Sounds like how my night went. Had to drive in to work since my laptop decided to fuck up it's registry... after a 7 hour day of manual labor at a job I was supposed to be at for a maximum of 3.
Thank goodness I've got tomorrow and Monday off.....
I don't understand why more places don't put this to better use.... I know that most people get kind of turned off by having to use voicemail, or "press 2 to stay on the line" kind of thing, but why is this so bad?
I work in an area where my customers have to come first. If I have a co-worker in my cubicle, and we're not talking about a business threatening emergency, then I answer the phone... chances are, I've been trying to get a hold of the customer for a few hours, and if they call, that means they've now got time. I'm a slave to them more than they are me.
But, in your situation, I'd say dump the calls to voicemail. Or, if it's really that bad, it may mean that the store/doctor's office may need part-time help during busy hours to answer the phone. Having the "general receptionist" answer the phone isn't good at my company, and I would think a doctor's office would want to have someone seperate, if there's enough volume.
Or, go to voicemail....:) Believe me, when people want your money, they'll call back.
"5. Don't double insure, if you have coverage for medical costs, you might look at the cost of your uninsured motorist coverage."
ACtually, doesn't the medical insurance that you typically carry with such a policy (at least in my state, which is "not" a no-fault state) cover anyone you may accidentally send to the hospital in case of an accident?
Definitely would want to check with your state's laws before dropping medical coverage... doctors are expensive.
Funny story. I got my dad a Canon digital camera for his birthday a few years back, complete with charger and rechargable batteries from wal-mart.
He was complaining a few months later about the seemingly short battery life.... turns out, he threw away the rechargables (since they looked similar to the alkalines) and starting charging the alkalines. I'm impressed that one set of alkalines didn't have issues with discharge/charge.... must be a pretty fast charger you had to get the alkalines up to giving up their innards.
Yea, because just like all of the action movies playing at your local cineplex, when everything seems right in the world all of the nuclear reactors will go up in a huge firey mushroom cloud.
And it will happen, just because you built the damn power plant....
I just tell my fiancee that I don't really care. I make her pick out paint colors herself. Besides, isn't that what we're here for? They pick out the paint, we get to put it on the walls....
Nice to see that your buggy whips will survive the next 100 years....
Even if it takes making equipment to make it appear that you're scratching, I'm sure that everyone can see the benefit to using a 2.5" hdd to store all the music, rather than milk crates of 12" vinyl...
hmmm. Actually, vomit on the carpet might actually increase my productivity at work.
Of course, it'll be at the entrance to my cube. And it can't be my vomit, 'cause that means I'd have been sick. But no one will want to bug me if it's there. Just need to get some good nose plugs if it's still ripe...
"With Linux, after buying text books or paying for a course and maybe replacing some hardware you can finally get some use out of it if all you want to do is run a web server."
You've obviously never tried to use IIS, have you?
What's funny is, every night about 10pm, me and 2 others join into UT2k4 matches. Lately it's mostly been assault, but we've been known to kick butt through invasion and others.
The point is though, we've only ever left certain servers for two reasons:
1. Once (note that: ONCE) there was a guy chatting on the server, repeating himself over and over and over (the text to speech stuff.) We got annoyed and left after the round was up.
2. Bad maps. Some user-made maps are just nuts.... one we played last night for example was so not fun - you couldn't get away from your spawn point (a no-no in an assault map, since the defaults usually have a gun to defend you the first few seconds of life...) We left since we knew once we were defending, we'd probably be doing the same thing. for 20 minutes.
So, on the internet gaming side of things, it appears people are a little nicer. We'll make jokes with other guys and have fun with some of their names (especially clan names:) but never take it to the point of annoyance.
Damn, wish I had known that trick when I was younger. Of course, that's back when Caller-ID and 3-Way calling didn't satisfy my parents.
They were upset at the amount of time it took me to call back, since I must have been on the toilet for over five minutes... they knew better, and had me come home.
