Useless Conversation

[Sky]

I'm guessing you've never lived in the deep south, have you?

Colonel Angus?

I had an adventure last night finding and installing an a/c unit for a wonderful 93 yr old lady. Went to ask a buddy who lives near her if I could use his table saw (for the plywood plocking, she has old horizontal casement windows). Turns out he has a unit in his shed, so we grab it and his tools and put it in for her.

Found out she needed it because she told my fiancee that her cleaning lady had taken her only fan to take apart and clean the blades. 

[Ironwood]

NAT.

One Card.

23 Pints.

One Song.

[Lantyssa]

NAT problem solved so you bought a round, or NAT causing problems so you needed 22 drinking buddies?

[Ironwood]

The latter.  Fucking Arseholes.

Currently at home drinking.

[WayAbvPar]

I assumed the 23 pints were for you. Sod the rest of the freeloading bastards.

[Paelos]

I don't understand any of this. Can we translate?

[Minvaren]

If it's a firewall in question, "Consistent NAT" (or the equivalent) and disabling any automagic transforms have fixed many NAT-related issues for me.

In other news, my toaster oven just bought the farm.  Silly me, thinking I could clean it.  Off to locate a new one...

[Bunk]

They can actually die? Wow. I've had mine for about twenty years. The numbers are completely worn off the temperature dial, so I set it by memory.

I use it over my regular oven probably 20 to 1.

[ghost]

Silly me, thinking I could clean it.

I think this is the problem.  They aren't meant to be cleaned.

[Lantyssa]

I don't understand any of this. Can we translate?

NAT = Network Address Translation -- sorts out the traffic for the hundred machines behind your one public-facing IP

Card = Credit or Network -- controls the flow of beer or network traffic, depending

23 Pints = Beer -- A good night with the buds, a bad night by yourself

One Song = Time it takes to drink the 23 Pints

[ghost]

23 Pints = Beer -- A good night with the buds, a bad night by yourself

23 pints = coffin, when drunk by yourself.

[Chimpy]

Ironwood is Scottish, 23 pints is slightly tipsy.

[ghost]

I'm never going to a hotel again. 


 

[Merusk]

We are a hyper-gemophobic nation.

Surprise, things people touch have shit on them!  Surprise, 60% of men take a piss then don't wash their hands.  Nevermind that underwear is just a nice sealed environ to keep poo particles near your scrot after farting.

If you think on it you'll go mad and start wearing rubber gloves and a mask everywhere.

[Lantyssa]

If you think on it you'll go mad and start wearing rubber gloves and a mask everywhere.

I'd think Ghost already does...

(How often can I say that in one week? )

[Minvaren]

Silly me, thinking I could clean it.

I think this is the problem.  They aren't meant to be cleaned.

Silly me, pulling out the "crumbs" tray and managing to destroy the thing. 

The heating element still works, mostly, if you give it 5-10 minutes longer than the directions say.

[Paelos]

NAT = Network Address Translation -- sorts out the traffic for the hundred machines behind your one public-facing IP

Card = Credit or Network -- controls the flow of beer or network traffic, depending

23 Pints = Beer -- A good night with the buds, a bad night by yourself

One Song = Time it takes to drink the 23 Pints

Very helpful, thanks!

[ghost]

Interestingly enough, I'm not a germaphobe at all.  I think that putting all these antibacterial compounds in every substance we use is detrimental to human life.  Commensal organisms are pretty much required for us to function at our peak.  I do find hotels super creepy though, for more reasons than just the semen and blood and feces. 

[lamaros]

So my GF and I are moving apartments. In the process we have discovered lots of mould! Yay!

Is Nerf around for advice?

[Nebu]

So my GF and I are moving apartments. In the process we have discovered lots of mould! Yay!

Well, you should be breathing easier in the new place then!

[lamaros]

Aye, cant wait to get out. Poor ventilation + Sydney humidity + mountains of rain + no dryer for the last month = everything in the apartment is damp (including all my books) so mould is hardly surprisIng. Hopefully the expensive shoes thus afflicted can be saved.

