In reply to Huckleberry:
You can find the dying part too if you look hard enough. So I've been told anyway.
In reply to Huckleberry:
You can find the dying part too if you look hard enough. So I've been told anyway.
Our relatively new snack area sucks.
You have to use it's card or a credit/debit card. I can't put change from my pocket into a machine and get a bag of cashews.
I guess spending so much money on "serving us better" is going to save some of my money.
The old machines were nice. Put in change, press some numbers, and walla- you have a snack.
alfadriver wrote: Our relatively new snack area sucks. You have to use it's card or a credit/debit card. I can't put change from my pocket into a machine and get a bag of cashews. I guess spending so much money on "serving us better" is going to save some of my money. The old machines were nice. Put in change, press some numbers, and walla- you have a snack.
Oh, oh, don’t get me started.
I park at several different piers along the Southern California coastline.
In the olden days, everything was awesome…you’d just pull up, grab a handful of change from the ashtray, and feed the kitty until you had enough time on the meter.
Now, you memorize your space and / or license plate number, walk 100’s of feet to some god damned Nazi kiosk thing, wait forever in line (it’d take even longer if not for the fact that many people peel out of line once they realize they need to have a bunch of information on hand) and select between too little time or too much time.
Back when it was easy, I used to pay every time without thinking about it but now I do the math…probability of getting caught (0.15) times the fine ($35) = $5.25 – the parking fee ($3.00) = $2.25 expected cost of noncompliance. Oh, it’s totally worth $2.25 to avoid all that hassle.
Besides, I haven’t gotten popped yet so I’m playing on the man’s money now...sweet.
Who sold Trump so much ad time on youtube? No ad blocker on my TV, and for the last 3 weeks, I've seen nothing but Trump ads almost exclusively. I really don't care either way in this whole mess, I'm just beyond tired of seeing the same 2 ads every 10 minutes. And really sick of having to see Hillary while I'm waiting on the skip ad button. When there's a skip ad button. Even without the "politics" behind it, I don't want to see either of these people on my tv or in my house.
Seriously, I might wind up sending receipts to whoever bought these ad spots for a new TV by the end of this whole mess because my remote has already come too close to going through the screen.
Screwed over by poor service information again!
I get to pull the Duramax I just finished assembling back apart again because of eight "pocket" bolts that, after searching the GM parts fiche, go in under the valve covers. Nowhere in the engine assembly procedure. Much rage.
Look at how much has to be disassembled to pull the valve covers off of an LLY. I'm going to try to sneak the passenger side apart without removing the EGR assembly but it will be very tight.
RevRico wrote: Even without the "politics" behind it, I don't want to see **either** of these people on my tv or in my house.
And, I can assure you that we don't want them on the forum either.
RX Reven' wrote:alfadriver wrote: Our relatively new snack area sucks. You have to use it's card or a credit/debit card. I can't put change from my pocket into a machine and get a bag of cashews. I guess spending so much money on "serving us better" is going to save some of my money. The old machines were nice. Put in change, press some numbers, and walla- you have a snack.Oh, oh, don’t get me started. I park at several different piers along the Southern California coastline. In the olden days, everything was awesome…you’d just pull up, grab a handful of change from the ashtray, and feed the kitty until you had enough time on the meter. Now, you memorize your space and / or license plate number, walk 100’s of feet to some god damned Nazi kiosk thing, wait forever in line (it’d take even longer if not for the fact that many people peel out of line once they realize they need to have a bunch of information on hand) and select between too little time or too much time. Back when it was easy, I used to pay every time without thinking about it but now I do the math…probability of getting caught (0.15) times the fine ($35) = $5.25 – the parking fee ($3.00) = $2.25 expected cost of noncompliance. Oh, it’s totally worth $2.25 to avoid all that hassle. Besides, I haven’t gotten popped yet so I’m playing on the man’s money now...sweet.
Saskatoon spent a fortune putting in solar powered computer parking kiosks and sawing the heads off the parking meters. They seldom work, and never in winter.
So, we go from a system that always seemed to work, and provided a couple of jobs to guys wandering around with a wagon collecting cash, to a system that doesn't work regularly, and everyone hates it. I suppose the youngsters among us hate having to carry a few quarters...
Knurled wrote: Screwed over by poor service information again! I get to pull the Duramax I just finished assembling back apart again because of eight "pocket" bolts that, after searching the GM parts fiche, go in under the valve covers. Nowhere in the engine assembly procedure. Much rage. Look at how much has to be disassembled to pull the valve covers off of an LLY. I'm going to try to sneak the passenger side apart without removing the EGR assembly but it will be very tight.
