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[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:19 pm] |
Why can I build two new enterprise servers in an operating system I've never even seen before at 4 am after drinking all evening, but I can't keep a piece of 40-year-old Japanese rust running for 10 minutes? I guess I'm thankful that I'm good at what pays and bad at what I enjoy anyway.
The lawn mower just needed new gas, of course. Also, hosing it down with chemtool never hurts. I've never had a mower that had a lever for engaging the blade and a lever for engaging the self-propel hootis. Now the yard looks like some idiot mowed half of it in the rain. |
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| Holiday travel |
[Oct. 18th, 2009|01:07 am] |
Just booked a flight and rental for 7 days in the nullarbor. Got to make the yearly Samhain trip down south.
When the fire burns out here
It's brighter than the city lights
Warmer than a heart of gold
And dingoes howl just to break the silence
The sun comes up just to break the cold
Last night I woke
With the stars looking back at me
Swallowing the sky
I felt no anger, I felt no shame
I felt no reason to cry
If I'm not here in the morning
Yeah, I'll cry a river of tears
And I'll learn to live in a new town
But my heart is staying here
Well it's quiet out here
A hundred miles away
You can hear the train on the line
The whistle blows just to break the silence
I wave just to break the time
I close my eyes
I think of runnin' water
I think of runnin' away
But the fire is burnt to ashes
And it's darker than before
But I can see as clear as day
If I'm not here in the morning
Yeah, I'll cry a river of tears
And I'll learn to live in a new town
But my heart is staying here
I'll learn to live in a new town
But my heart is staying here |
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| Not every user is an idiot. |
[Sep. 15th, 2009|05:16 pm] |
Some are funny as hell:
West Texas,
What type of such and such is this? I’ve had excel blow up on me before, but I’ve never seen it just give up and suggest that “This is all just too much for me to handle,” (I’m paraphrasing here, see the error messages below). This strikes me as a self esteem issue. Have I finally broken the spirit of the little program that could? I’m starting to wonder if the thing can’t hear me cursing at it.
The error seems to happen when I try to save, or the computer auto saves, a read-only file that has formulas looking at other spreadsheets. The odd part here, and this is what suggests this might be a self esteems issue, is it does the calculation. There does not seem to be an actual error. It’s pulling the right info, it just thinks it can’t. Do you have any links for support groups I might direct my computer to?
Not a big deal, I just thought I’d let you know. If this is a real problem I can put in a trouble ticket, but I have a feeling this is just a symptom of a poor work ethic on the part of the computer.
Jason |
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| slave to the machine |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|01:21 pm] |
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Remaining two credit cards under 90% capacity. Next goal <80% capacity! |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 1st, 2009|09:39 am] |
Woot. Down to 2 credit cards with less than 11% interest. If this house thing comes through, I can be down to only 1 thanks to the refund thingy. I've also got offer checks from one of the empty cards for 6%-lifetime-of-the-balance offer. Or I can spend it on liquor and whores. Whatever.
In January I did a balance transfer for 0% for 9 months. (It was originally 6 months, but I always ask for more.) Somehow they marked it down for 11% instead of 0%, so I just got them to refund all the back interest from January. I've also calculated how much to pay each month to have the 0% portion paid off before it runs out.
The other card has a 4% balance on it that should also be paid off before it expires. If my math is right, that is. Things are looking good for old Gil. |
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| Some nights... |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|10:27 am] |
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I went to bed at 6 last night (thanks freevo) and boy were there dreams. Well, only one dream really. The one where you keep looking for some place to pee. Then you wake up and feel for wet sheets. But this one was different; I kept waking up into another dream. I must've made five dream-trips to the bathroom, only to 'wake up' before I could go. When I finally did find my way back to reality around dawn, my bladder hurt the way it hasn't hurt in a long time. Specifically, since that time I lived in a tent for two months and didn't want to get up to walk the 100 yards in the cold. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 13th, 2009|04:56 pm] |
So.....tired.....
It's a good thing my one goal for this weekend is to not vomit.
What's the difference between Jesus and Obama? Jesus could build a cabinet. *rim shot* |
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| Mission Statement |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|09:37 am] |
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If you have any questions please call the help desk - we promise that someone who doesn't care and can't do anything will listen to you whine until you get bored and hang up. |
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| Internet Fail |
[Mar. 2nd, 2009|07:05 pm] |
This is from an ebay auction.
Yes, it's a picture of a picture. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 6th, 2009|11:49 am] |
Somebody in Indiana is selling a parts bike on ebay, but that's
not the story.
The description reads, "Missing tank,seat,headlight and taillight and
side covers. All missing parts are still available from someone."
That cracks me up - '...from someone'. It's like saying 'Sure, you
can find parts, but I'm not even going to pretend I know where. Planet
Earth, maybe?' |
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| Fingerbang |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|08:54 am] |
Typing with only eight fingers make hulk mad.
Finger 1: Index finger, left hand. Injured fighting shift drum spring. Accidentally slammed the top of it (near the cuticle) into the kickstarter shaft. Too bad the splines on it were nice and sharp. Peeled kiwis last night. The citric acid took the scab right off.