Funny thing is, they never really asked me where I was. Just made me stay home.... no questions asked...
The next time, I "stayed" at a friend's house whose number or name they didn't know. Mom even told me that she forgot to ask me what his number was after the fact.... *grin*
Oh, to be a teenage male seemingly in love.... And her parents were home every night as well... they just didn't know I was there HAAHAAHAAA!!!!
"This is probably why the palm pilot does not have a replaceable battery."
OK. Now I'm gonna swear. Where the fuck did you pull that from?
Try running out of battery power on a palm VX (I know, older model - but you said "palm"). You lose all applications in memory.
Why? 'cause it's not "flash memory". It's actually something closer to SDRAM, which requires refresh charges every so often. Hence, if you run out of battery, you lose the memory. As well, it's not "ROM" if you can write to it.
" Digital video applications would be great for this type of density. Just think of watching a raw-encoded HDTV.ts stream of a 4 hour show at 1920x1080p on a digital projection system without any lossy compression and not to mention plenty of space for a variable bitrate 384kbps per channel surround sound track."
That kinda caught me off guard. You're stating that we should losslessly compress the video, but not have 24-bit, 96khz sampled audio tracks for each speaker in the theatre? You've just gone mad!!!!!
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That worked for me for about a month, until I got really good at doing math while groggy.
In addition, no matter where I put the alarm clock, I'll go smack snooze and get back into bed. Maybe I should go to bed earlier.....?
Funny thing is, I actually thought about that after I smacked "Submit"....
Life deals funny things to those of us who choose to jump all over another's faults....
And from your post, I can tell your skill is neither grammar or spelling.
Not that I really care.
Sounds like how my night went. Had to drive in to work since my laptop decided to fuck up it's registry... after a 7 hour day of manual labor at a job I was supposed to be at for a maximum of 3.
Thank goodness I've got tomorrow and Monday off.....
Of course, humor can still be subtle, even if I have to explain it to those who don't "get" it.
You may have seen some humor in it, but in nit-picking my fifteen-second post, you've made me want to go outside and cry a little.
Really.
Man, you must have a hell of a local town paper to be printing on pages a foot thick!
I don't understand why more places don't put this to better use.... I know that most people get kind of turned off by having to use voicemail, or "press 2 to stay on the line" kind of thing, but why is this so bad?
:) Believe me, when people want your money, they'll call back.
I work in an area where my customers have to come first. If I have a co-worker in my cubicle, and we're not talking about a business threatening emergency, then I answer the phone... chances are, I've been trying to get a hold of the customer for a few hours, and if they call, that means they've now got time. I'm a slave to them more than they are me.
But, in your situation, I'd say dump the calls to voicemail. Or, if it's really that bad, it may mean that the store/doctor's office may need part-time help during busy hours to answer the phone. Having the "general receptionist" answer the phone isn't good at my company, and I would think a doctor's office would want to have someone seperate, if there's enough volume.
Or, go to voicemail....
You have a copy of FrooBaz traffic shaper? Where can I find it?
(note.. post is ever so subtle attempt at humor. Humor impaired need not apply.)
"5. Don't double insure, if you have coverage for medical costs, you might look at the cost of your uninsured motorist coverage."
ACtually, doesn't the medical insurance that you typically carry with such a policy (at least in my state, which is "not" a no-fault state) cover anyone you may accidentally send to the hospital in case of an accident?
Definitely would want to check with your state's laws before dropping medical coverage... doctors are expensive.
Funny story. I got my dad a Canon digital camera for his birthday a few years back, complete with charger and rechargable batteries from wal-mart.
He was complaining a few months later about the seemingly short battery life.... turns out, he threw away the rechargables (since they looked similar to the alkalines) and starting charging the alkalines. I'm impressed that one set of alkalines didn't have issues with discharge/charge.... must be a pretty fast charger you had to get the alkalines up to giving up their innards.
