I am filling these daily homeroom slides for next week with dumb Star Wars gifs. All the classes will suffer.
Please add really slow wipe transitions between each slide. And play a Star Wars related sound, like a lightsaber being lit up, or a TIE fighter flying by.
Blaster bolt sound for every letter as it flies in from the right from offscreen.
For the second time in my six month tenure here at the library, myself and three other people on my shift are in serious trouble due to someone on said shift whiffing it hard on checking books in. This time a patron returned twenty-four books to our front desk book drop; not one of those twenty-four books were checked in, but they were all sensitized and subsequently shelved.
Now it’s pretty generally accepted among the circ staff who the owner of this grand fuck up is, but there’s no real concrete way of showing that this individual is responsible, so as far as our supervisor (who’s been taking flak from the higher-ups for the frequency and scope of just such fuck ups) is concerned, everyone in circ for that day is culpable and going forward, “people are going to start getting written up for this shit,” so, we’re all taking a bite of the shit sandwich for this person and their total lack of a work ethic.
Do you, like ... corner them in a remote part of the stacks with a menacing copy of the ... OED or something?
I'm unfamiliar with the particulars of library vigilantism ...
You lead them to the back of the stacks, trap them behind a bookshelf, then you begin shelving books to conceal them behind a wall of literature.
This, except instead you lead them down to the archives in the basement. Bonus points for mentioning ominously that, "this is where the library brings thing go to be forgotten."
A few months back the national insurance company I do technical support for announced that it was going to go though a major reorganization. Sadly, it was also determined that they would be laying off some of the workforce for the first time in its 160 year history. Consultants were brought in and made check marks on clipboards. Divisions within the company were shuffled and siloed. As for me, I kept my head down in I.T. and made sure that computer systems I supported continued to run. However, in the intervening months of shifting directors and budget code name changes, it was determined that the desk that I sat in would be better placed in Bangladore, India.
A week ago, I found myself out of a job.
Don't hold any animosity for the company I will be saying goodbye too. In the late 90s I had gone through the hyper-inflated tech bubble and its consequential bust. I'm no stranger to this.
However my story has so much of a silver lining it can probably be considered a trim package. The generous severance package offered to me by my company has now allowed me to be in a position where I can budget a year full time to work on any opportunity I want. It's on their dime This leads me to my second bit...
In the 1990s, when I was 17, there was a PC video game about commanding star fleets that ate a good deal of my time. A few months back I want to see whatever happened to the company that made the game. As it would seem they are still around. The company appeared to have moved on to making communications software, and the old games they used to make was nowhere on their website. On a whim I decided to send an email to the generic looking sales@ email address and asked of the game even existed anymore or if anyone at the company even heard of it.
I was thinking to myself, “If they still had the source code, couldn’t it be pretty cool to port this game to a device with touch screen, or at least get it into a state where it was playable again?” You see the game itself has not fared well with time. It’s a 16-bit DOS game that will simply not execute under 64-bit windows. Graphics chips nowadays are beginning to drop lots of the old legacy video modes like the 2-bit CGA and 4-bit EGA. Heck, I’m beginning to see 8-bit VGA modes being depreciated too. Another issue is that it runs very poorly in both virtual and emulated environments. If I was a betting person, it’s most likely due to the frame rate limiter. Hedging all my bets there is probably an interrupt that’s firing that’s a bit time-sensitive and causing the system to hang on the opening credits.
This next bit of the story is going to be a bit vague as it deals with company email correspondence that I’m not sure I’m allowed to divulge. The upshot was I able to contact one of the original developers. Though what I can only guess as my winning charm, I was able to procure the original C source code and project files for the game. I pitched that the idea of porting this game to modern architectures and giving it a bit of a graphical face lift is a good idea, and they agreed.
I was given authorization to make a development blog about converting this old game over to something cross platform. I'm not going name the blog here nor the game I'm porting. I do have a link in the sig if you are curious. I've been reverse engineering old video games for forever now. I maintain a wiki about the internals of the PSX and Final Fantasy. (I have pretty much the source code to FF1 and FF7). I've also picked apart the original "Adventure" and "Indiana Jones" for the Atari 2600.
