Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Back in the day, one of my favorites was deep fried hot dogs. I have also enjoyed Kentucky Fried chicken and potato chips dipped in butter.
Kinda explains why I needed open heart surgery.
Bozo :joker:
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Back in the day, one of my favorites was deep fried hot dogs. I have also enjoyed Kentucky Fried chicken and potato chips dipped in butter.
Kinda explains why I needed open heart surgery.
Bozo :joker:
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Weren't you recovering from something heart-ish around the last time we sent Doug a present, too?
ddrueding
Fixture
One of the things I like about the new gig is that I work for them. I'm putting into place all the systems I want, can approve all the bits I want, and can set the policy any way I like. I'll have them off Exchange/Outlook and onto Google Apps within the month. I've already begun locking down the workstations in reasonable ways and will begin curtailing p2p and other bs shortly.
What I don't like is that I belong to them. 24/7 availability is just that; and they know it. But I knew that when I signed up, and living closer makes that easier for me. The boss called just as often when I was living 80 miles away; it just was more inconvenient for me. Everyone else tries to keep me happy, because I control the spending on their new monitor/printer/laptop.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I think I hate CruiseControl. Well, I like it fine when it works. I don't like it much when it doesn't work and I get to spend all afternoon trying to figure out why.
ddrueding
Fixture
Today I get to replace the fan in an HP 130 plotter power supply, rebuild a projector, and I just finished stripping the 6-disk DVD changer from a Land Rover HSE so I could clean the DVD pickup. Despite all the manual labor, I am really enjoying myself. Is this a geek thing?
I also got to go 4-wheeling in the Land Rover...that was excellent.
I also got to go 4-wheeling in the Land Rover...that was excellent.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Yep. I have had two heart catherizations previous to the open heart surgery. Even with a bland (healthy) diet, I still have cholesteral problems. I'll be trying some new medications soon.
I'm beginning to believe that if you abuse your body early, you will pay for it the rest of your life.
Bozo :joker:
ddrueding
Fixture
I hear that. I'm about a decade younger than most of my friends, but I'm falling apart much more quickly. Just like my car; it's not the years, it's the mileage.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
ddrueding
Fixture
I just placed a bid on an item on EBay. No reserve, no starting bid. Buy it now is $350 and I bid $50. It showed as the winning bid for a couple hours, but now it says that she "has declined your offer of US $50.00." WTF? That is not how bidding works. Can I bid a massive amount and then decline to pay?
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I finally got it fixed. Mostly permissions problem. sudo su - is evil.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Statins work miracles. I've been on them since 1999 and when I had a test a month ago, my chol levels were low.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Get rid of your car. Mine's been at the garage for the past week (cable shifter broke a month and a half after the transmission, and I don't have the 576$CDN Toyota ask to replace it - 720$ with labor and taxes). I make my service calls by bike. I've spent more than two hours per day cycling for the past week, just like when I was in my early twenties. It was hard the first two or three days, but my body is getting used to it. I'm sure I CAN'T have cholesterol problems.
When snow comes (less than a month to go), it will really hinder my travels thought.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Tell him you are about to blow a gasket. Give him business hours and warn him that your mental health requires that you don't answer phone calls / reply to e-mails outside of your availability hours.
I did that two week ago when a customer awoke me a Sunday morning. I levelled one of my rooms and when I got my (fragile) self-control back, I decided that I no longer work on sundays, any days before 9 O'clock, and that overall, I come first and my customers, second.
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
Over the course of about 18 months I've dropped 39 points off my cholesterol (244 down to 205) via nothing but diet & mild exercise. I don't eat bland food, either. The major concession was replacing eggs with egg beaters. Beyond that, it comes to small decisions and better choices. Reduce the amount of freid foods, for instance. If I'm not craving meat & a vegetarian option sound good, go that way.
I eat Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast about half the time; the rest being either another 'healthy' cereal like Honey Bunches of Oats or just some granola mixed in fruit. The granola/fruit combo in a Tupperware makes for an easy take-it-with-you breakfast. Of course I weaned myself down to skim milk some years ago by going to 2% for a few weeks, then 1%, then skim. If we go out for breakfast, I'll typically get an omelet or skillet with egg beaters or egg whites and not sweat the rest.
For entrees, watch portion sizes for meats. The amount of cholesterol in cheese and a lot of other products comes in what I would call 'trace' or minimal amounts so I don't worry much about those. On meat, BTW, it seems the vast majority of meats are actually pretty similar when it comes to cholesterol/serving. Most are around 25-40mg. Some fish are higher; around 65mg.
