AAAAAAAARGH!!!

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> AAAAAAAARGH!!!

  Here you go again. I thought you said you have lessened these types
of attentiont-seeking posts... ;)

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                                                          - Warp

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Hoooooooomigod!

I seriously *do not* get paid anywhere near enough money for this crap!

Basically the guys from HQ are changing things right, left and center 
[because they've got a lot of work to do], and nobody is recording any 
of this, and *I* will be held responsible for the consequences. And, 
naturally, once the building migration is finished, a team of government 
auditors will arrive to go over our records with a fine toothcomb to 
check that absolutely everything has been done properly.

In short, these guys come, change a whole bunch of stuff, don't tell me 
what they're doing or anything, leave, the government auditors arive, 
and fry me for lunch.

Stressed? Why would I be stressed?? >_<




PS. Warp, you can naff off! I don't *care* whether this is a blog post 
or not. I am far too stressed right now to care about such arbitrary 
distinctions...

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> PS. Warp, you can naff off! I don't *care* whether this is a blog post 
> or not. I am far too stressed right now to care about such arbitrary 
> distinctions...

  Maybe you should learn to control yourself a bit? When you constantly
make these types of posts, people will get tired of them. You may regret
it in the long run.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:

>   Maybe you should learn to control yourself a bit? When you constantly
> make these types of posts, people will get tired of them. You may regret
> it in the long run.

I'm having a very stressful day today. Cut me some slack!

[Ever heard the expression "if you don't have anything nice to say, 
don't say anything"? Nobody is *forcing* you to reply if you don't want 
to...]

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:37:33 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>In short, these guys come, change a whole bunch of stuff, don't tell me 
>what they're doing or anything, leave, the government auditors arive, 
>and fry me for lunch.

Don't sign the work off without the "as built" drawings.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I'm having a very stressful day today. Cut me some slack!

> [Ever heard the expression "if you don't have anything nice to say, 
> don't say anything"? Nobody is *forcing* you to reply if you don't want 
> to...]

  Well, if you don't want to listen to friendly advise, suit yourself.
Whatever floats your boat.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > PS. Warp, you can naff off! I don't *care* whether this is a blog post
> > or not. I am far too stressed right now to care about such arbitrary
> > distinctions...
>
>   Maybe you should learn to control yourself a bit? When you constantly
> make these types of posts, people will get tired of them. You may regret
> it in the long run.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Well, so far, people do respond.  And therefore, whatever motivation there may
be for posting, it seems to work.  And why not?  I've never spent much time
down here in the off-topic forum, but it seems there's a lively little
community thriving down here, hiding at the bottom of the newsgroup list.

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:40:03 EDT, "Kirk Andrews"
<kir### [at] tektonartcom> wrote:

>I've never spent much time
>down here in the off-topic forum, but it seems there's a lively little
>community thriving down here, hiding at the bottom of the newsgroup list.
>

Yes, hiding in the dungeons out of sight of the mortals :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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Kirk Andrews <kir### [at] tektonartcom> wrote:
> Well, so far, people do respond.  And therefore, whatever motivation there may
> be for posting, it seems to work.  And why not?  I've never spent much time
> down here in the off-topic forum, but it seems there's a lively little
> community thriving down here, hiding at the bottom of the newsgroup list.

  I wouldn't be so much concerned about the amount of responses, but about
the image I give to people of myself.

  (Of course who am I to talk? I certainly am no angel in this
respect... :P )

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:

>   I wouldn't be so much concerned about the amount of responses, but about
> the image I give to people of myself.
> 
>   (Of course who am I to talk? I certainly am no angel in this
> respect... :P )

Right now, I'm just very stressed out. So no, you're probably not seeing 
my best side. :-S

I really hope I manage to sort out this giant mess sometime soon - 
because I do *not* enjoy being this worked up.

