I guess I'm just lucky. Almost every school zone in my city also has flashing lights on the signs that only flash during certain times, and the signs all say "when lights are flashing". Personally, I think high schools shouldn't have speed zones. By the time your in high school if you don't comprehend how roads work then maybe you should be removed from the gene pool.
Texas has speed limits? Couldn't tell from all the times I've driven there. Even with all the construction that was happening in Dallas, no one went at or under the "speed limit"...no matter if it was sunny, raining, snowing...
I did that "come in early" for awhile at IBM...I'd show up at 6:30-7:00AM, take 10-20 of the easy tickets out of the queue (monitor drop-offs, keyboard installs, software installs, etc)...skip lunch and head out around 3:00 PM or so. That lasted for about a month until other people got upset I was "leaving early" even though I had put 8 hours in. A memo came out saying we HAD to take at least a 45 minute lunch in the middle of our work day. Shortly after that the whole financial industry collapsed and the building lost 3/4 of it's employees. This IBM site used to be PWC, mostly accountants for AIG etc...
LOL OMG yes..." That is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt." The Rouge AC Repair Guy was the best...we still joke about being a "rouge IT troubleshooter" and fixing computers when no one is looking... just call me Tuttle.
Well, maybe this might help? At least with this you can put on headphones and try to drown everyone else out: Ultimate Rain Sound Generator. I use it to take power naps all the time.
I bet if my workplace did this I could easily show how my ADD, combined with no way to visually exclude everyone, falls under the ADA and request specific accommodations. I work in a NOC though, so we're already kinda "open". I do have a cube upstairs, but I'm never actually in it. I think right now people have shoved various old desk chairs into it, the last time I cruised by there where four chairs in there, along with a note written on my whiteboard "I borrowed your screwdriver" from about 6 months ago. Oh, and print-outs of the "certificates" from our various required training. I sometimes use it to nap in, when I can't find an unlocked empty edge office...12 hour shifts make you do that after 3-4 of them in a row.
ACK, I should have put the source there! That's actually from the movie Pi...one of my favorite films. Quite intense, mixing Kabbalism, modern number theory, and cutting-edge computers. All in black-and-white, with Aphex Twin doing the soundtrack. If you haven't seen it CHECK IT OUT.
The worst example I've encountered of "internal headbutting" happened just recently. One of my tasks is to update all these "Business Impacts". I know the help desk has all this info, yet for some reason their manager refuses to let me have access. No matter that we have the same client, no matter I know some of the info they have is outdated...flat out refusal with little explanation. Quite frustrating, little fiefdoms. Honestly I feel if the "higher-higher ups" knew about this we'd have have access AND a new help desk manager, since it's both wasting resources AND hurting the client. But no one other than me cares, so I'm trying not to care either LOL
We still have quite a few legacy EDS people too, I even found some EDS plastic license plates.
I still can't find a definition of my beliefs. I think there are powerful entities that occasionally mess ("help") with us, but I don't think they are some all-power "I created all of reality" creatures. I also feel they don't have our best interests in mind, and also are not omnipotent and can't really "see the future". If there is some real, all-creating entity it's pretty obvious that 1) it doesn't like us much 2) doesn't care enough to intercede 3) when it DOES intercede usually many people end up dead. So, IMHO, it's better to NOT poke at God and ask for intervention...your just as likely to receive a plague of locust than you are to receive deliverance.
“I am Ubik.
Before the universe was, I am.
I made the suns.
I made the worlds.
I created the lives and the places they inhabit;
I move them here, I put them there.
They go as I say, then do as I tell them.
I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows.
I am called Ubik, but that is not my name.
I am.
I shall always be.”
11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
To me, there is a huge difference between saying "There must be some greater, universal intelligence" and "This particular entity showed up last night and told me anyone who isn't just like me must DIE." The first one I can buy, the second one no. Even if God was "proven", if He is a psycotic genocidal murderer I still refuse to "worship" that, even if I was staring at the Pit of Hell itself. If God isn't willing to come clarify His "rules" and would rather just hang back while we kill each other in His name then He can piss right off.
I'm on the "newest" team at HP, we ARE the ITSM people for our clients. I suppose customer experience is important, but it's mostly about proper documentation, change control, inventory, and so forth. I can't name the clients since I've already gotten in trouble for that via a post on the NYT, but we have mainframes at an airport in Oklahoma...I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
Luckily, we don't have to worry about "consumer devices". We monitor ESX, TPF transactions, LAN/WAN etc. ITIL is pretty important. If an ESX fails, we need to know exactly what apps will go down, who it will impact, where does it fail over to, etc. Usually any failures (CPU's going out, some fan on a switch dying and killing it, etc) aren't even noticed by our client which is the entire point. It's common for a single ESX to host 80-200 different VMs. I've been on many conference calls with people all over the planet. In five years we'll probably be doing the exact same stuff; mainframes don't really change much and once it works we leave it alone. Heck, we've got Cisco 5509s that have uptime of 10+ years.
