• wtf (unregistered) in reply to Dilbertino
    Dilbertino:
    wtf:
    What's with this solitaire crap, anyway? Have you people never heard of rogue?

    I don't even want to know how many K-hours I've spent playing Rogue (DOS version)... and still never finished it without save-and-restore. Every two years or so, I spend a few manic weeks trying... It is my solemn goal to finish it (cleanly) before I die!!! (_)

    That's what I'm sayin'. Guy's got a few hours waiting around and he's playing solitaire? There's the wtf.

    (actually, sick as I am, I have this urge to try to write a rogue clone - just to see if I know it as well as I ought to, after all of these hours.)

  • EngleBart (unregistered) in reply to t-bone
    t-bone:
    Rodnas:
    Anon:
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    Also, first.

    Can you go back and put first all in uppercase? Also switch the r and the i. Then add your department and phone number. See you in a couple of hours.

    FRIST - ITC - +31 70 3123456

    Done.

    I call shenanigans

    There is no ITC department in the Belgian embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. (where the phone number goes to, call it)

    Of course there is, but it is classified.

    Just ask for Major van der Voort, it should connect you to the correct extension. This is not a real person's name, it is just code for "the admin on duty."

    Of course, once you are talking with this person, you will need the day's pass phrase to reschedule jobs or have them create a list of employee names, extensions, and birthdays and post them to a publicly available web server. When they ask for the format, you must answer correctly: XML version 1.0 encoded in UTF-8 or else you will blow your cover.

  • (cs) in reply to Dilbertino
    Dilbertino:
    wtf:
    What's with this solitaire crap, anyway? Have you people never heard of rogue?

    I don't even want to know how many K-hours I've spent playing Rogue (DOS version)... and still never finished it without save-and-restore. Every two years or so, I spend a few manic weeks trying... It is my solemn goal to finish it (cleanly) before I die!!! (_)

    I'm in the same boat. I've been playing the DOS version off and on since about 10 years old and have never won without cheating. Lately it's been my game of choice while riding the train to work; now I only play solitaire when I get frustrated from being killed by a medusa for the nth time in a row. I've actually considered porting Rogomatic to DOS just to be able to see a legitimate win...

  • Jenny (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Rodnas:
    FRIST - ITC - +31 70 3123456

    Done.

    No, No, No. The number should be 8675309

    (Showing my age...)

    No, No, NO! That's MY phone number!

  • Axl (unregistered) in reply to GettinSadda
    GettinSadda:
    The Nerve:
    Let me tell you the best way to convert all of these comments to Spanish.
    http://tinyurl.com/2woothz

    TRWTF is everyone uses bit.ly now. Amirite?

  • greg (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    Actually try +0118 999 88199 9119 725 3

  • Darth Excel (unregistered)

    I have formatted the data - pray I don't format it any further.

  • The Nerve (unregistered) in reply to wtf
    wtf:
    Spider Flyer:
    Really?? Then I must be lying.

    That's what the 'undo card' and 'continue game' features are for.

    Four-suit Spider Solitaire is like the 'remove-tile' Majong games: if you don't get the first time, back up and try again, and again, and ...

    If you can't beat the game, defeat the purpose. What's with this solitaire crap, anyway? Have you people never heard of rogue?

    I don't know how you guys get away with that...what I need is a game that I can play that makes it look like I'm writing/editing Java code.

  • Brian (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim

    Not just Pretty Good... Plain Good

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to Spider Flyer
    Spider Flyer:
    Really?? Then I must be lying.

    That's what the 'undo card' and 'continue game' features are for.

    Four-suit Spider Solitaire is like the 'remove-tile' Majong games: if you don't get the first time, back up and try again, and again, and ...

    So you're telling us the games have managed to program a back-tracking algorithm on your brain's hardware.