Finger 3: Ring finger, left hand. Don't know what happened here. It's some sort of hangnail or ingrown fingernail. It was red, white, hurty, and swollen at the cuticle. Like a sore tooth, I couldn't leave it alone and finally it ejected about a pin-head's worth of goo from between the nail and the cuticle. Felt immediately better, once the urge to vomit passed.
I've been doing transverse abdominus exercises every day for about 6 weeks. I'm almost back-pain free, and weird muscles have been crunching back in line. Also, my left calf has been sore for about a week. I think this has been an issue since I hurt my left lumbar muscle playing basketball in 10th grade. Somebody tell me they know how weird it is when you roll over in bed and the muscles that attach to your pubic bone pop and creak around like some sort of kneecap. I didn't know it was out of line, but I sure as hell wasn't going to ask the chiropractor, "does my junk look crooked to you?"
Meanwhile, I've almost got the nice engine for my black CA200 together. I guess blood really is the magic sauce. |
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| In case you haven't seen this... |
[Jan. 22nd, 2009|08:21 am] |
US Democracy Server: Patch Day
Version 44.0
President
• Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the President to ignore the effects of debuffs applied by the Legislative classes.
• Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug that allowed loot to be transferred from the treasury to anyone on the President’s friends list, or in the President’s party. We are investigating.
• Messages to and from the President will now be correctly saved to the chat log.
• Messages originating from the President were being misclassified as originating from The American People.
• A rendering error that frequently caused the President to appear wrapped in the American Flag texture has been addressed.
Vice President
• The Vice President has been correctly reclassified as a pet.
• No longer immune to damage from the Legislative and Judicial classes.
• The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.
• Reveal Identity: this debuff will no longer be able to target Covert Operatives.
• Messages to and from the Vice President will now be correctly saved to the chat log.
• A rendering bug was affecting the Vice President’s visibility, making him virtually invisible to the rest of the server. This has been addressed.
Cabinet
• There was a bug in the last release that prevented the Cabinet from disagreeing with the President, which was the cause of a number of serious balance issues. This bug has been addressed, and we will continue to monitor the situation.
Judiciary
• Many concerns have been raised regarding balance issues in the Supreme Court. This system is maintained on a different patch schedule, and will require longer to address.
• A large number of NPCs in the Judiciary were incorrectly flagged "ideological." We are trying to identify these cases and rectify this situation.
Homeland Security
• Homeland Security Advisory System: We have identified a bug in this system that prevents the threat level from dropping below Elevated (Yellow). The code for Guarded (Blue) and Low (Green) has been commented out. We are testing the fix and hope to have it in by the next patch.
• Torture: This debuff is being removed after a record number of complaints.
• Item: Large Bottle of Water is incorrectly generating threat with TSA Agents when held in inventory. We are looking into the issue.
• Asking questions about Homeland Security was incorrectly triggering the Chain-Jingoism debuff.
Economy
• Serious on-going issues with server economy are still being addressed. We expect further roll-backs, and appreciate your help identifying and fixing bugs. We can’t make these fixes without your help.
PVP
• Reputation with various factions are being rebalanced. The gradated reputation scale was erroneously being overwritten by the binary For Us/ Against Us flag.
Quests
• The” Desert Storm” quest chain was displaying an erroneous "Mission Accomplished" message near the beginning of the chain.
• The quest chain that begins with “There’s no Cake like Yellow Cake” and terminates with “W-M-Denied” has been identified as uncompletable, and has been removed.
Reagents
• Many recipes that currently call for Crude Oil can now be made with Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Ethanol reagents. We hope to roll out even more sweeping changes in the next patch.
Events
• The “Axis of Evil” event is drawing to a close. Look forward to the “Rebuilding Bridges” event starting in January. |
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| to make monday worse... |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|01:03 pm] |
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There's not much creepier than a male consultant who wears too much of the same perfume as your dead grandmother. Hell no, I'm not going to lunch with you; I can barely keep my breakfast down! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 15th, 2009|11:02 am] |
I just had an intense craving for toast. Dry white toast. There is no smell quite like it. Or I have a tumor. Whatever.
Dreams have been strange to the point of WTF lately. I have been reading 'Love in the Time of Cholera', so I can't blame this on wacky bedtime books.
I won't bore you with details, but last night I dreamed that Abraham Lincoln had sent all the freed slaves and Indians to India. Not only did this almost happen in real life (pinky swear), but in the dream it was just backstory. In the present, not only was it impossible to understand a tech support agent, but in order to get your computer fixed you had to perform rituals that were a mix of potlatch, sun dance, and voodoo. I was an intern at one of the support centers in Hyderabad, and the cube farms each contained a fire, various dead animals, headsets, and catholic paraphernalia. Users would call in with the description of the spirit which had infected the computer, and the agent would decide if it was Lemba, Sobo, Mambo, or some other spirit that needed exorcised. The inside of the call center resembled a third-world bus that someone had set on fire and let loose in an asylum - smoke, chickens, chanting, dancing, and thunder. |
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