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You know what has a *really* strong negative correlation with my idea of
a fun week?
Ritually dismantling a tape robot. o_O
Tip: When you see the site System Administrator walking towards the
server room holding 6 different star-drive screwdrivers, you should
probably be worried. (!)
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Invisible wrote:
> You know what has a *really* strong negative correlation with my idea of
> a fun week?
>
> Ritually dismantling a tape robot. o_O
Oh well, they're buying me a new one... It should be here tomorrow
morning! o_O
Not bad for £2,000 of equipment! Nice to know that somebody other than
myself considers backups to be "a critical business function".
I wonder how difficult this will be to set up...
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Invisible wrote:
> Tip: When you see the site System Administrator walking towards the
> server room holding 6 different star-drive screwdrivers, you should
> probably be worried. (!)
"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers."
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> "Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers."
Wise words.
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Invisible wrote:
> Oh well, they're buying me a new one... It should be here tomorrow
> morning! o_O
...but it isn't. x_x
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>> Oh well, they're buying me a new one... It should be here tomorrow
>> morning! o_O
>
> ...but it isn't. x_x
Oh, FINALLY! Nice of you to join us! :-P
I forsee a busy afternoon ahead...
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Invisible wrote:
> I forsee a busy afternoon ahead...
Fun thing #1: "Wait, the clip nuts come with the rack, not the drive??
OMFG, I wonder where the hell I put *those*..."
Fun thing #2: I just cut my hand open trying to insert the ****ing clip
nuts into the rack. I have a cut right under my thumb nail, and it
stings like a bitch. Oh yeah, and I lost the nut on the floor somewhere...
Fun thing #3: The manual doesn't tell you how to operate the device.
Only what all the parts are called. Yay, me.
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> Fun thing #1: "Wait, the clip nuts come with the rack, not the drive??
> OMFG, I wonder where the hell I put *those*..."
>
> Fun thing #2: I just cut my hand open trying to insert the ****ing clip
> nuts into the rack. I have a cut right under my thumb nail, and it
> stings like a bitch. Oh yeah, and I lost the nut on the floor somewhere...
Heh, another fun thing: we bent the mounting brackets so they're now
banana-shaped. o_O
> Fun thing #3: The manual doesn't tell you how to operate the device.
> Only what all the parts are called. Yay, me.
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Invisible wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>
>> "Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers."
>
> Wise words.
There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
--
~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:21:49 -0600, Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Invisible wrote:
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>
>>> "Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers."
>>
>> Wise words.
>
>There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
For cutting printer paper?
--
Regards
Stephen
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>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>
> For cutting printer paper?
LOL! Ah, that brings back memories of the old dot matrix printers, and
their looms of ever-thickening paper rolls until the whole device locks
solid. Great fun trying to fix that! :-D
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:43:25 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>
>OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
Yup! I've got two. The small one I carry in my pocket and the larger one (12
blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was rising.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:37:11 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>>
>> For cutting printer paper?
>
>LOL! Ah, that brings back memories of the old dot matrix printers, and
>their looms of ever-thickening paper rolls until the whole device locks
>solid. Great fun trying to fix that! :-D
A sharp knife is invaluable.
--
Regards
Stephen
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>>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>> OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
> Yup! I've got two. The small one I carry in my pocket and the larger one (12
> blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was rising.
I can just hear it now...
"Nah, that's not a knife... THAT'S A KNIFE!"
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:41:31 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>
>>> OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
>
>> Yup! I've got two. The small one I carry in my pocket and the larger one (12
>> blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was rising.
>
>I can just hear it now...
>
>"Nah, that's not a knife... THAT'S A KNIFE!"
The best line in the film. :-)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> and the larger one
> (12 blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was
> rising.
I don't want to know, do I?
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:52:29 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> and the larger one
>> (12 blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was
>> rising.
>
>I don't want to know, do I?
Probably not, unless you found it. I dropped it climbing out of the cistern.
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
>> "Nah, that's not a knife... THAT'S A KNIFE!"
> The best line in the film. :-)
The other great one was "He wants to know if we can eat these men."
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Darren New wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>>> "Nah, that's not a knife... THAT'S A KNIFE!"
>> The best line in the film. :-)
>
> The other great one was "He wants to know if we can eat these men."