[Sky]

Six grand for a hundred linear feet of basement channeling + sump well. The joys of homeownership, I just paid off the initial loan I used for a bunch of projects when I bought the house...so the budget stays at 'broke'. It was a nice two months having an extra hundred bucks. And he's going to do it in July, the month of crazy. Go live with the new reservation and print management software, so I'll be working 7 days for the next two weeks at least, half the library is on vacation so training dribbles through the month, plus I have 4 damned concerts that equal 5 days off.

On the upside, transferrable lifetime of the structure warranty and I'll get about 500sqft of finishable basement space, which is my workshop and a music studio.

And no more lugging the full 6-gallon wetvac up the stairs, through the house to dump in the back yard.

[Minvaren]

Is it just me, or has the site been a bit erratic the last day or two? 

[Rasix]

Erratic as in up/down? I haven't noticed anything.  And I'm likely logged in more than anyone.

[Ironwood]

Lots of 'Server Too Busy' errors here.

But I'm in at odd times.

[Merusk]

I've had a lot of hangs here where I had to refresh over the last week or so.  Nothing too bad.

[Mrbloodworth]

It has been very erratic. I keep getting things like the DB can not be reached and such.

[Chimpy]

Sky, what reservation/print mgmt package are you going to?

[Draegan]

It's disgustingly hot/humid right now in NJ.  Gonna get worse in the next few days.

Enjoy.   

I'm guessing you've never lived in the deep south, have you?

When did I say deep south summers weren't god awful? 

[Sky]

Sky, what reservation/print mgmt package are you going to?

Envisionware's crap.

I have 8 feature requests in, mostly for fairly major stuff. I offered to come on board as a UI consultant.

[WayAbvPar]

Signed the papers for our refi last night. Dropped over 2 points in interest and ~$450 a month in payments. Plus we get about $1800 back from our escrow account and get to skip our payment in July. I am rich!

Hurray for HARP II, btw 

[Merusk]

Today I learned that Photoshop has a subscription plan.   So. Very. Tempting.

Wow, grats, Way!  I'll be eligible for a re-fi here in a few weeks.  Looks like I can drop almost $230 off the monthly if I go with a 30-year.  I think that'll be a total of 8 or 9 years off the mortgage if I continue paying at the same rate, plus lots of wiggle-room if things go sideways on me.  Woo.

[ghost]

Signed the papers for our refi last night. Dropped over 2 points in interest and ~$450 a month in payments. Plus we get about $1800 back from our escrow account and get to skip our payment in July. I am rich!

Hurray for HARP II, btw 

So what are you going to buy with all that money? 

Nice score, BTW.  We're trying to sell ours right now rather than refinance. 

[Chimpy]

Sky, what reservation/print mgmt package are you going to?

Envisionware's crap.

I have 8 feature requests in, mostly for fairly major stuff. I offered to come on board as a UI consultant.

We use their stuff. It has problems but according to my boss, it is still way ahead of any competition in terms of features and reliability. Which I agree is sad but having seen some of the shit pieces of software that are foisted off on libraries that they are stuck with through vendor lock in makes me ill.

[Sky]

We have macs and pcs, so it's the only game in town.

It's not horrible, but they're very programmer  at times. Like the "Instructions" box at the idle screen. We don't need the prose they put there, and it's an xml file, so voila: we can put use restrictions there (must be this tall to ride the internet).

Except they have hidden a hard-coding to the format somewhere, so I can't add any new elements (though I can subtract them). Since it also won't pass any xml carriage returns, I have to have a big paragraph block seperated by asterisks. That's the not-serious feature request, a truly editable xml file for that.

The more serious stuff is 'concurrent' reservations. Which in envisionware-speak means both concurrent and multiple. So in order to allow patrons to reserve a computer for the afternoon (multiple) we have to allow them to sign up for simultaneous sessions, as it's a toggle. So the patron can request pc1, pc3 and mac2 for the current time. Derp. A ton of dumb things like that, and most would be easy to fix (splitting the current behavior into two features), almost everything I've requested is based off existing features or re-purposing lesser used features.

Ah, well. That's why I get paid the small bucks.