Octopus Overlords

Remus West wrote:Yesterday I completed my adoption of my step-daughter.

Congratulations!

LordMortis wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:Did the company picnic ever materialize? It's hard to tell if you're talking in the present or past tense.

Not yet. There has been no official word that a company picnic is going to happen, so there's been no date set, no planners named, nothing.

Ah well. It worked out for the best anyway. My picnic would have been on the 10th. I have since come to find out I'm going to be on restriction from surgery leading up and including the 10th. An organizer who volunteered most of the oomph whom can't stand long or can't move anything is not exactly a good thing.

Hilarious. Not the surgery, so good luck with that, but the company canning a department picnic because maybe, sometime in the future, the company might plan on having one. Since picnics are intended to be morale boosters, someone at the top should probably look the word "morale" up and then consider the consequences of their actions on morale.

Talk about counter-productive.

We're cancelling this planned, expected and looked forward to morale booster because we're going to have a morale booster later. But don't tell anyone about it.

The chief generally takes us out for split official department lunches, but he's behind on scheduling the latest event.

GreenGoo wrote:

LordMortis wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:Did the company picnic ever materialize? It's hard to tell if you're talking in the present or past tense.

Not yet. There has been no official word that a company picnic is going to happen, so there's been no date set, no planners named, nothing.

Ah well. It worked out for the best anyway. My picnic would have been on the 10th. I have since come to find out I'm going to be on restriction from surgery leading up and including the 10th. An organizer who volunteered most of the oomph whom can't stand long or can't move anything is not exactly a good thing.

Hilarious. Not the surgery, so good luck with that, but the company canning a department picnic because maybe, sometime in the future, the company might plan on having one. Since picnics are intended to be morale boosters, someone at the top should probably look the word "morale" up and then consider the consequences of their actions on morale.

Talk about counter-productive.

We're cancelling this planned, expected and looked forward to morale booster because we're going to have a morale booster later. But don't tell anyone about it.

My boss's boss is a great guy and a best leader you could ask for after the last head was retired. But for the position he's been elevated to, he's too much of a micro manager and he simply can't keep all of the gears of the company spinning. There just aren't enough hours in the day, no matter his level of dedication. I think he felt hurt that I didn't come to him first (which then would mean saddling me with a company picnic. Um, nope. While he oversaw it. Nope. Nope).

I feel your point. That's exactly how I felt when I was informed of the cancellation.

Fair enough. You know him better than anyone here, that's for sure.

I would like to thank Microsoft for releasing Windows 10 and the non ability to just turn it on and use it. I really love having to sign in every time I turn it on. Oh, I know I could use facial recognition or thumbprint recognition or a pin number but just not being able to turn it on and use it just pleases the teatotaling shit out of me.

dbt1949 wrote:I would like to thank Microsoft for releasing Windows 10 and the non ability to just turn it on and use it. I really love having to sign in every time I turn it on. Oh, I know I could use facial recognition or thumbprint recognition or a pin number but just not being able to turn it on and use it just pleases the teatotaling shit out of me.

??

I use Windows 10 and it just boots to the desktop. Can you go into "Sign-In Options" (just type that in the search bar) and turn off those features?

Holman wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:I would like to thank Microsoft for releasing Windows 10 and the non ability to just turn it on and use it. I really love having to sign in every time I turn it on. Oh, I know I could use facial recognition or thumbprint recognition or a pin number but just not being able to turn it on and use it just pleases the teatotaling shit out of me.

??

I use Windows 10 and it just boots to the desktop. Can you go into "Sign-In Options" (just type that in the search bar) and turn off those features?

And the answer would be - yes.

That would be....no.
It has if you've been away when should windows require you to sign in and you can pick "never" but that doesn't apply to startup from what I've tried.

Hmmm. There's got to be a way, because I'm never asked for a password when I start up. It just goes to the desktop like every other Windows version. Same for coming up from sleep.

Maybe it was from the initial startup after first installing Win 10.

Press the Windows and R keys on the keyboard to open the Run box and enter “netplwiz.”
In the User Accounts window, select your account and uncheck the box next to “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.”

DOS=HIGH wrote:Press the Windows and R keys on the keyboard to open the Run box and enter “netplwiz.”
In the User Accounts window, select your account and uncheck the box next to “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.”

You need to change your name to DOS/WINDOWS=HIGH.
It finally worked after I could remember my Administrator password.

DOS=HIGH wrote:A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its fangs into his penis.

Pythons aren't venomous. They don't have fangs.

