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Serial Midget

Serial Midget

Al Bundy
Jun 25, 2002
13,053
1,896
Fort of Rio Grande
Good morning Monkies! No work tody so I slept in until 5:30. Weather is warm and windy, needs to be freezimg over night in prder to trail ride. I will be shopping for a single speed rigid fat bike today. Must be crabon and light weight. Not easy to find.
 
ICEBALL585

ICEBALL585

Bacontard
Sep 8, 2009
6,805
2,045
.:585:.
On vacation visiting my wife's family in Kansas City. We hit up Boulevard Brewery yesterday for some samples and then went out for some BBQ. Might have indulged a bit much on the meat and beer
 
6thElement

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
15,942
13,192
Xfinity/Comcast outage is making working difficult at this point...
 
canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
20,447
19,449
Canaderp
Yo.

Just opened Outlook and it informed me that I have a meeting in 5 minutes, followed by another one at 10am and then yet another one at 2:30. Then, a work get together tonight at 6:30. So much for getting anything done today. :D
 
RoboDonkey713

RoboDonkey713

Monkey
Feb 24, 2011
678
462
Maine
-9 this AM but warming up to a nice high of 24. No riding today due to having to be a parent, but tomorrow night will be killer in the woods. Now where did I put my space time portal?
 
eaterofdog

eaterofdog

ass grabber
Sep 8, 2006
8,294
1,541
Central Florida
So I'm talking with some coworkers and I say it's amazing some of the dumb shit people believe.
One woman asks me "Like what?"
As an example, I tell her some people believe that islands float.
TWO of the people at the table go "Islands don't float?"
 
I Are Baboon

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
32,414
9,428
MTB New England
'Morning. 2600 yard masters swim done before work. I've got my first power test on the bike trainer tonight. I am looking forward to it yet dreading it.
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,598
7,246
Colorado
6thElement said:
Xfinity/Comcast outage is making working difficult at this point...
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Do you use a business line or residential? If you are okay with setting up an antenna for local TV and streaming everything else, you can go with a business line. You are priority with getting up again and they will pay you if you're down for more than 2 hours. It's a good gig if you don't need the TV.
 
Toshi

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
38,254
7,697
Adventurous said:
I haven't slept well since sophomore year of college 12 years ago.
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How was it going to college as a 10 year old?

I'm still in Seattle. Shit's dark and damp out here. Hour less sunlight and meager sunlight at that.
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,150
13,321
Portland, OR
Morning Monkeys.

Still recovering from getting tossed under a bus yesterday. Have a meeting with the bosslady to to discuss the situation. Should make for an interesting day.

As for Outlook meetings and reminders, I somehow get 2 for every meeting and I have entirely too many meetings. Someone here once said "we need weekly update meetings even if there is no update with all project members including those who are not yet affected and those who don't care". Because every project has weekly update meetings consisting of 20+ people when only about 5 of those people care about the project update and the update could have been sent via email. What's best is after the update meeting, the meeting notes are sent to everyone in case you managed to sleep through the meeting and now somehow care.
 
6thElement

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
15,942
13,192
stoney said:
Do you use a business line or residential? If you are okay with setting up an antenna for local TV and streaming everything else, you can go with a business line. You are priority with getting up again and they will pay you if you're down for more than 2 hours. It's a good gig if you don't need the TV.
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Residential triple, never have a phone plugged in though...

I've considered similar, I'd need to see how easy it is to get Premier League football, normally NBCSports and Fox Soccer - but they do put some of the bigger games on mainstream channels.
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,598
7,246
Colorado
1800yd swim this morning. I had the "I really don't want to do this" thought early in the effort part of the workout and almost stopped, but pushed through it. Workout felt good afterwards. 1hr run tonight. It's cold and icy still, so I get to run inside. Indoor track is 1/10th of a mile; I hold a 9:45 pace; that's ~65 laps. I'm going to lose my fucking mind.

Otherwise, Haley is back to school but being annoying as shit because she got an extra home day this weekend and doesn't want to go. And work.
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,598
7,246
Colorado
6thElement said:
Residential triple, never have a phone plugged in though...

I've considered similar, I'd need to see how easy it is to get Premier League football, normally NBCSports and Fox Soccer - but they do put some of the bigger games on mainstream channels.
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Damn Brits and your stupid soccer. Look for streaming. That's the best option, as business you lose TV from them.
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,150
13,321
Portland, OR
6thElement said:
Residential triple, never have a phone plugged in though...

