Food expenses are higher when you're morbidly obese.
My food budget is $300 per month (including 20 large skinny vanilla lattes).
Every pound will burn an extra 2-4 calories/day, so even if you're just staying the same weight you will require maybe an extra doughnut or two/day to maintain your weight.
And that extra $40 per month keeps you tied to the schedule and routes of public transit, lengthening your commute and leaving you less time for doing anything else - like, say, exercising, or taking classes, or going on a date.
My daily commute on the express bus is two hours round trip. If I drove, my daily commute would be two to three hours round trip since solo drivers aren't allowed in the carpool lane. No sane person would drive their car through Palo Alto during commute hours. Not sure why taking the fastest option would prevent me from doing other stuff during the week.
So great, you get to spend an extra 40-60 hours reading... it hasn't made you a better writer, and it hasn't made you any smarter.
I read for information and entertainment. Reading to write is a different skillset.
It has given you an excuse to sit on your ass more each day, though, and it gives you an excuse for being an antisocial shut-in.
Sometimes the express bus is full and I have to stand on my feet. If I was an antisocial shut-in, I wouldn't be taking public transit and/or going to work.
I guess you're content to just mark time until that massive coronary catches up to you.
In the grand scheme of things, everyone is marking time and will soon be forgotten like the rest of humanity. As for that imaginary event that supposed to happen in the last 40+ years, the Big Earthquake is more likely to happen first.
Housing for most Americans is the single biggest cost each month. I’ve never heard of food prices being more expensive in Silicon Valley than elsewhere. I’m paying $140 per month for an express bus pass, which is $40 per month more than what I would pay for gas if I was driving. That extra $40 per month let’s me spend 40 to 60 hours reading because I’m not driving.
Why is Slashdot still down? I thought these boys were supposed to be high tech network gurus. Did their "boxen" in mom's basement suffer a power surge? Or did the washing machine overflow?
My trolls are so eager to hump my leg when I post a comment after 6AM Pacific that they’ve been crashing the site for the last few days. They even tried to crash SoylentNews when I posted a comment over there.
No, no, no. Books come from bookstores, comic books come from comic... uh... bookstores. One is respectable, the other is subversive. Although both could have a hot goth chick behind the cash register.
Can't be any worse than the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. They're still arguing on the python email list about changes that were made ten years ago.
I recently got a new iPad and I'm loading it up with scanned PDFs of Byte Magazine from the early 1980's that I've read as a teenager. Remember when interfacing a data acquisition device with device drivers written in C to a data acquisition program written in Pascal meant writing your own code to make the two play nice?
I blame the users with admin privileges. I can't imagine an enterprise-level IT department using CCleaner as an approved application. However, this is an application that a user with admin privileges would install because they know better than the IT department. Which is what the hackers are counting on.
And if you're going to do something like this, for gods sakes don't do it in a glass walled conf room!
Most conference rooms in Silicon Valley these days have glass walls. The archetypical story I've heard over the years was someone walking in on a manager banging his secretary on the conference table. Hence, conference rooms have glass walls. If you want to get away with something, try an IT storage closet.
Wow, not only do you provide janitorial services, you also do site security! Creimer, you truly are a renaissance IT guy.
Security is everyone's business. Perhaps you missed that slide during the new hire orientation?
I mean, why would you call security and let them handle the matter, when you have creimer (a big boy - think football wrapped in bicycle tires, like the michelin man) to throw people out for you?
Not every company is big enough to have rent-a-cops on duty. If you want to have someone bounced off the premises, you pick the guy who looks like he moonlights as a bouncer.
I had a friend who worked for Pacific Gas & Electirc. With the uniform, badge, hardhat and clipboard, he could walk into any boarding to look at electrical closets and no one would question him. He even showed up at my job and I marched him off the property.
That book was always listed in the catalog at my local library but never found on the shelves. Probably because kids were making pipe bombs and blowing their fingers off in the 1970's.
In recent days amazon has been found to be deleting reviews of Hillary Clinton book that are negative - they justify this by saying that "no one could have read the book that fast" yet they don't block the great reviews from people who have had the same amount of access to the book as the negative reviewers.
That's a stupid excuse. The book is only 512 pages and I can read that in five hours.
I typically don't gain consciousness until after lunch since I get up at 4:30AM, catch the express bus at 6:00AM, and start work at 7:00AM. With a few hours left at work, I'm ready to start the rest of my day.
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Food expenses are higher when you're morbidly obese.
My food budget is $300 per month (including 20 large skinny vanilla lattes).
Every pound will burn an extra 2-4 calories/day, so even if you're just staying the same weight you will require maybe an extra doughnut or two/day to maintain your weight.
I don't eat doughnuts.
And that extra $40 per month keeps you tied to the schedule and routes of public transit, lengthening your commute and leaving you less time for doing anything else - like, say, exercising, or taking classes, or going on a date.
My daily commute on the express bus is two hours round trip. If I drove, my daily commute would be two to three hours round trip since solo drivers aren't allowed in the carpool lane. No sane person would drive their car through Palo Alto during commute hours. Not sure why taking the fastest option would prevent me from doing other stuff during the week.
So great, you get to spend an extra 40-60 hours reading... it hasn't made you a better writer, and it hasn't made you any smarter.