Okay, so Past Me has been a real bro with this Duramax that I took apart like three months ago. Used five or six brake pad boxes for fasteners, and each box had what subassembly donated its hardware to the box, in order of removal, so unpeeling the onion would just be a matter of reversing the order of each bolt box's list. Simple.
Past Me, however, did a major douche move, and that is putting the old M8 head bolts in with the pushrods instead of with the main head bolts. I'm sure it made sense at the time since the M8s are reusable. BUT. What Past Me did not know was the new head bolts come with the M8s also. So they were never retrieved from the pushrods box.
At least Current Me didn't yank half of the monsterpus apart to get to the valve covers to find that the bolts really are "pocket bolts" because new bolts are in the engine.
I'm ambivalent about Past Me right now. One part bro and one part douche. If I could go back in time I'd give him a beer AND a kick in the nuts.
It's 37 degrees outside and the A/C is blasting on the train.
I would pay SIGNIFICANT amounts of money for something that looks like a late '80s supercar (Bertone, of course) and has a fully electric powertrain. It's 2016, why can I not get this.
Wall-e wrote: It's 37 degrees outside and the A/C is blasting on the train.
In reply to slantvaliant:
This dude is a royal shiny happy person. Why am I the only person he will deal with? I ain't got time for his E36 M3.
This ancient phone system from the 90s...!
Somehow whenever the main number is called fax machines and monitoring systems started picking it up so the calls never get to the front desk.Been working on it for at least 5 hours. Almost have it figured out, but there is still a fax machine picking up somewhere. Gr...
I can not wait until our VOIP system gets put in.
AWSX1686 wrote: I can not wait until our VOIP system gets put in.
Be careful what you wish for. We've had VOIP for 5-6 years and it has been a disaster. 2 different phone systems, at least 2 different servers, and lots of different configurations later, and it still doesn't work right.
Having to dial a full 10-digit number even for local calls? Check.
Callers' voices too quiet in the handset? Check.
Dropped and spotty calls? Check.
Random outages where all incoming calls get a busy signal? Check.
Not being able to dial out even though you have a dial tone? Check.
Hearing your own voice blasted into your own ear for the first 90+ seconds of every incoming call? Check.
There's more, but it's not worth going into. Bob knows what they've spent on trying to get these various systems to work, but in the past 3 years or so I've basically given up on using my desk phone.
Duke wrote:AWSX1686 wrote: I can not wait until our VOIP system gets put in.Be careful what you wish for. We've had VOIP for 5-6 years and it has been a disaster. 2 different phone systems, at least 2 different servers, and lots of different configurations later, and it *still* doesn't work right. Having to dial a full 10-digit number even for local calls? Check. Caller's voices too quiet in the handset? Check. Dropped and spotty calls? Check. Random outages where all incoming calls get a busy signal? Check. Not being able to dial out even though you have a dial tone? Check. Hearing your own voice blasted into your own ear for the first 90+ seconds of every incoming call? Check. There's more, but it's not worth going into. Bob knows what they've spent on trying to get these various systems to work, but in the past 3 years or so I've basically given up on using my desk phone.
Well, they already have the system setup on the main campus, and they already have a fiber connection here so they can extend the system to us fairly easily. So I'm pretty sure they have it worked out pretty well.
The main plus though, is it goes from me managing the phone system, to them managing the phone system. :)
AWSX1686 wrote: The main plus though, is it goes from me managing the phone system, to them managing the phone system. :)
There is a lot to be said for that, indeed.
Duke wrote:AWSX1686 wrote: The main plus though, is it goes from me managing the phone system, to them managing the phone system. :)There is a lot to be said for that, indeed.
Indeed! I'll have this site up and running shortly with a minimal responsibility list once I've cleaned up the mess the old guy left. Then I get to be a floater between 2 of our sites. :)
So now they're attacking the Star Spangled Banner? Enough is enough!
Duke wrote:AWSX1686 wrote: I can not wait until our VOIP system gets put in.Be careful what you wish for. We've had VOIP for 5-6 years and it has been a disaster. 2 different phone systems, at least 2 different servers, and lots of different configurations later, and it *still* doesn't work right. Having to dial a full 10-digit number even for local calls? Check. Callers' voices too quiet in the handset? Check. Dropped and spotty calls? Check. Random outages where all incoming calls get a busy signal? Check. Not being able to dial out even though you have a dial tone? Check. Hearing your own voice blasted into your own ear for the first 90+ seconds of every incoming call? Check. There's more, but it's not worth going into. Bob knows what they've spent on trying to get these various systems to work, but in the past 3 years or so I've basically given up on using my desk phone.