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Kirk Andrews wrote:

> Well, so far, people do respond.  And therefore, whatever motivation there may
> be for posting, it seems to work.  And why not?  I've never spent much time
> down here in the off-topic forum, but it seems there's a lively little
> community thriving down here, hiding at the bottom of the newsgroup list.

Why does that all of the sudden make me feel as if I'm one of the 
mole-people.

"Thriving community down here, in the deep recesses of the underground."

:)

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Invisible wrote:

> 
> Right now, I'm just very stressed out. So no, you're probably not seeing 
> my best side. :-S
> 

I get the impression you might be under a little stress.

> I really hope I manage to sort out this giant mess sometime soon - 
> because I do *not* enjoy being this worked up.

What /did/ they do, or are you still trying to trace their steps? Hate 
that when someone comes in, changes a ton of things, and neglects to 
inform you of those changes. I've had that happen numerous times, with 
varying degrees of failure because I was not made aware of the changes.

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I'm having a very stressful day today. Cut me some slack!
> 
>> [Ever heard the expression "if you don't have anything nice to say, 
>> don't say anything"? Nobody is *forcing* you to reply if you don't want 
>> to...]
> 
>   Well, if you don't want to listen to friendly advise, suit yourself.
> Whatever floats your boat.

You know, you two make a cute couple, what with these lovers spats and all.

-- 
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http://empyrean.digitalartsuk.com

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> a écrit dans le message de news: 
4811af4d@news.povray.org...

> I'm having a very stressful day today. Cut me some slack!

Keep 'em coming, I need material for your web comic :P

G.

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Gilles Tran wrote:

> 
> Keep 'em coming, I need material for your web comic :P
> 
> G.
> 

This I've got to see ...

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> AAAAAAAARGH!!!
>
> --
Pretty much everything I have to say here is pretty obvious stuff that you've
very likely thought of yourself at one point or another.  I do believe,
however, that it can be helpful at times like this to have an objective third
party assist in directing one's focus.

1. Even though we often have very little choice with regard to what kinds of
demands and complications life is going to throw at us, we ALWAYS have a choice
as to how far we are going to internalize the chaos of the outside world and
allow it to disturb our peace of mind.  The company may own a big chunk of your
time, but they own zero percent of your heart and mind unless you choose to deed
it to them. Choose not to.

2. This may sound simplistic, but it works. Take several slow deep breaths, do
some basic muscle stretching and make sure you drink enough water to be fully
hydrated.  Attending to the basics of relieving the physical aspects of stress
can do wonders to help your mental focus so that you can deal more effectively
with the more complicated cognitive and emotional aspects.

3. This bit probably won't be of much help today, but it can be of great benefit
in the future.  Nearly every technically and academically oriented person I am
acquainted with can tell you all of the scientific principles that explain why
one needs keep a regular sleep schedule and eat food made from real food
instead of junk food. Virtually none of them do it.  Making up your mind to
actually *DO* all of those basic things that you already know about in terms of
physically relieving stress and fatigue will have ENORMOUS benefits.


Best Regards,
Mike C.


P.S.  If you take a mental step back and really have a good look at all the
people scurrying around you, it will probably provide you with a good
stress-relieving laugh at them on the inside.


..... and as they say on Vulcan, "Ingest an endothermic lozenge"  ;-)

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> You know, you two make a cute couple, what with these lovers spats and all.

  That could be interpreted as rather offensive.

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                                                          - Warp

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> AAAAAAAARGH!!!

Don't worry, I know exactly how you feel, I am at the end of a 3-day 
"supplier evaluation workshop" from our largest customer - and I have a ton 
of action items that need to be completed by lunchtime Monday...

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Gilles Tran wrote:

> Keep 'em coming, I need material for your web comic :P

OK, that's just *mean*! :-P

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Warp wrote:

>   Well, if you don't want to listen to friendly advise, suit yourself.
> Whatever floats your boat.

As I say, I was having a rather bad day. I didn't mean to be quite that 
snappy at you...

I realise that you're actually trying to help, but when you're having a 
really bad day and somebody points out something *else* you just did 
wrong... it doesn't feel terribly helpful. If that makes sense.

