Useless Conversation

[Engels]

I just had a moment. Sanya Weathers complaining on FB about school time for her child extending to July due to weather. She needs to write a 'Try being a parent, you nutless assmuncher" rant and sending that to her school district.

Anyways, we're all getting horribly old at a nauseating pace. Hope your day goes well.

Much love,

Aging Fart.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Two and a half fucking hours to get to work this morning. I need to start bringing my laptop home at night.

[WayAbvPar]

I just had a moment. Sanya Weathers complaining on FB about school time for her child extending to July due to weather. She needs to write a 'Try being a parent, you nutless assmuncher" rant and sending that to her school district.

Anyways, we're all getting horribly old at a nauseating pace. Hope your day goes well.

Much love,

Aging Fart.

 

[Merusk]

I had a different moment.  I went to switch my license from Kentucky to Ohio since I've moved and had to pick-up a driver's ed book for my daughter.  The one who was 6-months old old when I started playing Everquest.

[Numtini]

Shouldn't she be downloading that book to her tablet?

[Teleku]

I ordered a pizza today and walked around home in my boxers, playing mmo's and fps's through out the day.  Just like I did back when I was playing Everquest.  What's this aging shit you're talking about?

 

[Numtini]

Just tell me you didn't answer the door in them when the pizza person got there. We had a freak that used to do that and would beg for us to send a woman driver.

[WayAbvPar]

Our local Pizza Hut has a very attractive young Russian lass who delivers to us (don't like their pizza, but their wings are OK). I do the opposite- I try not to look like the slob that I am in case she shows up 

[Merusk]

Shouldn't she be downloading that book to her tablet?

I'm the luddite who didn't own a cell phone until last November when the office required that I get one. You think she has a tablet of her own? Ha!

[Numtini]

Lol. I just had to take the written for my motorcycle endorsement for the Vespa which is what made me think of it.

To be honest, I printed the PDF.

[Yegolev]

I'm a big follower of the Paperless Office principle.  I'd have too many physical items to manage otherwise.  I understand why people print out things but I don't enjoy the benefit.

[HaemishM]

Designing web pages for a living, I constantly have to remind clients and co-workers that "the web is not a print medium."

Why would you think the web site you are viewing will print picture perfect on every printer everywhere? Or anywhere for that matter? FUCK, if I wanted this web site printed, I'D FUCKING PRINT IT. Would you also like me to chisel the same information on a goddamn stone tablet while I'm at it?

Of course, this was before a lot of the print-enabled CSS stuff got included in the web standards, but still... my point stands. Those are a whole other level of fuck you hell.

[Yegolev]

To extend the complaint, it's even a bad idea to download local copies of documents.  I do that sometimes, mostly because I can't remember where things are on the intra/internets.  I have to occasionally check for new versions whenever I do that.

[Yegolev]

I'm cruising past internal websites today and I spot one particular motivational phrase in among the ones I see all the time (due to how we are sucking worldwide).  It was: What would you do if you weren't afraid?  What an unfortunate motivator!  I'm going to see about taking voice classes and become a voiceover artist.

[Sky]

Designing web pages for a living, I constantly have to remind clients and co-workers that "the web is not a print medium."

As someone who has to help people print from the web every day...fuck right back at ya.

[HaemishM]

Don't blame me, blame the shittastic browser developers who don't include things like printing container backgrounds by default. I mean, why give a designer the option of coloring the background if you won't allow it to be printed? Fuck it, let's go back to Lynx. 

[Sky]

Tends not to be backgrounds, but people trying to isolate elements. Forms are usually hell, so are pictures. Bus schedules the current worst. So a different thing than you're talking about.

I just wanted to swear at you a lilbit.

True story: I caught shit when I first started for not having a Lynx-compatible site. And had to make it so.

[Sky]

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[croaker69]

And to be more useless, here's a fact check site you guys might enjoy: http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com/

FYI got this at work:

URL: howdovaccinescauseautism.com/

Category: malware-sites

[Phildo]

Site needs citations.

[Nebu]

And to be more useless, here's a fact check site you guys might enjoy: http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com/

Made me laugh.  Love it.

[Morat20]

So...anyone ever had a few weeks at work where you just couldn't do anything right? Pretty much the last two weeks have been like that. Practically every day it's been "Oops, dropped a major ball there at a stressful time".

I cannot seem to update certain files -- gotta do it by hand, but I update a dozen entries over three or four files and I've ALWAYS screwed up somewhere. Fix it, screw up somewhere again. Fix a bug? Oops, apparently reverted to an earlier version of the code. Fixed that bug, reintroduced one that was fixed. Fix that? Oops, missed another previously fixed bug the reversion brought back to life.