I read for information and entertainment. Reading to write is a different skillset.
It has given you an excuse to sit on your ass more each day, though, and it gives you an excuse for being an antisocial shut-in.
Sometimes the express bus is full and I have to stand on my feet. If I was an antisocial shut-in, I wouldn't be taking public transit and/or going to work.
I guess you're content to just mark time until that massive coronary catches up to you.
In the grand scheme of things, everyone is marking time and will soon be forgotten like the rest of humanity. As for that imaginary event that supposed to happen in the last 40+ years, the Big Earthquake is more likely to happen first.
Housing for most Americans is the single biggest cost each month. I’ve never heard of food prices being more expensive in Silicon Valley than elsewhere. I’m paying $140 per month for an express bus pass, which is $40 per month more than what I would pay for gas if I was driving. That extra $40 per month let’s me spend 40 to 60 hours reading because I’m not driving.
Why is Slashdot still down? I thought these boys were supposed to be high tech network gurus. Did their "boxen" in mom's basement suffer a power surge? Or did the washing machine overflow?
My trolls are so eager to hump my leg when I post a comment after 6AM Pacific that they’ve been crashing the site for the last few days. They even tried to crash SoylentNews when I posted a comment over there.
He is an idiotic narcissist troll who posts lame crap from many sock puppet accounts.
Funny how I started off the year with only one account. I have what now? Tens, hundreds, thousands of sock puppet accounts?
He does this from his government (sub) (contractor) IT job where he is over paid at even one third the regional average.
I’m paid the national average since this is a national project. Not everyone in in Silicon Valley makes $250K per year.
When not posting that crap or "sour tits", as if that were original, he posts Amazon affiliate links.
So I’m responsible for what the ACs do even though I have tens, hundreds, thousands of sock puppet accounts?
He is likely a sad and lonely person, a victim of his repressed homosexuality, which he covers with a size xxxxL tarp and delusions of relevance.
Project much?
Now that idiot will have twice as much to say.
I don’t use Twitter that much. Heck, I don’t even use Slashdot that much.
Can they get the background investigation file for my security clearance back from the Chinese who stole it from OPM in 2014?
They sent me a 90-day notice on when my single user license will expire — and all the different ways I can pay for the renewal.
No, no, no. Books come from bookstores, comic books come from comic... uh... bookstores. One is respectable, the other is subversive. Although both could have a hot goth chick behind the cash register.
That's funny. I finished rewriting my shell scripts in Python because FreeNAS 11 has Python 3.6 installed.
Can't be any worse than the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. They're still arguing on the python email list about changes that were made ten years ago.
Though it might be a cheap trick that works well, I don't understand the advantage over capturing 480i video at 50Hz.
The British electrical system is 50Hz. If the conversion was being done in the US, it would be 480i @ 60Hz.
I recently got a new iPad and I'm loading it up with scanned PDFs of Byte Magazine from the early 1980's that I've read as a teenager. Remember when interfacing a data acquisition device with device drivers written in C to a data acquisition program written in Pascal meant writing your own code to make the two play nice?
I blame the users with admin privileges. I can't imagine an enterprise-level IT department using CCleaner as an approved application. However, this is an application that a user with admin privileges would install because they know better than the IT department. Which is what the hackers are counting on.
And if you're going to do something like this, for gods sakes don't do it in a glass walled conf room!
Most conference rooms in Silicon Valley these days have glass walls. The archetypical story I've heard over the years was someone walking in on a manager banging his secretary on the conference table. Hence, conference rooms have glass walls. If you want to get away with something, try an IT storage closet.
Wow, not only do you provide janitorial services, you also do site security! Creimer, you truly are a renaissance IT guy.
Security is everyone's business. Perhaps you missed that slide during the new hire orientation?
I mean, why would you call security and let them handle the matter, when you have creimer (a big boy - think football wrapped in bicycle tires, like the michelin man) to throw people out for you?
Not every company is big enough to have rent-a-cops on duty. If you want to have someone bounced off the premises, you pick the guy who looks like he moonlights as a bouncer.
I had a friend who worked for Pacific Gas & Electirc. With the uniform, badge, hardhat and clipboard, he could walk into any boarding to look at electrical closets and no one would question him. He even showed up at my job and I marched him off the property.
I remember S3 video cards from my video game testing days. S3 stood for Suck-ass 3X.
This is a common problem for big corporations like Google: too much cash on hand and no good investment options.
That book was always listed in the catalog at my local library but never found on the shelves. Probably because kids were making pipe bombs and blowing their fingers off in the 1970's.
In recent days amazon has been found to be deleting reviews of Hillary Clinton book that are negative - they justify this by saying that "no one could have read the book that fast" yet they don't block the great reviews from people who have had the same amount of access to the book as the negative reviewers.
That's a stupid excuse. The book is only 512 pages and I can read that in five hours.
I typically don't gain consciousness until after lunch since I get up at 4:30AM, catch the express bus at 6:00AM, and start work at 7:00AM. With a few hours left at work, I'm ready to start the rest of my day.
I don't know, is California considered a solid state?
It is now. But only until the Big Earthquake or the 2020 presidential election, which ever comes first.
Hiring in San Francisco but paying only $15 per hour. A regular trend in my inbox.
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