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[gstelmack]

What do you set your thermostat to? When we lived in Delaware we set it to 74 and it felt good. Moved to Florida and we leave it on 78 - and I don't notice a difference. The only thing I can think is that our air conditioner down here (newly purchased) also actively regulates our humidity and keeps it at 45%. I'm also one of those guys that can't stand heat, so it surprised me I was this tolerant of a higher temp on my AC.

I'm a 72 man, although I do fiddle with it a bit at any particular house to make sure it's comfortable.

In Florida it's probably running all the time, and the moving air helps it feel coolor, plus you adjust to warmer temps in general.

[JonInMiddleGA]

This is spoken like someone who is young.
I post a ton of baby pics on facebook. Reason being is my closest family is 3000 miles away and they like to see regular pics of my son. This is as good a way as any. I think a lot of people are similar to me. They are friends with their parents/siblings/ etc...and those people enjoy seeing pics of their grandchildren, nieces, etc... I know as an uncle I love seeing pics of my niece and nephews, and likewise, I know my SIL and BIL who live in London love seeing pics of my son since they see him maybe once a year.

Pretty much this.

I'm at the age where my friends are starting to have grandchildren, I'm consistently pleased (occasionally amused) to see them, since pics on FB are pretty much the only way that's likely to happen.

Same goes for my friends with children - from toddlers to teens. Those kids are a big part of their lives (or at least should be) and if they're friend enough to be on my FB in the first place then I'm interested in what's happening with them.

[Ksyrup]

We set ours at 77 with fans running. Occasionally we'll drop it to 76. And I love being cold, but I can't afford it and the girls would get too cold anyway. If I set mine at 72 I'd probably be paying $500+ a month in electric.

[JediKooter]

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[sabotai]

Shelley Long (Diane from Cheers) is 63 years old today.

[PilotMan]

We set ours at 77 with fans running. Occasionally we'll drop it to 76. And I love being cold, but I can't afford it and the girls would get too cold anyway. If I set mine at 72 I'd probably be paying $500+ a month in electric.

That's funny. Being from ND I still prefer the cold to the hot. It's cheap to cool my house compared to heating it, so I have a tendency to keep it cooler in the summer or else I can't function, and keep it on the chillier side in the winder. A heating bill could easily be twice what my cooling bill is in a cold month.

[StLee]

This is spoken like someone who is young.

I post a ton of baby pics on facebook. Reason being is my closest family is 3000 miles away and they like to see regular pics of my son. This is as good a way as any.

I think a lot of people are similar to me. They are friends with their parents/siblings/ etc...and those people enjoy seeing pics of their grandchildren, nieces, etc...

I know as an uncle I love seeing pics of my niece and nephews, and likewise, I know my SIL and BIL who live in London love seeing pics of my son since they see him maybe once a year.

That's exactly it for me. I live in Korea, but my family lives in Louisiana. Facebook is a convenient medium to share the development of my son. Also, I warned my friends that I would be posting lots of pictures and videos. If they don't like them, it is quite easy to unsubscribe from my feed.

[stevew]

The hip thing to do on Facebook is to bitch about some monotonous thing and hope everyone likes it, or post baby pics or post about how great your husband is, basically 3 angles no one else cares about

Agreed with the husband thing.

[PilotMan]

Agreed with the husband thing.

I agree Steve, your husband is great.

[stevew]

I get the whole baby thing to some degree. Some people are obnoxious, nobody from here though. I also give 30+ year old's with babies free reign to post whatever though. Obnoxious 20 somethings who shit out 4+ welfare babies should probably keep their beautiful mistakes to themselves.

And I think we've totally overestimated the whole thing worth how many 5 year olds we can take in a fight. FOFC has some hoss babies growing.

[cuervo72]

Agreed with the husband thing.

My wife had so much good to say about me that she quit Facebook altogether.

[Galaxy]

Work/Business related:

Stop sending me e-mail invites/confirmations to "schedule" our meeting that we just scheduled in the previous e-mail. I know what time we are meeting-since we just discussed it in the e-mail; is it too hard for you to remember? Stop wasting my time and spamming me with more e-mails.

My rant for the day.

[cartman]

Work/Business related:

Stop sending me e-mail invites/confirmations to "schedule" our meeting that we just scheduled in the previous e-mail. I know what time we are meeting-since we just discussed it in the e-mail; is it too hard for you to remember? Stop wasting my time and spamming me with more e-mails.

