Jesse, I'm glad that misery has company, at least. And accepting responsibility for your mistakes while carrying a feasible mitigation plan so far seems to be the best way of handling things that kinda gotta happen to everyone.
Fingers crossed for you too, Consuela.
I'm still trying to balance "being proactive" and "rushing to panic" as well as "being thorough" and "not working smart". My manager just stripped off half the testing I had planned for our upgrade on the 27th, and...less testing? Really? That's a thing? I mean, I defer, but I never want to be the one
suggesting
too little testing. I just want to take the new system, on the real hardware, and test every fucking thing on it. Apparently, no.
Oh. Okay.
(Please let there not be fuckups)
Yay on faultspreadedaroundidness. (I bet that's a word in German.)
This xkcd made me laugh and laugh (don't skip the mouseover text): [link]
Is the idea that passing cars with too-loud radios will be mobbed by hungry birds and squirrels when they pass by?
Is the idea that passing cars with too-loud radios will be mobbed by hungry birds and squirrels when they pass by?
That was my only explanation, but it took me a while to figure it out. I am sometimes not Randall Munro's target audience, I think...
White House Photographer Pete Souza's Year in Photos 2012.
I am confused by the xkcd as well... why would the birds stop the people from driving down the street?
Yay on faultspreadedaroundidness. (I bet that's a word in German.)
OMG, there should totally be a word for that!!
Dear AP department, having me scan a paper invoice so I can email it to you and then throw it away in my trash can (instead of giving you the paper invoice to scan and then throw away in *your* trash can) does not, in fact, reduce the amount of paper waste in the office.
Scanning all of our invoices is probably a good move for other reasons, but "becoming a paperless office" is not one of them.
I am confused by the xkcd as well... why would the birds stop the people from driving down the street?
I thought the idea was that if you have open windows and loud music, they will try to get in.
I thought the idea was that if you have open windows and loud music, they will try to get in.
And even if the car windows are closed, it would be like a scene from
The Birds,
but with extra bonus squirrels.