Overall I knowingly ingest 40-70mg a day on average. I began by keeping a pretty close track of everything I ate, but over time I've figured out what works well and just track approximations. Typically, 0mg for breakfast, 0-20 for lunch, and 0-50 for dinner.
But I don't do bland foods. There are plenty of seasonings that have little or no sodium than can be used to jazz up a recipe. A natural salsa has zero cholesterol and no added sodium, for instance, and there are always herbs and things like garlic to season with. We cook a lot with onions and red/green bell peppers nowadays.
One recipe we made the other day was cheap and very low cholesterol. The recipe as stated in the book was macaroni, an egg, pinto beans, salsa, diced mild green chilies, shredded cheese, sour cream. We substituted in a whole grain macaroni, egg beater, and black beans. Cook the pasta, drain, mix in the egg & chilies. Separately, warm the beans and add the salsa. Combine or put the beans/salsa on top of the pasta/egg. Top with a little cheese & sour cream. Simple, cheap, cholesterol-free (before the cheese & sour cream), high protein, vegetarian, and tasty.
I refuse to take drugs for this. Once you're on meds for cholesterol and BP, you're likely on them for life. The only pills I pop daily are a multivitamin and a baby aspirin. I don't even take my allergy meds (Allegra + Nasacort) daily; just as needed. I have, though, switched vitamins to the relatively new Centrum Cardio which supposedly has a cholesterol-lowering component.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Good read, Fushigi.
There's a small problem, though; genes. My brother (in the USA) is a physician (and a pretty darned good one at that, though I say so myself). For the longest time, he tried diet, exercise and all the other tricks to keep his cholesterol down. Finally he had to admit defeat and go on statins. All my siblings have this problem. For some, the levels are staggering without the statins, and they eat a fairly "normal" diet; many walk everyday for an hour or two. Some do strenuous treadmill workouts everyday or go to the gym. We are all vegetarians, BTW.
It's ideal if you can control it through lifestyle changes. But sometimes, that just doesn't work.
There's a small problem, though; genes. My brother (in the USA) is a physician (and a pretty darned good one at that, though I say so myself). For the longest time, he tried diet, exercise and all the other tricks to keep his cholesterol down. Finally he had to admit defeat and go on statins. All my siblings have this problem. For some, the levels are staggering without the statins, and they eat a fairly "normal" diet; many walk everyday for an hour or two. Some do strenuous treadmill workouts everyday or go to the gym. We are all vegetarians, BTW.
It's ideal if you can control it through lifestyle changes. But sometimes, that just doesn't work.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Nine years ago when I had my first heart cath, my cholesteral was 123. Before my bypass surgery, it was 117. I believe there are other factors that determine what causes blocked arteries.
Bozo :joker:
Bozo :joker:
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
CRP (C-Reactive protein) seems to be one.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
OK, enough about cholesterol. Let's talk about something fun. Like boobs or something.
ddrueding
Fixture
Boobs...boobs are good.
ddrueding
Fixture
Boobs...boobs are good.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Yes. Not that I'd know.
udaman
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If you're into low IQ I suppose....Jessica Simpson.
Asia Carrera, Merc knows about big breasts and higher IQ's...but what happens when they get older and out of shape (big breasts)? Fuggly.
Who's gonna look better (breast wise) in their 40's or 50's, sans 'enchancement' visits to Dr90210...Ariana Lima, or Tyra Banks...nuff said.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Here's my fun story for the day:
It is 4PM. I have just wrapped up a class where I have been lecturing for two hours. I am in need of, shall we say, a porcelain vacation.
I go in the men's room, normally my exclusive province, as I am the only guy who works in my office. But apparently a couple of my students have same general idea, and the air is filled with the noises of dying elephants and tortured cats, such that one might find in a men's room occupied by 60 year old Steelworkers.
My phone rings.
Being in the men's room, and the auditory company that I am, I decline to answer. In fact, I don't even look at my phone. This is polite behavior, I think. I press the "ignore call" button.
Next, just as I am sitting down on the stall to which I am accustomed, my students finally having removed themselves and the air having been freshened, I get a text message. I have to pay for Text Messages. $.25. Every time my phone makes that noise a vein in my forehead throbs. And the only people I know who send them are people I don't want to deal with, particularly while I am occupied as I was at that moment. Instead, I content myself with "Information Week", a periodical seemingly designed for my task at hand in every possible way.
And then, I hear it, HIM. I have previously used such words as Penis Breath and Dickhole to describe him. The bastard next door. He is calling my name. Which means that he has somehow slithered from his office and into mine. I hear him repeat his cry several times, drawing nearer my Second Office.
Surely, I think, he will have the decency to wait for me to flush, zip my pants, and attend to my ablutions.
He does not.
