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didn't think so.
that's why i "resemble" the remark that i'm a :older_woman:
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[Son I am disappoint] that you didn't go look on Youtube. I am also disappointed you didn't quote more of that line, because you would've gotten a clue.
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i'm currently at work and i know how many trolls infest this place
so..... not a looker?
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Just be glad they didn't clean it with a vacuum cleaner (plastic hose, static...)
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Yes, depending on what you mean by looker.
Her channel is probably more or less not NSFW, but you can wait until you get home to look her up, or use a proxy or whatever.
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they make proxies for your monitor now?
it's not the net traffic i worry about. ;-)
i've been told i have a very unconventional sense of beauty... so i wouldn't go using me as a yardstick for that sort of thing... ;-)
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I took that as it had a locking case, which makes it even worse as that would imply that there is no racking at all for it to go in to.
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sigh. She's not skinny, but she's not really fat, either. Some people like that kind of thing, some people don't. My joke, which was clearly too obscure, involved that she's a looker, but it might be good looks or bad looks, depending on the eye of the beholder.
200 years ago she'd probably be considered more or less a 10, given that people used to like women a bit less thin than they do now.
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I would not use that joke on my wife.
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not unless you like sleeping in the garage.
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Ok, I won't use it on your wife.
Edit: I personally don't think she looks bad at all.
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I do have a leather bench seat out there...from time to time...
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sometimes the mouth is faster than the brain?
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I'm waiting to hear about their backup tapes. Certainly with their entire business running on one machine, they're backing it up, yes? But the conversation sounds like no one knew if the tapes existed, were current, or were tested. This would make a much more interesting WTF story.
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it's a constant race
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ouch... that's gotta lead to some interesting evenings.
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stellar spellar...
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I suspect that @accalia actually meant eventings in this case.
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With her, you never know.
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true
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no, it was a tyop....
:blush:
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Never underestimate the power of wishful thinking.
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Too bad. Eventings actually kind of made sense, what with talking about brain/mouth racing.
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it was a fortuitous tyop, but a tpyo none the less.
tpyo turns out to be a very hard word for me to misspell...
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When the machines become sentient and rise against us, cleaning staff will be the first against the wall.
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I'd hit it, she would have to get rid of the stupid headbands though.
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That, too.
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Today I added a new abbreviation SDT, and proceeded to mistype it STD all day...
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'Twas back in 1997, and I was assigned my first PC, as I was being seconded from the DEC VAX FORTRAN team to a special one-off sales project using some damnfool map tool interfaced with some VB that we had been tasked to write, which we would send to our man in Lisbon and Dusseldorf (and wherever else he needed to be). Discs were not very big (memory-wise) in those days, a mere few megabytes, and I soon ran out of space -- so I was given a second disc drive. Wow, that was the thing. I think it might have had 8MB on it.
The job was a bit stressy and time-intensive, so my colleague and I would spend the entire weekend round his place working on this damn program which we were less than completely enthused about. This meant carting around these great heavy desktop PCs from office to his place each weekend (this was before laptops with an appropriate quantity of power were available for an affordable price).
All went fairly well, in the end: we ate a lot of pizza, told each other a lot of very funny sick jokes, and watched a lot of Xena, and we actually solved all the technical programming problems that we had been assigned to solve, and were on the point of shipping the product to the sales manager.
All went well, until suddenly my PC went bang and the magic smoke all came pouring out of the sides. When we dismantled the PC, we found that the second disc drive had come loose. Turns out that it had been affixed inside the cabinet with ...
... sellotape.
(That is: Scotch tape.)
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Since the definition (at least 2.5 SD smaller than the mean average of the species) equates to 2¾'', a "3''" floppy is 27% larger than the articles described in your - er - article.
So, not entirely useful..
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Kipling: (McAndrew's Hymn) Ye thought? Ye are not paid to think. Go sweat it off again!
But in reality cleaners are paid to think to a degree - not all cleaning is purely repetitive - and it is someone else's job to tell them what to clean and what not to clean. This is a management failure, not a cleaner failure.
