Where's everybody?

[Tea]

Oh? Full of what, precisely? Good cheer? Intelligent conversation? Intelectual brilliance?

 

[Tannin]

Sigh.

I suppose you think the sun shines out of your ... er .. bottom, too.

 

[Tea]

I've never noticed. But then, I suppose I wouldn't, seeing my eyes are at the other end of me. Sort of difficult to .... Tannin, you are winding me up, you bugger. Of course the sun doesn't shine out of my ... er ... what you said.

But apart from that, you would have to admit that I'm intelligent, thoughtfull, atheletic, good looking in a gingerish sort of way, charming, and ...

Sorry?

I'm what?

Well! And here I was trying to cheer you up with a little civilised conversation. I don't think I'll bother in future. And you can stick that up your sunshine!

 

[Tannin]

sigh

 

[LunarMist]

We haven't seen much from Mercutio lately.

 

[time]

We haven't seen much from Mercutio lately.

Always a worry, it's been nearly a fortnight.

Just as well you are here, Tea, 'cause there's no other bugger wants to chat with me.

Sorry, I now have a day job, and there haven't been enough topics to tempt me anyway (sadly, FairTax doesn't make it onto my list of crap worth responding to).

Perhaps you could complain about your thwarted desires to be a dance instructor? Apparently, that goes down well with the ladies, so Tea should understand.

 

[mubs]

.

 

[mubs]

Not exactly yhe sun shining out of er...the bottom, but light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[ddrueding]

Meh. I finally got some work, so I've been leaving at 7AM and getting home around 9PM. I'm currently preparing to do a brain transplant on my current workstation; anyone want to take a guess as to whether the Vista install survives going from a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 + A64 6000+ to whatever Fry's has and a Q6600?

 

[udaman]

Meh. I finally got some work, so I've been leaving at 7AM and getting home around 9PM. I'm currently preparing to do a brain transplant on my current workstation; anyone want to take a guess as to whether the Vista install survives going from a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 + A64 6000+ to whatever Fry's has and a Q6600?

Why not wait a month or two and get a Wolfdale e8000 series, appears the top of the line expensive E8500 will reliably OC to 4.37Ghz...w00t, dats fast?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_12.html

We managed to get this processor to run stably at 4.37GHz. No doubt: Wolfdale CPUs will become another overclockers’ favorite, because Conroe processors could hardly hit these speeds at extremely high voltages and with special cooing systems involved. By the way, our processor running at 4.37GHz retained quite acceptable thermal mode of only 70°C under workload.

 

[ddrueding]

Because it won't be another month. I suspect it will be another 3 months before they are available. And after the process is matured, I'll probably buy one anyway.

 

[ddrueding]

Pulling another unanticipated all-nighter.

1. Came in here this morning to troubleshoot a slow connection.
2. Notice that the workstations are full of spyware/viruses.
3. Notice that the server is the most hosed SBS2k3 install I've ever seen.
4. Notice that there are no backups.

A. Build new server
B. Rebuild all workstations
C. Rebuild entire AD

Profit? Damn right.

 

[ddrueding]

No one on in the middle of a Sunday night? Darn...

I know! I'll create a second identity, and have conversations with myself! What an original thought...

Meh. Back to work.

 

[Tea]

Sometimes, Dave, it's the only thing to do.

If Tannin hadn't already existed when I started out here, I would have had to invent him. Although, come to think of it, if I had invented him instead of picking him up ready-made, I like to think I'd have made a better job of it.

On the other hand, now that I think about it, humans seem to require years of tedious bringing up by hand - you know, feeding and changing nappies and all that stuff - as opposed to us imaginary types who, so far as I can tell, just appear, full-grown and complete in every detail. Saves a lot of trouble that way.

Did I ever introduce you to my sister?

 

[ddrueding]

I'm sure somewhere around 5AM when the hallucinations started I met her near the water cooler

 

[Stereodude]

Profit? Damn right.

Is that triple time I smell cooking on the grill?

 

[paugie]

I need a new monitor. This MAG is getting quite dim. besides it is reddish.
Waiting for LCDs to go down in price some more.

 

[ddrueding]

Is that triple time I smell cooking on the grill?

Nope, just regular old hourly rate. But logging 30 hours in a day will do you good regardless. Furthermore, even on the back side of a 40-hour work stint I was able to sell myself to a new client. I've worked more in the last 3 days than I had in the last 3 months! Business is getting good again!

 

[LunarMist]

30 hours in one day - on what planet?

 

[timwhit]

30 hours in one day - on what planet?

Maybe 30 hours in a row without sleeping. When you are up that long it does feel like one single day.

 

[ddrueding]

Yes, in a row on a single project, without leaving their office. The total was 40 hours of billable time in under 48 total, but I took a nap in my car for a few hours.

 

[blakerwry]

I miss those days...

 

[ddrueding]

I miss those days...

What part? And why don't you do it anymore?

 

[Stereodude]

Yes, in a row on a single project, without leaving their office. The total was 40 hours of billable time in under 48 total, but I took a nap in my car for a few hours.

Wimp! If you sleep in the server room it's billable.

 

[ddrueding]

There is no server room, it's under a coffee table in the corridor next to the aquarium. It won't be there for long, the wiring guy is coming tomorrow, but that is where I was working. The whole time I was there the fan from the old server was driving me crazy, it was so loud. Finally the moment of peace arrives and I turn off the old server...to discover that it's the UPS with the loud fan.

 

[Tea]

Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring.

A full 12 minutes since I was last here, and still nobody has posted anything!

I'm so bored that I actually wrote out "the boring, boring, boring, boring, boring" in this post because it would take longer than cut and pating it and maybe someone would come along and post something in the meantime.

Boring!

 

[Tannin]

Oh FFS Tea, just go to bed.

Please?

 

[mubs]

So what did you feed you poor elephant, Tea?

 

[ddrueding]

The green boots?

 

[mubs]

yuk.

 

[udaman]

Anyone have any luck in contacting Merc, via email or otherwise?

Suppose we should set up the find Merc a good pizza thread, and then ship him one or more, via Express next day mail?



:elephant:

 

[LunarMist]

Yes.

 

[ddrueding]

Where is everybody? Well, we all seem to be here; waiting for each other to post....

 

[Stereodude]

That's how it works...

 

[ddrueding]

Wait a sec...(checks calendar)...today is Thursday! Aren't some of you people supposed to be at work, or something?

 

[paugie]

I'm here now.
Later, I'll be up in a hilly place, resting and working.
Tomorrow night, I'll post again.

 

[ddrueding]

Just finished a 5 mile walk to a burger joint and back. I feel less guilty when I walk there.

 

[jtr1962]

Just finished a 5 mile walk to a burger joint and back. I feel less guilty when I walk there.

Not bad at all. I tend to do anywhere from 2 to 4 miles a day just running errands (i.e. shopping, going to the bank). Two Saturdays ago I went to the Flushing Chinese New Year's parade. Too cheap to take the bus. Six miles round trip, plus about another two just walking around downtown Flushing. Yes, my feet hurt when I got home. :frowner:

 

[ddrueding]

Olga gets Tuesdays and Thursdays off; I try to work from home those days when I can. Sa, Su, Tu, & Th we walk between 4 and 8 miles. I'm trying to get her trained for some proper backpacking.

 

[Tea]

Sigh.

Friday afternoon.

There is never anybody interesting here on Friday afternoons.