My rant for the day.

You work with Pumpy?

[sabotai]

Playing a random battleground in WoW tonight. We're losing Alterac Valley badly. I say "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?"

I get a flood of variations of "LOL, that was the Japanese!"

*sigh* Kids these days....

[Izulde]

Playing a random battleground in WoW tonight. We're losing Alterac Valley badly. I say "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?"

I get a flood of variations of "LOL, that was the Japanese!"

*sigh* Kids these days....

I had one of those moments a couple semesters ago when I referenced some '90s singer, I forget which one.. and they all stared at me blankly.

[Swaggs]

I had one of those moments a couple semesters ago when I referenced some '90s singer, I forget which one.. and they all stared at me blankly.

Had one the other day at work.

Me and a lady a little older than me were talking about multimedia giants and Ted Turner's name came up. No one else in the room knew who he was.

I guess it has been 10-15 years since he gave up control of his networks and such. People don't recognize the "WTBS" or "TNT" as anything related to him nowadays.

[stevew]

Got the dreaded MLM pitch from a guy at work. Probably going to avoid his calls for the near future. Some fuel additive bullshit.

[sterlingice]

Got the dreaded MLM pitch from a guy at work. Probably going to avoid his calls for the near future. Some fuel additive bullshit.

Get rich quick people are always that "one great idea" away from getting rich. And they never understand why they never have any money when they keep sinking it into crap like that.

SI

[Barkeep49]

Work/Business related:

Stop sending me e-mail invites/confirmations to "schedule" our meeting that we just scheduled in the previous e-mail. I know what time we are meeting-since we just discussed it in the e-mail; is it too hard for you to remember? Stop wasting my time and spamming me with more e-mails.

My rant for the day.
See I find this interesting. Given that we have a shared calendar system here, when I'm setting up a meeting I send out the invite as the "confirmation" of the meeting and as a courtesy as those attending the meeting can place it on their calendar easily.

[Ksyrup]

Installing an update to my phone for the FB app, I learned that the plural for emoticon is apparently emoji. Alrighty then.

[gstelmack]

See I find this interesting. Given that we have a shared calendar system here, when I'm setting up a meeting I send out the invite as the "confirmation" of the meeting and as a courtesy as those attending the meeting can place it on their calendar easily.

I use them to schedule the meeting in the first place. Find a time (in Outlook) the meeting room and all the attendees are available, send the invite out with information on the meeting, and deal with the folks who can't be bothered to keep their calendar up-to-date to finalize scheduling.

[korme]

i've probably never used "apostrophe s" correctly in 35 years on this planet.

if it's a possession or contraction it gets an apostrophe. simple!!!!!

[Suicane75]

Ijustspilledteamomykeyoardadowmostofmyottomtworowsofkeysdotwork.fuck.

[molson]

Great random website if you need a little break and like dogs:

Dogshaming (http://dog-shaming.com/)

[britrock88]

if it's a possession or contraction it gets an apostrophe. simple!!!!!

Except, you see, a possessive "its" doesn't get an apostrophe.

[Matthean]

Don't try to steal from LL Cool J.

'Mama said knock you out': LL Cool J broke burglary suspect's nose, jaw, ribs - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/showbiz/ll-cool-j-burgar/index.html?hpt=hp_t3)

[MacroGuru]

Well...My girlfriend gave me her old car because she wanted a new one and I needed a newer car (My POS I bought last July failed the state inspection and needs $1300 worth of work)

Que me getting home and excited to have a newer car and placing the Hyundai key somewhere....now I can't find the thing, I have someone willing to give me what the scrap yard will for it and no key to be found.....SMH..

[Izulde]

Natalie Portman is like, one of the top 5 most beautiful girls I've seen in person.

Alas, I didn't get a chance to meet her, nor boobhonk her like one of our other FOFC regs did.

[britrock88]

I didn't get a chance to boobhonk her like one of our other FOFC regs did.

I missed this story!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Sometimes people (and entities) have to be careful what they wish for. For example: "You are hearby summoned and commanded to lay all business aside & personally appear in the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse on Sept 24, 2012 to serve as a trial juror for the Superior Court"

I suppose that's a generally okay idea if you're a prosecutor, if you're a criminal defense attorney I have to think I'm among your worst nightmares. My luck? I'll end up on some utter b.s. civil case where I'll be wishing a pox upon both parties.

