Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:05 pm**

Reading posts from all over the board today and thinking of how we're all aging upwards I smiled thinking about what a movie called Grumpy Old Forum Members would be like.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:16 pm**

Jeff V would get top billing, but you would be in the running for his sidekick.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:29 pm**

After seeing a meme years ago where someone stole the G letter off a food sign for the new angus burger its so hard for me not to order an anus burger at the drive thru.

Posted: **Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:35 pm**

Jaymann wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:16 pm Jeff V would get top billing

He's disqualified. He's always been grumpy!

I'm getting there, though. I'm mostly just grumbly right now, but grumpy can't be far.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:23 am**

During the school year, getting the kids to get up by 7:30 for school was like pulling teeth. It was a massive battle every. single. day.

Today is the first day of summer break. All three of them were wide awake, dressed, and eating breakfast...at 6:30am. One of the twins actually woke up at 5:30 and I had to put him back to bed.

WTF? Little goblins...

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 1:00 pm**

Loki Charms

https://mischievouslydelicious.com/

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:42 pm**

This is absolutely the wrong time to be trying to build a house. Contractors around here are all booked out until middle-to-end of next year, and materials prices are skirting 5x what they were last year at this time. It's bananas.

More and more it's looking like I'll be living in Vermont and commuting to Maine on the weekends for over a year before we can get a livable home up on our new lot. The lot is beautiful, too. Huge old trees, tall canopy, open spaces - all on a decent hill with plans to build the house near the top.

I'm sorely tempted to get the driveway and utilities installed and then plunk down a pre-owned mobile Tiny Home I can live in instead. Then at least I won't be paying rent and will be on my land by default when contractors want to stop in.

Posted: **Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:59 pm**

Good luck. Sounds dreamy. Dont forget the observatory.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:00 am**

Do you ever give fictional answers to surveys just to screw with them? Yeah, me neither.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:25 am**

Kraken wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:00 am Do you ever give fictional answers to surveys just to screw with them?

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 12:19 pm**

Went in and cleaned out my office at our corporate HQ this morning. It's official, I'm now a 100% remote employee...even took my nameplate off the door. I got hit with a surprisingly strong wave of...nostalgia? Sadness? Both? Outside of the past year, I've been in that office for the past 16 years. Granted, lots of my time has been spent on the road, but it felt really strange to pack everything up for the final time.

Felt like there should have been a video montage with "Time of Your Life" playing as I walked out the door with my box full of stuff.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:45 pm**

just got a recruiter email from Intellyk (in NJ) that began as follows. see if you can spot the federal law violation!

Hello,

This is Mahesh from Intellyk Inc,
This is in reference to the following below position,

ROLE:: QA Automation (entry level & Fresher’s)

Location – Redmond WA(onsite from day one).

JD:

Request you Please submit Male candidate for below role. This one 20 % Travel and sometime Evening shift after 1 PM

JD-

Fresher’s/entry level QA position for Mobile Application & Protocol Testing.
Recent College Pass outs will be perfect for match for these position. Science & Technology scholars Will be preferred.

Candidate must be -

Discipline

Decent attitude & nice behavior towards other team members.
Flexible for work hours (morning/ evening shifts, work on weekends)
Should be fine with travel to other states/cities . Travel cost will be borne by TechM. Travel will be 10%-20% part of job.
Must have valid driving license.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:48 pm**

Perhaps they should have filled this one first.

Intellyk Inc. (“Intellyk”) is one of the fastest growing IT consulting and technology professional services firm built on values with intense social conscious, ethical and is people driven.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:01 pm**

For a company in NJ advertising a position in WA, their text seems to be written with a pronounced Indian accent.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:11 pm**

When I was young I'd like to dream of being the heroes of the movies I'd seen. As I got older I wanted the girls in the movies I'd seen. Now a days I look for someplace to sleep in the movies I've seen.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:32 pm**

I see sci fi movies with ships and stuff and I always wonder where the bathroom is.

