Useless Conversation

[Nebu]

Just noticed this comment was 4 pages late. Don't care.

It's your party.  You can cry if you want to.

[pxib]

I just learned that E.B. White who wrote Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web is the same White as Strunk & White's Elements of Style. Strunk was his college English professor. Unfortunately this is one of those interesting bits of trivia that's too obscure to wedge into normal conversation. So... useless conversation it is.

[Der Helm]

I just learned that E.B. White who wrote Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web is the same White as Strunk & White's Elements of Style. Strunk was his college English professor. Unfortunately this is one of those interesting bits of trivia that's too obscure to wedge into normal conversation. So... useless conversation it is.

Made it to "prescriptive", smiled and closed the tab. 

[schild]

I just learned that E.B. White who wrote Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web is the same White as Strunk & White's Elements of Style. Strunk was his college English professor. Unfortunately this is one of those interesting bits of trivia that's too obscure to wedge into normal conversation. So... useless conversation it is.

D.B. Weiss, one of the writers behind Game of Thrones (the TV show, obviously) wrote a barely-read book a few years back called Lucky Wander Boy. It was amazing.

[Yegolev]

tl;dr

0. Two scripts with similar functions that I need to update.
1. Move some common functions to separate file, use "cloud" in the filename.
2. Mash two updater scripts together.
3. Add update of function file.
4. Increment major version number of both scripts.
5. Update log: "Implement Cloud functionality".

[Lantyssa]

hahahaha.  Nice Yeg.

[Yegolev]

Next year I will see about putting the function file on NAS.

[murdoc]

I get along pretty good with just about everyone I work with except the IT Director (my boss's boss) and it's stressing me the fuck out. Somehow, we just cannot see eye to eye on anything yet if we had a middle manager between us everything is peachy.

So I get to spend the rest of the week stressing out because the person with the highest position in IT is a passive-aggressive asshole and I cannot find a way to work with that.

[MisterNoisy]

the person with the highest position in IT is a passive-aggressive asshole

I have the exact same problem here.  The position must just attract raging cuntwhistlers.

[HaemishM]

It's the rampant Asperger's syndrome amongst socially inept geek-igentsia.

[Ingmar]

I think you mean rampant high-functioning autistic spectrum disorder!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/01/psychiatrists-changes-diagnosis-manual/1739301/?sf7603612=1

[Ironwood]

the person with the highest position in IT is a passive-aggressive asshole

I have the exact same problem here.  The position must just attract raging cuntwhistlers.

Er.

[rattran]

 

[Paelos]

That got me. 

[Strazos]

...What's a cuntwhistler? 

[Yegolev]

Twattooter.

[Yegolev]

These linux developers are off to a good start with their operating systems.

[Ironwood]

Say what you like, but Passive-Aggresive ?

Not so much.

[Paelos]

Say what you like, but Passive-Aggresive ?

Not so much.

I've always thought of you as aggressive-stabby.

[murdoc]

Aggressively aggresive.

[Mrbloodworth]

Twattooter.

Lol.

[Sky]

Speaking of twats.

I learned you should enunciate very carefully when yelling "TOO HOT!"

[Yegolev]

Easier to use a different phrase.

"EXCEEDING TEMPERATURE UPPER TOLERANCES!"

[Ironwood]

Nazneen Contractor is just a cool name.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Ugh.  It's bad enough that I have to do "emergency" required training by tomorrow, but one course is an hour and the other is 3 hours.  And it's an audio course so you can't read through the text and click through quickly.  Oh no!  You have to listen at the pace of the application, which means it takes a freaking hour and I'm sure the other class will be at least 3 hours.  On top of it, it's ethics and compliance training. /headache

"A doctor asks you for some specific information contained in publicly available company information.  You send him a copy of the company documentation with the relevant information marked by a sticky note.  The sticky note is completely blank, with no branding, marks or other writing on it."  Okay or Not Okay?

Plus, mini tests throughout that you have to pass 100%.

x.x

[Paelos]

Sticky notes make everything not ok.

[Viin]

I want to know who broke the rules and what did they do. 

[Yegolev]

That is OK.  Key is "publicly available".  Ignore the rest.  I'm pretty good at that stuff now.

I advise to just do regular work while the player goes, then look at it when the talking stops for the click-through.

Also, I've never had one of these that didn't let you redo questions, usually they give out the answers if you just can't get them.  Then again, I've never sold proprietary information.

[Ironwood]

No, wait, it's not ok.

If someone asks you for information that's publically available, you tell the lazy cunts to go and find it themselves.

Then you cover yourself in sticky notes and wait, hiding under the desk with a knife.

[Yegolev]

There's that also.

[Paelos]

New game idea: Sticky Note Ninja.

[RhyssaFireheart]

That is OK.  Key is "publicly available".  Ignore the rest.  I'm pretty good at that stuff now.

I advise to just do regular work while the player goes, then look at it when the talking stops for the click-through.

Also, I've never had one of these that didn't let you redo questions, usually they give out the answers if you just can't get them.  Then again, I've never sold proprietary information.

*BZZZT*  WRONG!

Putting a sticky note constitutes changing the information or something equally silly.  You can provide the publicly available information and the other person has to look it  up themselves. Yeah, I like Yego at first, too.

Next up is the 3 hours training version of whatever that's supposedly "related" to my position, except my position is a bit different than anything else.  I'm not a tpical project team member like a PM or a BSA or a developer.  And while my official position title is Professional Support III (the dept. admin's is Prof. Sup. II) I don't do general department support.  I help handle the dept. finance transfers and manage POs/invoices for projects.  So this training should be.. interesting.  Especially if it brings up laboratory/clinical practices like in the past, because regulatory is related to R&D so therefore, I work in a lab!  Brilliant!

[Merusk]

I can see that.  Putting the sticky note on means you were interpreting and providing advice which makes you actionable or something silly.  The law doesn't work on common sense, after all.

[Paelos]

Hence the point that sticky notes make everything not OK.

[Yegolev]

Putting a sticky note constitutes changing the information or something equally silly.

That's something I have never seen before.  Wonder if it will be on the 2013 one.  Then again, we haven't had any information leaks that I am aware of.