Useless Conversation

[Ironwood]

Well, sure, but how do the honeycrisps taste up there ?

[Yegolev]

Why do the legally blind insist on working as umpires?

[schild]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

[Paelos]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

Sports are fun.

[rattran]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

Sports are fun.

Only to play, not to watch or obsess over.

[Yegolev]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

Because their children are awful at other sports.  Or something.

[Sky]

Well, sure, but how do the honeycrisps taste up there ?

SPEAKING OF WHICH

Hit up the orchard for my bushel. Life is good. They aren't quite as good as the ones from my tree, but I picked them at the perfect moment.

It was kind of funny being at Farm Aid and realizing how many people were clueless about family farming (even there), because one thing about living in BFE, we've got amazing produce, I can drive a mile and buy corn picked that day from the farmer's kids at the stand. I can drive ten minutes to the orchard and pick apples (or, you know, backyard).

[Sky]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

Because their children are awful at other sports.  Or something.

My dad forced me to play t-ball when I was a kid and used to get furious because I'd always fake injuries. I was a wicked actor, missed my calling.

[Paelos]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

Sports are fun.

Only to play, not to watch or obsess over.

The multi-billion dollar sports industry and gambling industry politely disagree. Go Braves!

[Yegolev]

Whatever the reason for anything's popularity, I'd really enjoy some competent judging of that anything's rules.

[RhyssaFireheart]

It's going to be one of those days at work.  Already had a run-in with the clueless PM we still have around.  No idea why this woman is kept around, she can't manage project finances worth a damn.  Also can't keep track of paperwork sent to her either (like the copies of POs that have been issued for her project, for example).

Today's issue was over two POs that were issued back on 8/1 that's she's just not getting around to dealing with.  The first mistake (back in July) was her telling me that this one quote was for 2 years support for 1 item.  No biggie.  Oh, we have to split the funding source for each year.  Not normal, but also not a biggie.  So I created two separate POs, one each for year one and year two support.  Send her copies.  

Now, I'll fully own up to the next mistake being mine.  We have this vendor in the system under multiple names (e.g. ABC Electronics and ABC Networks, they are sister companies).  I accidentally picked ABC Electronics when I should have picked ABC Networks.  No one caught the mistake at the time, POs are issued and sent to the vendor.  Then PM has me do another PO for same vendor, this time for hardware.  Same issue with vendor selection (because I simply copied the previous POs) and that mistake is found by vendor.  New PO under correct vendor name is created.  Still no mention of the first two POs being issued to wrong vendor name.

Now PM is coming back going "Oh, isn't this under the wrong name?" and wanting to know if we can get a new PO issued today.  Yeah, no.  Not with multiple levels of approvals needed and oh yeah, she hasn't been able to keep her funding sources straight for this entire project, so she'll need to figure that out first.    

Working with this woman has been a disaster.  Her financial skills suck big time.  I mean, she's even gone to the point of rejecting hours for resources who have done work on another project of hers because she was out of funding but the work still needed to be done.  It's baffling why she keeps being given smaller projects now.

[ghost]

Why do people give a shit about baseball?

IT'S A MYSTERY

Sports are fun.

I'm not sure baseball qualifies....   

[Yegolev]

Are we talking about baseball or mathball?  One of those is fun.

[Signe]

What is a PO and a PM?  Google didn't help me unless it's a river at night.  Also, my mother LOVED baseball and mathball doesn't look fun.  I used to love watching my mother watch baseball.  I never heard of mathball until today and it looks really boring and I think it's supposed to be like football, not baseball even though it's not really like either one.  It's not in the dictionary. 

[Nevermore]

A PO is a purchase order and I assume a PM is a project manager.

[RhyssaFireheart]

A PO is a purchase order and I assume a PM is a project manager.

Yeah, what he said.  I tend to forget that it's not universal lingo when I'm in my work bubble.

Now I'm listening to someone in the cube next to me on a conference call and hearing it echo from the conference room next to both of us.  I have no idea why she's not in the conference room, lol, but it's kind of amusing hearing the echo after a while.