I've considered similar, I'd need to see how easy it is to get Premier League football, normally NBCSports and Fox Soccer - but they do put some of the bigger games on mainstream channels.
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When I was at Arris, I had 9 tv's in my cube hooked up to 32 set top boxes. One TV was dedicated to Fox Soccer and one to G4. :rofl:
 
canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
20,447
19,449
Canaderp
jimmydean said:
Morning Monkeys.

Still recovering from getting tossed under a bus yesterday. Have a meeting with the bosslady to to discuss the situation. Should make for an interesting day.

As for Outlook meetings and reminders, I somehow get 2 for every meeting and I have entirely too many meetings. Someone here once said "we need weekly update meetings even if there is no update with all project members including those who are not yet affected and those who don't care". Because every project has weekly update meetings consisting of 20+ people when only about 5 of those people care about the project update and the update could have been sent via email. What's best is after the update meeting, the meeting notes are sent to everyone in case you managed to sleep through the meeting and now somehow care.
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The absolute best meetings are the meetings about taking too many meetings and how to better use your time.
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,150
13,321
Portland, OR
Pesqueeb said:
Que?
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Coworker took the opportunity to blamestorm the virtual lab situation and I was the lucky winner. It seems like they have been in charge of it and no longer want to be. There is this HUGE confusion between the physical "lab" we have (that is just a climate controlled room with no windows currently) and the virtual "lab" that is a series of virtual machines configured for a given purpose. My boss made me in charge of the physical lab and some seem to thing that should include the virtual lab because they both are called a "lab". But I don't have admin rights to the virtual machines, so I am unable to manage them, nor do I want to as that is not my job or expertise.

Said coworker has been letting everyone know that the demise of the virtual lab was my fault, but they have it handled and it will be restored this week. Neither of these things are true.
 
dan-o

dan-o

Turbo Monkey
Jun 30, 2004
6,499
2,805
eaterofdog said:
So I'm talking with some coworkers and I say it's amazing some of the dumb shit people believe.
One woman asks me "Like what?"
As an example, I tell her some people believe that islands float.
TWO of the people at the table go "Islands don't float?"
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I was down at the harbor this summer, at low tide (7' drop around here), when some tourists asked me if the drought was effecting the fisherman.
While pointing at some moored dinghies laying on the seabed, I replied 'yes, the poor bastards can't even get to their boats this year'.
They wandered off muttering something about global warming.
WTF.
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
85,873
24,457
media blackout
eaterofdog said:
So I'm talking with some coworkers and I say it's amazing some of the dumb shit people believe.
One woman asks me "Like what?"
As an example, I tell her some people believe that islands float.
TWO of the people at the table go "Islands don't float?"
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sounds about right for your neck of the woods
 
Montana rider

Montana rider

Turbo Monkey
Mar 14, 2005
1,748
2,188
6thElement said:
Residential triple, never have a phone plugged in though...

I've considered similar, I'd need to see how easy it is to get Premier League football, normally NBCSports and Fox Soccer - but they do put some of the bigger games on mainstream channels.
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https://bosscast.net has lots of euro "sports", just have to play the whack a mole re popups
 
SkaredShtles

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
65,639
12,700
In a van.... down by the river
jimmydean said:
<snip>. My boss made me in charge of the physical lab and some seem to thing that should include the virtual lab because they both are called a "lab". But I don't have admin rights to the virtual machines, so I am unable to manage them, nor do I want to as that is not my job or expertise.
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You, sir, are in DevOps now and this is NOT an excuse.

:D
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
85,873
24,457
media blackout
jimmydean said:
Coworker took the opportunity to blamestorm the virtual lab situation and I was the lucky winner. It seems like they have been in charge of it and no longer want to be. There is this HUGE confusion between the physical "lab" we have (that is just a climate controlled room with no windows currently) and the virtual "lab" that is a series of virtual machines configured for a given purpose. My boss made me in charge of the physical lab and some seem to thing that should include the virtual lab because they both are called a "lab". But I don't have admin rights to the virtual machines, so I am unable to manage them, nor do I want to as that is not my job or expertise.

Said coworker has been letting everyone know that the demise of the virtual lab was my fault, but they have it handled and it will be restored this week. Neither of these things are true.
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sounds like your coworker has a case of the monday.

you should leave them haikus anonymously when they aren't in their cube
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,150
13,321
Portland, OR
SkaredShtles said:
You, sir, are in DevOps now and this is NOT an excuse.

:D
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DevOps is a dirty word around here for some reason. My bosses boss (Guy under the CIO) doesn't like that word and doesn't want it used. He is also the guy who put ITIL in place, so there is that.

<edit> This is also a heavy Cisco cluster that requires someone with all sorts of acronyms on their resume. You want me to become a CCIE, then send me to school, but you will have to pay me a little more when I'm all done.
 
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