Archive for October, 2007
In regards to a question I asked today, my (interim) task lead said: If this question continues to percolate, our position is that the engineers are not malicious malcontents. On the whole it was like a $30 e-mail (owing to all of the five dollar words her used).
Every time I hear Kris Kristofferson introduce 8th of November, I get a picture in my head of Gary Busey (as he appeared in the short film “Get Out of My Dreams and Also Out of My Car: A Guide to Your Restraining Order” in an episode of the Simpsons’, with the rambling: “Now Joe [...]
I was trying to delete a file from a Windows network share at work when I got an interesting error: Perhaps I should try deleting a different file? Or, if you’re actually having this error, and trying to delete the file, it is likely that the filename is exceeding the maximum path length (for some [...]
In response to an inane question, my boss, who couldn’t hurt a fly if he tried, said Of course I know that, I’m not completely brain dead. I think it is the most negative thing I’ve ever heard him say.
From the newsletter at work on October 16th (Tuesday): Many people will be logging overtime from this past weekend due to inventory. You must have entered your hours by 9pm on October 15 [Monday] if you wish to be compensated on the next paycheck. All items logged after October 15 will not be scheduled for [...]
Over past week I have been trying to call our pediatricians office to resolve a billing issue. Apparently, though the group of pediatricians is in my insurance network, the specific doctor (who is new) is not. So anything with that doctor’s name on it will be denied, while her examinations billed without her name (just [...]
Some of my friends I went to school with the were in the local paper the other day talking about their veggie-oil powered car. I had no idea they had one.
A while back, I talked about roundabouts being [the spawn of satan1, and now there is proof it is true. Two men were killed in a roundabout a few days ago. Apparently they didn’t realize that it was a turn and trying to go straight across (with concrete barriers in the middle) would not end [...]