Randomness XVIII: Ex-Vee-Triple-Eye

[Serenity]

RTB Pro-Tips! SKU#03978 Madame Delia! 8-4-22.  Started at 11:35 AM.

 

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[kristof65]

2 hours ago, TGP said:

. . . cause a service disruption to your own internet instead! Cripple internet—Save job.

Yeah, I kind of shot myself in the foot on using that one.   A few years back we had some main trunk lines to our rural town cut, and our internet, cable and phone service was down for 3 days.  Even before that, we were seeing an outage of a couple hours 1-3 times a month, and outages of 1-10 minutes a dozen or more times a week.  So the company agreed that they would pay for me to have a backup internet connection, but I'd have to provide my own hardware.  So now I have this fancy Synology Dual WAN router with CenturyLink DSL on one port and T-Mobile 5G home service on the other. 

 

Neither service is particularly reliable - both still have frequent outages (though none as long as that three day one - mostly what I call "micro outages", which only last a few minutes), but at least they don't usually have outages at the same time, and the router switches between them as needed for most of my network, and for the few network devices that I have tied to a specific provider, I can switch to the other provider pretty quickly. 

So for the last 2-3 years, I've established that my outages don't last long. 

Hmm, I could do a power outage, though.   

 

2 hours ago, TGP said:

 When you say “requires engineering” is this a Union Workrule? involves passwords only they have? …software changes? 

Software changes. 

Today is going a little better - now I'm just complaining to the service manager that the instructions he sent this morning were crap and still don't address the underlying software problem. 

[Chaoswolf]

It's National Chocolate Chip Cookie  day!

 

It's also National Coast Guard day, so have some cookies with a Coastie. 

[kitchen_wolf]

40 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said:

It's National Chocolate Chip Cookie  day!

 

It's also National Coast Guard day, so have some cookies with a Coastie. 

 

I normally encounter the Coasties passing through at about 150 kts.  This is not considered a civil velocity for serving cookies, in an FAA/DHS involvement sort of way.

[WhiteWulfe]

1 hour ago, Chaoswolf said:

It's National Chocolate Chip Cookie  day!

 

It's also National Coast Guard day, so have some cookies with a Coastie. 

If they're this far in either the coasts have changed, or they're on a land boat..... 

[Serenity]

The Crafty Creative with Josh Foreman! Building a Temple Gate!  Start screen up at 1:45 PM.

 

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[Green Eyed Monsty]

3 minutes ago, WhiteWulfe said:

If they're this far in either the coasts have changed, or they're on a land boat..... 

Does the term "Navigable Waters" ring any bells?

As in, Great Lakes?

If they are doing 150 kts must be aerial operations, otherwise,

We're in Big Trouble.

GEM

[WhiteWulfe]

1 minute ago, Green Eyed Monsty said:

Does the term "Navigable Waters" ring any bells?

As in, Great Lakes?

If they are doing 150 kts must be aerial operations, otherwise,

We're in Big Trouble.

GEM

Out here we have HMCS Nonsuch, which tells you how viable our Navy is.  It's a parking lot a few buildings, a naval guy display.... Right next to Canadian Tire.... 

 

We've got a river and an okay one at that but yeah, nothing large ships can make it through

[kristof65]

9 minutes ago, kitchen_wolf said:

This is not considered a civil velocity for serving cookies, in an FAA/DHS involvement sort of way.

Could be fun to try, though.  I wonder if a clay trap launcher would be sufficient to allow the cookies to make contact?   

 

I am currently annoying the broccoli out of the service manager by asking him detailed questions about one of these tickets he assigned me last night that I almost quit over.  It involves a non-standard use of a feature that is not used by US sites at all, not even the standard use. I have to understand the standard use to even begin to comprehend the non-standard use and the issue the site is having.   He wants me to make some changes to the site's setup before it gets escalated to engineering. So I've got questions.  Like I had six to start, but I only started with two questions. 

 

Every answer he gives is spawning at least two more questions from me.  I have a list of 12 questions to ask, and I've already surpassed my initial six.   I wonder at what point will he give up and just do it himself?  If I'm truly starting to grasp this function and it's programming, then I think he's already spent way more time trying to train me than it would have taken for him to handle it himself.