And yes, I really don't like HPSM. Not because of what it does, it's just a resource hog running Java that is really complicated and not intuitive. And no one really knows all it's features...I've used it from both a help desk (incident management) and change control perspective now...personally I like Vitalize far better but some CEO a few years ago said soemthing about "eating your own dog food" so HPSM is it. Gawd, I still have a bunch of training to do on it like TONIGHT...lol
stupid phone autocorrect. R/F movies are mostly stoner movies, so if your not high it's mostly nonsense. And I didn't realize Dumb and Dumber was a R/F movie (which is the topic here)...neither are anywhere in IMDB's complete cast list. Yet I agree, most American "comedies" are complete crap; I too would much rather watch Monty Python all day than be subjected to Dumb and Dumber!
true. I don't think they have gotten to the point of actually building reactors beyond Bushehr and Isfahan, and both of those are mostly foreign built (by Russia and China respectively).
You might be right, especially for the consumer-side of HP. The enterprise side, however, will never go away. We might get sold off again (SABRE, EDS, etc) but the actual day-to-day business has to be done by someone, and much of it is so regulated only so much of it can be moved overseas. Thus why Meg went with the ES side...my job can't be outsourced overseas without some huge legislative changes since we 1) have the mainframes here in the building and those can't really be moved 2) it's all tightly regulated, especially the airline and banking stuff. Personally, I love my job. I basically sit all night and watch Netflix, waiting for some system somewhere to hicup. Jump on the call, take some notes, send out some emails, fill out some incident reports and I'm done. "I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."
"cancer is a modern disease" those people must not know about cancers found in Egyptian mummies. Cancer has existed since organisms have had specialized cells.
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I guess I'm just lucky. Almost every school zone in my city also has flashing lights on the signs that only flash during certain times, and the signs all say "when lights are flashing". Personally, I think high schools shouldn't have speed zones. By the time your in high school if you don't comprehend how roads work then maybe you should be removed from the gene pool.
Texas has speed limits? Couldn't tell from all the times I've driven there. Even with all the construction that was happening in Dallas, no one went at or under the "speed limit"...no matter if it was sunny, raining, snowing...
I did that "come in early" for awhile at IBM...I'd show up at 6:30-7:00AM, take 10-20 of the easy tickets out of the queue (monitor drop-offs, keyboard installs, software installs, etc)...skip lunch and head out around 3:00 PM or so. That lasted for about a month until other people got upset I was "leaving early" even though I had put 8 hours in. A memo came out saying we HAD to take at least a 45 minute lunch in the middle of our work day. Shortly after that the whole financial industry collapsed and the building lost 3/4 of it's employees. This IBM site used to be PWC, mostly accountants for AIG etc...
lemme guess...the management kept their offices, right?
LOL OMG yes..." That is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt." The Rouge AC Repair Guy was the best...we still joke about being a "rouge IT troubleshooter" and fixing computers when no one is looking... just call me Tuttle.
damn, that sounds almost straight out of "Equilibrium". All that's missing is the forced injects to keep everyone from going postal.
Well, maybe this might help? At least with this you can put on headphones and try to drown everyone else out: Ultimate Rain Sound Generator. I use it to take power naps all the time.
I bet if my workplace did this I could easily show how my ADD, combined with no way to visually exclude everyone, falls under the ADA and request specific accommodations. I work in a NOC though, so we're already kinda "open". I do have a cube upstairs, but I'm never actually in it. I think right now people have shoved various old desk chairs into it, the last time I cruised by there where four chairs in there, along with a note written on my whiteboard "I borrowed your screwdriver" from about 6 months ago. Oh, and print-outs of the "certificates" from our various required training. I sometimes use it to nap in, when I can't find an unlocked empty edge office...12 hour shifts make you do that after 3-4 of them in a row.
ACK, I should have put the source there! That's actually from the movie Pi...one of my favorite films. Quite intense, mixing Kabbalism, modern number theory, and cutting-edge computers. All in black-and-white, with Aphex Twin doing the soundtrack. If you haven't seen it CHECK IT OUT.
these days our clients barely have an IT department. We page out a D1 tech for all airport hardware issues...