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to The Nerve
    The Nerve:
    I don't know how you guys get away with that...what I need is a game that I can play that makes it look like I'm writing/editing Java code.
    There is such a game: - Pick a random code snippet from TDWTF. - Change it to non-WTFy code. Object: Finish before going insane.
  • Mark J. (unregistered) in reply to Jaime
    Jaime:
    Skawt:
    How do I become an traveling consultant guy? You could even skip the highly paid part, I just want to travel at someone elses expense.
    Trust me, don't do it. You'll end up with fun weekends where your return flight gets delayed and you get back to your home airport a few hours before the next flight leaves. There will be 10,000 other travel annoyances from pretty to disastrous, all so that you can see the places where tourists don't want to go. Conferences and training seminars are sometimes in cool places, but consulting gigs are usually in places like Bloomfield Connecticut, which is basically a 100 square mile office park.

    In my experience, conferences and training seminars are always in cool places - the northwestern U.S. in winter!

    Captcha: praesent - a birthdaey present

  • nobody (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim
    The Other Tim:
    Balentius:
    No, the REAL wtf is that it took Tim an hour to add the phone number and extension... Did he have to go around to each desk and look at it?
    I think you guys are being a little too harsh. One time I had to add a phone number column, but the data was in Office 2007 format, so I had to upgrade. I downloaded the install image, but it was too big for my CD. So I had to put it on a DVD. My computer didn't have a DVD drive so I bought one and installed it. That made an interrupt conflict with my zip drive, so I had to upgrade to Windows Vista. And after that, things got really nasty.

    So if he did it in an hour I think that's Pretty Good.

    Don't you mean Plain Good?

  • The Formatting Guy (unregistered)

    I hope he checked the "Quick Format" checkbox 'cause doing a full format on a flash drive is a really bad idea!

  • Mischief (unregistered)

    Format? I would have zeroed out that bitch.

  • Herby (unregistered)

    This reminds me of the sign I once (it was a while ago) in an auto repair shop:

    Shop Rates: Hourly $25.00 If you watch $35.00 If you advise $45.00 If you help $55.00

    You pays your money, you takes your chances!!

    Other comment: On a recent trip to a Lexus dealer, I noticed that the rate was $155.00/hour. Obviously "gold plated" labor! Obviously I don't there any more!

  • ClaudeSuck.de (unregistered) in reply to Dilbertino
    Dilbertino:
    Mike:
    Dilbertino:
    Mike should move up to Spider. It's more challenging (ergo takes more time) than Freecell.

    Really? I find Freecell more challenging than even the advanced levels of spider.

    Well, Freecell games are (almost) all winnable, having streaks of a few dozen wins is not that hard for experienced players. Advanced Spider is much less 'winnable', so that could be defined as more challenging : )

    In FreeCell, cards are not dealt randomly. Rather, there are 32,000 distinct numbered games, each representing a different predetermined deal of the cards. According to the help, "It is believed (although not proven) that every game is winnable." In fact, it has been proven that game #11982 is indeed not winnable.

    http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/000008.html

    Tired of not winning a certain game of Free Cell try this: Ctrl+Shift+F10 then abort and play one more card.

  • Slicerwizard (unregistered) in reply to ClaudeSuck.de
    ClaudeSuck.de:
    In FreeCell, cards are not dealt randomly. Rather, there are 32,000 distinct numbered games, each representing a different predetermined deal of the cards.
    Randomizer seed value COMPREHENSION FAIL.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    A tale worthy of The Office. Imagining Ricky Gervais as Tim Brent.
    I mean really, all while reading this I kept feeling that maybe "Mike" stole the plot from one episode.
  • Mo (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim

    *Plain Good

  • (cs) in reply to Mischief
    Mischief:
    Format? I would have zeroed out that bitch.
    I'm afraid even that won't do it - wear levelling on Flash drives.
  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I mean really, all while reading this I kept feeling that maybe "Mike" stole the plot from one episode.

    But while The Office is based on fiction, this story actually happened.

