I believe he has a standard 3-color cell phone only (as in, it's green, he pinks it up, and says "yellow")

Ha - the cell phone equivalent of a PHD camera. (Push Here Dummy)

One of our coop board members claims to have no email address, but I'm pretty sure what he means by that is "I don't want to give you my email address."

I think I meant to type "it goes green..." It's an old phone joke that works better spoken, with hand gestures. Stick out your thumb and pinky to make a "phone". Have it "hung up". When it's green, ya shake it a little, as if it is ringing. Then you pink it by answering it. Speak into the phone, and say yellow.

I still don't see what green is referring to, though. Pink and yellow, just fine, but not green.

Make an old fashioned ring sound and add a g at the beginning.

Brring -> green?

Yeah, I wasn't getting that on my own.

Thanks!

I didn't say it was a *good* joke. Sorry about that.

I just couldn't put it together reading it.

I finally got around to calling Seagate about my random NAS problems and...they are problems! I'm glad there was actual human being technical support, because I'd kind of forgotten that happened for one off purchases, but then again, this was enough money that I couldn't just write it off and replace it.

It seems the AFP is broken, which explains why the old laptop stopped being able to connect via Time Capsule, but I can still (mostly) use it as a file share. He was less sure about the UPNP failure, which I just remembered at the last moment, and thinks that could be a router issue. But why would an untweaked router interfere with UPNP on only one device? I'll have to do more reading....but not until the new NAS comes.

New NAS comes. They're actually sending me a new one so I can copy from one to the other and send the troublesome one back--again something I wasn't expecting to go easily.

All of which makes me feel better about having spent my money with them, because they're treating me like a customer.

Yay. It's bad when it's shocking that you get good, helpful customer service.

I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.

I've rather flippantly suggested hiring developers who can count, but why is a programmer (as he is) trying to defend against a bare minimum of professional communication? Even in the worst shops I've worked in, that error would not be permissible to deploy, with a certain assumption that it's not even something QA or UAT would send back--the developer is supposed to take care of that shit.

My requirements never say "grammatically correct" because there are a few things we take as ingrained, so we don't write them down, not because it's optional.

If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"

....or am I missing something?

(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)