This is an awesome opportunity for me to be working as a game developer breathing life into old games. Let's hope one day Atari may want to look into their old 2600 IP.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I always wanted to bring the early 90s classic metal Marines to the mobile market. It's style is a perfect mesh with touch interface.
I used to play that game! I enjoyed that game! I hope you can get it kicked into shape.
I hope so too. Among the graphical updates is trying to make it a little less copyright infringe-y. Paramount is a little more weird about Star Trek interfaces after Roddenberry died.
And that was in like March or April. This is the first seasonally appropriate snow I can ever remember being in.
I was in Birmingham this week for a big work project.
In fact I'm still there because my flight got delayed/canceled 3 times due to the snow here and in Atlanta. All told if it doesn't get bumped again I'll be home 36 hours later than planned. Fortunately the hotel had enough room to extend my stay.
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I'm stressing slightly about this interview on Monday. I should have picked the Wednesday interview time.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Then you would be stressing about having to wait so long, and wishing you'd picked Monday.
Take it from someone else who's been dealing with anxiety a lot lately. It will attach to anything, and make you doubt everything - your choices, your actions (or inactions), others', completely random stuff. It will take all of that and fit it into a literal crazy narrative in which all roads lead to "you suck".
You don't.
Breathe.
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If a virus took out Smof's volunteers, that'd be extremely bad news.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If a virus took out Smof's volunteers, that'd be extremely bad news.
Ehh...
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I'm really glad we all harped on those flu shots because this strain of flu in the southern US looks like it might be a mutant strain which can definitely trigger cytokine storms in people in our age groups.
Stay safe everyone, and if a coworker comes into work looking like death avoid them and treat it like a quarantine situation (maybe even leave to go home yourself).
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
I'm really glad we all harped on those flu shots because this strain of flu in the southern US looks like it might be a mutant strain which can definitely trigger cytokine storms in people in our age groups.
Stay safe everyone, and if a coworker comes into work looking like death avoid them and treat it like a quarantine situation (maybe even leave to go home yourself).
I stayed out of the office for a week (working from home mostly) because of Bronchitis and people at work keep coming in while sick and getting everyone else sick including me over and over like some infernal modus operandi.
I had to grab groceries this morning before the snow, and I was very aware of every person who coughed or sniffled.
One of the benefits of working from home is I can avoid a lot of that risk. I feel like I'm much more concerned about getting sick this year than I have any years previous? Which is funny, since this is also the first year I've gotten the flu vaccine. I guess I'm just much more aware of the prevalence, now, and I've been reading the news on how bad this year apparently is.
For the second time in my six month tenure here at the library, myself and three other people on my shift are in serious trouble due to someone on said shift whiffing it hard on checking books in. This time a patron returned twenty-four books to our front desk book drop; not one of those twenty-four books were checked in, but they were all sensitized and subsequently shelved.
Now it’s pretty generally accepted among the circ staff who the owner of this grand fuck up is, but there’s no real concrete way of showing that this individual is responsible, so as far as our supervisor (who’s been taking flak from the higher-ups for the frequency and scope of just such fuck ups) is concerned, everyone in circ for that day is culpable and going forward, “people are going to start getting written up for this shit,” so, we’re all taking a bite of the shit sandwich for this person and their total lack of a work ethic.
Do you, like ... corner them in a remote part of the stacks with a menacing copy of the ... OED or something?
I'm unfamiliar with the particulars of library vigilantism ...
You lead them to the back of the stacks, trap them behind a bookshelf, then you begin shelving books to conceal them behind a wall of literature.
This, except instead you lead them down to the archives in the basement. Bonus points for mentioning ominously that, "this is where the library brings thing go to be forgotten."
Shit, maybe I'll have them shelf read microfiche.
edit- you know what, I'm leaving that draft there.
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I believe assigning the shelf reading of microfiche is banned under some international treaty or other.
