Right! Me! Scholorship. Consevative parents! Dude I love your version of my life.
Let's see. I played some football and some hockey in high school but mostly at the park. I don't think I was ever picked first for anything. My parents sold dope to make ends meet and were less than conservative. Dad still has the "Swan Song" logo tattoo on his chest and the acurate to natural postion pot leaf was recently removed during arm surgery (Doc thought he was doing Pop a favor.) Both of mom's tattoos are still there.
In a Marry, Eff, Kill - I'd Kill Britney Spears.
Wanna know how I turned "so conservative"? I'll tell you. I'll tell you the exact date. August 24th, 1985*. That was the day NYU sent me a letter stating that my ACEDEMIC scholorship had been "revoked" due to "Affirmative Action Obligations". I think they were as pissed about it as I was.
Feh, I still went to college, Community at first. My parent's whopping 28,000USD COMBINED salary in 1985 wasn't quite enough to pay for even Stony Brook. But I went and along the way met a gaggle of tools from Professor Luna Womon to Professor Shein who insisted that NY Indians never ate each other, the Europeans did all the cannibalism. When presented with proof that this was catagorecially untrue and that proving that Seneca's did, in fact, eat the Mohawks on a fairly regular basis I was throw out of the class. And on that day in my Sophmore year I changed Majors from English to History so I could teach actual History and not the fucked up version Schein was spilling out to the doe eyed morons who never questioned anything he said.
*btw August 24th is my birthday... that's why I remember the day and you can already guess what year I graduated High School.
There are a lot of nut job professors... think Churchill Hell when I was at Stony Brook I tangled with some nutjob in Womyn's Studies and almost got throw out of school. Ultimately SUSB saw it my way and they gave me an A a I never went back but I'll bet a lot of kids forced into that class just got bullied or thrown out of it.
Fuck them. Do you job. Don't waste the student's time telling them America is a corrupt regime of facists and that GWB should be impeached for stealing the last 3 elections, and being AWOL, and Katrina, and Plame, and Iraq, and the 9/11 was inside job, yadda fucking yadda. Or that Bill Clinton's Penis (Clenis) is evil and that the Left hates America, is shrill, is on the wrong side of history, is responsible for Wellstone's death, yadda yadda fucking yadda.
You know what? If a professor is doing their job they have nothing to worry about.
He was AWESOME last week on Stern as the announcer - I wish him well. 68 years old, just came out of the closet and then goes on The Howard Stern Show after a decade of ribbing... George Takei is Okay. RIP Rein LaBlanche.
To a point I agree... although I have worked with some Sys Admins who understood what I was saying to them and then performed magick when I walked away that I literally NEVER understood what they were saying back to me. They could have been calling me a PHB or worse. Bottom line they got their shit done.
I am all about "skillz", chops, what have you.
But I definitely see what you are saying. The one thing that throws me in a hiring process is nerves. If the candidate is shaking in my office what are they going to do in front of a smoking web server?
There are so few industries like IT where pure chops are the only thing that matters. I don't care if you're a friggin mold... if you can run a server you're hired. There's more than enough "backroom" positions where you can hide bad personalities etc.
Christ! My department is like the freakin UN. I have a Brit, 2 black women, a kid of some undefined ethnicity and Swedish/Puerto Rican!
Office 2004 for OS X is light years better than Office 2003 for Windows.
Tons of the features in 2004 are showing up in other products for MS, like OneNote, Project etc. The only thing keeping Entourage from being better than Outlook by leaps and bounds is MS's intentional crippling of Entourage as an Exchange client.
Perhaps MS uses OS X for advanced products beta testing?
Second best way. _Let_ something important break. Take a _long_ time to fix it. They'll let you hire some bodies. You need at least 2 but you could get by with 1.
Let's say it's your shop. Leaving Sys Admin is decent human and in the final days something breaks. Uh oh, did it get broken on purpose? Maliciously? Now you're wasting time looking for answers to questions you might not even legitimately have.
