Good to know!
[Fixed your broken-ass image. -TheShadowMod]
Good to know!
[Fixed your broken-ass image. -TheShadowMod]
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Saw this on a baby shirt the other day, along with "i'Pood" and "my dad's a geek" I think I'll be getting all three soon ;-)
I was planning on drowning, but then when I learned that it would spoil my afternoon plans I changed my mind. Thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers for the great tip.
So they put it on an airplane just for the hell of it? It went from SF to OAK in a truck we can be sure of that. Then it was in Oakland already. Why put it on a plane to memphis just to send it back to oakland? I paid for three day I think all I really needed was proof of delivery I didn't give a damn when it got there.
I don't care what anyone claims [b]planes are not schlepping mail from SFO to OAK[/b] it's just not happening.
It seems like a big company like FedEx who's business relies on efficient mail processing can figure out how to get a package from their oakland facility to an address in oakland without involving a 5,000 mile detour to memphis, wouldn't you think?
@bstorer said:
Why would that surprise you at all? That's the entire basis of their air delivery system.
I guess the fact that it had to involve air in the first place. A bicycle would have sufficed.
No passengers would ever want to fly from San Francisco to Oakland or vice versa you'd have to be Idiot Of The Year to do so. If it isn't bloody painfully obvious why check a [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=sfo&daddr=oak&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=38.065392,-95.712891&sspn=39.386614,62.050781&ie=UTF8&z=11]map[/url] :-)
Though I do understand that the planes might have to shuffle from one to another for logistical reasons. Still, I really don't believe FedEx or anyone else is really flying ten mile flights on a regular basis.
On the other hand, I have sent a fedex letter from San Francisco to Oakland and it went to Oakland (where the sort facility is), then to Memphis (where the distribution hub is), and then back to Oakland again before it was delivered so maybe nothing should really surprise me about FedEx.
@tchize said:
Tried to see what a trip look like from sacramento to San fransisco using Amtrak. It keeps telling me there are no route between stations :D That might explain the need for airplane.
You have to take a bus from San Francisco to Emeryville to catch Amtrak there is no Amtrak station in San Francisco. Well, there is, but there's no train tracks there. That's where you catch the bus.
SFO -> OAK on [url=http://bart.gov]BART[/url] takes about an hour but it's only $8.80
There are no flights from SFO to OAK or vice versa of course the plane probably wouldn't even ascend to 2,000 feet before it was time to land.
I just did. Then I went to college so people would believe me where I spent my time drinking beer and playing competitive Tecmo-Bowl. Then I graduated, got a couple jobs, and learned some more. Then learned some more. And more ...
3530 is good too, maybe they're weighing in on religion ...
That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if
it did not exist.
Well ... I'm glad we got that cleared up.
Not sure where the humor value is here. I met my girlfriend through craigslist and we're at the meet the parents/family planning stage so if you really are looking at dating, the internet can work, though obviously probably not very well in anonymous chats :-)
I'm 29. Next year I'll be 2A like the Energizer Bunny. :-)
@mxsscott said:
Hey, I thought of the months as well... are you going to call me weird too?
If only because you didn't think of the year, perhaps ...
All my best managers have been women with one exception. Not long ago I was about the only guy on a team of 10 women or so. I was respected and it gave me a unique voice in meetings. Some of the male managers I've had have been charismatic as all hell. The kind of guy you'd want to invite to a BBQ and have a few beers with, talk about life and share photos. Problem is: they are completely incompetent at managing their own workload, let alone anyone else's.
I've been in the workforce since the mid 80s if that answers the n don't ask me to count I don't have enough toes.
I went to the 40k room and probably made some guy's day by letting him win a 80,000+ pot (I had squat and I knew it) ... might as well spread the wealth like devshed rep ;-)
By the way the way it works is its a $10 iphone app, there's a free version too, and you get 40,000 chips once only then 2,000 chips each day on login. Somewhere there's a bug in the system so if I load the app then close it and load it again I get 40,000 chips each time. I noticed about 7 hours ago I seemed to have 40,000 more than I should, but now that I'm bored and can't sleep it's obviously a major glitch in the system. I had 100,000 earlier or so. I got almost 2 mil now.
Viva las vegas
It's pretty funny. I'm almost up to a million chips. Good thing for them it's not real money.
I'd take a video of it but my battery is dead. Charging it, maybe later if it's still happening :-)
l is lower case and O is upper case.
Doesn't anyone know how to use a typewriter?
I find the architect blameless and find the contractor that put it together and/or the laborers under his/her charge guilty.
I only buy motherboards that make me feel all warm and fuzzy about their reliability ...
I get 25 PTO days (personal time off) that includes sick days (I never call in sick) and scheduled time off. It's the most generous I've ever seen and goes a long way toward keeping me at the company. With the weekends I generally take off the month of September.
These questions are much more effective in a verbal interview. The only WTF is they gave it to you in writing and gave you time to think about it.
@Dude said:
Somebody please give this man a mug already...yawn...
Sure, Dude here's your mug ...
