Octopus Overlords

Track and field -- it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Skinypupy wrote:

Daehawk wrote:They tore down one of our Taco Bells and have rebuilt it as one of those upscale new design ones. Should be open soon. Cant wait.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around "upscale Taco Bell" and it's just not working.

Here:

Skinypupy wrote:

Daehawk wrote:They tore down one of our Taco Bells and have rebuilt it as one of those upscale new design ones. Should be open soon. Cant wait.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around "upscale Taco Bell" and it's just not working.

It is just past the line of high-end porta potties.......

Rip wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:

Daehawk wrote:They tore down one of our Taco Bells and have rebuilt it as one of those upscale new design ones. Should be open soon. Cant wait.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around "upscale Taco Bell" and it's just not working.

It is just past the line of high-end porta potties.......

"Comfort stations"

The new concept restaurants will ditch the chain’s fluorescent lighting and neon purple signage for a more grown-up look. It’s less about convenience and more about ambiance. Taco Bell is ditching the bolted-down tables and chairs for friendlier group seating that doesn’t feel like typical fast-food dining and opting for touches like cushioned furniture and options for “al fresco” dining.

There are also electrical outlets available for customers who want to plug in their laptop and use the free WiFi found at some Taco Bells, or just charge their phone.

“Consumers told us they wanted an environment where they could sit and stay a while,” said the concept development dude tells National Restaurant News.

We have a Wendy's restaurant close by, that has remodeled a couple of years ago and went "upscale" (although nothing like that Taco Bell in the picture). They now have a seating area with couches and armchairs, a big-screen TV in the wall and a fireplace. I still like Taco Bell better than Wendy's though.

Skinypupy wrote:

Daehawk wrote:They tore down one of our Taco Bells and have rebuilt it as one of those upscale new design ones. Should be open soon. Cant wait.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around "upscale Taco Bell" and it's just not working.

adding granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances?

EDIT: apparently...

ImLawBoy wrote:At my office, you can designate the charity to which your money goes when you donate through United Way, and it makes it easy to get whatever corporate matching is done.

I can donate to pretty much any non-profit and work will match 100%, up to about $20,000 a year. They don't push any individual charity, they just encourage everyone to donate to what they find important. My charities this year are Doctors without Borders and my local Habitat for Humanity.

Skinypupy wrote:

Daehawk wrote:They tore down one of our Taco Bells and have rebuilt it as one of those upscale new design ones. Should be open soon. Cant wait.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around "upscale Taco Bell" and it's just not working.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around someone using the words "Taco Bell" and "can't wait" in the same sentence...

gbasden wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:

Daehawk wrote:They tore down one of our Taco Bells and have rebuilt it as one of those upscale new design ones. Should be open soon. Cant wait.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around "upscale Taco Bell" and it's just not working.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around someone using the words "Taco Bell" and "can't wait" in the same sentence...

Well, a sentence that doesn't include "toilet" anyway.

gbasden wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:At my office, you can designate the charity to which your money goes when you donate through United Way, and it makes it easy to get whatever corporate matching is done.

I can donate to pretty much any non-profit and work will match 100%, up to about $20,000 a year. They don't push any individual charity, they just encourage everyone to donate to what they find important. My charities this year are Doctors without Borders and my local Habitat for Humanity.

Has anyone ever introduced you to Games for Geezers?

I just helped move 20 years worth of sets and props from one storage facility to another.

I am deaded.

The dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)

It doesn't get more Texan than a Toadies concert followed by a trip to Buc-ee's.

Real people that look like art.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/26/arts/alex ... index.html

I should have known better than to watch the last 3 episodes of Daredevil S2 just before going to sleep last night.

I had a very weird dream about being a masked vigilante with software development skills. It was kind of like

but with UTF-16 and a lot more ninjas.

Jordan Prentice, the "midget" from In Bruges does a reddit AMA

Max Peck wrote:I should have known better than to watch the last 3 episodes of Daredevil S2 just before going to sleep last night.

I had a very weird dream about being a masked vigilante with software development skills. It was kind of like

but with UTF-16 and a lot more ninjas.

Several sysadmins here have xkcd tshirts that say "stand back, I know regular expression!"

They are incredibly pleased with themselves.

GreenGoo wrote:

Max Peck wrote:I should have known better than to watch the last 3 episodes of Daredevil S2 just before going to sleep last night.

I had a very weird dream about being a masked vigilante with software development skills. It was kind of like

but with UTF-16 and a lot more ninjas.

Several sysadmins here have xkcd tshirts that say "stand back, I know regular expression!"

They are incredibly pleased with themselves.

That is a good one, but my favourite is

(And yes, I might have been known to have used that excuse to break out the nerf lightsabers...)

Another that inspires extreme self satisfaction is "Go away, or I will replace you with a small script".