The worst example I've encountered of "internal headbutting" happened just recently. One of my tasks is to update all these "Business Impacts". I know the help desk has all this info, yet for some reason their manager refuses to let me have access. No matter that we have the same client, no matter I know some of the info they have is outdated...flat out refusal with little explanation. Quite frustrating, little fiefdoms. Honestly I feel if the "higher-higher ups" knew about this we'd have have access AND a new help desk manager, since it's both wasting resources AND hurting the client. But no one other than me cares, so I'm trying not to care either LOL
We still have quite a few legacy EDS people too, I even found some EDS plastic license plates.
I still can't find a definition of my beliefs. I think there are powerful entities that occasionally mess ("help") with us, but I don't think they are some all-power "I created all of reality" creatures. I also feel they don't have our best interests in mind, and also are not omnipotent and can't really "see the future". If there is some real, all-creating entity it's pretty obvious that 1) it doesn't like us much 2) doesn't care enough to intercede 3) when it DOES intercede usually many people end up dead. So, IMHO, it's better to NOT poke at God and ask for intervention...your just as likely to receive a plague of locust than you are to receive deliverance.
and a necrophiliac too since Nietzsche is dead.
“I am Ubik.
Before the universe was, I am.
I made the suns.
I made the worlds.
I created the lives and the places they inhabit;
I move them here, I put them there.
They go as I say, then do as I tell them.
I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows.
I am called Ubik, but that is not my name.
I am.
I shall always be.”
11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
To me, there is a huge difference between saying "There must be some greater, universal intelligence" and "This particular entity showed up last night and told me anyone who isn't just like me must DIE." The first one I can buy, the second one no. Even if God was "proven", if He is a psycotic genocidal murderer I still refuse to "worship" that, even if I was staring at the Pit of Hell itself. If God isn't willing to come clarify His "rules" and would rather just hang back while we kill each other in His name then He can piss right off.
I'm on the "newest" team at HP, we ARE the ITSM people for our clients. I suppose customer experience is important, but it's mostly about proper documentation, change control, inventory, and so forth. I can't name the clients since I've already gotten in trouble for that via a post on the NYT, but we have mainframes at an airport in Oklahoma...I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
Luckily, we don't have to worry about "consumer devices". We monitor ESX, TPF transactions, LAN/WAN etc. ITIL is pretty important. If an ESX fails, we need to know exactly what apps will go down, who it will impact, where does it fail over to, etc. Usually any failures (CPU's going out, some fan on a switch dying and killing it, etc) aren't even noticed by our client which is the entire point. It's common for a single ESX to host 80-200 different VMs. I've been on many conference calls with people all over the planet. In five years we'll probably be doing the exact same stuff; mainframes don't really change much and once it works we leave it alone. Heck, we've got Cisco 5509s that have uptime of 10+ years.
And yes, I really don't like HPSM. Not because of what it does, it's just a resource hog running Java that is really complicated and not intuitive. And no one really knows all it's features...I've used it from both a help desk (incident management) and change control perspective now...personally I like Vitalize far better but some CEO a few years ago said soemthing about "eating your own dog food" so HPSM is it. Gawd, I still have a bunch of training to do on it like TONIGHT...lol
in a similar note, when I put an SSD in my PC it finally started running almost as fast as Hollywood movies.
stupid phone autocorrect. R/F movies are mostly stoner movies, so if your not high it's mostly nonsense. And I didn't realize Dumb and Dumber was a R/F movie (which is the topic here)...neither are anywhere in IMDB's complete cast list. Yet I agree, most American "comedies" are complete crap; I too would much rather watch Monty Python all day than be subjected to Dumb and Dumber!
apparently Sony's HR system doesn't lol
true. I don't think they have gotten to the point of actually building reactors beyond Bushehr and Isfahan, and both of those are mostly foreign built (by Russia and China respectively).
thanks, that's pretty much what I was saying. Huge data transfers are just part of their business.
You might be right, especially for the consumer-side of HP. The enterprise side, however, will never go away. We might get sold off again (SABRE, EDS, etc) but the actual day-to-day business has to be done by someone, and much of it is so regulated only so much of it can be moved overseas. Thus why Meg went with the ES side...my job can't be outsourced overseas without some huge legislative changes since we 1) have the mainframes here in the building and those can't really be moved 2) it's all tightly regulated, especially the airline and banking stuff. Personally, I love my job. I basically sit all night and watch Netflix, waiting for some system somewhere to hicup. Jump on the call, take some notes, send out some emails, fill out some incident reports and I'm done. "I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."
I'll say it's the Thai food is FAR LESS PROCESSED, not filled with corn syrup and various chemicals.
"cancer is a modern disease" those people must not know about cancers found in Egyptian mummies. Cancer has existed since organisms have had specialized cells.