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The cleaning staff will be the only humans left, because robots are useless at cleaning in corners and no self respecting world dominating AI wants fluff in its cabinet. CEOs now...crunchy.
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Midsection pendantry pedantry?
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But then, some people spend their entire careers as janitors for just that reason.
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I'd like to know why it's so hard to put the trash can in my office back where it was, instead of leaning against the wall at an angle (as in, one bottom edge is actually on the wall, not the floor), or on a different wall, or under my desk, even if I put my chair right exactly where the can was the last time they tried that, so this time they had to MOVE THE CHAIR TO AVOID PUTTING IT BACK WHERE THEY FOUND IT!
Why yes, it tasks me.
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They might be doing it deliberately just to fuck with you for entertainment. How exciting do you think their job usually is?
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I probably knew that at one time, but I'd long ago forgotten it.
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I hadn't quite graduated from college then.
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I will admit to being rankled by it. I'm ready to track down some caution tape for a "trash can goes here" zone and to ask someone how to say "trash can goes here" in colloquial Spanish, rather than the near-gibberish someone put on the server room door.
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I can only assume this is the motive behind the actions of our office cleaner. They only come once a week, at the weekend when the office is empty. I would say my desk is pretty tidy in general but still accumulates some dust.
Every Monday morning I come in to find that the contents of my desk have been rearranged in some fashion, yet no dust has actually been cleaned! As far as I'm concerned, the cleaner is making my desk more untidy, and if I want it dusted I have to do it myself.
I have nothing against cleaners in general (I have been one of sorts myself before), just this one in particular!
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Wow, in 1997 I had a zip drive. 100MB per disk. Of course it was plugged into a 386 which had a 80MB HDD. I still have the zip drive - it worked last time I tried, no click of death - but no computer with a parallel port any more. Or any use for such a small capacity! Next year I'll take it out for a drink.
(Fwiw i was in high school in 1997 and the following year it was useful for university)
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They would never see the results, because they never come in until long after I've left for the day. If they're going to live with imagining my irkedness, they should just imagine putting the can in the wrong place, too, and save us all the bother.
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You can still buy I/O cards with parallel ports on 'em.
I had a SCSI zip drive because duh.
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Also, I think they may just be stupid, because they sometimes forget to actually EMPTY the cans.
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I can see how that works ;)
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Faster because you don't have to play DJ a few times (
diskcopyread the disk contents to RAM, so if available RAM was less than the size of the disk, you'd have to swap disks multiple times).Accessing files on the copied disk might also have been faster when using
[x]copyand the hard drive as temporary storage:You could work around that warning by doing a
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hmm... i remember my dos startup floppy.
loved that thing. had everything i ever needed on it. was slow as flack to boot up because it had to decompress that utilities archive to a 6MB ramdrive but after it was done there wasn't anything that i couldn't do with that thing....
then i got a laptop of my own and could stop co-opting the public computers at the library for my.... interests. ;-)
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That was indeed what I was thinking of.
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Starting from DOS 6, the hard drive was used as temporary storage.
I forgot that I didn't have to switch disks ~27 times anymore starting from a certain DOS version.
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Not trolling, but someone who has real world experience of management, not just an armchair CEO. You obviously have never had to manage real world cleaners. In some office environments cleaners will be told to unplug lamps and the like where necessary to get power for their vacuum cleaners. They may also be expected to dust files - old manual files can become heavily coated with dust and are a health hazard. In other office environments, the "Never, ever unplug anything, dismantle anything or open any cupboard" rule applies. Cleaning staff need to be instructed properly in what to do in each area they clean; agency cleaners have to be told what the rules are and the contract should specify that they be enforced. If you have, for instance, an ISO 9002 environment, cleaning rules may well form part of your quality document (at one time I used to assess ISO 9002 for suppliers.) The fact that somebody knows something you obviously don't does not make them dumb; your restricted imagination and understanding of the range of real world environments suggests a mirror might help you.