[SackAttack]

My luck? I'll end up on some utter b.s. civil case where I'll be wishing a pox upon both parties.

And hopefully it'll drag on forever. :popcorn:

[Autumn]

Will they let you bring a web cam?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Will they let you bring a web cam?

Hmm ... not expressly prohibited in the summons (although I think it's covered under a different rule, I believe you have to have specific permission to put a camera in any courtroom in the state).

I did notice they omitted mp3 players however.

[britrock88]

Passed the bar... on my birthday!

[Ksyrup]

Congrats!

What state? I know Florida and Kentucky were similar - late September/early October. Hated the waiting.

[britrock88]

North Carolina. (Quickest in the nation, maybe? I have friends in the Northeast who will only hear around Veterans Day; I don't think I could stand that.)

[Ksyrup]

Waiting for KY was the worst. As a kid out of law school, waiting 60ish days was hard, but it was nothing like quitting a job, taking a new one, selling a house, moving my family, taking the bar exam during that time, and then having to wait about 75 days to find out if I passed. HUGE amount of pressure on me during that time. I was always in a bad mood until the cloud lifted.

[Suicane75]

Got my new keyboard right quick. Now I can play Pac-Man again, yay!!

[molson]

North Carolina. (Quickest in the nation, maybe? I have friends in the Northeast who will only hear around Veterans Day; I don't think I could stand that.)

Did you take it here by any chance?

When You Can’t Provide Power During the Bar Exam, You Must Expect People To Complain About Their Scores « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts (http://abovethelaw.com/2012/08/when-you-cant-provide-power-during-the-bar-exam-you-must-expect-people-to-complain-about-their-scores/)

[britrock88]

Did you take it here by any chance?

When You Can’t Provide Power During the Bar Exam, You Must Expect People To Complain About Their Scores « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts (http://abovethelaw.com/2012/08/when-you-cant-provide-power-during-the-bar-exam-you-must-expect-people-to-complain-about-their-scores/)

Most certainly. Mid-afternoon on Tuesday, there was a powerful thunderstorm with strong winds (as can happen in NC) that knocked the power out _twice_ during the exam. As ATL described, this was essentially a livestock pen on the state fairgrounds with 1200 anxious test-takers inside... and it went pitch dark. Handwriters and people with bad laptop batteries were out of luck (I wasn't one of them). The examiners told us to keep testing through the outage (a crazy idea!). I was able to type and to use my laptop as a backlight to read the essay prompts.

When the power came back on after a few minutes, the vinyl air ducts by the ceiling suddenly re-inflated, making a big enough sound that multiple people dropped to the floor and under their tables, thinking the roof was collapsing. Moments later, though, the power went out again -- this time for 45 minutes. Again, we kept testing. When the power was finally restored for good, they allotted us an additional 45 minutes at the end of the session to try to level the playing field.

In the following days, however, the examiners apparently reconsidered. At one point, we were told that we might have to submit to a partial or complete re-test of the essays. That would have been a lovely prospect, and a logistical nightmare to boot. Finally, someone knocked some sense into them and they came up with the "afternoon essays optional" scoring method for this exam.

It was a crazy time.

[Draft Dodger]

when I watch a show like Modern Marvels or something similar and they feature a an assembly line, I always wonder about how said assembly line comes to be. Does Hershey just go to factoryparts.com to order a giant label machine? Do they have engineers on staff to design all this stuff? Or a build staff to build new machines?

[Poli]

Wife signed paperwork on our new home a few days ago. We will be moving in around February.

I'd love to say I signed as well, but the loan will be in her name only due to my ex-wife wrecking my credit. My credit was bad before the divorce. It's just plain awful now. Credit score has been slightly improving this past year, but the damage was clearly done prior to that.

[Ksyrup]

As long as I've known the song Our House, I don't think I ever realized it was Crosby Stills and Nash. Came on XM yesterday and the name flashed up there and I had no idea.

[britrock88]

As long as I've known the song Our House, I don't think I ever realized it was Crosby Stills and Nash. Came on XM yesterday and the name flashed up there and I had no idea.

That's fair, though. It's very much Graham Nash, with Stills and Crosby just doing a little backup vocals. Though a lot of CSN songs are structured that way, depending on who wrote the song.