[Hawkbit]

PO is Product Owner, PM is Project Manager.

nm, I didn't see the context.

[Xanthippe]

I love baseball but specifically, I like the team my dad followed when I was a kid, and it was/is a good way to hang out with my old man.

I have a hard time liking their arch-rival even though I live in arch-rival territory, and it's hard to follow the hometown team.

It's a treat though, when I do get to see a game in hometown territory because they have the same announcer whose voice filled our house 50 years ago, because he's neither retired nor died yet, and he's the best announcer in baseball of all time. It will be a sad day indeed when he no longer announces.

Part of it is the game itself (it's been called the thinking man's game) and part of it is that it's all wrapped up in my childhood.  There's a whole lot of history.

[Lucas]

On the subject of baseball (err, no, not really :P), at the end of the month (together with my girlfriend) I'll grace New York City with my presence for a week; I'll participate in the NYC marathon. First time in the States since 1992 (also visited New York in that occasion: among other things, I had a nice dinner with my father at the Windows on the World restaurant on top of the WTT...   ). Can't wait :)

[Cyrrex]

I am taking a trip next Tuesday to the US and will be there for two weeks.  While there, I intend to each roughly 400 kilograms of Honecrisps.  I will likely wash them down with 900 liters of Diet Cherry Vanilla DR Pepper.  I only mention this because, despite both of these things being named repeatedly in this thread over the years, I am not sure they have ever had cause to be included in the same post.  I have now corrected this oversight.

[taolurker]

[Homer Simpson Voice]

"Mmm Diabetic Coma"

[/Homer Simpson Voice]

[Yegolev]

Diet Cherry Vanilla DR Pepper.

Ew... I'll take the clam juice.

[IainC]

I am taking a trip next Tuesday to the US and will be there for two weeks.  While there, I intend to each roughly 400 kilograms of Honecrisps.  I will likely wash them down with 900 liters of Diet Cherry Vanilla DR Pepper.  I only mention this because, despite both of these things being named repeatedly in this thread over the years, I am not sure they have ever had cause to be included in the same post.  I have now corrected this oversight.

Joke's on you, Americans have no idea what a litre or a kilogram is.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Jokes's on you!  We sell 2 liter bottles of soda for only $0.99 all the time!   

[Yegolev]

And I know 400 kilograms is a long, long way to drive.

[Signe]

This thread is giving me a toothache in my brain.  :(

[Pennilenko]

This thread is giving me a toothache in my brain.  :(

Is that a cavity in your cortex?

[Sky]

Louis CK's new video is out and by the way I love Louis CK.

[ezrast]

Grandmothers would be better if they didn't have to be so old.

[ghost]

My grandmother fell down and broke her pelvis the other day.  She still thinks she can drive.

[Pennilenko]

Where I live they favor the old people money. They have very little age based standards for driving. Once or twice a month I dodge an old person driving the wrong way down a main road.

[ezrast]

Mine just got her license revoked after doing that and sideswiping some cars. Her bigger problem though was the brain tumor causing the confused behavior, which they found afterwards. They were able to remove most of it and the prognosis looks good but recovering and rehabilitating from brain surgery takes a while when you're 83.

Then my other grandma got admitted into hospice care after a bad fall that apparently kicked her senility up a few notches; she's off the medication that's been keeping her alive this long and it's just a matter of time now. I said my last goodbyes on Thursday. Which is really not so bad a thing, as the past decade or so of her life has been characterized by repeated hospitalizations, medications upon medications, a slowly degrading quality of life (not to mention burdening my parents), but still.

It's been a long month.

[lamaros]

Why would you shut down the trains to and from the airport for the whole weekend? Why am I in a sea of humanity waiting for a cab at 11:15pm? Nothing more I'd love to do on a Sunday night than wait in line for an hour or so.

[rattran]

Second World problems?

[Yegolev]

Why would you shut down the trains to and from the airport for the whole weekend?

To make the other party look bad?