and eat them and it gives the dish a pleasant spiciness. Though apparently even native Chinese people don't do that, as I had a waiter exclaim, "No, don't do that!" at me while I was doing it. Pickled jalaneños are ignorable, raw jalapenos are noticeable.Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
FEAST UPON INVERTEBRATES DAMN YOU
More seriously I am interested in finding out what you think is spicy, as I have been disappointed before...
I believe that's what you Brits call them, yes.
It's transliterated Sichuan now, apparently that's a more accurate spelling/pronunciation of the actual Chinese than the old spelling.
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Sitting on my back porch. The moon is almost full. The sky has beautiful sunset colors.
Pork on the grill. I put a lot of cayenne and garlic powder on there to make it spicy.
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Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
There were some serious d**kbags in the Berkeley yudanshakai. Did not know how to check their egos at the door and leave them under the bench with their shoes and their car keys. That's why a bunch of people left.
The jambalaya had chicken, andouille sausage, prawns, and a ton of fresh herbs. It was damn good. But you have to like prawns.
Earlier this week, I did my annual day at school where I go to the fish market, get a whole two-pound fish, bring it into school on ice, and give all three Primary classes the Parts of the Fish lesson outside on the picnic table so they can see the structure of the gills and how the scales are translucent and how the fin rays are actually poky at the ends and so forth. Then I take the fish home and filet it and make cioppino with it.
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...There were some serious d**kbags in the Berkeley yudanshakai. Did not know how to check their egos at the door and leave them under the bench with their shoes and their car keys. That's why a bunch of people left.
Oh, yeah. My recollection was that there might have been a couple of jerks in the Richmond location, but they were such a minority we were a happy, sociable family. It wasn't 'til sensei got obsessed with getting back to Berkeley that we started getting some serious "people with issues" problems, and once the move happened the people at the new location were so unwelcoming and hostile that we all quit in rapid succession. It really felt like losing family, but holy cow that Berkeley location attracted some a*****es.
Ah, corporate life in the last 2 months of the year. Thanks to the holidays I have vast swaths of PTO coming up throughout November and December. And I've used 68 of my 80 "recommended" sick days for the year. "Recommended" meaning that when I started you had a limit of 10 sick days a year. Once we went to unlimited PTO they stopped caring much, but since a PTO day is, "You set this up with your manager in advance," and a sick day is, "You just didn't show up to work today," they still track them and send you a "tut-tut" if you take too many.
So it's all about tactical use vs. needed use. You want to get in that final 12 hours, but you want to do it in a way that maximizes relaxation and doesn't hose you if you get really sick later in the year.
So yeah, it's Monday. I'm doing boring-a$$ work waiting for another team to debug my image. It is a perfect day to take the afternoon "sick" because I don't have the needed tools for my primary work. But do I really want to spend 1/3 of my remaining sick hours for the year on a day where I'm just bored, and not particularly stressed?
*SIGH*. Probably not. Back to the slide mines...
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Incoming age flex on internet:
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Incoming age flex on internet:
GothBard taught me the ever-important, "Put 'f**king' into every search. That auto-disables the AI because of its 'inappropriate content' filter."
Worked like a charm for ages... until I looked up something like, "What are the current open f**king positions at <company>?"
NOT a good search...
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Incoming age flex on internet:
GothBard taught me the ever-important, "Put 'f**king' into every search. That auto-disables the AI because of its 'inappropriate content' filter."
Worked like a charm for ages... until I looked up something like, "What are the current open f**king positions at <company>?"
NOT a good search...
... and that's how NobodysHome started working for P**nHub...