Yea, because just like all of the action movies playing at your local cineplex, when everything seems right in the world all of the nuclear reactors will go up in a huge firey mushroom cloud.
And it will happen, just because you built the damn power plant....
Right.
But would he open it before or after the toll-gate? :)
I just tell my fiancee that I don't really care. I make her pick out paint colors herself. Besides, isn't that what we're here for? They pick out the paint, we get to put it on the walls....
Nice to see that your buggy whips will survive the next 100 years....
Even if it takes making equipment to make it appear that you're scratching, I'm sure that everyone can see the benefit to using a 2.5" hdd to store all the music, rather than milk crates of 12" vinyl...
hmmm. Actually, vomit on the carpet might actually increase my productivity at work.
Of course, it'll be at the entrance to my cube. And it can't be my vomit, 'cause that means I'd have been sick. But no one will want to bug me if it's there. Just need to get some good nose plugs if it's still ripe...
"With Linux, after buying text books or paying for a course and maybe replacing some hardware you can finally get some use out of it if all you want to do is run a web server."
You've obviously never tried to use IIS, have you?
Actually, if you're a fan of Family Guy, I believe Peter ran him over in one of the "flashback" scenes (with Wile E. sitting in the passenger seat...)
What's funny is, every night about 10pm, me and 2 others join into UT2k4 matches. Lately it's mostly been assault, but we've been known to kick butt through invasion and others.
:) but never take it to the point of annoyance.
The point is though, we've only ever left certain servers for two reasons:
1. Once (note that: ONCE) there was a guy chatting on the server, repeating himself over and over and over (the text to speech stuff.) We got annoyed and left after the round was up.
2. Bad maps. Some user-made maps are just nuts.... one we played last night for example was so not fun - you couldn't get away from your spawn point (a no-no in an assault map, since the defaults usually have a gun to defend you the first few seconds of life...) We left since we knew once we were defending, we'd probably be doing the same thing. for 20 minutes.
So, on the internet gaming side of things, it appears people are a little nicer. We'll make jokes with other guys and have fun with some of their names (especially clan names
That's exactly the quote I was looking to post!
Laugh every time I see that clip.....
*Weird Al*: A-HA! Road Maps!!!
Once and for friggin' all.
Not everyone can afford an iPod. There, I said it.
That being said, the iPods are nice and all, but if I can't afford one and then go and buy a nomad zen, why the fuck are you bitchin'?
Damn, wish I had known that trick when I was younger. Of course, that's back when Caller-ID and 3-Way calling didn't satisfy my parents.
They were upset at the amount of time it took me to call back, since I must have been on the toilet for over five minutes... they knew better, and had me come home.
Funny thing is, they never really asked me where I was. Just made me stay home.... no questions asked...
The next time, I "stayed" at a friend's house whose number or name they didn't know. Mom even told me that she forgot to ask me what his number was after the fact.... *grin*
Oh, to be a teenage male seemingly in love.... And her parents were home every night as well... they just didn't know I was there HAAHAAHAAA!!!!
"This is probably why the palm pilot does not have a replaceable battery."
OK. Now I'm gonna swear. Where the fuck did you pull that from?
Try running out of battery power on a palm VX (I know, older model - but you said "palm"). You lose all applications in memory.
Why? 'cause it's not "flash memory". It's actually something closer to SDRAM, which requires refresh charges every so often. Hence, if you run out of battery, you lose the memory. As well, it's not "ROM" if you can write to it.
" Digital video applications would be great for this type of density. Just think of watching a raw-encoded HDTV .ts stream of a 4 hour show at 1920x1080p on a digital projection system without any lossy compression and not to mention plenty of space for a variable bitrate 384kbps per channel surround sound track."
That kinda caught me off guard. You're stating that we should losslessly compress the video, but not have 24-bit, 96khz sampled audio tracks for each speaker in the theatre? You've just gone mad!!!!!
"but what does you butt care?"
Only if it's "butt ugly".
HAAHAAHAA me so funny.