 

[Green Eyed Monsty]

9 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

Could be fun to try, though.  I wonder if a clay trap launcher would be sufficient to allow the cookies to make contact?   

 

I am currently annoying the broccoli out of the service manager by asking him detailed questions about one of these tickets he assigned me last night that I almost quit over.  It involves a non-standard use of a feature that is not used by US sites at all, not even the standard use. I have to understand the standard use to even begin to comprehend the non-standard use and the issue the site is having.   He wants me to make some changes to the site's setup before it gets escalated to engineering. So I've got questions.  Like I had six to start, but I only started with two questions. 

 

Every answer he gives is spawning at least two more questions from me.  I have a list of 12 questions to ask, and I've already surpassed my initial six.   I wonder at what point will he give up and just do it himself?  If I'm truly starting to grasp this function and it's programming, then I think he's already spent way more time trying to train me than it would have taken for him to handle it himself.

 

Keep up the good work.

"Scrupulous Compliance" is an effective training tool when dealing with "managers" who try to pass the buck.

Would you care to place a wager on how long it is before he has to go to engineering for answers to the legitimate questions you are asking him?

And how much longer before he has to admit engineering needs to be involved?

This is better than daytime soaps for those of us who are technically inclined.

"As the Bubble Bursts" the new soap opera of the Car Wash Industry.

GEM

[TGP]

2 hours ago, kitchen_wolf said:

2 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

It's National Chocolate Chip Cookie  day!

 

It's also National Coast Guard day, so have some cookies with a Coastie. 

 

I normally encounter the Coasties passing through at about 150 kts.  This is not considered a civil velocity for serving cookies, in an FAA/DHS involvement sort of way.

If you were aboard the Helo (150kts) I am sure passing out chocolate chips would not go amiss. 
 

In other RELATED news:

 

I HAVE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES !!!

 

I can celebrate this National Day thingy. I had requested a grocery delivery today. Placed the order Tuesday, they had about 30 hours to gather up the dozen things I ordered, they failed to have 4 items out of 12.  BUT,

 

…they included a bag of freebies. Little random samples. And the tiny bag of Choc Chips was one of them. 
 

Anybody know who Amos was?

[Chaoswolf]

Not offhand, but apparently he was famous.

[SparrowMarie]

2 hours ago, TGP said:

Anybody know who Amos was?

 

There is an episode of The Food that Built America about him. Very interesting stuff. It is on the History channel, maybe on their YouTube too.

[sumbloke]

2 hours ago, TGP said:

Anybody know who Amos was?

"Famous Amos is a brand of cookies founded in Los Angeles in 1975 by Wally Amos, a former talent agent with William Morris Agency."

 

So, not that famous.

[Green Eyed Monsty]

3 hours ago, TGP said:

If you were aboard the Helo (150kts) I am sure passing out chocolate chips would not go amiss. 
 

In other RELATED news:

 

I HAVE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES !!!

 

I can celebrate this National Day thingy. I had requested a grocery delivery today. Placed the order Tuesday, they had about 30 hours to gather up the dozen things I ordered, they failed to have 4 items out of 12.  BUT,

 

…they included a bag of freebies. Little random samples. And the tiny bag of Choc Chips was one of them. 
 

Anybody know who Amos was?

Wally Amos was a talent agent who decided to become an entrepreneur.

He was already know in Hollywood Celebrity Circles when he opened his cookie shop in Hollywood and quickly became successful by hosting catered cookie parties as an adjunct to a lot of celebrity festivities.

His shop had an open/closed sign that read:The Cookie is In" and "The Cookie is Sleeping".

He gained national fame when his booming local business was bought out by a National Brand Conglomerate food business.  Amos was retained as a spokesperson for several years.

As with most buyouts of this nature the quality of the cookies declined in inverse relation to how famous and widely distributed the brand became.

I know this because I used to occasionally patronize his shop just east of the Sunset Strip when I'd go for a motorcycle ride into Hollywood and environs in the 90s.

GEM