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| Blue Hell wrote: | | Likely it's memory ... |
All wrong ... an update ... I forgot to turn on the power  so the whole thing was supplied from the ICE and that was a bit marginal ...
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Scott Stites
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View production, observe equipment, eat lunch (Fish Head Curry), return to finish interrupted demo, drop colleague at airport, go to hotel, email, IM home office, pack a month of living into two bags...catch plane home in morning........yes!
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Today...
Weigh some stuff, clean the torch on the ICP (Inductively coupled plasma atomic emmission spectrometer), weigh some more stuff, filter some samples for TSS, about to prep some samples for BOD, and running a few samples for Zn and Cd.
Listening to The Beatles all day long. Went on line and bought tickets for Ravi Shankar in Gainesville in October.
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I went out at lunch and rode the Kawasaki around for a while!!! 
Back to work!
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Had a meeting with a few people about the future of our EDI at our plant.
Went out to lunch to wish our intern farewell.
Searching for specific servers hardcoded into a bunch of web apps.
Gearing up to release two reissued albums tomorrow from Exuviae and new projects from Mark Tamea and Igneous Flame/Achromus next week(insert sales pitch here... etc etc etc...)
Been working on the label website heavily - lots and lots to do.
Planning our week long vacation next week! (none of those 3 and 4 week vacations mentioned earlier for me...  )
Still recovering from my hernia surgery last month - but wow - I feel a lot better every day! |
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blue hell
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| Scott Stites wrote: | | catch plane home in morning........yes! |
 have a good trip home!
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Thanks, Jan! I'm leaving right now..... 
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Today I spent the morning trying to lower my insurance costs and get food stamps. Food stamps. I busted my ass for 20 years to be an engineer and now this illness has me begging for food stamps. Better than being in jail, I guess.
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| Inventor wrote: | | and now this illness has me begging for food stamps. |
But you got 'm, right?
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They didn't say. Besides, if I do get food stamps it will only serve to decrease my burden on my family... There is no way out of this once you get trapped into it. I try to develop products and sell them, but nobody ever buys them for a fair price, if I can sell them at all. I end up making a dollar an hour or worse.
This GMS thing is going somewhere but the biz guy is reluctant to pay me anything, claiming that "in the arcade world, with MAME, the software is done for free". My last email has gone unanswered, so I have no idea where things stand with the project. People just take and take and take and there is no give, only take.
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| Inventor wrote: | | People just take and take and take and there is no give, only take. |
That's not entirely true of course, at least not always or at least note over here, but yes it feels like that at times for me as well.
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Yes, you're right. It just seems that way sometimes. Maybe I'll find a way out of this unpleasant situation after all.
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On a brighter note, I got my free Ubuntu CD today and it's loading now. Nice to have little positive things like that happen just when you need 'em to happen!
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First, slow breakfast at home, then quick coffe break at the local café, do a bit of light surfing and check my emails (which I can't do from home - don't even ask  ). Anyway, that's my workload this week. Nest week I'll have a long arduous trek to England to pretty much the same in Kent for a week. Sometimes, but only sometimes, boring is good! 
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| BobTheDog wrote: | | I am porting code from Irix to Windows to extract JPEG keyframes from MPEG video, yawn. |
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Ugh!
I start at 6pm, collecting sales reports and starting computers. Then I spend all night driving back and forth on a mobile platform, collecting cases of liquor to be placed on a conveyor system. It is very tedious, mindless work. Even when I am paying utmost attention to what I am doing, it leaves me quite a bit of time to think about ethics, philosophy, social organization, economics, the psychodynamics of human motivations.... and ruminating about the management, who have a love/hate relationship with me. I think they resent that I am disinterested in money, and yet have a deeper interest in the workings of the company than they do. They know that I think they are childish and petty people, preoccupied with typical mamallian instinctive problems - but that I like them anyway.
edit: that sounds a bit arrogant, but they do confront me with vague complaints about my person, it is all very personal, ugly, and evasive. I don't go there looking to criticize or judge people. But I am a bit of a debater, so when accused, will demand to hear how others supposedly know better. Hey, we could all actually learn something!
