GasBandit
Staff member
Remember the airjock who called me sunday morning with her production difficulties 2 weeks ago? Remember how I said she's always in a rush, but is undisciplinable?
I just found out a spot I assigned to her LAST friday, and texted her about, and she texted back acknowledgement, that was supposed to start running monday... never got done. It was supposed to be running all this week, and the salesperson just put through the paperwork to extend it to next week (which is how I found out it wasn't done). I'd probably have found out sooner if I hadn't taken Mon thru Wed off to spend with my folks who came in from out of town. Now the salesperson is going to hit the roof, and run crying to the general manager, who's going to blow his stack, and all I can do is hold up my text conversation log and say "SHE KNEW ABOUT IT ON FRIDAY, IT NEVER GOT DONE AND I WASN'T HERE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THAT UNTIL YESTERDAY" but I know that because she's fucking teflon it'll end up coming out of MY hide instead.[DOUBLEPOST=1425689991,1425689715][/DOUBLEPOST]And now teflon girl is putting my calls to voice mail and ignoring my texts.
I just found out a spot I assigned to her LAST friday, and texted her about, and she texted back acknowledgement, that was supposed to start running monday... never got done. It was supposed to be running all this week, and the salesperson just put through the paperwork to extend it to next week (which is how I found out it wasn't done). I'd probably have found out sooner if I hadn't taken Mon thru Wed off to spend with my folks who came in from out of town. Now the salesperson is going to hit the roof, and run crying to the general manager, who's going to blow his stack, and all I can do is hold up my text conversation log and say "SHE KNEW ABOUT IT ON FRIDAY, IT NEVER GOT DONE AND I WASN'T HERE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THAT UNTIL YESTERDAY" but I know that because she's fucking teflon it'll end up coming out of MY hide instead.[DOUBLEPOST=1425689991,1425689715][/DOUBLEPOST]And now teflon girl is putting my calls to voice mail and ignoring my texts.
I feel for you, Gas, in that everything falls apart when I leave too.
And on my leaving anyway, wife's car blew out a tire so bad it bent the wheel, meaning repairs to be done when we get back.
To put a fucking cherry on top of the other shit, my aunt just called to tell me, more or less, they don't have time to meet us at the airport tomorrow. Thanks, guys. That's swell.
And on my leaving anyway, wife's car blew out a tire so bad it bent the wheel, meaning repairs to be done when we get back.
To put a fucking cherry on top of the other shit, my aunt just called to tell me, more or less, they don't have time to meet us at the airport tomorrow. Thanks, guys. That's swell.
My wife lived with her mom for most of her life (lived with her dad for like MAYBE 6 months then moved back). My wife has been talking on and off to her dad for a few years now. When we went to Wisconsin we were going to carve out a whole day to go to Indiana to visit her dad. He said she had her "chance 16 years ago" (when she was a teenager) and basically screw off he doesn't care about her anymore
I don't comprehend family. Or humans.
Why, yes, FileZilla, I do want some random browser hijacker and whatever other malware you decided to bundle with your installation. I do think spending an hour tracking down whatever you decided to install is a good use of my time. Oh, and don't worry, I absolutely won't uninstall your software and use an alternative out of principle now. And I definitely won't tell people about how FileZilla installed malware on my computer.
Did you guys hear that? I'm totally not telling anyone FileZilla installed malware on my computer.
Did you guys hear that? I'm totally not telling anyone FileZilla installed malware on my computer.
GasBandit
Staff member
Are you sure you actually downloaded filezilla from the real honest to god filezilla site? Because it's very common for 3rd party websites to repackage free/popular programs with their own installers that install adware/malware that directly profits the 3rd party financially.
https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=31935
Yep, that was the first thing I checked when I realized I'd been infected by malware. It was their actual site.
fade
Staff member
Well I know nothing is new under the sun, but there's this big reveal I had for Fade that I thought was reasonably unique. Except I just finished Hunter x Hunter and the big reveal in the final episode is extremely similar.
The earth as we know it is only a small part of the actual earth and there are special qualifications for getting to the rest. I don't know the mechanism in the anime but in Fade, there is a jagged, discontinuous meridian of "wormholes" that function to make the earth round. The poem on the back of the map holds directions to a chink in the wall.
figmentPez
Staff member
I dunno how similar Hunter x Hunter and Fade are in the specifics, but that's not an uncommon idea. Just a few stories that have a similar concept:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Neverwhere
Stardust
okay, just about ever Neil Gaiman story, but that's because he draws on the idea of a Fae realm that's present in a lot of myths. Heck, to a certain extent even Harry Potter suggests a fairly expansive world living alongside our own, that most people have no clue about.
Neverwhere
Stardust
okay, just about ever Neil Gaiman story, but that's because he draws on the idea of a Fae realm that's present in a lot of myths. Heck, to a certain extent even Harry Potter suggests a fairly expansive world living alongside our own, that most people have no clue about.
fade
Staff member
Sure there's a lot of stories about
places people aren't aware of, but thats not the bit I was surprised by. In Harry potter and journey to the center of the earth, those places are still part of the earth as we know it, they're just generally unknown. The idea of some unknown place is pretty common. The thing that was similar to fade is that the actual earth--the planet itself--was bigger than we know.
I just lost my assistant, system support specialist, that I have been training for the last 7 months. After a year of searching and not being able to find anyone qualified to do the job, we hired the smartest admin associate we had for the job. We will likely go through the same process again.
One of those days: it's my last day off before returning to "my happy place" (as my sister calls her place of employment). There has been rampant "required additional hours of work" (aka forced overtime) due to various reasons - mostly under-staffing, but for other reasons that I really can't go into here.
