8/10/2006 #
What I Want to Know...
So, does this product integrate well with my utility belt and Batmobile?
8/10/2006 #
Slack
Pat’s changelog reports an upgrade of the installer CD’s kernel, so we should be quite close to Slackware 11.0. Apparently, a lot of the bugaboos from 10.x will be gone, including:
- Automatic scroll wheel enabling in X (yeah, it still wasn’t working in 10.2 without text file edits)
- Kernel 2.6.x with udev (thank goodness)
- Kernel 2.6.x with udev
- Kernel 2.6.x with udev
I must repeat because I manually upgraded so many kernels to get Slack running on the Shuttle, which was, from what I saw, impossibly incompatible with the 2.4 series. If he would drop on Apache 2.x, Postfix, and Dovecot I could have a ready-to-go server.
Something about Apache 1.x, Sendmail, and UW-IMAP is completely unappealing to me.
8/10/2006 #
Please Note
Notice the “Terror Alert” change. Hail, hail, the gang’s all here.
Only in Cluster Land, the appellation of “gang” may actually apply in a very literal, modern sense.
8/10/2006 #
One Issue
My only problem with this awesome Tonic album is that the song “Waltz with Me” is in 4:4 time.
Oops.
8/10/2006 #
Never Knew
I never knew that “brimstone” refers to sulfur. Chalk another one up for the Amplified Bible.
Their slogan should be “Turn it up to 11.”
If confused:
Homework Assignment: Watch Spinal Tap.
8/9/2006 #
Tonic
I’m giving Tonic’s Sugar my ultimate complement, as I allowed it to loop and play again in its entirety into my right-ear-only headphone setup at work.
(Cubes don’t lend themselves to both-ear listening, as the potential to glue yourself to the ceiling when someone comes up behind you overwhelms any possible benefit of stereophonic pleasure.)
8/9/2006 #
Those Non-HR Learnings
In a lull (a calm before a possible storm of work), I thought I would compile a list of things I have learned or affirmed this summer that would not make an official list:
- The average commercial (i.e., business-major) employee can approximately double productivity by effectively using Alt+Tab to switch windows.
- Restroom etiquette in office buildings is very elaborate.
- Custom ringtones have simply gotten out of hand.
- Despite the previous item, I have to say I wouldn’t mind to have that “I’m all-right, don’t nobody worry ‘bout me” song from Groundhog Day.
- Sleeping in cubicles is very easy to detect if the sleeping person snores.
- The average coffee-drinking employee will spend more time in a day telling people how they “really need coffee to get going” and, man, they’re “going to have to drink a lot of coffee today because there’s a lot of work I mean, man, yeah, I gotta go get that coffee” than they actually will spend getting coffee and drinking it.
- The average coffee-drinking employee drinks coffee out of habit and a desire for publicity, not a need for caffeine. This will contradict their public statements. It’s golf for people with no time.
- Bad employees always look really busy and stressed, even when they’re not. Worse employees never look busy and stressed, because they’re not doing anything. Good employees will usually appear to have just enough time for whatever you are asking for. Great employees are asking you what you need.
- Even a halfway-skilled arrangement of the words “learnings,” “competencies,” and “buy-in” will have you sounding like a manager in no-time-flat.
- HR and other people obsessed with emulating the “behaviors”/”behaviours” of the successful know this and do it regularly. Therefore, the above is a better test for a pretender than the truly successful. However, the current business environment makes it almost impossible to avoid these terms at times.
- The best test for a successful person in business is that they carry themselves like a badass, because they are a badass. This is not to be confused with arrogance; true badassity can be attained without sacrificing humility. The more polite Texas term for this behavior/behaviour is “swagger.”
- Appearing happy, interested, engaged, and charmingly in-just-over-your-head is probably the best way to win people over, get help, and get a good job done.
- Do the above until you’re a badass. Then just win people over with justified confidence.
8/9/2006 #
The Acid Test
My new headphones pass the test, as one earpiece in-ear is able to support:
F a = F w cord + F w the other earpiece + F inertia at approx. 5 inches per second squared
Impressive, huh?
So begins the attritional process Kristin laments with any wishlist I create.
8/9/2006 #
Pop Quiz
Q: What band does Fall Out Boy sound like at 2.5x speed?
A: Rush
If you don’t think that’s funny and awesome, you … have some thinking to do.
Not a pun, by the way. I mean the actual band Rush.