Speaking of dreams, being sick and sleeping on cold meds leads to all sorts of fun dreams.

The other night I dreamed I was arguing on the internet because R2-D2 had been cast as Bastion in Suicide Squad.

I would totally wear that shirt.

I've always been partial to this one.

I got this shirt from shirt.woot.com a while back

Apparently today is the 30th anniversary of Labyrinth.

I hate Hate HATE IMs!

Fuck this shit! They are the worst possible way to do non critically time sensitive business and using them for business is not critically time sensitive is the worst.

I don't have time to drop everything for you sending one sentence thoughts on a work topic that doesn't get the to point and doesn't ever actually set an expectation.

Sit down with your damned email. Compose your thoughts. Put them all together. Make sure you set an expectation in the email. I will then set a priority to your need and address it when I can.

There needs to be a rule that states all IMs are optional and why the hell is it that every one who insists on using them doesn't know how to get to the point? I don't want to hold to one sentence pieces of conversation while you figure out how the hell to ask me for something. You need something. I don't work for you. I am busy. The onus is on you to express what you need.

I'd love to say I feel better, but I don't. It is now officially time to no longer drop anything for IMs. Or simply start answering with "no time." I'm gonna take shit for it but I'm so done.

I hate IMs. I never used to keep my IM client open unless we were on a conference call with a customer and needed a way to communicate, but my current boss' boss likes us to have our IM client open in case he needs anything.

And I just replied to the wrong person about the wrong topic concerning two different types of security tokens for two different needs from two different business units.

LordMortis wrote: There needs to be a rule that states all IMs are optional and why the hell is it that every one who insists on using them doesn't know how to get to the point? I don't want to hold to one sentence pieces of conversation while you figure out how the hell to ask me for something. You need something. I don't work for you. I am busy. The onus is on you to express what you need.

"Send me an email with exactly what you need and I'll prioritize it appropriately."

My only issues with IMs is that we have restrictions set to prevent passively saving IM history. I don't remember anything that happens in IM.

At least in my world, the quality of emails aren't much better than IMs. People seem to think it's more efficient to hastily write a brief incoherent mind dump instead of taking the extra 30 seconds it would take to write a clearly worded email. Instead of one exchange we end up with a half dozen further emails back and forth as I try and decipher what the original request is.

coopasonic wrote:My only issues with IMs is that we have restrictions set to prevent passively saving IM history. I don't remember anything that happens in IM.

I changed that shit to save everything. We don't have restrictions but our default settings turned that off. Everything that happens, happens in writing and I save everything that happens in writing. The idea that you can officially ask for something without record keeping of the request is not acceptable.

LordMortis wrote:

coopasonic wrote:My only issues with IMs is that we have restrictions set to prevent passively saving IM history. I don't remember anything that happens in IM.

I changed that shit to save everything. We don't have restrictions but our default settings turned that off. Everything that happens, happens in writing and I save everything that happens in writing. The idea that you can officially ask for something without record keeping of the request is not acceptable.

Just destroyed any chance you had of working in the Clinton administration.

This is Random Randomness. Not Political Randomness.

hepcat wrote:This is Random Randomness. Not Political Randomness.

That's Rip dreaming about them damn liberals again.

We live by IM. It's taking over our corporate life. No one picks up phones any longer, almost every conversation starts with IMs. My entire team is remote from me, so it's really the only way we can function.

It exists (Lync?), but there is no obligation or expectation to have it turned on.

silverjon wrote:It exists (Lync?), but there is no obligation or expectation to have it turned on.

Skype for Business now.

We have it too. I like it, but it's only for informal communications. Anything you need documented goes through email. Saves a lot of phone calls too.

Skype for Business (the rebranded Lync) has taken over most communication within our company over the last 3 years or so. The downside is that I often end up being asked to troubleshoot IT problems via text rather than voice. And that makes for a slower process most of the time.

It's a constant barrage for me of I need I need I need and it always plays out the same,where a simple request that did not need to be addressed immediately now has to be addressed immediately and the simple request becomes a long dragged out distraction of one liners that don't adequately explain the other person's expectation.

And yeah that's how internal business is being migrated to over the last three years or so.

And I never get a chance to get into a concentration mode. I have large projects that require me to tune out the world to organize. Usually by doing code for dummies. But it's like the phone is ringing every five minutes. Only it's not the phone. It's an intercom where someone just busts in starts talking and you don't even have the luxury of showing them your work to respond with "Can't you see I'm working on a project?" And so I set my status to busy or away but no one cares. They just send messages anyway.

Today, I finally had it and exited Lync and am letting "missed conversations" go to my mail. I got to work on customer project for 30 minutes uninterrupted until just a few minutes ago where I got a call from someone annoyed that I did not respond to his IM. It felt glorious. A half an hour to concentrate on something. I kicked out a whole document. One of six for which an external customer is ready to kick my ass over.