[DanGarion]

As long as I've known the song Our House, I don't think I ever realized it was Crosby Stills and Nash. Came on XM yesterday and the name flashed up there and I had no idea.

No, Our House is by Madness.

[Ksyrup]

Different song.

[DanGarion]

Different song.

No, better song. ;)

[Ksyrup]

I will always be partial to the one that sounds like the Beatles, not the one that sounds like the 80s.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Smooth first day of school for us.

Daughter, 2nd grade, was great. Last 2 years were struggles but she loved being responsible for her brother getting to his room, etc.

Son, kindergarten, was a champ. He was dressed, on the couch with his backpack on at 7:20...for the bus at 8:30.

[Ksyrup]

8:30?!?! Damn, bus picks up for elementary school here at 6:55; school starts at 7:40.

[korme]

Dog Whisperer is crack for me

[JonInMiddleGA]

8:30?!?! Damn, bus picks up for elementary school here at 6:55; school starts at 7:40.

740? WTF? We're not even supposed to drop ours off before 745a (for an 805a official start)

Is your system doing that split schedule stuff, where the HS doesn't start until like 9 and gets out at 4whatever? (so as to be able to double-shift the buses)

[Ksyrup]

Kinda, but not that big a difference, just 30 minutes. Elementary goes 7:40-2:45, and middle/HS goes 8:10-3:15.

[Suburban Rhythm]

8:30?!?! Damn, bus picks up for elementary school here at 6:55; school starts at 7:40.

740? WTF? We're not even supposed to drop ours off before 745a (for an 805a official start)

Is your system doing that split schedule stuff, where the HS doesn't start until like 9 and gets out at 4whatever? (so as to be able to double-shift the buses)

My kids are one final pickups. I believe first bell is 9a, and they begin at 9:15a. Done at 3:45p, home at 4:15 or so.

We have the same that they shouldn't be dropped off more than 30 minutes prior, so 8:30 for elementary kids.

Next door has a HS age son, the bus passes about 7:15, I think they start at 8a.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Solar

I can't imagine my kids being up that early consistently.

My wife's a nurse, works a ton of 7a-7p in the summer. My parents watch the kids when we both work. I get them up at like 6:30-6:45, and it's a struggle. And that's twice a week Max. Can't imagine daily.

[sterlingice]

My high school started at 7:30. We were the early ones and then the other schools started a little later, I believe. I had to get up before 6 to catch a bus at around 6:45, iirc.

SI

[Grover]

First day of classes for me. Way too many attractive 18 year old girls here.

[DaddyTorgo]

First day of classes for me. Way too many attractive 18 year old girls here.

:D

[Ksyrup]

Solar

I can't imagine my kids being up that early consistently.

My wife's a nurse, works a ton of 7a-7p in the summer. My parents watch the kids when we both work. I get them up at like 6:30-6:45, and it's a struggle. And that's twice a week Max. Can't imagine daily.

It does suck. Both kids get up at 6:15, just because I leave by 6:30 and the older one helps my wife gets things ready. The young one is not an early morning person, either.

[britrock88]

It appears that no one has figured out that it's the high schoolers who need the extra sleep... they ship them off to 7:30a start times while the 6-year-olds who would wake up at 6 in the morning anyway don't start until 8:45.

[gstelmack]

Solar

I can't imagine my kids being up that early consistently.

My wife's a nurse, works a ton of 7a-7p in the summer. My parents watch the kids when we both work. I get them up at like 6:30-6:45, and it's a struggle. And that's twice a week Max. Can't imagine daily.

My kids are a struggle to get up at 6:30 - 7:00 for school as well, although come the weekend when they want to play 6:30 doesn't seem too early for them...

[Ksyrup]

It appears that no one has figured out that it's the high schoolers who need the extra sleep... they ship them off to 7:30a start times while the 6-year-olds who would wake up at 6 in the morning anyway don't start until 8:45.

Ours is set up that way - the older kids go later. It's just that it's not THAT much later. But that's probably due to the fact that we've got a small school system. The same bus that picks up my 8 year old at 6:55 is back by 7:35 to get my 13 year old. They probably start middle/HS so early because they can.

[spleen1015]

Kinda, but not that big a difference, just 30 minutes. Elementary goes 7:40-2:45, and middle/HS goes 8:10-3:15.