"My server is down. You didn't pick up when I called or answer my E-mail, so I texted you and I need you right now." I must point out, after the fact, that my telephone indicates that these events occurred over the course of slightly more than three minutes.
As the audience of SF is almost entirely male, I am sure you are all familiar with the code of the men's room, which consists of using the farthest stall from every occupied one, and never, ever, ever uttering anything more than a relieved grunt.
I was of course mortified.
He continued, even as I noisily indicated that perhaps he had caught me at a bad moment. He told me that none of his workstations could get on the internet or access his shared files, and that it must have crashed.
At that point, I flushed.
I waited a while longer in my stall, mostly because none of my worst social anxiety nightmares had ever prepared me for this. As I washed my hands, he continued yammering about his important business that had been disrupted by this unplanned outage, and how he is paying me a fortune to make his server run properly.
I walked to the nearest PC, loaded mstsc.exe and found that his server, whatever state it had been in, was working fine. I brought up the event logs. I found that my faithful bathroom companion (I mean, besides "Information Week") had hired someone to work on his web site, and that this person had decided to reboot this server without informing anyone he was so much as planning to do so, and that furthermore, this person was working through my faithful bathroom companion's login.
My question is, do I bill him for four or eight hours for a bathroom consultation?
It is 4PM. I have just wrapped up a class where I have been lecturing for two hours. I am in need of, shall we say, a porcelain vacation.
I go in the men's room, normally my exclusive province, as I am the only guy who works in my office. But apparently a couple of my students have same general idea, and the air is filled with the noises of dying elephants and tortured cats, such that one might find in a men's room occupied by 60 year old Steelworkers.
My phone rings.
Being in the men's room, and the auditory company that I am, I decline to answer. In fact, I don't even look at my phone. This is polite behavior, I think. I press the "ignore call" button.
Next, just as I am sitting down on the stall to which I am accustomed, my students finally having removed themselves and the air having been freshened, I get a text message. I have to pay for Text Messages. $.25. Every time my phone makes that noise a vein in my forehead throbs. And the only people I know who send them are people I don't want to deal with, particularly while I am occupied as I was at that moment. Instead, I content myself with "Information Week", a periodical seemingly designed for my task at hand in every possible way.
And then, I hear it, HIM. I have previously used such words as Penis Breath and Dickhole to describe him. The bastard next door. He is calling my name. Which means that he has somehow slithered from his office and into mine. I hear him repeat his cry several times, drawing nearer my Second Office.
Surely, I think, he will have the decency to wait for me to flush, zip my pants, and attend to my ablutions.
He does not.
"My server is down. You didn't pick up when I called or answer my E-mail, so I texted you and I need you right now." I must point out, after the fact, that my telephone indicates that these events occurred over the course of slightly more than three minutes.
As the audience of SF is almost entirely male, I am sure you are all familiar with the code of the men's room, which consists of using the farthest stall from every occupied one, and never, ever, ever uttering anything more than a relieved grunt.
I was of course mortified.
He continued, even as I noisily indicated that perhaps he had caught me at a bad moment. He told me that none of his workstations could get on the internet or access his shared files, and that it must have crashed.
At that point, I flushed.
I waited a while longer in my stall, mostly because none of my worst social anxiety nightmares had ever prepared me for this. As I washed my hands, he continued yammering about his important business that had been disrupted by this unplanned outage, and how he is paying me a fortune to make his server run properly.
I walked to the nearest PC, loaded mstsc.exe and found that his server, whatever state it had been in, was working fine. I brought up the event logs. I found that my faithful bathroom companion (I mean, besides "Information Week") had hired someone to work on his web site, and that this person had decided to reboot this server without informing anyone he was so much as planning to do so, and that furthermore, this person was working through my faithful bathroom companion's login.
My question is, do I bill him for four or eight hours for a bathroom consultation?
ddrueding
Fixture
My advice depends on your brand of social issues. I only really stress when I will have to work with this person again. If I don't have to worry about it, then I can be quite rude without feeling remorse. Besides, it is very rare to have such a clear and deserving target. As such, I would simply send him an e-mail that said "fuck off, never call me again".
If that isn't possible, change your billing schedule to fit your needs. If he contacts you via e-mail or snail-mail, it's free (other than the time you spend). If it is by text (second least intrusive), there is a $10 surcharge. Phone call is $25, and in person is $50. These charges are cumulative if he chooses to escalate from one to the next.
We are in business, they are paying for time/inconvenience as it is. The pay scale may as well reflect your needs.
If that isn't possible, change your billing schedule to fit your needs. If he contacts you via e-mail or snail-mail, it's free (other than the time you spend). If it is by text (second least intrusive), there is a $10 surcharge. Phone call is $25, and in person is $50. These charges are cumulative if he chooses to escalate from one to the next.
