Thursday, December 14, 2006
Reactions |2:37 PM| Helluva way to run a day. Every machine I've touched so far today has had new and exciting things wrong with them. Parts came broken from the manufacturer, another tech's diagnosis overlooked an issue, etc. Oh, and this printer I was fixing needs a new color ink cartridge from the user. This is after we spent 2 weeks waiting for him to bring a new black cartridge in.
It's enough to discourage me.
(Telling quote of yesterday, when I was working on a terribly damaged machine, "Task manager has been disabled by the administrator? IAM THE ADMINISTRATOR!
I was thinking yesterday, that despite a few exceptions, I don't discuss politics here. I think it's because other folks, on other blogs, cover it far, far more effectively than I can, or could. In case you're curious, of the liberal blogs I read, the ones I check most often are:
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com
http://Glenngreenwald.blogspot.com
To get an idea of the right-wing blogs, which by and large disgust me, I tend to check http://daoureport.salon.com . Yes, they probably pick and choose some of the posts, but if such posts even exist on your site, you deserve to be judged by it.
I asked a couple people for some random words, and these are what I got back. Numbers correspond to whatever the word prompted me to think of, written below. Also I'm futzing around with relative links to named anchors, which is something I never bothered to learn. Speaking of web design, I really hate that IE can't deal properly with PNG transparency, so if I want to use 'em, I have to set the background color. Jerks.
1. Disclaimer
4. Assault
client
hides
2. Lungs
modify
developers
3. Induction
6. Banana Tycoon
7. Bugs
Your mom
5. Boomerang
As we walk steadfastly into the night
Cheap as free
I have been reading Ayn Rand, and my co-workers say its making me snobby
Let the spam filter catch that, bastards!
2. I always had a fascination with the term "Sucking Chest Wound". You're trying to breathe, but because of the hole in your chest, you're collapsing your own lung! How absolutely horrible. Speaking of sucking chest wounds: This guy, this guy ought to run for president:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/13/weinstein/
Just click through the damn ad.
3. I found out some time ago that the sensors at a lot of traffic signal lights aren't weight based. They're based on induction.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question234.htm
I was thinking of adding something to my car to increase its affect on those coils, but the size of the magnets/chunk of steel I would need would seriously impact performance, with little gain.
This biker, however, has an interesting idea: http://www.instructables.com/id/EL8EH6RZ1REP286X29/
4. Assault can be just me threatening you. Aggravated assault is me threatening you with a weapon. I learned this just after having a crapload of cops point guns at me in Phoenix in a case of mistaken identity. They did not put a bullet through my heart.
5. http://www.terminalpacketloss.com/gallery/whoamI/images/boomeranima.gif
This link, like so many things, works a lot better in Firefox than in IE. It's a little big, so if you're on a modem you may want to skip it. Yes, it is me, but I still find it hypnotic (I usually hate watching footage of myself). I can hear a little "Bop!" noise when it loops, right as my hand goes down/backup.
I've (briefly) tried to teach other people how to throw a boomerang, and the next time I do so I'm bringing extras, so it's not just a lot of me running after a boomerang that has slammed into the ground.
6. An old coworker of mine, who I really wish I could remember the name of so I could track him down, grew up on a banana plantation. Or so he claimed, he didn't really have reason to lie to me. In any case, he had a murderous dog, that would occasionally, for whatever reason, decide it had to kill something. Usually, he'd go and track down an armadillo, knock it over, carry it to a lake, and drown it. Not even eat it. Weeeird shit.
7.This is an electronic bug: (look for "The Thing") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin
Absolutely amazing.
I need to finish these out and expand that social circle one.
Reactions |2:37 PM| Helluva way to run a day. Every machine I've touched so far today has had new and exciting things wrong with them. Parts came broken from the manufacturer, another tech's diagnosis overlooked an issue, etc. Oh, and this printer I was fixing needs a new color ink cartridge from the user. This is after we spent 2 weeks waiting for him to bring a new black cartridge in.
It's enough to discourage me.
(Telling quote of yesterday, when I was working on a terribly damaged machine, "Task manager has been disabled by the administrator? I
I was thinking yesterday, that despite a few exceptions, I don't discuss politics here. I think it's because other folks, on other blogs, cover it far, far more effectively than I can, or could. In case you're curious, of the liberal blogs I read, the ones I check most often are:
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com
http://Glenngreenwald.blogspot.com
To get an idea of the right-wing blogs, which by and large disgust me, I tend to check http://daoureport.salon.com . Yes, they probably pick and choose some of the posts, but if such posts even exist on your site, you deserve to be judged by it.
I asked a couple people for some random words, and these are what I got back. Numbers correspond to whatever the word prompted me to think of, written below. Also I'm futzing around with relative links to named anchors, which is something I never bothered to learn. Speaking of web design, I really hate that IE can't deal properly with PNG transparency, so if I want to use 'em, I have to set the background color. Jerks.
1. Disclaimer
4. Assault
client
hides
2. Lungs
modify
developers
3. Induction
6. Banana Tycoon
7. Bugs
Your mom
5. Boomerang
As we walk steadfastly into the night
Cheap as free
I have been reading Ayn Rand, and my co-workers say its making me snobby
Let the spam filter catch that, bastards!
2. I always had a fascination with the term "Sucking Chest Wound". You're trying to breathe, but because of the hole in your chest, you're collapsing your own lung! How absolutely horrible. Speaking of sucking chest wounds: This guy, this guy ought to run for president:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/13/weinstein/
Just click through the damn ad.
3. I found out some time ago that the sensors at a lot of traffic signal lights aren't weight based. They're based on induction.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question234.htm
I was thinking of adding something to my car to increase its affect on those coils, but the size of the magnets/chunk of steel I would need would seriously impact performance, with little gain.
This biker, however, has an interesting idea: http://www.instructables.com/id/EL8EH6RZ1REP286X29/
4. Assault can be just me threatening you. Aggravated assault is me threatening you with a weapon. I learned this just after having a crapload of cops point guns at me in Phoenix in a case of mistaken identity. They did not put a bullet through my heart.
5. http://www.terminalpacketloss.com/gallery/whoamI/images/boomeranima.gif
This link, like so many things, works a lot better in Firefox than in IE. It's a little big, so if you're on a modem you may want to skip it. Yes, it is me, but I still find it hypnotic (I usually hate watching footage of myself). I can hear a little "Bop!" noise when it loops, right as my hand goes down/backup.
I've (briefly) tried to teach other people how to throw a boomerang, and the next time I do so I'm bringing extras, so it's not just a lot of me running after a boomerang that has slammed into the ground.
6. An old coworker of mine, who I really wish I could remember the name of so I could track him down, grew up on a banana plantation. Or so he claimed, he didn't really have reason to lie to me. In any case, he had a murderous dog, that would occasionally, for whatever reason, decide it had to kill something. Usually, he'd go and track down an armadillo, knock it over, carry it to a lake, and drown it. Not even eat it. Weeeird shit.
7.This is an electronic bug: (look for "The Thing") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin
Absolutely amazing.
I need to finish these out and expand that social circle one.
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