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Tim Cook wrote:

> You know, you two make a cute couple, what with these lovers spats and all.

I've been wondering to myself... if me and Warp ever met IRL, would we 
end up having a long intelligent conversation, or would one of us be 
hospitalised? ;-)



[Actually, I gather that Warp's spoken English isn't as good as his 
written English, so maybe nothing much at all would happen. But who knows?]

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>> I really hope I manage to sort out this giant mess sometime soon - 
>> because I do *not* enjoy being this worked up.
> 
> What /did/ they do, or are you still trying to trace their steps? Hate 
> that when someone comes in, changes a ton of things, and neglects to 
> inform you of those changes. I've had that happen numerous times, with 
> varying degrees of failure because I was not made aware of the changes.

It's just a case of these two guys brought a bunch of equipment along 
with them and went into the new server room and started *doing* things, 
and they're just in there little room *doing* stuff and *doing* other 
stuff, and *somebody* is supposed to be documenting every step of this 
process. Not to mention, half of this stuff was supposed to be formally 
authorised by management *before* anything was done!

Now, our manager knows nothing about computers. He'll sign any bit of 
paper you push in front of him. But that's not the point. The point is 
that auditors will expect to see a bit of paper with a specific set of 
signatures on it, dated before the time of the change. And that doesn't 
exist. The fact that it's an entirely redundant paper excercise is 
irrelevant. We didn't do what we should have done. This makes 
auditors... unhappy.

So I basically just spent my afternoon following these guys around with 
a set of logbooks frantically trying to write down everything they did.

A number of people seem to think that these guys are doing this to me 
"on purpose". They aren't. They're far too stupid to be devious. It 
simply doesn't enter their tiny little minds that we might even need to 
record or authorise this stuff.

Over at HQ, they have systems marked as "validated". These have an 
angelic halo around them, and you can't so much as *touch* them without 
getting authorisation and doing regression testing and so on and so 
forth. And then there's... EVERYTHING ELSE. And equipment beloning to 
the "everything else" set... you can do what the hell you like with. You 
don't have to record a bean.

So these guys seem to think that anything that doesn't have this magical 
"validated" halo, it's OK to just pull it apart and screw around with it 
with impunity. Over here, that's not how it works. Over here, *all* 
computer systems must be controlled. Even the ones that have nothing to 
do with our actual regulated work. EVERYTHING MUST BE RECORDED.

Repeatedly this seems to geniunely shock them. Like just this afternoon, 
one guy shut down one of the servers ready to remove it. So I recorded 
the time he shut it down. And he was like "wow, gee, you *record* server 
reboots? Damn, we only bother recording it if we actually add or remove 
validated software..." [The UK, however, records absolutely every time 
the server is touched. Every minor configuration change. Major config 
changes require formal authorisation...]

Aaaaaaanyway, it's the weekend! Bitches! So I DON'T HAVE TO CARE ANY 
MORE!!! :-D

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> Why does that all of the sudden make me feel as if I'm one of the 
> mole-people.
> 
> "Thriving community down here, in the deep recesses of the underground."
> 
> :)

I always liked to thing of POV-Ray, and especially off-topic, as an 
elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and 
programmers...

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I've been wondering to myself... if me and Warp ever met IRL, would we 
> end up having a long intelligent conversation, or would one of us be 
> hospitalised? ;-)

  Given that we are rather antisocial I bet our "conversation" would just
be full of awkward periods of silence.

> [Actually, I gather that Warp's spoken English isn't as good as his 
> written English, so maybe nothing much at all would happen. But who knows?]

  It could be a good way to pratice, though.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I always liked to thing of POV-Ray, and especially off-topic, as an
> elite underground sect of engineers, mathematicians, physicists and
> programmers...

How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
here?  :)

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> a écrit dans le message de news: 
48121baf@news.povray.org...
>  Given that we are rather antisocial I bet our "conversation" would just
> be full of awkward periods of silence.
>  It could be a good way to pratice, though.

