Kinda' absurd that the penguins have to get out of their carriers to be x-rayed.
When I took a friend's cat along with me on a business trip from SF to Chicago, they made me take her out of the carrier and carry her through the metal detector while they put the carrier through the machine separately. I wouldn't be too surprised if they were concerned about exposure levels in the machine causing damage to small critters. Not to mention complete darkness possibly sparking a bad reaction in the animal.
Isn't he doing Spamalot?
Yep. As Sir Robin (not sure if he's doing multiple roles or not).
not sure if he's doing multiple roles or not
He is. But for the life of me, I can't remember them all. I know he's a commoner in the crowd scene for burning the witch. And other stuff, too.
Tim Curry (King Arthur) is the only one who doesn't play multiple roles.
eta: Ah! I have the program right here! Handy, yes?
DHP: Sir Robin, Villager 1, Guard 1, Brother Maynard
Awww, fuck. We're getting software update and they're reimaging my hard drive.
And they always assure me that I won't lose anything, and they
always
fucking lose stuff. "Oh, gee, it should have picked up all those subfolders in My Documents. I wonder why it didn't do that?"
So now I have to hide all my stuff on various network drives if I want to keep it.
Hec, can't you save it to disc(s)?
t edit
Or e-mail files to yourself? Gmail has 2 GB of storage.
Peter Gammons has basically the same deal going on at ESPN.com -- a couple of guys on a sports board I read take his weekly column to bits on grammar, logic, incorrect reference to 70s rock lyrics, and coherence of phrase. Nobody would say Gammo actually invents untruths, just because his shtick is gossip-mongering among baseball decision-makers and outright speculation; but his version of the truth sometimes makes no sense and is comically uncopyedited.
Gammons just had to issue an apology for a sidebar he included with a column he did on the Dodgers for ESPN.com. The sidebar was lifted pretty much verbatim from an LA Times column about Milton Bradley, and was published without any attribution. Gammons called it and "inexplicable oversight," and ESPN removed the sidebar.
Hec, can't you save it to disc(s)?
I don't think we even supply those anymore.
I guess I could gmail stuff, but mostly I'm worried about all my music (which I lost on the last re-imaging). I don't really want to use my personal gmail space for work documents (and being in HR, there are confidentiality issues). There are a couple network drives dedicated to my ID so I can dump stuff over on the F: drive and hope that works.
Dang it. I hate that so much of IT these days is generic wipe/reimage/reload. I miss the days when serious geeks roamed the IT department.
I miss the days when serious geeks roamed the IT department.
They've been hunted out of existence. All the IT folks are farm raised these days.
Be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting IT geeks.
t /Elmer Fudd
There's also yousendit.com, Hec.