Let's say it's your shop. Leaving Sys Admin is a miseable SOB who knows his shit and that's why you let him be a a miserable SOB. He stays two weeks and you have goat pr0n on your desktop, encrypted/Home directories and not a single password is what he told you it was 2 weeks ago. Who needs this shit?
Sys Admin: I am giving you my two weeks. CIO: OK, great. Here's your severance check. I hope you do well at the new job. Feel free to use me as a reference.
This is EXACTLY how is should be handled. Do NOT let a leaving Sys Admin on you system. You did nothing wrong. They did nothing wrong. Enjoy your end of the year festivities.
World: We want to control the internet. USA: No. World: Come on! USA: No. World: Will you at least think about it? USA: No. World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems. USA: OK. World: But that will break the internet. USA: OK World: But that would be bad. USA: Then leave it alone. World: OK. But we're making a committee. USA: That's cute.
Oh please. Now who doesn't understand the way the world works.
Company: Now see here young mother. I realize the webbery has been great fun for you but your facts are ever so spurious. Mother: Oh I see my ways were errant. Let me unpost the hideous libels I have lain upon you.
If she is wrong then GOOD. I hope the companny sues her blind. If the Lobel Chemical Corporation had been litigious against that Silent Spring idiot the world would have been better off.
If she is accurate then the libel suit will be dropped and the comany suing will be exposed which is GOOD.
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Right! Me! Scholorship. Consevative parents! Dude I love your version of my life.
Let's see. I played some football and some hockey in high school but mostly at the park. I don't think I was ever picked first for anything. My parents sold dope to make ends meet and were less than conservative. Dad still has the "Swan Song" logo tattoo on his chest and the acurate to natural postion pot leaf was recently removed during arm surgery (Doc thought he was doing Pop a favor.) Both of mom's tattoos are still there.
In a Marry, Eff, Kill - I'd Kill Britney Spears.
Wanna know how I turned "so conservative"? I'll tell you. I'll tell you the exact date. August 24th, 1985*. That was the day NYU sent me a letter stating that my ACEDEMIC scholorship had been "revoked" due to "Affirmative Action Obligations". I think they were as pissed about it as I was.
Feh, I still went to college, Community at first. My parent's whopping 28,000USD COMBINED salary in 1985 wasn't quite enough to pay for even Stony Brook. But I went and along the way met a gaggle of tools from Professor Luna Womon to Professor Shein who insisted that NY Indians never ate each other, the Europeans did all the cannibalism. When presented with proof that this was catagorecially untrue and that proving that Seneca's did, in fact, eat the Mohawks on a fairly regular basis I was throw out of the class. And on that day in my Sophmore year I changed Majors from English to History so I could teach actual History and not the fucked up version Schein was spilling out to the doe eyed morons who never questioned anything he said.
*btw August 24th is my birthday... that's why I remember the day and you can already guess what year I graduated High School.
actually it is freezing in my house tonight... windows left open all day... long story. Sorry about the typos.
Upthread... Yeah, Ward is a regular upstanding citizen. As you know he was a paratrooper in 'nam... I mean projectionist.
Perfectly Capitaslistic plan to me.
There are a lot of nut job professors... think Churchill Hell when I was at Stony Brook I tangled with some nutjob in Womyn's Studies and almost got throw out of school. Ultimately SUSB saw it my way and they gave me an A a I never went back but I'll bet a lot of kids forced into that class just got bullied or thrown out of it.
Fuck them. Do you job. Don't waste the student's time telling them America is a corrupt regime of facists and that GWB should be impeached for stealing the last 3 elections, and being AWOL, and Katrina, and Plame, and Iraq, and the 9/11 was inside job, yadda fucking yadda. Or that Bill Clinton's Penis (Clenis) is evil and that the Left hates America, is shrill, is on the wrong side of history, is responsible for Wellstone's death, yadda yadda fucking yadda.
You know what? If a professor is doing their job they have nothing to worry about.