  • wtf (unregistered) in reply to The Nerve
    The Nerve:

    I don't know how you guys get away with that...what I need is a game that I can play that makes it look like I'm writing/editing Java code.

    You're probably safe enough playing rogue. Odds are your boss wouldn't be able to recognize it as a game.

  • The third Tim (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim
    The Other Tim:
    So if he did it in an hour I think that's Plain Good.

    FTFY

  • tovarich (unregistered) in reply to Dilbertino
    Dilbertino:
    Mike should move up to Spider. It's more challenging (ergo takes more time) than Freecell.
    Who knows? He might be one of the OCD-types that insists on solving every single combination on FreeCell (the old win-version had 32k (minus one) solvable ones). My father did this over a period of time, but gave up on #14,352 when he upgraded to XP and discovered they had added almost a million new combos.
  • Ravenheart (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim
    The Other Tim:
    Balentius:
    No, the REAL wtf is that it took Tim an hour to add the phone number and extension... Did he have to go around to each desk and look at it?
    I think you guys are being a little too harsh. One time I had to add a phone number column, but the data was in Office 2007 format, so I had to upgrade. I downloaded the install image, but it was too big for my CD. So I had to put it on a DVD. My computer didn't have a DVD drive so I bought one and installed it. That made an interrupt conflict with my zip drive, so I had to upgrade to Windows Vista. And after that, things got really nasty.

    Your WTF is you didn't use a virtual drive, say use Daemon Tools Lite.

  • Sjaak (unregistered) in reply to Rodnas
    Rodnas:
    Anon:
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    Also, first.

    Can you go back and put first all in uppercase? Also switch the r and the i. Then add your department and phone number. See you in a couple of hours.

    FRIST - ITC - +31 70 3123456

    Done.

    Great, so you work in the Hague? :P

  • m (unregistered) in reply to toth
    toth:
    we're just going to type them in by hand.

    TRWTF

    Are you suggesting that you'd write an import script for a one-time job that can be done manually in about 15 minutes?

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to Buddy
    Buddy:
    Anon:
    To be fair, I was never a fan of the name Pretty Good Privacy anyway.

    How about DSMP? Doesn't Suck Much

    I had a version of tar for the Amiga called BTNtar .. Better Than Nothing.

  • CMMI Snob (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim
    The Other Tim:
    So if he did it in an hour I think that's Pretty Good.

    Someone should commend Tim on his Pretty Good Performance.

    captcha: transverbero - My 'doing' word to describe whatever the hell my spanish bro is doing right now.

  • Matt Simmons (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim

    How do you know that you're "The Other Tim", and not "The Tim"?

  • (cs) in reply to Ravenheart
    Ravenheart:
    The Other Tim:
    Balentius:
    No, the REAL wtf is that it took Tim an hour to add the phone number and extension...
    ...And after that, things got really nasty.
    Your WTF is you didn't use a virtual drive, say use Daemon Tools Lite.

    If only Windows could: mount -o loop disk.iso /mnt/disk

  • (cs) in reply to Tommy Tutone
    Tommy Tutone:
    Okay, why are you living with Jenny?!?!
    Admit it, you're just jealous...
  • Thomas (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Rodnas:
    FRIST - ITC - +31 70 3123456

    Done.

    No, No, No. The number should be 8675309

    (Showing my age...)

    I'm 27 and I thougt of Tommy Tutone right away.

  • Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot (unregistered)

    My guess is that Tim has some high-functional form of Asperger Syndrome. I have seen it before, and I have learned to deal with those people. The best thing is indeed to give them little jobs like compiling lists in alphabetical order. They will probably do it manually so it will take a couple of hours, but meanwhile they leave you alone.

    Beware: they want to be "friends" with you because you "appreciate" them. Meh. They are just annoying little puppies. When they try to become friends with you, give them some more silly tasks. And RUN! You should be on the next plane. Also don't give them your personal phone number or email address.

