Leaving the ladder, one may fall upward!
Tursi's been and gone. And doesn't it just suck that I don't have evenings free to do anything? We ate breakfast/lunch together like a couple of old men, but didn't get to do anything.
Still, I'm glad he came to visit.
Although I get to curse him for two things:
1) in jest, I suggested he become a guard. He replied that he'd get too bored.
Now, I know the job is boring but damn, didn't the shift that followed that comment go super slow!
2) he mentioned getting a four core chip, and now that's all I can think of getting. What the hell, I'll get two!
He also installed Google Earth on my machine, and I've been amusing myself watching the geography bounce in a tour of every place I've ever lived that I can remember. Next I'm going to mark places I've slept and see how that goes.
Due to some majorly provocative irritation from my company, the clients at the site are going to (so it seems) attempt to have The Sleeper removed in the new year. We'll see.
And DiceGimp. Ah DiceGimp, you really aren't very good for much, are you? You got an alarm call at 2000-2030, and said you'd check it out. And then didn't.
An hour or two later, you went wandering around on your bike and found an open door. A door that had been popped with a tool. Oddly, it was the door you'd got the alarm on.
So what do you do, call the police? Nope. Radio for backup? Nah. You go in. Once through the popped door, you find another door that's been subjected to tool-augmented entry. You go through that too.
And find somebody.
You say "Who are you?" and the person says "It's okay, I work here. Here's my ID." and they reach for their wallet.
You wave aside the offer of ID, apparently feeling that if they look like they're going to tell you who they are, that's close enough. In the dark, with a guy holding a tool, behind two doors that have been forced.
You then proceed to chat with the guy for a good five minutes, as faithfully recorded by the cameras that you didn't know where in there, and then left the building to go on a bike patrol.
Altogether four doors were forced, although nothing seems to have been taken. The guy left in a black BMW.
So from what I hear, the mix of eight and twelve hour shifts that don't really make much sense are being stopped and three eight hour shifts will replace them. Q-tip will be training the evening guy, and there doesn't seem to be a place for DiceGimp.
I wonder if he knows that yet, since the morning after that happened Tursi and I saw him in IHOP.
I've got to admit, I'm a little lonely right now. I've finished my sushi, I don't have the next Doctor Who episode downloaded yet (but I've got the three after that one sitting on the drive - thanks for addicting me, Tursi!), and there's nobody around to play a game with.
Ah well, such is life.
I know I've posted more than once on the "intelligent design" thingy that stupid people want taught in public schools in the US, but something I'd never heard of before is the religious-based argument against daylight savings time. Enjoy, if you've never heard it:
Kansas rescinds Daylight Savings Time
Sunflower State reverts to "God's Time"
TOPEKA, Kan..-- The state legislature here has voted to return to standard time on a year-round basis. Following a 63 to 21 vote, legislators passed a law repealing the adoption of Daylight Savings Time in favor of keeping the state's clocks set on Central Standard Time all year.
Burnett "Bud" Jameson (R - Monroe County), speaking in favor of the measure said, "When God created man, He took exactly seven days - not five days, not seven days, exactly six days. That's exactly 132 hours* - not 131, not 133, exactly 132. So we've got no business monkeying around the intelligent design of the 24-hour clock that God set in motion when He started time here in the U.S. around 6000 years ago."
Jameson, a supporter of the Kansas Board of Education in its fight to introduce teaching of alternatives to evolution in the state's schools, also said, "Turning back the clock in the Fall is like ripping pages from the Bible."
While the effects of this change are likely to be minimal to most Jayhawkers, transportation to, from and through Kansas is expected to be disrupted and travelers are expected to be totally confused, with the most confusion among travelers who make airline connections through the state's airports.
The Kansas move comes only months after Indiana's governor signed a law that will at last put the entire state on Daylight Savings Time starting next year. Whether Indiana will adopt the Central or the Eastern time zone is still in question.
Editor's note: When contacted by Shari Wrightwood, the Travel Fox facts checker for this story, Mr. Jameson said that he miscalculated the number of hours in six days saying, "I should have said that there are really 144 hours in six days," then he added, "and that's true for all of the other 47 states in the U.S. as well."
Stolen from here.
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Absolutely hilarious!
And now for a little music: you can listen to someone ripping it up on a nine string bass, or some rap. Or both!