We are in business, they are paying for time/inconvenience as it is. The pay scale may as well reflect your needs.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I'm sitting speechless in front of my PC, more than five minutes after I read this...and I wonder why you did flush and not grabbed him and put his face right into what got out of your own personal factory.
Your patience is beyond my understanding.
Your patience is beyond my understanding.
Might I suggest that he does this crap because you put up with it? He probably even enjoys it.
If I were you, I would start with DD's suggestion.
If someone did that to me, I would have jumped down his throat and burned that bridge. If necessary I would have taken CougTek's path.
If I were you, I would start with DD's suggestion.
If someone did that to me, I would have jumped down his throat and burned that bridge. If necessary I would have taken CougTek's path.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I would LOVE to can this guy. LOVE to. I've never in all my years of contracting work had someone who is so completely needy, helpless and micromanaging, especially not all at the same time.
Unfortunately, he's not my customer, directly. He's close friends/frat brother/country club buddies with my boss's husband, and unlike most of the friends and family shit I have to do, this guy actually pays for everything I do. Everything. I could probably submit a bill at $400 an hour and it'd get paid.
I've had obnoxious customers before. I used to work for a physician who would time my bathroom visits and trips to my car, and deduct that from my hourly bill, but this guy is like Dilbert's boss made real, only with less self-awareness. If only I could get away with handing him an etch-a-sketch, I would be all set.
Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
Video of the day: I Love Progress Bars One guy's take on the ubiquitous, upbeat-sounding graphics we're all forced to stare at, as they essentially shorten our lives.
On This Day...
In 1995, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery ("Toy Story") was released. In 1953, authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax. In 1877, Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that could record and play sound. In 1791, Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. In 1620, Plymouth Colony settlers signed the Mayflower Compact. Happy Birthday Michael Strahan (1971), Ken Griffey, Jr. (1969), Troy Aikman (1966), George Zimmer (1948), Goldie Hawn (1945), Harold Ramis (1944), Stan Musial (1920) and Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969). RIP Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (d. 1970).
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
- Voltaire
On This Day...
In 1995, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery ("Toy Story") was released. In 1953, authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax. In 1877, Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that could record and play sound. In 1791, Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. In 1620, Plymouth Colony settlers signed the Mayflower Compact. Happy Birthday Michael Strahan (1971), Ken Griffey, Jr. (1969), Troy Aikman (1966), George Zimmer (1948), Goldie Hawn (1945), Harold Ramis (1944), Stan Musial (1920) and Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969). RIP Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (d. 1970).
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
- Voltaire
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Some folks from reddit.com sent the employees of CERN's Large Hadron Collider a "Half Life Survival Kit", including a stuffed headcrab.
Amazingly, they got the joke, and there are pictures and video.
Amazingly, they got the joke, and there are pictures and video.
udaman
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Why don't you submit 400/hr then? I'm sure jtr would gladly take 400/hr--- as would many, and wouldn't even get our panties in a bunch over his assinine personality quirks. Hardly qualifies as a 'boss from hell' candidate...sorry to say.
For that kind of money, speaking of Dilbert and other cartoon characters...lmao
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Ashley Dupré Exclusive: 'My Side of the Story'
Escort at Center of Eliot Spitzer Scandal Talks to Diane Sawyer
http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=6280407&page=1
timwitt alert NSFW pix (well they are no more than typical Brita-No or Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair, but timwit works in the twilight zone of workplaces as far as I can tell):
http://www.ashleytape.com/duprenude.html
Well yeas, butt on womene only.
ddrueding
Fixture
World's largest limo (based in SoCal, of course)
Stereodude
Not really a
It looks pretty lame to my IMHO.
Horrible. Driving around in a 70' trailer pretending to be an ancient train is not my idea of luxury. It is no wonder there are dual bartenders. Most sober people would be bored rather quickly.
ddrueding
Fixture
The only reason I can see for such a device is getting 30-40 people someplace that takes 2-3 hours to drive. Farther and you should get a private jet, closer and there is no point in this amount of comfort.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Looks like a horse trailer.
Bozo :joker:
Bozo :joker:
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I am in my office. Everyone else got to go home at noon. One of my shithead students scheduled a make-up class for 4 this afternoon. I am betting he will not show. I am sitting in my office and I am thinking of things that make me hate the world. Everyone else getting to go home at noon is on the list.
That is all.
That is all.
ddrueding
Fixture
I got in at 7AM because FedEx informed me that my package may arrive at 7, and the office doesn't officially open until 8. The receptionist didn't show until 9, the package arrived at 9:05. I'm glad I installed a gaming card in my work PC.