Apparently That Former Presidents incoherent rambling speech went well past midnight, leading Emily Nussbaum on Bluesky to say, “Man, just ascend already” which is making my morning.
That is awesome!
They should film that story and show it every Christmas.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Steph L. - Jul 19, 2024 5:25:36 am PDT #1620 of 3451
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2024 5:44:17 am PDT #1621 of 3451
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
There’s a possibility that *I* might be working retail soon, because I really can’t stand my chosen career any more, for reasons you might guess.
meara - Jul 19, 2024 7:58:24 am PDT #1622 of 3451
Because your boss won’t ascend already? Or just because careers are dumb and capitalism sucks?
I woke up to a text from IT about some global outage but then see that sadly everything seems to have been restored in time for me to actually work today. Boooo.
meara - Jul 19, 2024 8:31:53 am PDT #1623 of 3451
Hmm or maybe not. The recommended advice was to try restarting my computer five times. It’s still going.
I can, however, see emails on my phone, so…Joy.
Dana - Jul 19, 2024 8:44:04 am PDT #1624 of 3451
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The solution to this IT problem is for IT people to tediously, manually fix every single machine that's been affected, so I imagine that's what's got Scola reconsidering his career.
-t - Jul 19, 2024 8:46:24 am PDT #1625 of 3451
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I saw an email this morning about that mess affecting our servers. Glad I took the day off.
Emily Nussbaum = gold
DavidS - Jul 19, 2024 8:47:45 am PDT #1626 of 3451
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I woke up to a text from IT about some global outage but then see that sadly everything seems to have been restored in time for me to actually work today. Boooo.
Ugh. After months of planning I had a friend flying out to see me today. Her flight is cancelled, and the trip is off. We can't reschedule until mid-August. Huge disappointment.
Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2024 8:53:25 am PDT #1627 of 3451
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I work with Linux systems, and the outage today only affected Windows systems, so I wasn’t DIRECTLY affected by it, thank god. (I did bring in muffins for the Windows team that sits two rows over from me).
Even still, seeing the news this morning caused me to freak the fuck out. Next time I won’t be as lucky, and it’s only a matter of time before it happens.
Jessica - Jul 19, 2024 10:01:06 am PDT #1628 of 3451
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
A bunch of our vendor-facing retail tools are down right now, and BOY what a relief it is to be able to tell them that unlike in 2017, this is DEFINITELY not Amazon's fault.
DavidS - Jul 19, 2024 10:42:04 am PDT #1629 of 3451
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aimee posted on FB that she's been stranded for 7 hours at the start of her trip because of the outage.