Enjoy.
@lizardfoot said:
Couldn't they just find a fortran-to-vb-conversion utility?
Have you found one you'd trust to migrate a critical business system without any sort of developer oversight? Please share ...
(4) Visual Basic sucks
Great news. We need a new vaccuum cleaner. Are you implying I could use VB for the task? That would sure be handy, especially if I can record vacuuming macros ...
@Doctor Steel said:
Handspun, eh... I've seen how they do it at Dairy Queen, and the only "hand" part is holding the cup whilst the auto-blender works its magic on the shake.
Yeah but at Wendy's they stir it with their own filthy fingers ... that's why the chili is so special too.
Oh my bad. You mean a shake is not the same as a Frosty(tm)? Guess I'm not up on the Wendy's Culinary Delights ... I don't see info on the shakes ...
By Real I guess they mean Calcium Sulfate, Disodium Phosphate, Artificial Flavoring ...
Frosty™, Chocolate: Milkfat and Nonfat milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Cocoa
(processed with alkali), Guar Gum, Mono and Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan,
Calcium Sulfate, Disodium Phosphate, Artificial and Natural Flavoring,
Vitamin A Palmitate. CONTAINS: MILK.Frosty™, Vanilla: Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cream, Whey, Nonfat Dry Milk, Guar Gum,
Mono and Diglycerides, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan,
Calcium Sulfate, Disodium Phosphate, Dextrose, Annatto Color, Vitamin A Palmitate.
CONTAINS: MILK.Frosty™ Shake, Chocolate Fudge: Vanilla Frosty (milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey,
nonfat dry milk, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavor, cellulose
gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, disodium phosphate, dextrose, annatto color,
vitamin A palmitate), Chocolate Shake Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup, corn
syrup, natural chocolate fudge flavor [cocoa powder {processed with alkali}, natural
flavoring, citric acid], xanthan gum, potassium sorbate [preservative], natural flavor).
CONTAINS: MILK.Frosty™ Shake, Strawberry: Vanilla Frosty (milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, nonfat
dry milk, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavor, cellulose
gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, disodium phosphate, dextrose, annatto color,
vitamin A palmitate), Strawberry Shake Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup,
sweetened strawberries [strawberries, sugar], corn syrup, natural flavor, citric acid,
xanthan gum, potassium sorbate [preservative], red 40, blue 1). CONTAINS: MILK.Frosty™ Shake, Vanilla Bean: Vanilla Frosty (milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey,
nonfat dry milk, guar gum, mono and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavor, cellulose
gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, disodium phosphate, dextrose, annatto color,
vitamin A palmitate), Vanilla Shake Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup, corn
syrup, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate [preservative], natural and artificial flavors,
citric acid). CONTAINS: MILK.
I got that from the PDF because when I went to their website and tried to get the info directly:
@Soviut said:
You obviously understood the words so who cares. This is a forum, not a publication.
It's difficult to read and it slows us down. We're busy people. That's why we spend so much time on forums. I suggest the burden of being bogged down in spelling should be borne by the message author (one person) not the audience (many people). If everyone adopts this we can raise productivity and boost the GDP. We can solve the world's current economic crisis! The power is yours people. Do you want to go down in history as a team player who saved the world or the guy who twaddled with misspellings?
Well he did go on and on about power supplies. Transformers. Hmmm ...
@devurand said:
Robots in disguise!?
[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]
I went there and checked, it's actually about 16 bucks cheaper (edit: than the AbbydonKrafts one) at buy.com.
[/quote]
Yeah but it might sell out!!! Supply and demand you know. Plus Free Shipping ... I might order 20 ... oh wait! ;-) About $88.50 actually
@bstorer said:
How about a very strong acid?
I make a habanero sauce but the concoction I have halfway through the process if you put that in a mug ... heck a shot glass ... or a thimble ... and drank it I suspect you'd probably hallucinate. Or simply go blind.
Delicious! (it is ... when I'm done and used in very small quantities)
The two bullet points directly answered all my questions. I don't see what the problem is.
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards.
Actually I just rewired my whole studio with directional cables and while this is funny following "the directions" does make a difference. It has to do with shielding though ... sorry to report that I had once cable connected incorrectly and the audio unfortunately did not play backward through that channel. It would have been amazing if it had, however, as with real time performance it would be most curious to hear what I have not yet played backward before I actually played it. Had I experienced this phenomenon no doubt I would have ceased playing music and set right to work designing a flux capacitor.
That 0 looks like an 8 to me right away ... 189.99 - 5.00 = 184.99 hey the math checks out too ...
Better see an optometrist ...
^ that was more to taylor and the discussion in the middle of the post than the OP btw ... :-.)
You actually think that HR should be in the role of hiring people? They shouldn't. HR is payroll, benefits, and provides support to the people that really do the hiring which is usually the direct manager of the open position. Also we do human capital reporting and general people accounting. And we run the latest cutting edge technology in HR Systems like *cough* PeopleSoft.
There's an epedemic misunderstanding about this.