The turnover rate is phenomenal. It is amazing that they haven't fired *me* yet! I have delivered ultimatum to them to make their decisions and their modes of speech more easily accountable. And told them that they need to put me in a real, problem-solving type of job - or fire me. They resist doing either, probably for no reason more than that I told them to. They are decidedly anti-intellectual and actually imply that I am some kind of nazi and "ungodly" person, whatever that is supposed to mean. I am infamous there, yet all I want to do is get more work done and avoid gossip. Go figure!
edit: Oh, and my work ends whenever we finish. Anywhere from 8 to 18 hours. And it (my job) is quite dangerous. And did I mention that it is dull?     |
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Oskar, the good life suits you!
I didn't get the food stamps, but I did get the economic stimulus so the end of the month poverty will be mild this month. Gotta pay debt with most of it, but a little is set aside for music and the like. Today I am spending the whole day imagining a possible new contribution to the funk and heavy metal realms, this exercise guitar that by now you've read about in other threads.
I'm listening to Stein's recommendations from the genres and imagining exercise moves that create music with a motion-sensing guitar. Not a bad way to spend your day if you're into music as a hobby. Still waiting on hardware and/or finances to make progress on the guitar itself, sigh. One step at a time...
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Tonight I grilled $10,000 worth of steak and ribs for hungry strangers. And it was all you can eat ribs, so they get refills too. I wish my job was boring 
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| neandrewthal wrote: | | Tonight I grilled $10,000 worth of steak and ribs for hungry strangers. And it was all you can eat ribs, so they get refills too. I wish my job was boring |
This talk of grilling reminded me of my days as the french fry guy at Char Grill. It was a mindless job that paid well and you got a free Charburger with every work shift. I could wind down from days filled with calculus and circuits and just make batch after batch of quality fries. The owners were clean, neat, and honest people and the chain grew over the years long after I'd moved on. Definitely near the top of my list of best jobs ever.
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| Quote: | | Tonight I grilled $10,000 worth of steak and ribs for hungry strangers. And it was all you can eat ribs, so they get refills too. I wish my job was boring |
I used to love being a baker. Did it for years. No money in it was the main problem. Biggest single order was 400 pumpkin pies on Thanksgiving. What a blast. Also did around 600 lbs of turkey stuffing that day. It was alot of fun preparing tons of food. Alot more fun than producing millions of numbers of data that will be buried in some file somewhere, never to be looked at again.
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| Inventor wrote: | | you got a free Charburger with every work shift. |
That must have become tiring after a while, no? I can have just about whatever I want and I still get sick of it.
| Oenyaw wrote: | | Biggest single order was 400 pumpkin pies on Thanksgiving. What a blast. Also did around 600 lbs of turkey stuffing that day. |
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| neandrewthal wrote: | | Inventor wrote: | | you got a free Charburger with every work shift. |
That must have become tiring after a while, no? I can have just about whatever I want and I still get sick of it.
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Well yes, but you'd only work about five shifts a week so that five double-Charburgers with cheese a week, which is the optimum level of Charburger consumption for satisfying the meat-eating beast within! Mmmmm Char-Grill....
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I'm right now on my 7th or 8th week of vacation. I'd be going crazy if it wasn't for things like my car dying or petty relationship keeping me from just going into a 2 month coma. Next year - i'm either getting a part time job or renting an office so I can force myself to do work all day.
I'm on that vacation because I'm an inner city school music teacher. I was teaching middle school last year with an insane principal running the school. God that place was like a zoo - interesting enough for 4 or 5 people and also soul crushing.
This year I'm moving up to a high school and working a marching band. Should be a lot more fun and a whole lot busier. I'm happy about it. |
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modem provisioning.
take it out of the box
hook it up
change downstream frequency
compare data
update it
check connectivity
reset downstream frequency
pack it back in box
put it on shelf
20 or sometimes more a day.
booooring
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