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chris_gerrib

Friday Follies

Jul 11, 2008 08:54

I'm still working my way through David Louis Edelman's MultiReal

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Comments 9

baron_waste July 11 2008, 14:26:22 UTC

“Loud and clear are two things.”

baron_waste July 11 2008, 14:27:11 UTC

What's the deal with the drywall, then?

chris_gerrib July 11 2008, 14:55:44 UTC

Shipped water between walls. Not a big deal, but irritating. Methinks it's time to look at a new house...

Shipped vice Seeped rodney_g_graves July 11 2008, 15:29:24 UTC

If you are truly shipping water vice suffering seepage, shouldn't you be calling away the Damage Control Party to control flooding?

Re: Shipped vice Seeped chris_gerrib July 11 2008, 16:38:28 UTC

The DC party has been called - party of one, but I called.

You left out a favorite from the service rodney_g_graves July 11 2008, 15:12:02 UTC

Say again all, your last transmission was broken and stupid.

bdunbar July 11 2008, 15:23:38 UTC

I had this printed and hung next to my door once ..

"Your lack of planning is not my emergency."

My then supervisor gently suggested that I remove it. The sign is gone, but the spirit lives on!

Something to miss about the service - you could say things like this and it was 'ok'.

Leave us not forget the seven "P"s rodney_g_graves July 11 2008, 15:26:35 UTC

Prior
Proper
Planning
Prevents
Piss
Poor
Performance

Re: Leave us not forget the seven "P"s bdunbar July 11 2008, 15:46:07 UTC

When you can't say things like this aloud, I think it can lead to an environment where nothing ever gets better.

I'm dealing (right now!) with my IT counterparts in our Asia office. They always (we've been working on projects together for going on three years now) come up with requirements at the last minute. Like the one where 'all of a sudden' there isn't enough disk space on a server. For the acceptance test. That starts on Monday.

Master Sergeant Smith would belch fire, chew nails and deploy the F bomb. This would not happen again.

Project Manager Smith, unable to deploy the F bomb or do anything more productive than shake his head in resignation, can only hope it won't happen again.

It got so bad three projects ago that I hip-pocketed a half-rack of unused servers, spent a few days installing operating systems 'just in case' they were needed. By the end of that project I'd deployed them all.

Gah.

Thanks for the space to rant!