That's probably the case, considering the size of our collection. I think if you added up every other form of media in the building you might match the amount of fiche we've got but it'd be close (university library, so we've got all kinds of stuff in those filing cabinets).
The city disallowed the hiring of anymore facility managers, so I'm the only one for the Parks & Recreation department for the foreseeable future!
And I was just told from my supervisor that I am about to be training in some new software so I can start producing marketing for our department.
WHAT EVEN IS MY JOB!?!?
From this post alone, it seems like you should be making three times as much as you were yesterday.
Is an armed coup out of the question?
Oh yeah I forgot, they want to train me on scheduling rentals directly with our clients.
As of right now this is an exclusive job task/function of all of my supervisors, the ones who are full-time and receive more money/benefits.
Like... I just had my annual performance review and this was definitely something I brought up to my boss.
I wish there was a better way to approach this subject besides, "Yo, you either need to pay me more or stop giving me these kinds of tasks," because I absolutely know they'd guilt trip me.
At this point I don't think I would be fired for it, but I know they'd basically slowly push me into quitting.
I've always just had more and/or more advanced tasks slowly added to my plate until I'm basically doing the work somebody a paygrade above would be doing. In my mind, this makes it a very clear "hey, you guys should maybe promote me or pay me more or something" situation, but it also makes it extremely hard for me to say "don't give me these tasks anymore, otherwise"....partially because I enjoy challenging tasks, but also because it would feel like if I don't do that kind of work anymore, it would feel like I'm intentionally slacking off on what is now expected of me?
It's not exactly fair, but it's just been my experience.
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If I wanted to progress in my second job I'd have no problem with it.
But I don't and my supervisors know that I don't.
And with the 5-8 hours I get every week, man...
I could make my entire second job's monthly income from my primary job in four days.
Secret flu shot thread, I logged into the Uber app for the first time this week and, in LA at least, they're partnering with a doctor house call app to give drivers free flu shots. That seems like a neat and good thing.
I'm really glad we all harped on those flu shots because this strain of flu in the southern US looks like it might be a mutant strain which can definitely trigger cytokine storms in people in our age groups.
Stay safe everyone, and if a coworker comes into work looking like death avoid them and treat it like a quarantine situation (maybe even leave to go home yourself).
Hey do you have a good source for this?
I wanna scare the bejeezus into my teammates, they're all relatively new to office jobs, coming mostly from retail/food service, and think sick days are strictly for hospital visits.
It doesn't help that one team lead goes around explicitly saying they only uses sick time for if they needs to see a doctor, and now the manager is considering requiring doctor's notes for taking more than X sick days consecutively.
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Blaster bolt sound for every letter as it flies in from the right from offscreen.
A week ago, I found myself out of a job.
Don't hold any animosity for the company I will be saying goodbye too. In the late 90s I had gone through the hyper-inflated tech bubble and its consequential bust. I'm no stranger to this.
However my story has so much of a silver lining it can probably be considered a trim package. The generous severance package offered to me by my company has now allowed me to be in a position where I can budget a year full time to work on any opportunity I want. It's on their dime
In the 1990s, when I was 17, there was a PC video game about commanding star fleets that ate a good deal of my time. A few months back I want to see whatever happened to the company that made the game. As it would seem they are still around. The company appeared to have moved on to making communications software, and the old games they used to make was nowhere on their website. On a whim I decided to send an email to the generic looking sales@ email address and asked of the game even existed anymore or if anyone at the company even heard of it.
I was thinking to myself, “If they still had the source code, couldn’t it be pretty cool to port this game to a device with touch screen, or at least get it into a state where it was playable again?” You see the game itself has not fared well with time. It’s a 16-bit DOS game that will simply not execute under 64-bit windows. Graphics chips nowadays are beginning to drop lots of the old legacy video modes like the 2-bit CGA and 4-bit EGA. Heck, I’m beginning to see 8-bit VGA modes being depreciated too. Another issue is that it runs very poorly in both virtual and emulated environments. If I was a betting person, it’s most likely due to the frame rate limiter. Hedging all my bets there is probably an interrupt that’s firing that’s a bit time-sensitive and causing the system to hang on the opening credits.
