Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Hey, now, that works surprisingly often with mechanical gubbins.
Try using a knife to extract the staple... after you use it on the salesman.
FTFY
(Added a comma to confuse the issue: is he to use the knife on the salesman after extracting the staple, the staple itself, or the stapler?)
Okay that was really an anti-FTFY.
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GasBandit
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Actually "That was a present from my departed wife" tends to drain the color from most people's faces. He's trying to find a replacement.[DOUBLEPOST=1429642427,1429642271][/DOUBLEPOST]
Tried, tried and tried. It's not coming out.
figmentPez
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Maybe try putting it in the fridge/freezer, or maybe trying to just chill the staple, see if contraction of the parts will help loosen things?
http://www.officesupply.com/school-...e=&network=g&gclid=CPP3gK6MiMUCFQuFaQodihwAvw
But you should make him buy you two.
But you should make him buy you two.
I'm not kidding, I've never had one I wasn't able to fix, the exceptions being the ones where Mr./Mrs. Careless had actually ruined the blade punch.
I agree that it's probably easier to get a new one, though.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Here's some really zoomed in pictures.
And here's the view of the top, or "feeding" end of the mechanism. The main problem is the two metal "tabs" that stick up further than the rest of the shelf... somehow the staple got forced past them, and they refuse to let the staple back its way out again.
Anyway, he's found a replacement. It should be here in a couple days.
While that sucks about your stapler, I feel like there was a missed opportunity since this gif doesn't say "Gods".
Only one of them cares, apparently.
It looks almost like the top got bent. Again, I'm sure the busted staple could be extracted, but yeah, probably easiest to just replace it. Especially if it teaches your sales weasel a lesson about taking things he's not supposed to and/or how to properly use office supplies.
--Patrick
The knife or the stapler? Because you could either stab him with the knife or hit him with the stapler. Or maybe both.
ooh, dual wielding...
Well, they can, obviously. They'd have to be traveling pretty quickly, though, like that whole "straw into a tree" thing during tornadoes.
--Patrick
I've been sick the past few days, but not sick enough that I can justify taking time off of work. Which is especially dumb because I'm only hesitant because I get paid extra for unused personal time, but that time is so incredibly taxed that it makes basically no difference. I'm just a greedy bastard.
So basically I've just felt like crap at work for a while and I want to be healthy, or sick enough that I have no choice but to take a day to relax.
So basically I've just felt like crap at work for a while and I want to be healthy, or sick enough that I have no choice but to take a day to relax.
figmentPez
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I'm trying to remember who wrote it, but there was a SciFi short story I read once where a murder was committed with a billiard ball traveling at near light-speed. Left a very clean hole through the victims chest... and the wall behind him... and a few trees... and pretty much everything else in it's way as it exited Earth's gravity well forever.
Ah, it's Asimov. "The Billiard Ball"
I know the story even without looking at the link. The conundrum is whether or not it was really an "accident."
--Patrick
At that speed, any number of things might happen. Randall Munroe kind of addresses this in his first-ever What If? segment.
--Patrick
Don't you just love it when people make you regret saying anything?
I heard that People magazine listed Sandra Bullock as the Most Beautiful Woman alive this year, and I thought that was an odd choice. Oh, she's pretty, very attractive, and I like most of her work. But Most Beautiful? So I posted on FB to that effect, with a quick list off the top of my head of women I think are much more beautiful. The discussion that ensued just made me regret saying a damn thing and/or want to tell these friends of mine to go fuck themself, I wasn't looking for a debate, just sharing my goddamn thoughts.
I heard that People magazine listed Sandra Bullock as the Most Beautiful Woman alive this year, and I thought that was an odd choice. Oh, she's pretty, very attractive, and I like most of her work. But Most Beautiful? So I posted on FB to that effect, with a quick list off the top of my head of women I think are much more beautiful. The discussion that ensued just made me regret saying a damn thing and/or want to tell these friends of mine to go fuck themself, I wasn't looking for a debate, just sharing my goddamn thoughts.
You're a terrible person for having an opinion, bro.
If I were to guess, I would say something that takes away from your sleep time, so you end up paying it all back later.
I suspect you may also lack a defined goal, which may be contributing, but I might just be tilting at windmills.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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No, I actually would like a solution, rather than sympathy
I'm not doing anything different than I have been... it's not like I've been a goal oriented go-getter for the last year. I'm wondering if it's just the stress of my new position wearing me out.
The "windmills" comment was supposed to be my signal to you that I am actually trying to help.No, I actually would like a solution, rather than sympathy
Barring medical conditions (which are valid concerns, though the odds say they're less common), my guess is that your career focus change means you have to rewire your brain a bit, retrain the ol' FPGA with new optimizations. If so, it'll pass (barring alcohol/overtired/caffeine abuse/etc).
--Patrick
FWP: the service that does my ironing is once again messing up, putting stuff on cloth hangers that needs to be folded and vice versa. We've been through this loop a few times now, it's not that hard. Everything in laundry basket A, with cloth hangers in it and a big sign "hanger", on hangers. Everything in laundry basket B, folded. Yes, that means "some shirts folded, some shirts hung up". It may not make sense to you, but it's how I've organised my cupboards armoire closets. ARGH THIS IS ANNOYING.
hey, it's the whine thread, I'm aware it's not serious.
hey, it's the whine thread, I'm aware it's not serious.