  • (cs) in reply to Scott Selikoff
    Scott Selikoff:
    Anonymous:
    I mean really, all while reading this I kept feeling that maybe "Mike" stole the plot from one episode.

    But while The Office is based on fiction, this story actually happened.

    Are you suggesting that there isn't ever any fiction posted here?

  • JP (unregistered)

    Did Tim graduate from DeVry?

  • Outside observer (unregistered) in reply to Buddy
    Buddy:
    Anon:
    To be fair, I was never a fan of the name Pretty Good Privacy anyway.

    How about DSMP? Doesn't Suck Much

    Reminds me of the tagline on the side of a coffee delivery truck in my old town, "Consistently good."

    Even if accurate, it just seemed so unimpressive. We used to come up with alternate taglines they could use. "Never terrible." "Always mediocre." "Not the worst thing you've ever tasted."

  • germaican (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim

    now, that is a real WTF, you could just have opened the file with 7zip and looked straight at XML, that would have saved time.

    captcha:amet short for amen-hit, when a priest beats you up

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to m
    m:
    toth:
    we're just going to type them in by hand.

    TRWTF

    Are you suggesting that you'd write an import script for a one-time job that can be done manually in about 15 minutes?
    Are you suggesting they need the user list only for this one customer?

  • vovo (unregistered) in reply to tovarich
    tovarich:
    Dilbertino:
    Mike should move up to Spider. It's more challenging (ergo takes more time) than Freecell.
    Who knows? He might be one of the OCD-types that insists on solving every single combination on FreeCell (the old win-version had 32k (minus one) solvable ones). My father did this over a period of time, but gave up on #14,352 when he upgraded to XP and discovered they had added almost a million new combos.

    I was addicted to Spider until I got Angry Birds on my iPhone. Loads of replay value.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim

    just an hour sounds like Pretty Good Progress to me

  • CoderDan (unregistered) in reply to badcaseofspace
    badcaseofspace:
    public class Tim : IFailure

    +1

  • Mark J. (unregistered) in reply to Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot
    Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot:
    My guess is that Tim has some high-functional form of Asperger Syndrome. I have seen it before, and I have learned to deal with those people. The best thing is indeed to give them little jobs like compiling lists in alphabetical order. They will probably do it manually so it will take a couple of hours, but meanwhile they leave you alone.

    Beware: they want to be "friends" with you because you "appreciate" them. Meh. They are just annoying little puppies. When they try to become friends with you, give them some more silly tasks. And RUN! You should be on the next plane. Also don't give them your personal phone number or email address.

    Tim would probably benefit from group therapy...

    CAPTCHA: ullamcorper - an officer or employee of the ullam corporation (of course!)

  • Ryan (unregistered) in reply to The Other Tim

    You mean plain good.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    What format do you want these comments in? I can do Excel, Word, Access or CSV.

    A mint FAT32?

  • Anonymous Bystander (unregistered) in reply to Mogri
    Mogri:
    If someone tells you he's beaten four-suit Spider Solitaire, he is lying.

    even if he's Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius ?

  • Matri (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Bystander
    Anonymous Bystander:
    Mogri:
    If someone tells you he's beaten four-suit Spider Solitaire, he is lying.

    even if he's Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius ?

    Wait... "Gunther"?

  • Parallel Universe (unregistered) in reply to fjf
    fjf:
    m:
    toth:
    we're just going to type them in by hand.

    TRWTF

    Are you suggesting that you'd write an import script for a one-time job that can be done manually in about 15 minutes?
    Are you suggesting they need the user list only for this one customer?

    yes... unless they can find another customer who happens to employ people with exactly the same names and positions

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Rodnas:
    FRIST - ITC - +31 70 3123456

    Done.

    No, No, No. The number should be 8675309

    (Showing my age...)

    I used to know the person that owned that number (seriously, won't give you the area code since it's probably back in circulation). They had to have it changed because of all the calls asking for Jenny.

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