This next bit of the story is going to be a bit vague as it deals with company email correspondence that I’m not sure I’m allowed to divulge. The upshot was I able to contact one of the original developers. Though what I can only guess as my winning charm, I was able to procure the original C source code and project files for the game. I pitched that the idea of porting this game to modern architectures and giving it a bit of a graphical face lift is a good idea, and they agreed.
I was given authorization to make a development blog about converting this old game over to something cross platform. I'm not going name the blog here nor the game I'm porting. I do have a link in the sig if you are curious. I've been reverse engineering old video games for forever now. I maintain a wiki about the internals of the PSX and Final Fantasy. (I have pretty much the source code to FF1 and FF7). I've also picked apart the original "Adventure" and "Indiana Jones" for the Atari 2600.
This is an awesome opportunity for me to be working as a game developer breathing life into old games. Let's hope one day Atari may want to look into their old 2600 IP.
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I used to play that game! I enjoyed that game! I hope you can get it kicked into shape.
I was in Birmingham this week for a big work project.
In fact I'm still there because my flight got delayed/canceled 3 times due to the snow here and in Atlanta. All told if it doesn't get bumped again I'll be home 36 hours later than planned. Fortunately the hotel had enough room to extend my stay.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Take it from someone else who's been dealing with anxiety a lot lately. It will attach to anything, and make you doubt everything - your choices, your actions (or inactions), others', completely random stuff. It will take all of that and fit it into a literal crazy narrative in which all roads lead to "you suck".
You don't.
Breathe.
If a virus took out Smof's volunteers, that'd be extremely bad news.
G-get your f-flu shot guys.
T-take it from us.
Ehh...
Smof.
Don't give your volunteers weaponized syphilis.
Smof.
Don't use weaponized syphilis to eat away their eyes.
Smof.
Don't do it.
Well, all right.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Stay safe everyone, and if a coworker comes into work looking like death avoid them and treat it like a quarantine situation (maybe even leave to go home yourself).
I stayed out of the office for a week (working from home mostly) because of Bronchitis and people at work keep coming in while sick and getting everyone else sick including me over and over like some infernal modus operandi.
One of the benefits of working from home is I can avoid a lot of that risk. I feel like I'm much more concerned about getting sick this year than I have any years previous? Which is funny, since this is also the first year I've gotten the flu vaccine. I guess I'm just much more aware of the prevalence, now, and I've been reading the news on how bad this year apparently is.
I've become a mucus factory now. Not sure what the demand is on it, but I've got that market on lock.
I think we are all a wee bit evil.
Shit, maybe I'll have them shelf read microfiche.
edit- you know what, I'm leaving that draft there.
Oh yeah I forgot, they want to train me on scheduling rentals directly with our clients.
As of right now this is an exclusive job task/function of all of my supervisors, the ones who are full-time and receive more money/benefits.
Like... I just had my annual performance review and this was definitely something I brought up to my boss.
I wish there was a better way to approach this subject besides, "Yo, you either need to pay me more or stop giving me these kinds of tasks," because I absolutely know they'd guilt trip me.
At this point I don't think I would be fired for it, but I know they'd basically slowly push me into quitting.
Woooooo....
It's not exactly fair, but it's just been my experience.
But I don't and my supervisors know that I don't.
And with the 5-8 hours I get every week, man...
I could make my entire second job's monthly income from my primary job in four days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki,_Western_Australia
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Drive up the freeway and come hang out with some of the WA forumers!
I'm pretty sure he means the good Waikiki.
... now I think about it, I once got lost there when I was 8.
Unfortunately we’re not staying there this time so I can’t just walk out of my hotel and wander around by the beach like I’d prefer.
Hey do you have a good source for this?
I wanna scare the bejeezus into my teammates, they're all relatively new to office jobs, coming mostly from retail/food service, and think sick days are strictly for hospital visits.
It doesn't help that one team lead goes around explicitly saying they only uses sick time for if they needs to see a doctor, and now the manager is considering requiring doctor's notes for taking more than X sick days consecutively.