Update files in the archives? Can't seem to remember to do them all. Communication? Jesus, I've apparently lost the ability to communicate with a coworker. I have had more back and forths -- and he seems as pissed as I am except he's closer to 'client' than 'coworker' which means his unhappiness is a much bigger problem -- and we can't seem to get on the same page. EVER. Sat around and missed a full day because I said "I've done X, about to check it in, you'll have it in five minutes" and he spent a day waiting for me to tell him I'd done it. I didn't, because I'd said I'd have it up in five minutes and it was up in two.

Confusion over dlls, files (most of that was communication and some new complexity crap) -- but I have just spent two weeks with apparently no ability to handle detail.

About the only defense I've got is "Look, I was responsible for one piece of software and maybe two, rarely changed, supporting files. Suddenly I have three pieces of software, another two dozen files, all of them being changed simultaneously and most of them brand new to me." which is true, but sounds kinda whiny. It's not exactly an impossible load, it's a ton of little things, but quite doable.

It's just been a sucky two weeks. Every day I'm pretty visibly on the spot for everyone -- coworkers, bosses, clients -- for some little thing, some little delay (and sure, other people had bugs or issues or whatnot. I'm not surrounded by supermen). I've just...shit, to be honest I've just never had this much shit go wrong, stay wrong, and just snowball before.

Fuck if I know how to handle it, other than tagging my manager and saying "Jesus, this was a fuck-up. I could use some help making sure this doesn't happen again". Only, you know, more professionally.

[Lantyssa]

"You've dumped too much new stuff on me all at once.  I can do all of it eventually, but I need time to understand it well enough that it is reflexive.  My performance is suffering for it because of so many tiny details I am not used to considering, and because others are dependent upon these, they're affected, too."

What the solution is I can't say.  Maybe fewer updates, or less critical time requirements so you don't have to rush, or making someone else responsible for the time being.  It sounds pretty typical of what my works likes to do in that they'll load me up with new stuff and wonder why I'm not getting any of it done.

[Yegolev]

I've been given access to IEEE Xplore, which normally would take over my afternoon, but right now all I can really think about working on is getting started on being a voiceover artist.

[Engels]

Hang in there Morat. But ya, what Lant said.

[Morat20]

"You've dumped too much new stuff on me all at once.  I can do all of it eventually, but I need time to understand it well enough that it is reflexive.  My performance is suffering for it because of so many tiny details I am not used to considering, and because others are dependent upon these, they're affected, too."

What the solution is I can't say.  Maybe fewer updates, or less critical time requirements so you don't have to rush, or making someone else responsible for the time being.  It sounds pretty typical of what my works likes to do in that they'll load me up with new stuff and wonder why I'm not getting any of it done.

Thanks. That's...really useful. Seriously so.

Thanks!

[Engels]

For Morat:

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oh gods, does the stomach flu suck.

Nothing like waking up to nausea which then starts the day-long fun of throwing up every to hours or so.  Especially when your stomach is already empty because you had an early dinner the day before and didn't snack that night.  I didn't go downstairs until almost 9m today.

I'm miserable and taking the day off work tomorrow. 

[Signe]

Sorry, Rhyssa.  It went around this house in December.  I got it twice after everyone was all better.  Nothing worse than having the flu (or whatever it was) in a house full of healthy people.  Hope you feel better soon. 

[Samwise]

A new source of travel disorientation: the Internet sees that I'm in the UK and video ads are now in British.

Also, Archer season 4 just dropped on Netflix and I really want to catch up while in my zombified jetlag state but Netflix won't let me.  :(

[Phildo]

I went to Puerto Rico last summer and Google was in Spanish.  So were all the ads on various websites.

[Chimpy]

When I worked at the ISP, we had a block of 127 IP addresses in the middle of a continuous block of over 2000 which all of the Google locate stuff thought was in the UK. And we rolled out that block to a luxury condo development in New Jersey. It was great because we would have people call in where one of their devices would work just fine, but others would get UK google results and would be unable to add money to ttheir Skype accounts because Skype's e-commerce site locked sales based on the geolocate on the IP. And of course, it takes google et al like 4 months to fix a geolocate issue once you report it so that was fun.

[Ironwood]

A new source of travel disorientation: the Internet sees that I'm in the UK and video ads are now in British.

Also, Archer season 4 just dropped on Netflix and I really want to catch up while in my zombified jetlag state but Netflix won't let me.  :(

Just wait till some cunt links you The Daily Show that you can no longer watch.

 

[Samwise]

I expect by my next visit this will be fixed such that Netflix will let me in once a biometric scan confirms my citizenship.

[Cyrrex]

On a related topic, Hola Unblocker is lovely for people like me who permanently live abroad.  I imagine it would benefit the frequent traveler as well.