And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.

Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Oct 23, 2007 5:33:49 pm PDT #8225 of 10001

Part of the problem is we have SHITTY documentation. Right now? Most of my documentation is in email. Which, I know, I should turn my email into docs. In the meantime, everyone knows that should I get hit by a bus, they get to inherit my email.

Taking the time to sort is almost more than I even have. It's nuts.


amych - Oct 23, 2007 5:37:31 pm PDT #8226 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Seriously? My sympathies on the shitty documentation, and I really hope your cow-orkers have alerted the bus company to the DO NOT HIT SARA directive. And all email advice is offered in that spirit. (I'd still dump what's needed for doc to txt and clear out the email file, but I have a freakish allergy to keeping a lot of email around.)


Cashmere - Oct 23, 2007 5:49:24 pm PDT #8227 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

You know, can't there be an anti-scumoftheearth law so we can just hold people like Joe Francis in jail forever? Seriously. Isn't the world just a little bit nicer without him walking free?

Two words: Extreme rendition.


sarameg - Oct 23, 2007 5:53:43 pm PDT #8228 of 10001

See, the volume in my email account is unlimited and the search function is SO much more efficient than the alternatives, hence the insane email boxes. But I do hope to get a lot of it online, and outta my box. It's just... I haven't had the time to do that yet. I'm 6 weeks in, fighting against a behemoth of...something. Learning, writing up stuff that isn't written down, just trying to keep up.

I'm an advisory against internal jobs, I swear.


Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2007 6:04:21 pm PDT #8229 of 10001
brillig

The evening news is comparing the SoCal fires to Katrina in terms of evacuees etc. But I'm betting no one will argue against rebuilding the neighborhoods that are in fire-prone areas. 'Cause those people have money.


Pix - Oct 23, 2007 6:05:07 pm PDT #8230 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

'Cause those people have money.
Many do, yes, but a lot of trailer parks have gone up in flame too.


sarameg - Oct 23, 2007 6:07:10 pm PDT #8231 of 10001

And I really wonder about the illegals agros who are hopefully going to shelter, and not just ducking the fed presence and thus dying.


Typo Boy - Oct 23, 2007 6:10:04 pm PDT #8232 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

screw the folders and delete every email you can possibly delete.

I used to do this, but I got bit on occasion. Hard disk space is cheap. My feeling is never throw away any emails except spam and the most trivial. Keep em all. But keep em out of the way. Just make archive folder, and have an "I probably won't need this, but just in case" for each year, or quarter or month depending on volume. That way your folders just have the emails you know you'll need. Any yeah transfer all dates to calendars. But in a work environment, I'm against throwing out emails. Just get ones you probably will never need to look at out of the way of the ones you are likely to.


Pix - Oct 23, 2007 6:15:01 pm PDT #8233 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

My dad is coming out with the Red Cross sometime in the next few days. Lots of people are homeless now. Makes me sad.

Three of my students have been evacuated and may lose their homes and everything left in them. I just feel awful for them. Money or not, a loss like that is so traumatic. I don't know if they'll rebuild or not, but I'm worried about them.


NoiseDesign - Oct 23, 2007 6:17:45 pm PDT #8234 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

The evening news is comparing the SoCal fires to Katrina in terms of evacuees etc. But I'm betting no one will argue against rebuilding the neighborhoods that are in fire-prone areas. 'Cause those people have money.

Gee, you are so comforting. My parents, in their 70's, and one mostly in a wheelchair are in the path of the fire. I feel so much better that since they have money it will all be okay.

eta They paid $70,000 for their house when they purchased it. Keep in mind that many of the folks that are in the path of the fire have been in these houses for decades and the property value went up around them while they lived there, they didn't move into $750,000 home, they purchased $50,000-$100,000 tract homes.