What are you most basic principles for life?

Spell check

“AFK, Bio

This is all you needed to type. Kids are too lazy to type the rest.

I’ve never heard it in a business environment. Even as a IT engineer.

My friend manages a team of engineers and TAMs for massive companies that do stuff like make airplanes and manage phone networks and you know the names. They specifically produce a toolsuite and rent out pro-serv nerds to go to mammoth DCs and show people where they fucked up their cabling and double the throughput. Like, SO nerdy.

‘bio break’ is used a few times a day.

Bio break.

My friend uses that all the time.

It means a pee break, a tea break, sometimes a ‘walk rover’ break. When meetings cross that 44-min mark, it’s break time.

When did ‘ask’ become a noun?

The question is more ‘where’. Be sure to tease whomever about the car lot they obviously worked at.

“Good catch!”

We ‘nice catch’ each other all day. We celebrate when people find dumb shit, especially when it’s our dumb shit. We positively reinforce that natural code review and checking one another in the name of safety.

But I work with a bunch of pros on some private-possum shit, and that’s culture they’ve preserved from before the 2005 dark ages began. If you don’t know what positive reinforcement sounds like, I get it. Learning’s fun.

Just the recent used-car lot trash

• the ask
• the spend
• action this
• effort the task

… fighting for hate space with the recent shit jargon

• literally
• cap
• based

… and people who can’t write English

• the above list
• the below list
• setup vs set up
• shutdown vs shut down
• start up vs startup
• pluralizing support, e-mail, deer, effort, and other ‘non-countable’ style nouns with an S. I was raised rural and I still know the error there.

… and a special fuck you to people who join words together where normally they need a space

• opensource
• incase
• aswell

… because that last part is just cheap indolence.

This made no sense; even if we overlook the objectification of people.

The environment - so trusting of Trump, so distrustful of clergy - is so charged that one needs only say that priest did something and it takes on a life of its own.

I don’t know this priest. I didn’t know the last Pope.

But I bet a real investigation will show what happened more than rumours planted on Facebook while a despot needs a diversion and a villain.

The only defence is “I’m a dickwad”. And I’d accept that if they owned it and we could verbally abuse them for being a dick, for only like 10 minutes after every episode.

I like that scale, but Ottawa exists: can you give us the various levels of lament from 0 down to -40 or -50?

And is there a bonus wind scale to add to the suck?

I loved that film as it was a good film. Even Mel’s baggage can’t wreck it. Sam Elliott’s character was brilliant especially.

Ha! I was going to pipe up just to mention Bill Hader! He’s apparently quite anxious about improv but he’s also just so good.

Tell me this Ai is in-box and not external like all the others.

If not, there’s gonna be a shed load of upset boomers who killed their net and can’t get it back.

OS people need to make the drivers. Once.

The driver is only “I bake you a PDF, and you will eat it and you will like it”

hPLJ4 gobbled 600w when firing up. You better believe it popped some breakers.

HpLJ4 was a wonderful beast.

Having said that, “print drivers” need to be “I’m gonna blow a PDF onto your port 9100 and you better make the things go on the goddamned paper or you fail and it’s the wood chipper for you”. I’m tired of everything else.

That spoiler thing? Fantastic. I chuckled, anyway.

The screen sometimes goes black for a second or two randomly.

replacing your HDMI cable

I think you’re onto something. I have two HP cube shaped docks on my closet now waiting on a return box. The third is holding, but only because there’s also a reg key for windows that will lose compression on the HDMI and make it not resynch so often.

I still get the blinks, but they’re daily instead of hourly. I can dig it out if it’s valuable and the cables are good.

I’m also using a steetek/PWay/etc 2x2 HDMI KVM switcher downstream of that dock, so I can switch between two contract desktops for my k,v and m as the day cleaves to night.

I trust your mom. She’s gonna be right.