Useless Conversation

[Yegolev]

Marietta City Board of Education chair?  Randy Weiner.

[Abagadro]

More importantly, WHY no alcohol ?

Been trying to abstain on weeknights (to ensure this, don't have any in the house). A low bar to be sure, but still a struggle.

[Sky]

Goddamned mouse or something died in the living room wall. 

[Merusk]

Mice still dare to come in with Bart around? They stopped coming inside my place within the first 3 months of us living here because they smelled the cats.

[Sky]

I was light on traps last year, I guess they got frisky. Living in what amounts to an edge habitat is a mixed blessing.

Lots of wildlife, but also lots of wildlife. Pretty much everything but black bear.

[Merusk]

Yep, similar. Wood-rats (deer) in the yard all the time, spiders everywhere, ants & moles that like to make nests all over the yard, but the cats have scared off the mice somehow.

[Sky]

He's an indoor monster, I don't think they can smell him up in the attic crawlspace. I also wonder if this is part of a new increase in population due to the success of the feral spay/neuter program one of the local vets has been running for years now...I've noticed a marked decrease in the feral population (they used to feed at the school I'm one house away from, and a retirement home just past that).

Also why I use traps rather than poison, nothing worse than a dead nest stinking things up in summer humidity.

[rattran]

We had a black bear on site in front of the booth last night due to poor cleanup by the trash guys. (Bears seem to love turkey leg bones) I only knew it was out there as both Mr B the 25lb cat and the 4lb kitten were out on the front porch fluffed and growling at it. The kitten was even doing the clacky death-bite thing.

The bear didn't seem impressed.

[schild]

Anyone have an Office key lying around. Need a copy on my secondary-secondary computer. Thanks.

[Yegolev]

Outdoor cats are effective at securing a perimeter, at least against things smaller than themselves.  Indoor cats are ridiculed through the windows by interlopers large and small.

[Trippy]

Yep, similar. Wood-rats (deer) in the yard all the time, spiders everywhere, ants & moles that like to make nests all over the yard, but the cats have scared off the mice somehow.

Outdoor house cats are small furry killing machines:

Indeed, an August 2012 University of Georgia study, produced in conjunction with National Geographic, projected that free-range house cats kill about 4 billion wildlife animals per year, 500 million of which are birds. During the study, researchers attached video cameras to 60 cats to monitor how the felines spend their time. They found that one-third of a cat's day is spent killing smaller creatures, Mother Nature Network reports.

[Yegolev]

And yet I have to take a hose to a swift nest in the ceiling of my porch once a week.  My cats are probably lazier than the average.

[Signe]

I don't have outdoor cats anymore but when I was a kid we had barn cats.  They killed everything that couldn't kill them including our everything in our neighbors gazillion birdhouses.  Those creeps, two old ladies and their younger nephew, poisoned our kitties including a new-ish litter of 10.     They also had two little Scotties that bit everyone they could get at.  Evil house.  I'll be honest and say that my sister and I laughed when the man was fired from the local highschool for molesting a boy.  They moved away a few months later.  We danced. 

[Polysorbate80]

And yet I have to take a hose to a swift nest in the ceiling of my porch once a week.  My cats are probably lazier than the average.

Kitty Jet-Packs

[CaptainNapkin]

And to be honest, the old i-pad is too heavy to hold and carry for use….

 

IF we give you an iPad, it's only because the CIO likes you. We don't 'officially' deploy them, so shut up and be happy you're a 1%er.
I guess he won't be needing that laptop any more either.

[Viin]

Older iPads *are* heavy, especially if you carry them with a laptop. Might as well bring a desktop tower in a roller bag!

Edit: says a guy who hates traveling with a massive laptop and too many other electronic gadgets

[CaptainNapkin]

Which is why I use a Surface Pro 3 and an iPad mini... it's good to be the king (and a bit of a cynic). 

[Viin]

Actually, I would love a Surface Pro 3. I'm going to ask for one of those next.

[Merusk]

 

Your users know nothing of weight. Our laptops have to be able to run Revit, Autocad and Photoshop. They are NOT ipad/ macbook air light-use devices, weighing about 5-7 pounds each ans 12-16gb of RAM. SOooo many complaints about not them being too heavy.  It is what it is, folks. These aren't ipads, you're expected to work on them not to browse the web and e-mail.

[Yegolev]

This doesn't really belong in the Job Thread and isn't serious enough for the Tech threads, but I'm getting balls deep in AWS and the idea of configuring a vendor-agnostic cloud architecture is looking less easy than originally imagined.  To be expected, I suppose.

[Ironwood]

Well, yes.

Be very careful with your balls.

When you say vendor agnostic, you mean.... what exactly ?

[Yegolev]

Abstracting as much of our architecture as possible so we can deploy applications to any vendor by using as close to identical processes as possible.

[Chimpy]

Abstracting as much of our architecture as possible so we can deploy applications to any vendor by using as close to identical processes as possible.

Do you want a unicorn to ride on your way there too?

 

[Ironwood]

Abstracting as much of our architecture as possible so we can deploy applications to any vendor by using as close to identical processes as possible.

Yeah, that's what I thought you meant.

Good Luck.

[Lantyssa]

Have you considered writing it in Java?

[Viin]

Or Ruby?

[Yegolev]

The real answer may surprise you.

[Trippy]

Docker is the current hammer du jour.

[Merusk]

It's MS basic isn't it.  Your whole world as .bat files and .exes

[Yegolev]

Once we get it working, I might want to talk about it more.  I mean, answers may change in six months.

[Ironwood]

In Cloudland, they have to.

[Rasix]

Well, that was the creepiest phone call I've ever gotten.  I pick up the phone and it's some guy laughing/chuckling in a manner akin to what I'd imagine the guy from Too Many Cooks would.  Yeesh.

The world is just messing with me.  A few weeks ago a car drives through the front window/door of a store I'm at.  Late last night the power goes on and off every 5 minutes for about 2 hours.  And some mystery bug is snacking on me (I'm really hoping it's not bed bugs).  Ohh, and there was a dumpster fire (literally) at my new house construction.

[HaemishM]

90 degrees outside with 54% humidity (which is an improvement over the last few days) and my AC compressor is LE FUCKED. Now I have to wait for my landlord to approve the expense of putting in a new goddamn unit as I stew in my own juices.

[Lantyssa]

I suggest you collect your juices in a jar and give them to your landlord.

[bhodi]

Has Haemish moved yet?

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