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Work hours notwithstanding, things have been going swimmingly for a rather lengthy period of time - which is awesome - but the universe survives on balance, therefore so must I. Shot a wedding this weekend and the tripod broke. I was able to create a temporary fix with a coffee stir stick and a glut of painters tape. Then the battery grip on the ( Read more... )

We've been working long hours trying to support unrealistic migration schedules set by project managers using what appears to be default placeholder settings in MS Project coupled with arcane mysticism, and I need to delete a long-running VM snapshot after a successful OS upgrade which made numerous changes to the underlying filesystems. Before I ( Read more... )

I've been working full-time remote since 2012 so my perspective on the recent, Return to Office debate may differ slightly than those newly choosing sides in what has seemingly devolved into the classic, "us versus them" mentality. As usual, both sides don't seem to be working with a full set of rational, nuanced arguments, rather the tried-and- ( Read more... )

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TIL "refractory period" is under no circumstance denotatively synonymous with "cool down" or "rest time" and should NOT be used in a corporate meeting.

I was pretty excited I’d finished the first part of a self-assigned project much earlier than anticipated but even more excited when I decided its conclusion should earmark a fresh cup of moka pot coffee! So I unmuted my co-workers, announced my leave, re-muted the phone, and let out a long, loud, high-pitched bilabial trill fueled by my excitement ( Read more... )

So I thought it would be fun and easy to simultaneously de-register VMs from one datastore path and register them on the identical datastore but through a private GB interface while also exporting an ancient WinXP VM require for iDRAC from some random volume on one computer to my VM volume on another computer utilizing two different hypervisors ( ( Read more... )

LinkedIN has this trend right now where you replace your PROFESSIONAL picture with one which more closely represents your fulltime telecommute life; most are littered with users adjacent kids and family. My kids are grown and my wife works out of the house, but I'm pretty sure they don't want a picture of Cameron and I solving Scooby-Doo mysteries ( Read more... )