I lost a good 30 lbs when I went to Athens for a month to work (270+/- to 241). The change in timezones messed up my feeding time so I wasn't hungry during meal times. Plus hiking all over or taking metro in my off hours. Add in the number of folks who smoked (which also kept my appetite down) and it's not hard to lose a few lbs.
[John]
A previous girlfriend of mine had bailed on her ex when she caught him chasing the neighborhood 15yo girls. She took her kids and cat (Morgan) and moved in with her sister. But she couldn't have cats in the house so she left Morgan with her other sister. Unfortunately she left Morgan on the back porch for a year. Never brought her in and being a dog person, never paid any attention to her. When we went to get her, she had pulled tufts of fur from about half way down her back to the end of her tail (she was a longer hair tuxedo cat). We took her to the vet to have her checked and nothing was found wrong with her. After having her at my place with the other cats I already had (my daughters both bailed on their cats when they moved out so I had three, then four with Morgan), she recovered however was pretty looney for the rest of her life (the awesome kind of looney; old lady looney
[John]
You must have missed the automatic assumption by some airlines that men are molesters.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/...
[John]
Well shit. Then this is a news for everyone on the planet. I expect everyone is nerdish about some things. How about an article on the proper methods of making moonshine.
Dumbass.
[John]
I'm not sure that the FDA recalling a Homeopathic "remedy" that claims to hold no antibiotics which actually does due to the manufacturing process, and could kill people who are allergic to penicillin is really a technical article that "nerds" would be all that interested in.
Well other than the numerous chuckles at 'homeopathy'
[John]
Yea, I was going through Computer Learning Center back in the 80's. Couldn't even get a glance from IBM but the person with a 4 year degree in Animal Husbandry got an offer. Even though I did much better in the classes and even taught one session for extra credit.
The degree doesn't matter as long as it's a degree.
[John]
WTF. While I'm not a professional developer, I am a Unix Admin. Everyone says I should (at a few weeks from 58) be in a management or engineering position.
I've tried the management classes to see how things are done. My manager insisted I at least put in the effort. It was quite beneficial in helping me understand what my manager goes through, but I (and my manager) realized I was not cut out to be a manager. (And this was after being a team lead in other companies).
As to being an engineer, it really requires a different mindset I guess. The engineers I've dealt with are supremely arrogant and have either no idea or have forgotten what it's like in the trenches. I almost feel like it's my job to stay where I am in order to help make the disasters work (we almost have to reengineer the deployments in order to get it working in production).
Humorously, because of my skillset and interest in being a sysadmin, I've had our monitoring group come to me twice asking me to switch positions, engineering has asked me to move to their team twice, and networking has asked me to join them 6 times now. I suspect soon I'll be asked to move into a Tool Makers group to manage the script and documentation environment.
[John]
Sysadmins can work in a big company and still be 'Small Time'. We're fairly small but automation and documentation lets 5 admins manage 1,200 systems.
[John]
Misspelled Cylon.
[John]
We have a policy of not scheduling meetings on Thursdays. It's not 100% perfect but the meetings are fewer to non-existent on Thursdays so it's the most productive.
The morning hours are also most productive for me because I come in a couple of hours before others do so I can get a bunch of stuff done before I start getting interrupted. I used to have IM up but I was getting interrupted so often that I have a note: "IM is up for 5 interruptions then closed" as my message.
I keep track of my tasks in a database for yearly reviews among other things and find I log more hours on Wednesdays. Which doesn't necessarily make it more productive
[John]
That opens the prospect of a new generation of bug zappers that kill only certain insects or just females rather than males.
Males are the throwaway gender. Need to get the egg bearing females to reduce the population. Then the males will fight over the remaining females until they're also reduced.
Win-Win!
[John ]
Perhaps. But the more folks who start out on 2 wheels, the more observant they are of the surrounding area and of motorcyclists. So bring it on. The more, the better.
[John]
I think he's stolen my idea. I have three of these motor-driven cycles. One working model (with 120,000 miles on the clock), one with some minor electrical problems that I'm ironing out (22,000 miles before the problems started), and one that has minimal electronics that I'm in the process of building.
The bastard!
[John]
The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures “consumer protection”. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you! Unless they are referring to the mafia version of “protection”, this is obviously untrue. As anyone who has been through the conventional auto dealer purchase process knows, consumer protection is pretty much the furthest thing from the typical car dealer’s mind.
Ow, that's gotta hurt!
[John]
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
