And this is why I actually don't mind interrupting a meeting discussion to ask what an acronym means.
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Is it acceptable to use "explosive diarrhea" as a verb or should I say "I exploded diarrhea"?
This comes up a lot. I want to make sure I am using it correctly.
I'm gonna verb someone in the noun, if this adjective GMT keeps going in this direction
I'm convinced we're there. I have meeting with people all the time in which I have NO idea what they are talking about. Sadly, it doesn't actually help to ask them to explain what they are talking about.
Just got off the flight from JXN -mold. Watched The Accountant, so good I wished the flight had been a little longer. That's a first..
Just looked it up on Amazon - which one was it?
JHFCOAS - this disaster recovery exercise is going to be more of a disaster than an actual disaster.
I'm gonna have to go make a trip to the local ganj-emporium just to get through this weekend.
I'm gonna have to go make a trip to the local ganj-emporium just to get through this weekend.
story time.
Well ok then, five miles with about 5k elevation gain this morning. Got mule deer in sight, white tail, and elk in one trip
U WOT M8JHFCOAS
So our company goes through a DR exercise every year for a weekend. They sever the network between primary datacenter and "DR" datacenter.
Problem is, they try to fucking build systems *by hand* and then want to try to restore *specific* data back to them.
And my colleague that has been here for about 4 years is completely incompetent.
Of course, we're still running databases on Solaris and AIX servers.
And our Storage Admin appears also to be completely incompetent. Storage performance gets worse and worse, and she starts blathering incomprehensibly about stuff that makes no sense. I've gotten to the point I refuse to talk to her about storage because she immediately gets defensive and starts throwing out nonsensical shit.
And our architect refuses to acknowledge that we are out of storage in our area, and continues to call meetings to discuss "ways to reduce licensing costs" in our software.
It's a fucking comedy of epic errors.
BONUS: Executive Director of Ops wants me to put together a meeting to discuss "significant capacity concerns."
Oh fun. Our DRP exercise is a few of us sitting in a room with coffee for a few hours and reading over the actual plan. But, our infrastructure and systems are relatively simple. We also don't have an architect or storage admin (at this level) to muck stuff up.So our company goes through a DR exercise every year for a weekend. They sever the network between primary datacenter and "DR" datacenter.
Problem is, they try to fucking build systems *by hand* and then want to try to restore *specific* data back to them.
And my colleague that has been here for about 4 years is completely incompetent.
Of course, we're still running databases on Solaris and AIX servers.
And our Storage Admin appears also to be completely incompetent. Storage performance gets worse and worse, and she starts blathering incomprehensibly about stuff that makes no sense. I've gotten to the point I refuse to talk to her about storage because she immediately gets defensive and starts throwing out nonsensical shit.
And our architect refuses to acknowledge that we are out of storage in our area, and continues to call meetings to discuss "ways to reduce licensing costs" in our software.
It's a fucking comedy of epic errors.
BONUS: Executive Director of Ops wants me to put together a meeting to discuss "significant capacity concerns."
Good luck and have fun.
I know.
But after the acronym shenanigans earlier in this thread I had to.
Don't fuck with me today. I'm in no mood.<snip>
I know.
Semi-related, apparently fire drills at our Vietnam facility are legit fire drills. Local fire trucks respond, transport someone away in an ambulance to practice and personnel at the facility are trained to assist in fighting the fire and hose down sections of the building to put out the mock fire. Last time apparently a smaller Vietnamese guy manned the fire hose and got thrown all over the fucking joint soaking everyone in the process until another couple of guys could respond and help control the hose.So our company goes through a DR exercise every year for a weekend. They sever the network between primary datacenter and "DR" datacenter.
Problem is, they try to fucking build systems *by hand* and then want to try to restore *specific* data back to them.
And my colleague that has been here for about 4 years is completely incompetent.
Of course, we're still running databases on Solaris and AIX servers.
And our Storage Admin appears also to be completely incompetent. Storage performance gets worse and worse, and she starts blathering incomprehensibly about stuff that makes no sense. I've gotten to the point I refuse to talk to her about storage because she immediately gets defensive and starts throwing out nonsensical shit.
And our architect refuses to acknowledge that we are out of storage in our area, and continues to call meetings to discuss "ways to reduce licensing costs" in our software.
It's a fucking comedy of epic errors.
BONUS: Executive Director of Ops wants me to put together a meeting to discuss "significant capacity concerns."
It's amusing, because we have weekly meetings for MONTHS prior to the exercise. To *PREPARE* for the exercise. Every year, someone new to the company says during one of these meetings, "If this was a real disaster, we wouldn't have time to "prepare" for it - so is this really a valid way to conduct this exercise?"
To which the old-timers chuckle and kind of ignore the n00B.
To which the old-timers chuckle and kind of ignore the n00B.
Damn, I just booked a campsite for Thursday and Friday with my boy. I'll only be rolling back into town on Saturday night.... Would have been cool to show you around. But.. for sure, there's a bike path that goes all the way from Aylmer into town. It's bike path the whole way. Here's a link to the National Capital Commission's maps of the network. some sections may be closed because the high water levels from this spring's floods washed away the roads, but there are detours in place. Are you going to the museum of history? Also, if it helps, my buddy lives in Aylmer and commutes by bike every day. He Stravas everything. His handle is Save me Jebus.... you can look up his routes...
Awesome thanks for the info. I don't really have any plans to stop anywhere, don't really want to risk my bike getting lifted. Just going to basically fart around for a few hours.
Do those paths get busy? I'm probably staying on the Quebec side. I wish we had a network of paths like that here...
Way to lizard up the GMT.
A few months a go I was enjoying a beer at a nice German bar around the corner when a group of morbidly obese people rolled into the bar. The B.O. was so overpowering that every other person in the place desperately paid their bills and evacuated. Twas a stench that could only be generated from a sweaty turd polluted fold that couldn't have seen soap and water in years. That smell still haunts me, I feel like I still can get a whiff of it when I walk by the place. I would have popped an emergency exit door if that walked onto an airplane.Morbidly obese people who stink like sore ass should not be allowed on airplanes.
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What's really gross about that scenario is they've had to smell that bad for a long enough duration that they no longer notice it before venturing out.
We call that "swamp ass" around here.Morbidly obese people who stink like sore ass should not be allowed on airplanes.
As did their fatty fatty friends.
But I can't say if the source was from an individual or the group as a whole. Imagine a noxious blend of weapons grade toe-jam, rancid piss and a fresh turd.
Gonna hit the DJ/BMX track after work for the first time since trying to kill myself with my non-carbon handlebars. Hope it goes better than this.
Dear god those tarmac tracks look horrible to crash on
Dear god those tarmac tracks look horrible to crash on
Man up and get your recovery on by a day of hill sprints to follow up..... You will thank me
THAT ... was fucking brutal.
That's only a true recovery if you are weak like the French army.. I recovered by doing over head lunge intervals on the stairmaster. I feel better than Chille after it has been liberated from evil communists by Pinochet.
Just booked hotel for the eclipse. $87. I don't know why everybody is making such a big deal about eclipse lodging...
A nice Motel 6 down by the train tracks?
where are you going, NE? I must know 5-6 people heading out to view, which is pretty cool.
We will have about 92% of the eclipse here in seattle. Good enough for me not to go anywhere.
We're going to stay in Podunk, NE and then drive the hour up to totality in Stapleton, NE.
We were in Edinburgh, Scotland for the 1999 eclipse. Not sure what % it was there, but it was pretty cool. This was back in the days when you didn't even KNOW an eclipse was happening until it did.