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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | | 9:57 am |
the ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME call of the day
So. just for back story, that's UNC's surplus hardware shack. It's first come first served, buy at your own risk, no warranty. The newest laptop for sale is a doorstop. and for whomever does not know, i work at an IT help desk for faculty staff and students. Client's Problem Description: he called from surplus to ask me to help him price a hp surestore optical 80 Worklog: Contact Information Verified? he did not provide his # Detailed Problem Description: he called from surplus to ask me to help him price a hp surestore optical 80 Troubleshooting Steps Taken: I advised him that was not a service we provide, but out of courtesy i googled it for him. It did not bring up many results and none of them was what he was looking for. I advised him again that we do not provide this service and i cannot advise him if it is a sound purchase. He requested that i look the item up on ebay for a price. I advised him i would not, and suggested he is responsible for his own purchase. end of call Outcome: RESOLVED | | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 6:44 pm |
infodump
so...i'm playing old old old school DND over twitter and i wanted to dump my character BIO somewhere. Tyresius, born john the cobbler's son, was sent to scribble endlessly at a monestary when, regardless of the frequency of beating, it was found that he could not drive a hobnail straight. It was the 5th summer the mummers, jugglers and bards performed for new texts and steal away the evenings with the cooking wenches and washer women. john had enough. Enough stained fingers. Enough emptying chamber pots. And certainly enough long, dark, hobbling hours bent over a wooden desk. For passage out of town and the wonderous world ahead he told the mummers how often Master scribe Willenhelm was wont to drink himself to sleep, and that the chest they'd looked for yearly was under a potted plant in the main hall. He gathered his things, stole a few expensive looking books and lept on to the back of garb cart. Over tine, and many a town He learned to act, to drink, and to live. One of Willenhieim's books, the dark one, the heavy one, he could not bring himself to sell. He came to know of guilt and hubris in many of the mummers games, the bards stories. He thought it was nothing more. John wove his first spell in his sleep. A trying performance and too much mead drew the art out of him wild fire lept from him and and Inn, most of its inahbitants and a few of his friends were consumed in the blaze. He gathered his things and ran again, the townsfolk chanting WITCH and DEMON. Tyresius was born that night, wild with bravado and magic. Tyresius, bluster and madness and witchfire, and he almost belives it. Even madmen must eat, however, so into dank holes he crawls | | Friday, January 9th, 2009 | | 9:58 am |
| | Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | | 10:19 am |
funny only to World of Warcraft players/ex players
Wherein i speak to an old college friend who still lives in Pennsylvania. (10:12:57 AM) ME: howdy (10:13:48 AM) FRIEND: yo (10:14:12 AM) ME: how fare ye in the tundras of the great fozen north (10:16:33 AM) FRIEND: i fare well enough i suppose. i kind of sling-shotted to 80 with 1 character (10:17:22 AM) ME: oh...i meant PA ...:P (10:17:30 AM) FRIEND: haha (10:17:36 AM) ME: NERD!!!! (10:17:41 AM) FRIEND: it's not very prozen here (10:17:45 AM) FRIEND: frozen. (10:17:50 AM) FRIEND: i mean it's cold (10:17:58 AM) ME: you just won a post on my LJ (10:18:02 AM) FRIEND: but not like..wintry north syracuse cold | | Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | | 10:56 am |
| | Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | | 7:57 am |
So, Suggestions
My normal workout schedule is on my lunch break. I walk across the street and do cardio and some weights for about an hour to an hour and 15 and shower and go back to work. this has been working phenomenally. here's the rub. The gym is closed for approx the last week of December and first of January. I know what you're thinking...woe ..strife..just take a break you fucking nutter. I am a creature of habit, routine does a great deal for me and i'm concerned that if i take a break that large i may just stop going all together. My solutions so far are this: Ride my bike on the tobacco trail, in durham: i like it. I've done it before, but damn..it will be fucking cold. Run the outside track/bleachers on campus: also, cold and i have not spent much time running for realsies, mostly on an elliptical machine. See if any of you fine people have a "get a guest in for $X" pass at your gym. so, suggestions? | | Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | | 12:36 pm |
like an alchemists fucking stone
quickly, It is fucking magical, trans-formative, KAFA-FUCKING-ESQUE how viable information explodes out of a caller when i tell them they are shit outta luck and won't have access to their shiny shiny calendar client until local support comes back at the beginning of the week. Also, i think, if you are the head tech person for a department and losing the admin password to the HD software (for the WHOLE GROUP) is not bad enough. You should be summarily fired..on the spot...when the simple password reset takes 20 mins because you've been inputting HEALS, when the password was spelled HEELS out loud to you. that is all...back to your shantys you terrible bastards | | Monday, November 10th, 2008 | | 12:38 pm |
| | Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | | 11:45 am |
| | Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | | 12:00 pm |
so..to complete my cadre of miscreants
I need some artists. I mean, i have some friends that are really decent artists, but, it takes a back seat to work/school/so on. so..who wants to entertain my strange Design suggestions? | | 10:14 am |
| | Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | | 2:19 pm |
| | 9:29 am |
A quote from Phillip Pullman on the banning/burning of books (stolen from boingboing.net)
"Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying to ban something – book, film, play, pop song, whatever – is that far more people want to get hold of it than would ever have done if it were left alone. Why don't the censors realise this?... In fact, when it comes to banning books, religion is the worst reason of the lot. Religion, uncontaminated by power, can be the source of a great deal of private solace, artistic inspiration, and moral wisdom. But when it gets its hands on the levers of political or social authority, it goes rotten very quickly indeed. The rank stench of oppression wafts from every authoritarian church, chapel, temple, mosque, or synagogue – from every place of worship where the priests have the power to meddle in the social and intellectual lives of their flocks, from every presidential palace or prime ministerial office where civil leaders have to pander to religious ones... My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good." | | Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | | 11:07 am |
no..thats the P.C. way to say it
So i have an age-ed co-worker that i frequently give a hard time to. Whenever he talks about college or H.S. or whatever i feel the need to insert comments about dinosaurs and biblical figures and having trilobites as pets. We were talking about HS reunions and he mentioned something about people looking the same and someone asked him when he graduated. So i jumped in "1250 B.C.! or ...B.C.E is more correct. " which lead to an argument about how...BCE is just there to take out jesus and that' s wrong. "it's not correct, it's PC". Which gets me because it's only an affront when it omits things referring to his faith. So naturally the only way to respond to this was to be catty with another co-worker on instant messenger. under the cut for potty mouth ( wonderful catty poetry ) | | Monday, September 15th, 2008 | | 7:45 pm |
| | Friday, September 12th, 2008 | | 9:40 am |
| | Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 | | 5:53 pm |
Ahh..Adam Savage
The second bit acctually made me leap out of my chair in excitement/suprise. | | Monday, September 8th, 2008 | | 4:25 pm |
| | Saturday, September 6th, 2008 | | 11:26 am |
| | Friday, August 29th, 2008 | | 2:42 pm |
as 6pm takes its sweet old time
So it occured to me, whilst in the locker room at the gym, those stumpy little bastards in the lollypop guild never bothered to mention what the kind of guild it was. Sure, they're CALLED the lollypop guild. The members of the Moose, are not, in fact Moose themselves Freemasons are generally not stonecutters and while those ladys in the red hat club all wear red hats...i wish they didn't ...but i DIGRESS. Clearly the Lollypop guild is some sort of denyable ops organization. They all sounded like sailors and were pretty rough looking (for small people, c'mon) and you don't get that gristly working as a confectioner all day. Which got me thinking. the Wizard of OZ really needs to be re-interpreted for our zenophobic post 9-11 society. Dorothy (circa '78) or so needs to be swept up by a bad storm at an airport (she blissfully meanders through, unmolested) and she, and the starbucks cafe she magically appears in, are spat out in '08 OZ and land on a convienent mid level Wicked Bush staffer. The staffers toes curl up and and promptly has 2 or 3 of the current administrations missteps pinned on him. so on and so forth *warning...nerd content* This all occured to me becasue i was reading the Forgotten Realms campaign book for 4e and looking through the Guilds section. I have not had time to really SIT with the book yet. And, while I appreciate some of the gutting of 20 years of bloat, I am not sure they didn't go to far. I will say, i am glad that Bane, Cyric and the Zhents survived mostly unchanged. The memories of squadron upon squadron of faceless Zhent soldiers (under the conrol of my college DM) trying to crush us warms the nerdy cockles of my heart. *end nerd content* Also, with the unbeliveably obvious an laughable choice of running mate for McCain I belive that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmet needs to be required reading in all schools. I can almost hear how fucking clever the neo-cons think they are. "i mean...cmon this one has tits too..hillary had tits..you think anyone will notice?" |
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