Maybe it had those plastic ones you get from a novelty store. You ever think about that, smart guy?

Although that raises the question, where did the python keep the money he used to purchase those novelty fangs.

Good grief, it's an enigma wrapped in a riddle and dunked in pudding.

Isgrimnur wrote:

DOS=HIGH wrote:A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its fangs into his penis.

Pythons aren't venomous. They don't have fangs.

The article never uses the "f" word, it just says it, ah... "yanked" him. Hard.

Ah, okay... it does say "teeth", though.

Isgrimnur wrote:

DOS=HIGH wrote:A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its fangs into his penis.

Pythons aren't venomous. They don't have fangs.

True, but they have fang like teeth and given the situation, I can forgive the guy for calling them fangs.

The weather channel is getting a lot more precise with their predictions. It's supposed to rain here in 7 more minutes.

stessier wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:

DOS=HIGH wrote:A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its fangs into his penis.

Pythons aren't venomous. They don't have fangs.

True, but they have fang like teeth and given the situation, I can forgive the guy for calling them fangs.

I bet that sure felt like fangs.

I have The Street Dogs' self-titled and Fading American Dream albums on shuffle right now. About half the songs, the union and economy ones, make me think of LM.

Dr. Heimlich finally performs the Heimlich maneuver.

He's pretty spry for a 96-year-old.

Unicorns are real!!
They're just fat and grey now. Oh, and we call them rhinos.

AWS260 wrote:Dr. Heimlich finally performs the Heimlich maneuver.

He's pretty spry for a 96-year-old.

Do the me maneuver!!

(which actually isn't part of that clip)

Lordnine wrote:Unicorns are real!!
They're just fat and grey now. Oh, and we call them rhinos.

Drooping horns.

dbt1949 wrote:The weather channel is getting a lot more precise with their predictions. It's supposed to rain here in 7 more minutes.

HA! I knew it. They were 8 minutes off!

LawBeefaroni wrote:I have The Street Dogs' self-titled and Fading American Dream albums on shuffle right now. About half the songs, the union and economy ones, make me think of LM.

I saw them a number of years ago a couple of times playing with different acts I already love. I always meant to pick up some of their music. They were very true to the Dropkicks feel. Now you make me feel like I need to get back to that.

AWS260 wrote:Dr. Heimlich finally performs the Heimlich maneuver.

He's pretty spry for a 96-year-old.

Amazing.

AWS260 wrote:Dr. Heimlich finally performs the Heimlich maneuver.

He's pretty spry for a 96-year-old.

"I sort of felt wonderful about it, just having saved that girl," Heimlich said.

But on Monday, Heimlich was sitting at a communal dining table at Cincinnati's Deupree House, an upscale senior living center where he lives, and noticed fellow resident Patty Ris, 87, in distress while eating an open-faced hamburger.

I LOLed.

dbt1949 wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:The weather channel is getting a lot more precise with their predictions. It's supposed to rain here in 7 more minutes.

HA! I knew it. They were 8 minutes off!

margin of error: +/- 114%

Ah, Canadian math.

dbt1949 wrote:Ah, Canadian math.

No, Canadian math is just in metric, with formulae that explicitly apologize for the margin of error.

We have automatic faucets, so you don't have to touch the handles! We have automatic towel dispensers, so there's no germ issue there! But you still need to push the soap dispenser like an animal. And have fun pulling the door handle open to leave.

Isgrimnur wrote:We have automatic faucets, so you don't have to touch the handles! We have automatic towel dispensers, so there's no germ issue there! But you still need to push the soap dispenser like an animal. And have fun pulling the door handle open to leave.

No, you don't. Although, if you want automatic doors, you might need to go to work for Chris Roberts.

...and still having issues with my gut. Three weeks in and I still can't eat some things without getting ill. Stuff I was perfectly fine with before this started happening. Had to cut short my trip down to visit Redwarlord because it happened Friday night after eating at a Mexican restaurant.

This is getting tiresome.

Our work solved the door problem by having washrooms without doors. So the people waiting for the elevator get a nice trumpeting sendoff.

hepcat wrote:...and still having issues with my gut. Three weeks in and I still can't eat some things without getting ill. Stuff I was perfectly fine with before this started happening. Had to cut short my trip down to visit Redwarlord because it happened Friday night after eating at a Mexican restaurant.

This is getting tiresome.

Sorry if this has been covered before...do you do any probiotics?

My bathroom diatribe was more about the interesting choices that business make. 50% auto, 50% manual.