Useless Conversation

[HaemishM]

Longest I ever had was about 9 months but I spent about 6 of it doing freelance work regularly enough that it didn't matter - and I was already living at home at the time, so didn't have to worry about being evicted or losing my home.

[Tale]

Someone on the Facebook page of my old guild: "I am on year 14 of EQ".

[ghost]

Someone on the Facebook page of my old guild: "I am on year 14 of EQ".

This is so sad on so many levels.

[Tale]

He married a girl he met in EQ.

[WayAbvPar]

Did they fuck off to a desert island and miss all the better games that have come out since then?

e- and no, Australia doesn't count 

[ghost]

He married a girl he met in EQ.

Is his name Ingmar?   

[Soln]

The funny -- it burns. 

[MuffinMan]

People watching outside Comic-Con is amazing.

[JWIV]

Went to a symphony hall last night for the first time.  I now completely understand the insanity of audiophiles.  My AV-30's are not bad spakers, but they now sound woefully inadequate.

[Sky]

One of my pet peeves is a band playing in a tuned hall (like the Egg in Albany) and blasting their amps too loud. Now, I love me some Warren Haynes, but you don't blast two half-stacks full bore in a venue where you can hear someone talking at conversational volume from backstage to back of house.

At least Warren jams on guitar, it was so much worse when Johnny Winter played WAY too loud, as he also played badly.

I'm about at the point where I need to find some money to start upgrading my studio. It's awesome for making little demos on my electric guitar, but it's so lacking for recording classical.

[ghost]

Just completed phone conversation-

Caller:  "Yeah, this is Debbie from Fedex.  Jimbobfred that typically runs your route called in sick and I'm supposed to finish delivering all of his packages.  I'm at (some random location that I didn't pay attention to).  Can you give me directions to your house?"
Me:  "Don't your trucks have GPS capability?"
Caller:  "Um, no.  Haha."
Me:  "Well, isn't this the sort of thing that your home office should be helping you with?"
Caller:  "I would call them but they've all already gone home for the day."
Me:  silence.............
Caller:  "Okay, we'll figure it out.  No problem."  Click.

Now am I just being paranoid, or does it seem absurd that Fedex would be calling and asking for directions to my house?  It's not like I live in the boonies.

[MuffinMan]

I would be suspicious. I don't think I've ever gotten something from FedEx that I wasn't already expecting.

[Selby]

Now am I just being paranoid, or does it seem absurd that Fedex would be calling and asking for directions to my house?  It's not like I live in the boonies.

I live outside San Francisco in one of the most Google-mapped areas in the world.  I still occasionally get calls from truck drivers for UPS and FedEx asking how to get where I live.  If you weren't expecting a package, I'd ask for the tracking number before giving any info out.  But yeah, their office really should take care of that.

[ghost]

We get packages regularly, and I'm usually expecting something.  I have just never had that happen before.  I didn't know how to handle it.  I'm naturally more than a little paranoid (okay a lot paranoid) when it comes to that sort of shit.  I've had my credit card number stolen one too many times.

[Bunk]

Wow, just had a 7.7 quake hit north of Vancouver Island. Biggest Canadian quake since 1949. Sounds like the damage was minimal. Tsunami warning went out, but apparently the quake was quite shallow and didn't do much. Still a nervous thing to hear, when half my family lives on the Island.

[WayAbvPar]

Heard about it on Twitter almost as soon as it happened (too many Canucks-centric feeds  ). Sounds like a 3-7 foot tsunami headed for Hawaii. Hopefully the last earthquake in our part of the Ring of Fire for 100 years or so. Not gonna hold my breath though 

[Abagadro]

So my "fuck off to somewhere that isn't here" plan when I retire was to be Belize, but I was recently reminded how much I dislike humidity so that is likely out.  Any other suggestions?

Belize was sweet because they have a program (hopefully still around in 20 years, but who knows) where if you have a defined benefit retirement (yes they still exist) they would roll out the red carpet for you and your money.  Now I don't know where to fantasize about when I am bored at work.

[Chimpy]

I don't think there is anyplace left where the sane can go to get outside of the asylum anymore.

[Nebu]

I say that we all pool our retirement resources and buy an island.  Since it was my idea, I get to be king. 

[calapine]

So my "fuck off to somewhere that isn't here" plan when I retire was to be Belize, but I was recently reminded how much I dislike humidity so that is likely out.  Any other suggestions?

Belize was sweet because they have a program (hopefully still around in 20 years, but who knows) where if you have a defined benefit retirement (yes they still exist) they would roll out the red carpet for you and your money.  Now I don't know where to fantasize about when I am bored at work.

hmmm...Cape Verde?

Cape Verde's climate is milder than that of the African mainland because the surrounding sea moderates temperatures on the islands.[9] Average daily high temperatures range from 23 °C (73 °F) in January to 29 °C (84.2 °F) in September.[8] Cape Verde is part of the Sahelian arid belt, with nothing like the rainfall levels of nearby West Africa.[9] It does rain irregularly between August and October, with frequent brief-but-heavy downpours.[9] A desert is usually defined as terrain which receives less than 250 mm (9.8 in) of annual rainfall. Cape Verde's total (265 mm/10.4 in) is slightly above this criterion, which makes the area climate semi-desert.

[Signe]

I say that we all pool our retirement resources and buy an island.  Since it was my idea, I get to be king. 

Because "sane" is the first word to come to mind on a f13 island with King Nebu?  Who gets to be Piggy?  (not me)

[Nebu]

Sane is relative. 

Also... I found this list of the top 20 responses to someone telling you "I love you" too early in a relationship.