To avoid the forcing - which is at its worst on weekends, when the staffing is lowest and the numbers game is not in my favor - I have been signing up for scheduled overtime. This is OT that is known about in advance, because of expected reasons (usually people on vacation). By signing up for one particular shift, I manage to avoid ordering on two consecutive mornings.
I get called for said scheduled overtime, and it's in the very building and position that I'm trying to avoid working in - but will likely get ordered into working the shift before, and two shifts later, because no one wants to work in that position.
To avoid the forcing - which is at its worst on weekends, when the staffing is lowest and the numbers game is not in my favor - I have been signing up for scheduled overtime. This is OT that is known about in advance, because of expected reasons (usually people on vacation). By signing up for one particular shift, I manage to avoid ordering on two consecutive mornings.
I get called for said scheduled overtime, and it's in the very building and position that I'm trying to avoid working in - but will likely get ordered into working the shift before, and two shifts later, because no one wants to work in that position.
So, I started a standard batch of mead (4-to-1 water-to-honey ratio), wyeast sweet mead yeast, nutrients. Nothing fancy.
The smack-pack was slow to proof, but the bag did eventually inflate, so I figured the yeast was slow/sluggish, but would be fine.
24 hours later, no bubbling. Popped the top, no yeast activity at all--all I smell is honey water. Happen to have a bought spare smack-pack for a second batch, so I smack it. It doesn't proof at all, and the bag never inflates. Well, shit. So I decide to try troubleshooting instead.
I move the mead to a different location, aerate it, feed it some more nutrients. Even put a drop of olive oil in it. 24 hours later--nada. Still a dead bucket of honey water.
I happen to have some lavlin ec-1118 in the fridge, so I decide to pitch that, in case my initial pitch just wasn't up to the task. This bums me out, because my wife likes the taste and slightly less alcoholic nature of the wyeast strain.
24 hours later, no activity. Well, shit. What the hell could be wrong? I've been brewing on and off for over 20 years, and I've never had a mead that simply wouldn't start, no matter what I did.
Could it be my brand new fermentation bucket doesn't seal? I pop the top, and the lavlin is definitely working--the must is cloudy, and has a distinct yeasty smell, and is starting to flocculate. I should be getting bubbling, so it's definitely the bucket. I swap buckets to the old tried-and-true.
Sure enough, it started bubbling every second or so as soon as I popped the lid down and put the airlock on it.
Both the dead yeast and the leaky bucket came from my local homebrew shop. I'm very annoyed with them.
The smack-pack was slow to proof, but the bag did eventually inflate, so I figured the yeast was slow/sluggish, but would be fine.
24 hours later, no bubbling. Popped the top, no yeast activity at all--all I smell is honey water. Happen to have a bought spare smack-pack for a second batch, so I smack it. It doesn't proof at all, and the bag never inflates. Well, shit. So I decide to try troubleshooting instead.
I move the mead to a different location, aerate it, feed it some more nutrients. Even put a drop of olive oil in it. 24 hours later--nada. Still a dead bucket of honey water.
I happen to have some lavlin ec-1118 in the fridge, so I decide to pitch that, in case my initial pitch just wasn't up to the task. This bums me out, because my wife likes the taste and slightly less alcoholic nature of the wyeast strain.
24 hours later, no activity. Well, shit. What the hell could be wrong? I've been brewing on and off for over 20 years, and I've never had a mead that simply wouldn't start, no matter what I did.
Could it be my brand new fermentation bucket doesn't seal? I pop the top, and the lavlin is definitely working--the must is cloudy, and has a distinct yeasty smell, and is starting to flocculate. I should be getting bubbling, so it's definitely the bucket. I swap buckets to the old tried-and-true.
Sure enough, it started bubbling every second or so as soon as I popped the lid down and put the airlock on it.
Both the dead yeast and the leaky bucket came from my local homebrew shop. I'm very annoyed with them.
That's fine. It's when she starts calling you "daddy" that you have to worry.
Hey, My wife calls me, Daddy!
I'm about to Hulk out!
Poe I feel your pain, there are dozens of cute girls at my work place, but I have been promoted twice since starting and now I cant date them because I "outrank" them.
After a string of bad smack packs myself, I switched to dry yeast and made starters. Never had a problem with them, and fermentation starts much quicker.
Yeah, dry is always more reliable. Unfortunately, only a small subset of yeasts will tolerate being dried and rehydrated. You get a lot more variety with liquid yeast.
fade
Staff member
Matt-senpai!!!!!
Fire the cutest one, then ask her out. If she says no, move on to the next-cutest.
My workplace gave me a new, more powerful computer. This is good.
They transferred over all my work-related files. This is good.
They did not transfer over the MUD client I'd installed on my previous computer, nor the files associated with the MUD client. This is bad, though understandable.
I can redownload and reinstall the MUD client. This is good.
All of my self-made maps and triggers have been wiped out. This is bad. Triggers, those can be recreated. But those maps took me literally months to make, at great risk to my MUD character. I am not looking forward to remapping all those areas.
EDIT: And now this new computer won't save the profiles I make on my MUD client. Whelp, guess I'll just have to actually do my work now.
They transferred over all my work-related files. This is good.
They did not transfer over the MUD client I'd installed on my previous computer, nor the files associated with the MUD client. This is bad, though understandable.
I can redownload and reinstall the MUD client. This is good.
All of my self-made maps and triggers have been wiped out. This is bad. Triggers, those can be recreated. But those maps took me literally months to make, at great risk to my MUD character. I am not looking forward to remapping all those areas.
EDIT: And now this new computer won't save the profiles I make on my MUD client. Whelp, guess I'll just have to actually do my work now.
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