Work

Honestly, how hard is it to get a bunch of people out to play minigolf for a couple of hours? The department I’m in has (at my count) about 11 people in it, and they are trying to organize a “fun day” consisting of some minigolf funtime followed by some food at the nearby food […]

Work just put in a new secuurity system, which uses keyfobs to unlock doors. I’d think these people would understand it better, but apparently not. I’ve heard about 3 conversations on the origin of the word “fob” in the past couple of days, including the idea of “I’ll just look it up on google” (which

Met some random upper management type in the break room just now while getting a hot chocolate. Him: “So what do you do?” Me: “I’m working on the [workstuff] and [project1] and [project2]” Him: “Oh cool, that’s an amazing program, did you write it?” (referring to [project1]) Me: “Erhmm….” Luckily at this point someone poked

[alan@workbox alan]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 318880 313500 5380 0 13152 126864 -/+ buffers/cache: 173484 145396 Swap: 257000 21280 235720 Sure, it’s completely filled up, but that extra 256mb (well, actually 192 because of the asshat way that the HP Pavilion is set up, with only two DIMM slots and coming

So the one thing that’s kinda sucked about the new job lately (where I have not been hired on full time yet, and still am a contractor), is the machine I’m using only has 128 megs of ram. Not all that bad in the scheme of things, but throw a few terminal windows and a

… I’d take my old Q&A staff over any other in a heartbeat. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go back to some random bitching…

I discovered that the drive in takes far less time than I thought. So much for arriving fashionably late. They have me in as a “seasonal” (seasoned?) worker for the first couple of days until the head honchos arrive to finalize things. Anyway…. They set me up at an L shaped desk in the development

….. before starting the new job anyway. Well, still “in theory” at this point, as the letter is still “coming RSN.” I expect to get a confirmation email this weekend but who knows, I could be showing up in chilliwack again on Monday if not. It’s not like there’s not work to do (and I

Had a meeting with NewBoss today (or would that be $newjob->boss ?) to check out the new workplace, get an official offer of work, see what they are doing, etc. Went well, I’m discovering that Mac people (real Mac people, not newbies like me) have the similar persuasion to covering their walls with Apple posters.

I should audition for another Men with Brooms! I went out curling for the first time today with work, they had an event and I ended up going. At first I forgot about it and figured it was too late, but on Friday someone came up and made sure I was going to come, as