So the problem I was working on when the system kept dropping me every few minutes last night was with how a part was set up to be edited. One version was set up the normal way, and one was set up for a creaky old update method called IEBUPDTE. The one using IEBUPDTE couldn't be saved correctly. I checked other parts in the same product and didn't ( Read more... )

Is a pervasively b0rken company EAP web site intended to provide the therapeutic benefit of making us feel better about the quality of our own work?

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I woke up this morning with an odd collection of remembered bits of ( dreams, connected by a yellow house )

What's that slightly bitter scent in old potpourri? Not sharp like geranium or rancid the way sweet flowers like violets get, just vaguely burnt-smelling like tiny wooden stems of something. I never quite noticed it back when they were alive but it suddenly made me picture all my great-aunts' houses. I don't think I've ever smelled it on anything ( Read more... )

I had an odd drinking experience on Tuesday. I drink little and rarely, and I've always been careful about how much I drink when I do, because I found long ago that if I have more than 5 or 6 drinks at a time I wind up depressed for a week or two afterward. ( . . . sipping beer all day . . . )

( Xena's final, uh, gift )

"Dude, you married your mom" without insulting his wife when a friend from college posts an old picture of his parents (no matter HOW hot his mom is in the picture)?

Obviously, I ain't sayin' nothin'. But, FUCK, she sure looks like her. Just had to get that out.

( In less pleasant news, )

is the assumption that everyone instantly knows who's on the other end because everyone has Caller ID and only one person ever uses a phone. "Hi, it's me," tells me nothing about who's talking when all I hear is the squawk of a bluetooth over a crappy cell phone connection, and then people get insulted when I sit there silently wondering who it is ( Read more... )

File under "messages my subconscious really doesn't need to bother sending": I woke up this morning from a complicated dream involving difficult travel and parking problems, ending with someone calling me at the hotel in midmorning to tell me, "Get your butt in to the office ( Read more... )