“Busy” means “on a conference call”, “free” means “time in which I can get real work done”:
09:00 EST
free
09:30 EST
10:00 EST
busy
10:30 EST
free
11:00 EST
busy
11:30 EST
12:00 EST
12:30 EST
13:00 EST
free
13:30 EST
14:00 EST
14:30 EST
15:00 EST
busy
15:30 EST
16:00 EST
16:30 EST
17:00 EST
leave?
Yeah, my Thursdays kinda suck. It's worth noting that my job title is “Open Systems Engineer”. It's not like it ends in “Manager” or “Architect” or something silly like that.
Update: Yeah, so I left the office around 19:00. Stuck [...]
… with the aid of Monday night, three Tanqueray 10 martinis, a “cup” of Talisker's, and a shot of grappa.
So far tonight, I've successfully pissed off (and then /ignored) a Jew and wanked about all of politics (the local kind, not the national kind; the international kind was covered in door number one), grammar, and [...]
Never, ever, ever work for Assure Consulting. They are a bunch of spamming bastards. Their unsubscribe link provides a “Reason for Unsubscribing” section. Here's mine:
Name
[REDACTED]
E-mail
gr+monster@[REDACTED].net
Reason for Unsubscribing
You spammed me (I never opted in to your newsletter, you trawled my email address from monster.com). I will never, ever work for you, since you have dispicable business [...]
<> Had to restart.
<> Ah… iChat… how sweet the name.
<> Do you know how to get things from the OS X clipboard into the (Apple) X11 clipboard?
<> If you Command-C something in OS X it should go into X11 where you middle mouse clikc or something
<> I've got a screenshot of the fuck-up-edness on the [...]
… and where 's card said “Hacker”, mine MUST say “Backup & Recovery Janitor”. Thinking maybe that won't go over real well at a Bank… unless I can convince my boss to make it my Title (as opposed to my Position or my Officer Title… in the pre-merger incarnation of $CURRENT_EMPLOYER everybody but the last [...]
So, I was getting sick of getting hammered by a couple specific types of spam (might be the same spammer… sort of smells like the same spam software, anyway), to both of my “home” email addresses that are out there. (The fact that they've got gr@grappa implies that they're looting email addresses not just from [...]
I totally need one of these for the Spherion contractors at $CURRENT_EMPLOYER.
Not only can it put them where they're supposed to be, it can retrieve the tapes from them. With the power of robotics and pneumatics
Update: Thanks to for the reference.
* josh smells a potential web app
* gr smells the sewer, but each to his own.
<josh> it's a solution to synergize the web paradigm with the traditional billing paradigm
<gr> Okay, you're getting fucking nuked.
<gr> Not joking this time.
<ogw-iii> wtf is a paradigm
<gr> Two of your mom, ogw, shaddup.
<gr> (and I shifted 'em last night!)
<ogw-iii> the [...]