Yup.. they monitor call times. Argh. And they need to be under 7 minutes, and I've got serious trouble maintaining that. I am so not getting my contract renewed in April.

You might have thought that in a techsupport job for an ISP (after all, the service is only useful to those with at least minimal computer skills) it would take longer than a couple of days to get the first call where you utter the words "It's that long horizontal key on the bottom of your keyboard".

You'd have been wrong.

Hi Guys (however many of you still happen to have me on Friends despite long, long inactivity). Long time no see, I know ( Read more... )

They're taken over by Northrop and what happens less than a week later?

Sad day for privately funded space thingies.

I wanted to get out of the house yesterday, and I ended up at the local[1] Imax, showing the new Order of the Phoenix movie. Some notes:

- That IMAX theatre isn't nearly as spectacularly gigantic as the one in DC ( Read more... )

My copy of which is now being read by someone else, so I decided I'd try and get an electronic reference copy. I do believe I am now in possession of two completely separate and different fanfic versions of the book, both of them in the same order of magnitude of length as the real thing.

What the *hell*, people.

I'm guessing the series of pipes that is the internets will be ablaze in another couple of hours -- it's already starting.

Hi Guys ( Read more... )

But check out one of the latest recruitment commercials for the dutch land army:

KL-EHBO (2.8 megs video in flash container)

Translations:

"Does this hurt?"
"Yes"
"I fell."

[x] Suitable
[ ] unsuitable.

If the gender roles had been reversed, I don't think a TV station on earth would've aired them.

I have been *shamefully* neglecting y'all. Sorry about that. I probably won't manage to catch up, but I'll do my best ( Read more... )