Wow somebody really messed up. The one I manage is damn near trouble-free (and 100% FLOSS on the server 
). Worst problem is the occasional mysterious service hangs it's been having over the last year or so, I wrote a watchdog daemon that will take care of that within 2 minutes whenever it happens. Haven't had one for two months now, but no users have noticed since the watchdog's been running anyway.
Set up one for another company that had to be installed in...more troublesome conditions (telco phased out direct SIP logins, the one at my office is grandfathered in luckily, had to connect this other box with analog interfaces, HELLO ECHO and costly hardware) and it's been solid as a rock, I think it hiccuped once in 7 years when it stopped at the boot menu on restart due to an error. Hit enter and no trouble since then, I think that was about 4 years ago.
GameboyRMH wrote:Duke wrote:Wow somebody really messed up. The one I manage is damn near trouble-free (and 100% FLOSS on the serverAWSX1686 wrote: I can not wait until our VOIP system gets put in.Be careful what you wish for. We've had VOIP for 5-6 years and it has been a disaster. 2 different phone systems, at least 2 different servers, and lots of different configurations later, and it *still* doesn't work right. Having to dial a full 10-digit number even for local calls? Check. Callers' voices too quiet in the handset? Check. Dropped and spotty calls? Check. Random outages where all incoming calls get a busy signal? Check. Not being able to dial out even though you have a dial tone? Check. Hearing your own voice blasted into your own ear for the first 90+ seconds of every incoming call? Check. There's more, but it's not worth going into. Bob knows what they've spent on trying to get these various systems to work, but in the past 3 years or so I've basically given up on using my desk phone.
I've had good luck with the VOIP systems. The ShoreTel system I've used is pretty good, and I'll find out about the Cisco version soon.
Huckleberry wrote:RevRico wrote: You OWN the place and you're complaining about the toilet paper. Maybe instead of buying increasingly unreliable vehicles every other month, you spring for some quality paper. I guarantee it will make everyone happy, and happy, comfortable employees are hard working employees.Yes... but people with a sore ass don't sit around :)
I just installed a toilet seat bidet for my mom. Thing has enough pressure to shoot a sizable stream 6 feet up into the air. I can't see how it is going to be all that comfortable to use
Surfing online when I heard a vehicle pull up in the gravel drive, thought it was my Dad as it's about his time to roll into town and ain't seen him in a while. A CUV had driven up my 100' drive and around the house, turned around at the dead end and parked on the side of the house (nobody ever does that). Went out to expect my Dad but a 20-ish woman was quickly getting back in... musta heard the screen door slam I figure. Can I help you I says. Driver says to her 'I thought you said you lived here', she was dazed and/ or berkeleyed up and said not. They repeated nonsensical, lame exchanges until I had enough and said no she don't live here, time for you to go now. As they drove on up the street I walked the perimeter to inspect and 5 minutes later saw the CUV slowed and ready to turn back in my drive, they saw me as I turned the corner by my garage, accelerated and scooted on down the street.
Called the City PD to report suspicious vehicle/ activity and an officer was here w/ in ten minutes to take the report w/ complete descriptions of the characters. They'll keep an eye out on patrol overnight as I just went midnight, last week I was daylight, wonder what woulda happened if nobody was here? I have no doubt absoberkeleyinglutely whatsoever they were casing the joint.
Turned the scanner on after I called the PD so after the officer left I heard dispatch run the plate on his call (yes, I absolutely berkeleying did get that motherberkeleyer!!). Vehicle is registered 30 miles away, they got his name. All well and good, huh.
Routine response on my part for a vehicle pulling up in daylight but TIL I shouldn't go outside to investigate w/o a cell phone and a side arm.
Ain't gonna sleep well and gonna fret while away overnight.
It's finally my weekend.
And all I want to do is go back to work so I have a productive distraction from how much of a waste of breath I am.
Seriously considering axing my 401k contribution at work, living another 30 years to collect sounds berkeleying awful.
Main Street is blocked off for a car show so I figured I'd park and take a look. I walked from one end to the other and back, taking in all the typical tri-fives, Chevelles, Crammits, and Mustangs. I got to hear Big Girls Don't Cry over the loud speaker...Twice.
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