Have silence a special accent in Finnish and English? ;-)

Marc

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Kirk Andrews wrote:

> 
> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
> here?  :)
> 

Artists? POV-Ray and actual artists? Ha HA!

erm.... I suppose those can be accepted, too. (Seeing as we have a few 
of them, some quite good, too) :)

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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> 
> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
> here?  :)
> 
> 
As long as you don't mind having to sit on the floor cushions :-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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Invisible wrote:
> In short, these guys come, change a whole bunch of stuff, don't tell me 
> what they're doing or anything, leave, the government auditors arive, 
> and fry me for lunch.

With great responsibility comes great power, or words to that effect. 
You should be the only person who knows the passwords needed to change 
things you're responsible for.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:40:03 EDT, "Kirk Andrews"
> <kir### [at] tektonartcom> wrote:
> 
>> I've never spent much time
>> down here in the off-topic forum, but it seems there's a lively little
>> community thriving down here, hiding at the bottom of the newsgroup list.
>>
> 
> Yes, hiding in the dungeons out of sight of the mortals :)

No, that would be the two Haskell groups that sort below this one. ;-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for those down
> here?  :)

Wouldn't artists actually not be off-topic? :-)

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> With great responsibility comes great power

  Wasn't it the other way around?-)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Darren New wrote:
> Kirk Andrews wrote:
>> How about linguists, artists, and theologians?  Do you have room for
>> those down
>> here?  :)
> 
> Wouldn't artists actually not be off-topic? :-)
> 
Whatever makes you think that PoV has got anything to do with art? ;-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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>> I've been wondering to myself... if me and Warp ever met IRL, would we 
>> end up having a long intelligent conversation, or would one of us be 
>> hospitalised? ;-)
> 
>   Given that we are rather antisocial I bet our "conversation" would just
> be full of awkward periods of silence.

Mmm, perhaps.

>> [Actually, I gather that Warp's spoken English isn't as good as his 
>> written English, so maybe nothing much at all would happen. But who knows?]
> 
>   It could be a good way to pratice, though.

I won't argue with that...

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>> Yes, hiding in the dungeons out of sight of the mortals :)
> 
> No, that would be the two Haskell groups that sort below this one. ;-)

0wned.

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Doctor John wrote:

> As long as you don't mind having to sit on the floor cushions :-)

Ooo, floor cushions!

How about beanie bags??

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> With great responsibility comes great power
> 
>   Wasn't it the other way around?-)

Well as you both know, it *should* be that the two come together - you 
are held responsible for that which you actually have power over. But - 
as I'm sure you're also both aware - this is sadly not always the case...

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Mike the Elder wrote:

> Pretty much everything I have to say here is pretty obvious stuff that you've
> very likely thought of yourself at one point or another.  I do believe,
> however, that it can be helpful at times like this to have an objective third
> party assist in directing one's focus.
> 
> 1. Even though we often have very little choice with regard to what kinds of
> demands and complications life is going to throw at us, we ALWAYS have a choice
> as to how far we are going to internalize the chaos of the outside world and
> allow it to disturb our peace of mind.  The company may own a big chunk of your
> time, but they own zero percent of your heart and mind unless you choose to deed
> it to them. Choose not to.
> 
> 2. This may sound simplistic, but it works. Take several slow deep breaths, do
> some basic muscle stretching and make sure you drink enough water to be fully
> hydrated.  Attending to the basics of relieving the physical aspects of stress
> can do wonders to help your mental focus so that you can deal more effectively
> with the more complicated cognitive and emotional aspects.
> 
> 3. This bit probably won't be of much help today, but it can be of great benefit
> in the future.  Nearly every technically and academically oriented person I am
> acquainted with can tell you all of the scientific principles that explain why
> one needs keep a regular sleep schedule and eat food made from real food
> instead of junk food. Virtually none of them do it.  Making up your mind to
> actually *DO* all of those basic things that you already know about in terms of
> physically relieving stress and fatigue will have ENORMOUS benefits.

