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change of diet
i just got called for "pizza and ice cream" which perked up my ears. Just last year it was "pizza and beer," which I now lack any desire for, including my need not to end sentences in prepositions. At least with beer and could plead under the influence. Now, it's just craziness--caused by ... lactic acid?
Help Desk
A cardinal sin in e-mail administration land is not to forward chain mail. [ponder] what to do, wot to do, post a blog...heh, heh, heh, now i love technology...As my friend used to say, "True story..."
A co-worker got a pen stuck inside our printer. He started to try and remove the pen, but I told him we don't have time for that now, just put
a note on the printer telling folks not to use it and then report it to the Help Desk. So he grabbed a piece of paper and scrawled on it. I left
before he finished the note.
About 20 minutes later, one of my techs comes in laughing and says he was just in the lobby, saw a piece of paper on a printer and went to
investigate.
Attached is what he found. Sometimes things don't always come out the way you want them to........
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NEVER EVER SEND THIS KIND OF MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. IT'S A FORM OF SPAM, AND TOO MUCH SPAM CLOGS E-MAIL ARTERIES. WITH THAT IN MIND READ THE REST OF AN OTHERWISE FUNNY STORY:
Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe
even a chuckle)...in other words, send it to everyone. We all need to smile every once in a while.
Blessed
I wondered over to tribe by accident and started to read an assortment of blog posts from many of my new found friends on tribe. Savant that I am, I was wondering how incredibly blessed this person was to have such articulate, insightful, caring group of people all in one place. I was wondering who had this collection of friends. Lo and behold I looked in the upper left corner of my screen and it was me! That floored me. So thank you for all of your blog postings. They may not get commented on, but they are very much appreciated. Gassho.My Blog Post For St. Paddy's Day
Irish Drinking Songs From "Who's Line is it Anyway"Variations on a theme:
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Techno Randomness and Rant
Everytime I start to write a blog, i go off on a tangent and then remember what i was originally talking about. Just like the time i remember Jimmy Stewart was talking on a TV talk show and he had this long ass story that went all over the place and his punch line went right back to his original thought. It was pure magic, he had this straight face like he was wondering what everyone was laughing about. I thought to myself, this guy is thinking just like me, but verbalizing it, and he's getting paid for it.Well, lucky me, I'm doing to same in my job, and love doing IT stuff, it's just that sometimes when admin asks for advice and they don't listen, then I get really pissed. Why'd they ask if they're going to do the same old shit. I KNOW what I'M talking about. [And they don't?] So I put my foot in my mouth today when they were asking about piloting two videoconferencing (VC) systems. A hosted Live Meeting (LM) application, and an in-house system. We're short staffted, so the server admin has been putting out fires while trying to bring up the new VC system. Well, Mr LM says it's $1500 to run LM. My cost estimate is under $10,000. LM is being used now. We struggling to bring up the new system, but can't because we're short staffed. The group suggests a pilot to compare. I told them to screw it. They're already using Live Meeting, why spend an additional $10,000 to buy the licenses when you have a product. Don't go spinning everyone's wheels and split they're energy, just give the users a consistent product. I tell them I gotta leave for another presentation, and then Mr. LM says he can the whole department up if he gets a server and one guy to help him with the setup.
I told him, if I had a server and a guy I could provide videoconferencing, text and audio chat, and whiteboard functions. I told he had to be ficken kidding to boot, since even the Microsoft reps said they can't get and Active Directory for our department since it has about 20,000 users on it, with about 300 principals types who don't want their organization touched at all. I was about to tell him to fuck off, when I realized I was getting pissed. "Frick" came out, out of tremendous self control. Some of the others in the room that to get LM up, and to authenticate individual users, you need Active Directory.
Who the fuck cares if we mis-spend $10,000? Me. I told them screw my project, save the server administrator, take him off the implementation, and keep the fricken LM going, and be at the tit of Microsoft. That cow will sooth your fears and worries. You know when the whole organization goes Microsoft, that tit is going to walk away, and you need to pay to suckle again.
Boy that felt good to vent. Now, where did I put that small little violin that can play the saddest song in the world? Oh, I gotta make another beer run.