Me and my wife always wanted to go back in time to the 50s and eat at a diner and go see a B movie or serial. Theres a John Goodman movie from the 90s called Matinee that gave me that feeling of a movie in that time....even if it was set at the start of the 60s

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Ok my random.......I wish Google would combine Google Maps and Google Earth into one usable app. In one I can go back to 2007 in street view but I have to load the other to go back in time for overhead views. It goes back to 1993 also. So if they could simply combine those two Id like that.

EDIT: Its go back in time....go back in tim is a whole other thing.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:40 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:48 pm Perhaps they should have filled this one first.

Intellyk Inc. (“Intellyk”) is one of the fastest growing IT consulting and technology professional services firm built on values with intense social conscious, ethical and is people driven.

they're gonna need to get going on that. forwarded the email to NJ's Dept. of Labor

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:53 pm**

hitbyambulance wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:45 pm Request you Please submit Male candidate for below role.

BZZZZZZZT!

Recent College Pass outs will be perfect for match for these position

Never knew my blackout drinking escapades in college would qualify me for a job!

Candidate must be -

Decent attitude & nice behavior towards other team members.

Don't need a good attitude and certainly not an excellent one...just decent.

Posted: **Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:16 pm**

it's not even the first one like that i've received - this is from late 2019:

Role: Software Test Engineer

Location: Redmond WA

Client: Wipro // Microsoft (Need local Male candidates)

Visa: Fulltime Role

This is a Test engineer level position with Wipro Limited, USA. Candidates must possess strong testing skills, proven experience in black box testing, good familiarity with Windows Platforms, ability to write end-to-end functional test cases for software application programs. Here is the basic requirements:

Skills:

Familiarity with Windows Operating Systems and its features/components.
Solid testing skills and Experience in Quality Assurance area (Prior localization experience is preferred).
Knowledge of Testing life cycle, testing methodologies, and testing tools.
Technical ability to understand developer discussions of root cause of error, revert with details.
Ability to track, analyze and report bugs.

Expectations:

Highly Self-motivated /self-driven with a keen eye for details.
Flexible with tasks, easily adaptable to changes in project.
Ability to work in a multi-cultured environment. Good communication and team collaboration skills.
Be flexible to work between 9 am – 5 pm (logging in very early, is not recommended)

Regards,

Raj kamal
United Software Group Inc..
565 Metro Place South. Suite # 110
Dublin, OH 43017
Phone: 6144959222 Ext- 475

i actually forwarded that one to Microsoft's HR director on LinkedIn - she responded and said they would look into that

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:14 pm**

Would we like a new Mechwarrior movie? Something based on a merc company? The last robot movie I saw was Robot Jox in the 90s. I haven't seen Pacific Rim but have watched countless clips on YT of it. I think it could be done. Id like a movie set in the Mechwarrior universe. Could even make it a trilogy by starting with the Star League then the next could be The Clans and finally a full blown Mercenary movie.

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:40 pm**

So in effort to keep all the internet throughput on my rig, I had long since culled all those updating tiles from my start menu. Friggen cortana and last night's Windows update decided put the weather on my task bar and if I hover over it, sure enough its full of all kinds of updates like the front page of an MSN webpage and is constantly updating.

Edit: Taskbar News and interest no longer is turned on but some how I bet it's loading in the background with live info all the time.

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:49 pm**

I think it may be time to pass things on to the new generation:

My 7 year old granddaughter can solve a Rubik's Cube (The 5 y. o. isn't far behind).

My 5 year old grandson checkmated me at chess. It was a "lucky" 1 move mate with the queen, but still.

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:50 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:55 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:50 pm

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:11 pm**

Jaymann wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:49 pm I think it may be time to pass things on to the new generation:

My 5 year old grandson checkmated me at chess. It was a "lucky" 1 move mate with the queen, but still.

Oof.

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:32 pm**

Come back from supper and Microsoft had reset my computer and blessed me with a news and weather addition to my taskbar. Fortunately took less than a minute to get it off.
Do people actually ask MS for these "features" or does some bigwig decides he likes it?