Still, I'm glad he came to visit.
Although I get to curse him for two things:
1) in jest, I suggested he become a guard. He replied that he'd get too bored.
Now, I know the job is boring but damn, didn't the shift that followed that comment go super slow!
2) he mentioned getting a four core chip, and now that's all I can think of getting. What the hell, I'll get two!
He also installed Google Earth on my machine, and I've been amusing myself watching the geography bounce in a tour of every place I've ever lived that I can remember. Next I'm going to mark places I've slept and see how that goes.
Due to some majorly provocative irritation from my company, the clients at the site are going to (so it seems) attempt to have The Sleeper removed in the new year. We'll see.
And DiceGimp. Ah DiceGimp, you really aren't very good for much, are you? You got an alarm call at 2000-2030, and said you'd check it out. And then didn't.
An hour or two later, you went wandering around on your bike and found an open door. A door that had been popped with a tool. Oddly, it was the door you'd got the alarm on.
So what do you do, call the police? Nope. Radio for backup? Nah. You go in. Once through the popped door, you find another door that's been subjected to tool-augmented entry. You go through that too.
And find somebody.
You say "Who are you?" and the person says "It's okay, I work here. Here's my ID." and they reach for their wallet.
You wave aside the offer of ID, apparently feeling that if they look like they're going to tell you who they are, that's close enough. In the dark, with a guy holding a tool, behind two doors that have been forced.
You then proceed to chat with the guy for a good five minutes, as faithfully recorded by the cameras that you didn't know where in there, and then left the building to go on a bike patrol.
Altogether four doors were forced, although nothing seems to have been taken. The guy left in a black BMW.
So from what I hear, the mix of eight and twelve hour shifts that don't really make much sense are being stopped and three eight hour shifts will replace them. Q-tip will be training the evening guy, and there doesn't seem to be a place for DiceGimp.
I wonder if he knows that yet, since the morning after that happened Tursi and I saw him in IHOP.
I've got to admit, I'm a little lonely right now. I've finished my sushi, I don't have the next Doctor Who episode downloaded yet (but I've got the three after that one sitting on the drive - thanks for addicting me, Tursi!), and there's nobody around to play a game with.
Ah well, such is life.
I know I've posted more than once on the "intelligent design" thingy that stupid people want taught in public schools in the US, but something I'd never heard of before is the religious-based argument against daylight savings time. Enjoy, if you've never heard it:
Kansas rescinds Daylight Savings Time
Sunflower State reverts to "God's Time"
TOPEKA, Kan..-- The state legislature here has voted to return to standard time on a year-round basis. Following a 63 to 21 vote, legislators passed a law repealing the adoption of Daylight Savings Time in favor of keeping the state's clocks set on Central Standard Time all year.
Burnett "Bud" Jameson (R - Monroe County), speaking in favor of the measure said, "When God created man, He took exactly seven days - not five days, not seven days, exactly six days. That's exactly 132 hours* - not 131, not 133, exactly 132. So we've got no business monkeying around the intelligent design of the 24-hour clock that God set in motion when He started time here in the U.S. around 6000 years ago."
Jameson, a supporter of the Kansas Board of Education in its fight to introduce teaching of alternatives to evolution in the state's schools, also said, "Turning back the clock in the Fall is like ripping pages from the Bible."
While the effects of this change are likely to be minimal to most Jayhawkers, transportation to, from and through Kansas is expected to be disrupted and travelers are expected to be totally confused, with the most confusion among travelers who make airline connections through the state's airports.
The Kansas move comes only months after Indiana's governor signed a law that will at last put the entire state on Daylight Savings Time starting next year. Whether Indiana will adopt the Central or the Eastern time zone is still in question.
Editor's note: When contacted by Shari Wrightwood, the Travel Fox facts checker for this story, Mr. Jameson said that he miscalculated the number of hours in six days saying, "I should have said that there are really 144 hours in six days," then he added, "and that's true for all of the other 47 states in the U.S. as well."
Stolen from here.
-----
Absolutely hilarious!
And now for a little music: you can listen to someone ripping it up on a nine string bass, or some rap. Or both!
posted by Rimmy at 22:48
1 Comments:
Well the only difference between set back clocks and bible pages I figure, is you can't whipe your ass with a set back clock.
Someone put a steamer in the Gene pool.....
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