He was AWESOME last week on Stern as the announcer - I wish him well. 68 years old, just came out of the closet and then goes on The Howard Stern Show after a decade of ribbing... George Takei is Okay. RIP Rein LaBlanche.
perhaps you're right... given the plethora of choices I have here in NYC - I'll always take the candidate not shaking in the interview.
yes and I park illegally all the time
To a point I agree... although I have worked with some Sys Admins who understood what I was saying to them and then performed magick when I walked away that I literally NEVER understood what they were saying back to me. They could have been calling me a PHB or worse. Bottom line they got their shit done.
I am all about "skillz", chops, what have you.
But I definitely see what you are saying. The one thing that throws me in a hiring process is nerves. If the candidate is shaking in my office what are they going to do in front of a smoking web server?
There are so few industries like IT where pure chops are the only thing that matters. I don't care if you're a friggin mold... if you can run a server you're hired. There's more than enough "backroom" positions where you can hide bad personalities etc.
Christ! My department is like the freakin UN. I have a Brit, 2 black women, a kid of some undefined ethnicity and Swedish/Puerto Rican!
*I'm the white guy!*
Office 2004 for OS X is light years better than Office 2003 for Windows.
Tons of the features in 2004 are showing up in other products for MS, like OneNote, Project etc. The only thing keeping Entourage from being better than Outlook by leaps and bounds is MS's intentional crippling of Entourage as an Exchange client.
Perhaps MS uses OS X for advanced products beta testing?
This is just slightly off the Vista minimum hardware requirements! Keep trying guys - you're almost there!
Fix up your resume and BOLT.
Second best way. _Let_ something important break. Take a _long_ time to fix it. They'll let you hire some bodies. You need at least 2 but you could get by with 1.
I bought Learn Java in 21 Days in like 1996 and I STILL can't program in Java. How do I get my money back?
I like this idea a lot. Go owner of the site!
Liability.
/Home directories and not a single password is what he told you it was 2 weeks ago. Who needs this shit?
Let's say it's your shop. Leaving Sys Admin is decent human and in the final days something breaks. Uh oh, did it get broken on purpose? Maliciously? Now you're wasting time looking for answers to questions you might not even legitimately have.
Let's say it's your shop. Leaving Sys Admin is a miseable SOB who knows his shit and that's why you let him be a a miserable SOB. He stays two weeks and you have goat pr0n on your desktop, encrypted
Sys Admin: I am giving you my two weeks.
CIO: OK, great. Here's your severance check. I hope you do well at the new job. Feel free to use me as a reference.
That's EXACTLY how it should go down.
This is EXACTLY how is should be handled. Do NOT let a leaving Sys Admin on you system. You did nothing wrong. They did nothing wrong. Enjoy your end of the year festivities.
Ahhh yes. Radio as we know it will soon be the 8 Track of media. Unless, like broadcast TV they are allowed to piggyback onto Satellite Radio.
Let us all come together and hope that the FCC doesn't try to regulate that which we pay for.
I use GMail on OS X so I don't need it...
</sarcasm>
I mean I use Active Directory all the time. Is this a new Vista "Feature"?
???
I mean Godzilla, PurlGurl, and all it's other names. That whole Abigail thingy.
USENET rocks like Gilbralter.
Besides where else can you download the entire Howard Stern Show without commercials?
World: We want to control the internet.
USA: No.
World: Come on!
USA: No.
World: Will you at least think about it?
USA: No.
World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems.
USA: OK.
World: But that will break the internet.
USA: OK
World: But that would be bad.
USA: Then leave it alone.
World: OK. But we're making a committee.
USA: That's cute.
wait a minute
let's be fair
The gov't never said she was right! They said they agree with WHAT she's doing. And, frankly, so do I.
As long as she is right.
Oh please. Now who doesn't understand the way the world works.
Company: Now see here young mother. I realize the webbery has been great fun for you but your facts are ever so spurious.
Mother: Oh I see my ways were errant. Let me unpost the hideous libels I have lain upon you.
What if she's wrong? What if she's LIBELLING this company? It happens.
If she is wrong then GOOD. I hope the companny sues her blind. If the Lobel Chemical Corporation had been litigious against that Silent Spring idiot the world would have been better off.
If she is accurate then the libel suit will be dropped and the comany suing will be exposed which is GOOD.
All your TFH needs is "Speed Holes"