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Just saw one of the saddest engineering drawings I have ever seen. It was a rectangular piece of plastic. No holes. Three dimensions. Length, width, height. And all I could think of is how gutted it would be to work that. 
 

Sure, it was probably a fifteen minute job. Hopefully the designer had more interesting parts after that. 

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I'm trying to get an insurance quote so I apply for the contract mowing grass at the post office. They quoted me for $2 million dollars, which is the smallest amount they provide. I said that I could destroy the entire post office for $2 million dollars. The postmaster told me she would like it if I somehow managed to destroy the building. I don't know how on earth a push mower could do $2 million dollars worth of damage anything, but it sounds like a challenge to me!

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Watching clips of Johnny Carson always makes me a little nostalgic for the late 70s and early 80s. Did that this morning at breakfast. My daily car auction email had a lot of those era cars, and then I am having a hot coffee which reminds me of my grandparents and watching JC at their house. 
 

It’s made me very melancholy this afternoon.

 

Makes me want to go write up a short story, which unfortunately I only have the setting for and no plot. Far future, people have separated into bands of time periods due to general unhappiness with modernity which had fizzled and stopped progressing when the computational limit of computers was reached. So there are medieval areas, renaissance areas, early 1700s, etc, all up through the highest tech periods (where the least number of people reside).

 

Today I’d be somewhere around 1978, I’d think. Probably in some late 60s sedan. 

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3 hours ago, Pegazus said:

Watching clips of Johnny Carson always makes me a little nostalgic for the late 70s and early 80s. Did that this morning at breakfast. My daily car auction email had a lot of those era cars, and then I am having a hot coffee which reminds me of my grandparents and watching JC at their house. 
 

It’s made me very melancholy this afternoon.

 

Makes me want to go write up a short story, which unfortunately I only have the setting for and no plot. Far future, people have separated into bands of time periods due to general unhappiness with modernity which had fizzled and stopped progressing when the computational limit of computers was reached. So there are medieval areas, renaissance areas, early 1700s, etc, all up through the highest tech periods (where the least number of people reside).

 

Today I’d be somewhere around 1978, I’d think. Probably in some late 60s sedan. 

 

PlutoTV app has the JC channel. Along with non-white haired Bob Barker PiR episodes. Pretty fun app to waste some time, watching older tv shows.

 

Been mostly making RCon pregens today. At least getting the important stuff filled out. The details can be done later. Allot of characters have been based off Twin Goddess & Stonehaven stls. ::D:

 

Thou, there is a certain dwarf that took inspiration from WoW. It's too bad the beast master archetype isn't made to give bears to rangers. Oh well went with a drakewarden.

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9 hours ago, TGP said:


Whatever the labor cost is — it won’t compare to miss-billing $300K or the legal fees to clean that up if it had gone out. 

you aren't wrong.   Too bad so many people don't get that. 

We've been fighting this week with a lady who is complaining that she's had equipment down for four weeks because of programming issues - but a large part of the issue is that she won't pay for the techs who have the proper knowledge and equipment to do it right to come to her site. She insists on doing everything herself. 

I wound up invoking one of the clauses in my contract that lets me refuse to deal with certain customers to get out of having to deal with her. 

 

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13 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

you aren't wrong.   Too bad so many people don't get that. 

We've been fighting this week with a lady who is complaining that she's had equipment down for four weeks because of programming issues - but a large part of the issue is that she won't pay for the techs who have the proper knowledge and equipment to do it right to come to her site. She insists on doing everything herself. 

I wound up invoking one of the clauses in my contract that lets me refuse to deal with certain customers to get out of having to deal with her. 

 

Perhaps you need to suggest to the distributors you work with to tell her to provide them with specified technical certifications for servicing the specific equipment programming or all warranties are void, including warranties on equipment connected to the equipment under discussion, until qualified and certified technicians are in charge of the servicing of that equipment.

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