I have been to the mall to acquire pomade and a Mother's Day gift.
Time for that rockabilly quiff!
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Apr 26, 2017 8:07:30 pm PDT #10434 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dana - Apr 27, 2017 3:10:08 am PDT #10435 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
blah morning meeting
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2017 4:21:31 am PDT #10436 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Not all Internet of Things devices are easily hacked if configured correctly. Stuff that you'd want to be secure like locks and cameras are generally capable of encrypted communication and it would take quite a bit of effort to intercept even unencrypted info over ZWave or Zigbee devices. Where you really run into trouble is a company that creates a device and does a really half-assed job on the app that connects to it.
Dana - Apr 27, 2017 4:33:48 am PDT #10437 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Man, these meetings are so painful because my manager is terrible at running meetings. If she'd help guide discussion and then make decisions, they would be so much better. Instead, blather.
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2017 4:38:47 am PDT #10438 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Whenever I'm in a meeting and I think of a point or, you know, a good humorous riff, I always have to weigh the value of speaking up to the risk of extending the meeting.
juliana - Apr 27, 2017 4:40:31 am PDT #10439 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
FWIW, if you have the FB app on your phone, it's always listening *and* interrogating nearby devices (like, say, your friends' phones). (I do not have the FB app. Or Messenger.)
Dana - Apr 27, 2017 4:47:02 am PDT #10440 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I always have to weigh the value of speaking up to the risk of extending the meeting.
Would you like to come to my meetings? You could set a good example. My teammate's theory seems to be "If it's a point worth making, it's worth making eighteen times until we all long for the heat death of the universe."
And she's trying to drag me into another meeting. I am pretending to be away from my computer and ignoring her.
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2017 5:04:38 am PDT #10441 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Would you like to come to my meetings? You could set a good example.
I'm just highly motiviated to get out of meetings because, you know, I've got shit to do.
Gudanov - Apr 27, 2017 5:08:09 am PDT #10442 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
I head that David Schwimmer (of Friends fame) produced s series of videos illustrating sexual harassment so I decided to peek at the first one (don't have time to watch them all right now) and it seems really well done. I mean, holy shit, does it make me feel awkward and uncomfortable just watching it.
Calli - Apr 27, 2017 5:27:38 am PDT #10443 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
At my previous job I had a coworker who, in spite of having no other external signs of evil, would ask questions at any meeting that showed the slightest possibility of ending early. "Well, since we have time, let me follow up on point X. Do you think that . . . ?" She would also ask questions that had already been answered in meetings that showed no sign of early ending, but it was the situations where we were all, "done and dusted, coffee time" where she really shone.