IIRC, that was the second film though. ;-)
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Invisible wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>
> OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
Surelydoodlydo they do.
-Aero
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:40:00 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:43:25 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
>>Mike Raiford wrote:
>>
>>> There's a reason I always keep a swiss army knife with me.
>>
>>OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
>
> Yup! I've got two. The small one I carry in my pocket and the larger one
> (12 blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was
> rising.
Funny you should mention this, there is something that happened like this
in southern Utah in the last year....
Jim
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On 1 Dec 2008 13:10:26 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Yup! I've got two. The small one I carry in my pocket and the larger one
>> (12 blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the water was
>> rising.
>
>Funny you should mention this, there is something that happened like this
>in southern Utah in the last year....
It has been known and I exaggerated. I took a sea urchin spine out of my foot
with the tweezers.
The tools I mostly use are the larger blade, file, scissors, Philips and flat
head screwdriver, ruler, magnifying glass, corkscrew, bottle opener and the
reamer. I can use the can opener but never had any use for the fish scaler.
I've had mine for almost twenty years, it was a safety award.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:59:07 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2008 13:10:26 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
>>> Yup! I've got two. The small one I carry in my pocket and the larger
>>> one (12 blades) saved my life when I had to cut my leg off as the
>>> water was rising.
>>
>>Funny you should mention this, there is something that happened like
>>this in southern Utah in the last year....
>
> It has been known and I exaggerated. I took a sea urchin spine out of my
> foot with the tweezers.
LOL, of course you did. ;-)
>
> The tools I mostly use are the larger blade, file, scissors, Philips and
> flat head screwdriver, ruler, magnifying glass, corkscrew, bottle opener
> and the reamer. I can use the can opener but never had any use for the
> fish scaler. I've had mine for almost twenty years, it was a safety
> award.
Myself, I carry a Leatherman micra (except to the airport). Handy
tool. :-)
Jim
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On 1 Dec 2008 18:34:00 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> It has been known and I exaggerated. I took a sea urchin spine out of my
>> foot with the tweezers.
>
>LOL, of course you did. ;-)
>
I did, I did! Honest Injun
>
>Myself, I carry a Leatherman micra (except to the airport). Handy
>tool. :-)
I've got one too but seldom use it but then I've been off the tools for years.
:(
--
Regards
Stephen
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Invisible wrote:
> OK, now I must know... Do those things ACTUALLY WORK??
Worked for MacGyver, didn't it? XD
Seriously, it's nice to have around. I have just about any tool I need
in a pinch.
--
~Mike
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Stephen wrote:
> For cutting printer paper?
Darn right! That stuff can get beastly. Does wonders for cutting off
that ever-growing glue strip off the top of my Dilbert calendar, too.
--
~Mike
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:59:28 -0600, Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> For cutting printer paper?
>
>Darn right! That stuff can get beastly. Does wonders for cutting off
>that ever-growing glue strip off the top of my Dilbert calendar, too.
Some printers needed the paper edge to be clean and if it was rough then it was
a b*gg*r to load.
I don't have a desk to call my own so no calendar :(
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:33:52 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2008 18:34:00 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
>>> It has been known and I exaggerated. I took a sea urchin spine out of
>>> my foot with the tweezers.
>>
>>LOL, of course you did. ;-)
>>
> I did, I did! Honest Injun
;-)
>>Myself, I carry a Leatherman micra (except to the airport). Handy tool.
>>:-)
>
> I've got one too but seldom use it but then I've been off the tools for
> years. :(
There was a news story here about a year ago about a boy scout who ended
up with one of these micras embedded in his skull - he really lucked out,
because it went in between the two halves of his brain - they showed the
x-rays on the news.
I really like the blade because it is so sharp - that comes in handy for
a lot of things.
Jim
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On 2 Dec 2008 13:09:27 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
>I really like the blade because it is so sharp - that comes in handy for
>a lot of things.
There are few things more dangerous than a blunt blade.
If it can cleanly cut paper then it is sharp enough for me.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:20:21 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2008 13:09:27 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>
>
>>I really like the blade because it is so sharp - that comes in handy for
>>a lot of things.
>
> There are few things more dangerous than a blunt blade. If it can
> cleanly cut paper then it is sharp enough for me.
Yes, agreed. Though a sharp rusty blade would be pretty bad, but like
you said, "few things". ;-)
Jim
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