Love,
Your useless guy in HR.
No one should be using SSN as IDs anymore. But I like the first five digits ... all you need to go with it is a list of the last 4 digits which is also a typical "PIN"
Although I knew a guy that had his identity "borrowed" apparently by an illegal immigrant. What effect did this have on his credit rating? It went [i]way up[/i] ... the thief was apparently pretty responsible, had a steady job, didn't actually use the ID to obtain much credit just basic services. But he did make my friend seem much wealthier by adding a decent income on top of his own. Of course the IRS was a problem ...
MS DOS 1.1 on a 5.25" Floppy with the original IBM packaged label on it.
Do I win?
I have a .png to prove the earth is flat too.
@lilakuh said:
Recently I saw the standard "Do not attempt" warning on a TV spot where a woman was throwing the washing machine from the roof of her house. Really? We need a written warning for this?
I think it would be great fun to toss a washer from my roof. Why shouldn't I attempt this?
@Yoooder said:
There was a news story ~5 years ago claiming that the blinking lights on a router/modem/hub would allow someone to "see" the 1's and 0's that you were downloading. Applying the same logic someone can haX0rr you with a tape recorder--or you could make backups with an old walkman!
I'm dubious it was ever reported by a reputable news source, and certainly not in the past five years, but hollywood has certainly tried to convince us of this ...
@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
Well... wasn't it that USA has 1,023 (or how much) thousands soldiers which means they have one thousand twenty three soldiers? Means something around one milion?
This way, it would be somehow correct, i think... Try to check the "Regional options" in windows - you'll learn that there are countries in which the numeric separator is dot, countries where the numeric separator is comma, and countries where it is space.
But presuming this, the column "tanks" seems broken to me, as I doubt that USA has 23 milion of them... or am I wrong?
It indicates Active Troops (in thousands) 1,426 = 1,426,000 ... see how easy that is, just add three zero's.
Tanks (in 1s): 7,620 = 7,620 ... see how easy that is, just don't add any zero's?
I have no idea how accurate this data is, but that's how to read in between the parenthesis FWIW ...
Many have asserted that Bill, not Hill is really the one running against Obama for Team Jackass. This poll seems to confirm the fact. Instead of him/her/he/she/his/her let's just call the candidate a sexually ambiguous Billary ...
[url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/05/30/MNQE1100CC.DTL&o=0]source[/url]
Quite a few from @mycompany ... our spam filters work pretty well though, except that when I do get spam it's never actually addressed to me.
@MarcB said:
One client was quite upset when the ecommerce system I'd built for them was issuing invoice numbers in the low 100's (using the order's DB primary key as the invoice number). They were concerned that their clients would see the low numbers and take them for amateurs who'd just started out (never minding this company celebrated its 100th anniversary not too long ago).
So the solution was to reset MySQL's auto_increment counter for that table to start in a random 100,000's spot.
So maybe the reverse/zero-pad thing was eRecruit's way of solving their version of this problem
No this wasn't an issue at all. These numbers were job requisitions so if you need a Senior Lead Janitor you'd use the system to post this job opening. There was some exposure to the outside world of these numbers, especially in regard to sites like monster (because when first deployed--since fixed--you couldn't just hyperlink to the job post on our site you had to instruct people to search for this number) but the reason I was told had to do with the way they were storing the data. Because the amount of data is massive (and by massive I mean you're collecting a few million job applications a year) having nice ordered sequential indices would create clusters of data that would clog up the proverbial tubes or something. I was glad I wasn't on the implementation team but it's not like I haven't [url=http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/]more perplexing data practices[/url] since then ...
When we implemented (peoplesoft) eRecruit a few years ago for reasons I will probably never understand the numbering method for the requisitions went like this:
1. Increment a counter
2. Take that number, zero pad it to 7 places and ...
3. Reverse it
So in sequence:
1000000
2000000
3000000
...
0100000
1100000
2100000
etc.
@joe.edwards said:
>, <, &, and " all have special meanings in HTML and cannot be used as literal characters. You have to escape them by using the equivalent HTML entity. > < & "
><&"
This is a message forum not a bloody HTML source document there's ways of dealing with this ...
@derula said:
TRWTF is juries and precedences instead of real laws.
As if jurors are paid professionals or what? C'mon do you live in Podunk or do you not drive or vote? Your turn is coming.
This juror #12 and his 11 peers decided in a case of 2-pack-a-day smokers vs. some-company-that-once-made-electrical-components-with-bakelite(containing asbestos): no damages awarded.
Next time your dying friends in Pennsylvania want to sue a company from Michigan please tell them to stop wasting my f* time and tax dollars in San Francisco.
TRWTF is [b]lawyers[/b] ...
[url=http://www.kawasakimotorcycle.org/forum/off-topic/65413-viagra-commercial.html]Bikers discuss a Viagara commercial[/url] and the subject of interest seems to be ... what kind of bike is it.
If you have a bike, you don't need Viagra
Someone told me today,what Viagra is made out of.It Asprin,and Fix A Flat.LOL