1. Good!
2. So do I!
3. Most people do.
4. I don't blame you!
5. Cool story, bro.
6. That makes two of us!
7. I love me, too.
8. That's nice.
9. HAHAHAHAHAHA. You WERE kidding, right?
10. I figured.
11. Thanks, I wish I could say the same for you.
12. I'd rather you didn't.
13. Let me know how that works out for you!
14. I wouldn't think too much of it, I get that all the time.
15. Sounds fun.
16. Oh, great. This is just hunky dory peachy keen.
17. What part of "restraining order" do you not understand?!?
18. Okay, bye.
19. And I love unicorns!
20. Good for you.

[Paelos]

My work has decided to put a program I noticed on all our computers call "Medicus Monitoring Agent" down in the toolbar. Is this what I think it is? Or is it something benign they aren't using to track all our computing movements.

Any IT help would be appreciated. As an aside, when I try to exit the program, it miraculously starts itself up again after 5 minutes. I just want to make sure that my company isn't spying on us and not telling us.

[Xanthippe]

Sane is relative. 

Also... I found this list of the top 20 responses to someone telling you "I love you" too early in a relationship.

1. Good!
2. So do I!
3. Most people do.
4. I don't blame you!
5. Cool story, bro.
6. That makes two of us!
7. I love me, too.
8. That's nice.
9. HAHAHAHAHAHA. You WERE kidding, right?
10. I figured.
11. Thanks, I wish I could say the same for you.
12. I'd rather you didn't.
13. Let me know how that works out for you!
14. I wouldn't think too much of it, I get that all the time.
15. Sounds fun.
16. Oh, great. This is just hunky dory peachy keen.
17. What part of "restraining order" do you not understand?!?
18. Okay, bye.
19. And I love unicorns!
20. Good for you.

They missed one.

21. I know.

[Sky]

Sane is relative. 

Also... I found this list of the top 20 responses to someone telling you "I love you" too early in a relationship.

1. I know.

The island must have a great forest. I will be the forester. Also I'll double as the headsman, because we'll definitely be needing one.

fake edit: dammit X

[ghost]

So my "fuck off to somewhere that isn't here" plan when I retire was to be Belize, but I was recently reminded how much I dislike humidity so that is likely out.  Any other suggestions?

Belize was sweet because they have a program (hopefully still around in 20 years, but who knows) where if you have a defined benefit retirement (yes they still exist) they would roll out the red carpet for you and your money.  Now I don't know where to fantasize about when I am bored at work.

You better think about Southern California if you want nice but no humidity.  San Diego's weather is awesome.

[Hammond]

My work has decided to put a program I noticed on all our computers call "Medicus Monitoring Agent" down in the toolbar. Is this what I think it is? Or is it something benign they aren't using to track all our computing movements.

Any IT help would be appreciated. As an aside, when I try to exit the program, it miraculously starts itself up again after 5 minutes. I just want to make sure that my company isn't spying on us and not telling us.

Couldn't find anything on the program name.  It sounds like it is probably something with medical billing / medical IT or some such.  2 things to try.  1st what options do you have when you right click on it.  2nd Try killing the program through task manager. 

[Paelos]

My work has decided to put a program I noticed on all our computers call "Medicus Monitoring Agent" down in the toolbar. Is this what I think it is? Or is it something benign they aren't using to track all our computing movements.

Any IT help would be appreciated. As an aside, when I try to exit the program, it miraculously starts itself up again after 5 minutes. I just want to make sure that my company isn't spying on us and not telling us.

Couldn't find anything on the program name.  It sounds like it is probably something with medical billing / medical IT or some such.  2 things to try.  1st what options do you have when you right click on it.  2nd Try killing the program through task manager.  

I did some background on it. It's a varient of Labtech RMM software. Right now it's running three things called Labtech Tray, Labtech Service Watchdog, and Labtech VNC. All attempts to remove it have been blocked.

I guess my question is: are they using this to monitor our network, or are they monitoring our movements on webpages, etc.

[Hammond]

Looks like it is more remote update, remote IT support stuff like that.  My guess is someone in IT decided they wanted to setup remote management to work with end users.  I am a bit surprised that they didn't do a company notice of some kind to let you know they were doing this.  I can only imagine the amount of calls / emails this generated :).

On a side note web tracking is far easier to do on a proxy level that is seamless to a user (IE I stick something in-between you and the internet) . And most desktop monitoring software I have seen does it in the background.  So you wouldn't know if it was running or not.

[Viin]

They can monitor your webpages without something like that, but tools like that make it easier. It is a monitoring tool to see what apps you are running and possibly what websites - but who knows how they have it configured and what they are actually looking at. Yes it is a monitoring tool, I've seen it before.

[Ironwood]

I fucking hate this job.  Really, really, really truly fucking hate it.

[Cyrrex]

I say that we all pool our retirement resources and buy an island.  Since it was my idea, I get to be king. 

Because "sane" is the first word to come to mind on a f13 island with King Nebu?  Who gets to be Piggy?  (not me)

Instead of being all down on the idea, maybe you should recognize that as one of the few females around here, your chances of being queen are pretty high.  Either that or the King's whore-on-the-side, which is possibly better than nothing.

I was going to take Headsman, but Sky already grabbed it...and to be fair, he is probably better with the axe.  So it'll either be Fool and Eunuch.

[Signe]

Be the Eunuch.  They almost never get murdered.  Fools are fair game for everyone.  I already have a weapon but I'll need new shoes for the revolution.

[ghost]

I take groundskeeper. 

[Signe]

You'll have to change your name to Willy.  Is that okay with you, Willy?