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:49 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:10 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:32 pm Come back from supper and Microsoft had reset my computer and blessed me with a news and weather addition to my taskbar. Fortunately took less than a minute to get it off.
Do people actually ask MS for these "features" or does some bigwig decides he likes it?

Neither.

Hint: It's advertising disguised as a service.

Posted: **Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:22 pm**

powered by Microsoft News

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:28 am**

I'm just annoyed that I keep getting rid of it so they keep putting it in new places and I don't doubt for one second that this "service" is still in the background eating bandwidth, RAM, and CPU cycles. It's the posterchild for bloatware. Remove it from the browser, they build it in. Remove the browser, they put it in start menu, remove it from the start menu, it's in the internal search, remove it from the internal search (briefly your machine because regedit and an update don't get along.

before they give you an option to remove it) and they put it on your taskbar.... I seem to remember they once tried to put on your desktop with "Aero" which I always turned off by default.

It's not like I don't say "no" to every "option" feature they ask me for every time I load a new system.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 12:32 pm**

Any recommendations for a silicone spray? My car window is slow going up and I was told I could use the spray on the window rails to fix that. Will any old brand do? Ill just get it from Amazon next week cause shipping is free so cheaper than going up the street for some or ordering elsewhere.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:30 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:32 pm Come back from supper and Microsoft had reset my computer and blessed me with a news and weather addition to my taskbar. Fortunately took less than a minute to get it off.
Do people actually ask MS for these "features" or does some bigwig decides he likes it?

I noticed too, and the update took long enough to apply, I thought something had gone wrong. It wasn't immediately obvious how to turn if off. The more obvious route seemed to only take me to removing specific interests and feeds. It almost felt like the return of widgets.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:43 pm**

I started with “oh neat, the weather!”
Then I clicked on it and got a bunch of political “news”
“Maybe I can disable just the news streams?”
(Narrator: he couldn’t)
<Uninstall>

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:47 pm**

I can uninstall MS News? Thank you OO!!!

BAM and gone!

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:44 pm**

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:47 pm I can uninstall MS News? Thank you OO!!!

BAM and gone!

FWIW, O&O AppBuster provides a free, portable, and easy way to uninstall apps pre-installed by Microsoft.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:48 pm**

Not sure how much I trust that (I've been burned before by things like that when I don't understand how they layer in and then MS does an update) but I will keep that in my back pocket.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:07 pm**

LordMortis wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:48 pm Not sure how much I trust that (I've been burned before by things like that when I don't understand how they layer in and then MS does an update) but I will keep that in my back pocket.

Well, it does create a System Restore point prior to uninstalling anything, and also makes it incredibly simple and easy to re-install any apps you may want to keep vs. manually fiddling around in PowerShell. By default, it also hides System and Framework apps, i.e. the important components for running Windows itself and others apps. You can see it in action below:

Posted: **Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:11 am**

1/32 of an inch is absolutely ruining my Friday.

Posted: **Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:24 am**

stessier wrote: Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:11 am 1/32 of an inch is absolutely ruining my Friday.

It happens when you get older.

Posted: **Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:56 am**

Mrs Skinypupy and I have been married for 23 years next week, and have been together for just under 25.

I heard her drop an f-bomb for the first time ever last night, after the Doordash driver who was supposed to be delivering 10 pizzas for her dance team's party literally stole it.

The driver called Mrs SP saying she couldn't find the address. Mrs SP was extremely patient trying to give her directions on three separate phone calls and a series of texts, but she still couldn't find the place. The driver apparently just gave up, marked the food as "delivered", submitted a picture of the pizza sitting on the front seat of her car claiming that was the delivery location, then put in the notes that "the customer was completely unresponsive to her requests for additional directions".

I honestly don't think I've ever seen her as mad as she was last night. I feel a little bit bad for the hell that is about to rain down on that Doordash driver.

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