Diogenes then

Either way, blood sacrifice

It’s not just PC building. Was a known tradition when I did industrial controls.

Also: magic smoke

Currently in an MSP. It’s all on the company culture as to if it’s shit or not. We’re fully wfh with no plans to move back to the office.

Overtime is never forced. If we have to work through lunch because all hell is breaking loose, we’re practically encouraged to leave an hour early unless the CEO is allowing ot and we want it. No pressure either direction.

If users are rude or generally hard to deal with, manager has our back in dealing with them.

Pay isn’t top dollar but there’s trade-offs

I stub my toes constantly. I also have a longer second toe than big toe. Still have never broken a bone in my feet or anywhere else, for that matter.

All I’m hearing is that you guys have inferior skeletal systems which is completely unrelated to the toe length

All votes should matter. Thanks to gerrymandering and the electoral college rules, not a lot actually do

Specifically for president. They absolutely matter for local elections.

Avalynne O’Brien is pretty close

Hey, I’m not normally one to judge but it seems like a bad idea to call yourself spyware. Either you’re going to blow your cover or it’s just negative self talk.

Well I’m pretty sure they’re not the Jethro Tull type

I can only hope that the anti solar groups are arguing in bad faith when they complain about how the sun works.

Either that or: they actually think that pro solar doesn’t understand this fact or one of the two groups doesn’t know how to pair solar with batteries.

When discussing frequency of an action, it’s usually helpful to focus on per capita. This is one of those rare times where both raw numbers and per capita tell interesting stories.

Sometimes you need a hard copy

So you’re saying, when Trump says “most people” he means "me " but has to make it sound like he’s not alone in any thinking ?

I’m just sad that the middle earth movies didn’t include Tom Bombadil. Yeah, it would have severely interrupted the movie flow but that’s kinda Tom’s whole deal.

The Hearts in Atlantis movie is wholly different from the book and I really can’t get myself to enjoy the movie even when trying not to compare because the underpinning plot drivers were removed. It would be like doing King’s Insomnia as a movie and not including the little doctors.

It’s complicated and a difficult tightrope to walk for people who enjoy both book and movie stories

And I wish that was the worst.

Just last week, we had a call about missing emails to an accounts payable account.

Emails weren’t missing. They needed to scroll down in outlook to the shared mailbox folder.

There were 1400+ unread emails.

They hadn’t noticed for a month.

MSP== managed service provider. Aka we’re the it team for multiple small businesses.

Many of our clients have stuff that was out of warranty in the 1900s.

Did you know there was a 32bit version of Windows 10? Cause I didn’t until one clients win xp machine finally died and the program they use can’t run on 64bit os’s. Lucky for the client that the guy who wrote the program was still willing to do some contract work to get us the installer and instructions. He’d been retired for about twenty years.

I never go into a movie expecting them to stay close to the book. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, each medium has it’s own way to tell a story and you can’t compare them equally

Like Tolkien, his writing style isn’t for everyone. Some are drawn in by the madness and cosmic horror realized, others can’t penetrate the veil and tune out. Then again, that’s what’s great about fiction and story telling. Finding what works best for you.

Honestly, there are very few adaptations that aren’t cheesy or completely removed from the source material in somewhat major ways.

Take the Shining. Great film. Great book. The two should not be compared as if they were the same story.

Dreamcatcher on the other hand, no notes. Perfect in both versions. Especially the fact that the movie kept the shit weasels in.