Heh. Thanks.

For some reason, I'm reminded of this:

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=858

[Bottom pannel.]

...and actually, just before I posted this, I got called downstairs for 
the food thing. I just ate an entire cake! I feel much happier now! :-D



PS. The cake is a lie.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
> 
>> As long as you don't mind having to sit on the floor cushions :-)
> 
> Ooo, floor cushions!
> 
> How about beanie bags??
> 
What? ...and let you youngsters start fighting over who gets one?
No way :-D

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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>> Ooo, floor cushions!
>>
>> How about beanie bags??
>>
> What? ...and let you youngsters start fighting over who gets one?
> No way :-D

Youngsters? Well you know what? I'm... not going to finish that 
sentence. :-}

Actually, wasn't there some advert for something that featured an entire 
office of people using beanie bags instead of real chairs? Something 
like "you could give everybody beanie bags to create an informal and 
inspiring atmosphere, but if you REALLY want to boost productivity, buy 
product X"...

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:14:15 +0200, "M_a_r_c"
<jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:

>
>Have silence a special accent in Finnish and English? ;-)

Oh yes, there are different types of silence in English :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> With great responsibility comes great power
> > 
> >   Wasn't it the other way around?-)

> Well as you both know, it *should* be that the two come together - you 
> are held responsible for that which you actually have power over. But - 
> as I'm sure you're also both aware - this is sadly not always the case...

  You mean sometimes you are held responsible for things which are not
under your control at all?

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:38:09 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:

>
>No, that would be the two Haskell groups that sort below this one. ;-)

My sub-dungeon id Beta ;)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:29:11 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom>
wrote:

>id Beta

Sorry, I have a cold!
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Actually, wasn't there some advert for something that featured an entire
> office of people using beanie bags instead of real chairs? Something
> like "you could give everybody beanie bags to create an informal and
> inspiring atmosphere, but if you REALLY want to boost productivity, buy
> product X"...
> 
Hmm. Rings a faint bell in the dim and distant past. Maybe Stephen
remembers it ;-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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scott wrote:

> Don't worry, I know exactly how you feel, I am at the end of a 3-day 
> "supplier evaluation workshop" from our largest customer - and I have a 
> ton of action items that need to be completed by lunchtime Monday...

Well, I suppose to some extent my plight isn't quite as bad as the 
project manager for the new building. We were supposed to take ownership 
on 17 March. However, somebody wheeled some heavy item into the 
recention area and cracked several floor tiles. This caused them to have 
to retile the reception area.

And of course, if you have people tiling the floor, or the floor is 
still drying, nobody else can be in that area. So you can't paint the 
walls, you can't do the electrics, you can't fit the internal windows... 
the entire schedule is ruined.

It's now nearly the end of April, and the builders are still frantically 
trying to get the build finished. Except *now* all us lot are wheeling 
in crates of equipment and trying to go about our normal work. This at 
the same time as inspectors are coming round to check that all the 
paintwork is perfect and there are no dents in the walls and the carpet 
is pristine...

The builders are *not* happy to see us! ;-)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> as I'm sure you're also both aware - this is sadly not always the case...

You could make it the case, tho. You *do* know the password that changes 
passwords.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:14:15 +0200, "M_a_r_c"
> <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
> 
>> Have silence a special accent in Finnish and English? ;-)
> 
> Oh yes, there are different types of silence in English :)

 ...and don't forget the silence of the lambs

John (with chianti and fava beans)

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>> Have silence a special accent in Finnish and English? ;-)
> 
> Oh yes, there are different types of silence in English :)

Obviously I don't have a link, but...

...Lisa Simpson rushes into class late. She opens the door and everybody 
stares at her.

"...this isn't my class?!"

Everybody laughs. And then the teacher goes

"No! En Francis!"

...and they all laugh snooty laughs.

WTF?

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