It is the opposite for us. The Elementary kids go in later and the middle/HS go early. It is a big difference, too. HS starts at 7 and Ele starts at 9. I think HS goes an hour longer as well.

[Suburban Rhythm]

It does suck. Both kids get up at 6:15, just because I leave by 6:30 and the older one helps my wife gets things ready. The young one is not an early morning person, either.

At a prior job, I worked downtown and was in typically at 7, and always before 7:30.

Days we both worked (kids not in school yet), I'd be up at 5, everything in the car by 5:30, kids in their carseats, out the door before 6, trolley parking lot by 6:30...looking back now, no idea how I did it.

[JediKooter]

First day of classes for me. Way too many attractive 18 year old girls here.

Tell them Jedikooter says, "Hi".

[stevew]

My 8th grader leaves at 7:05(last pickup on run) and my 3rd grader at 8:10 ish(also last piccup)

[Grover]

Tell them Jedikooter says, "Hi".

I'll pass it around on Thursday.

[JediKooter]

I'll pass it around on Thursday.

What happened to the other 4 days of the week?

[CU Tiger]

Wow our 3rd grader starts at 7:15 and our 6th grader starts at 8:00.
Couldnt imagine a 9a start.

If the 3rd grader rode the bus she'd have to be on it at 5:05.

[Grover]

What happened to the other 4 days of the week?

I'm only there Tuesdays and Thursdays, sorry mate.

[Sun Tzu]

I like Kevin Bacon but I hate Footloose.

[cartman]

I want to punch the guy from the Suzuki Kazashi commericals in the face.

[StLee]

After two months of being primary caretaker of my now 15-month-old because of vacation, I finally get to go to the office and work my brain! I have never been so excited to go back to work in my life. My mind is racing with two months worth of ideas. Poor college freshmen... Poorer literature majors.

[Suicane75]

Eating half a box of Cheerios is bad. Bad, bad, bad. :banghead:

[Ksyrup]

Good for your heart though...?

[Suicane75]

I can't imagine any part of what I went through last night was good for any part of me.

[Ksyrup]

You didn't eat the toy, too, did you?

[sterlingice]

Ah, Phil Hartman

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/06/supercolonblow.jpg

SI

[Suicane75]

Let's put it this way. Even my pee smelled like cheerios. That can't be proper.

[molson]

This is the first year since 1997 where I'm not playing fantasy football. I also skipped fantasy baseball for the first time in a about a decade. I miss drafting, but not feeling the need to react and take note of tidbits I hear about teams' backup RB situation. Hopefully I can enjoy the bigger picture or something. I probably spent 2-3 hours a week on my team for the last 15 years.

[DanGarion]

This is the first year since 1997 where I'm not playing fantasy football. I also skipped fantasy baseball for the first time in a about a decade. I miss drafting, but not feeling the need to react and take note of tidbits I hear about teams' backup RB situation. Hopefully I can enjoy the bigger picture or something. I probably spent 2-3 hours a week on my team for the last 15 years.

First time for me since around 1992 (high school with Baseball Weekly) since I haven't done a fantasy league. Probably first time since about 98 or so for football. Had been doing keeper leagues for years, going to miss that.

[B & B]

This is the first year I havent taken a WR 2 before the 7th round ever. I waited until the 10th round. Everyone was laughing. I have 6 starting RBs, the other 11 owners can share the remaining 26. I will laugh later.

[stevew]

Yeah. I'm loading up on RB early. Picking 3rd I'm hoping to go McCoy/Rice then Gore/Charles/Turner/Murray/MJD then maybe Vick or another RB.

If we go 6 pt QB TDs, I'll go Brady or Rodgers in the first.

[Pumpy Tudors]

This is the first year since 1997 where I'm not playing fantasy football. I also skipped fantasy baseball for the first time in a about a decade. I miss drafting, but not feeling the need to react and take note of tidbits I hear about teams' backup RB situation. Hopefully I can enjoy the bigger picture or something. I probably spent 2-3 hours a week on my team for the last 15 years.
I think you'll enjoy watching football a little bit more. I quit fantasy football six years ago, and I actually found the games more entertaining when I wasn't sweating over which player was scoring touchdowns.

[Ksyrup]

I refuse to play fantasy football. I've been drawn in a couple times in the past 5-6 years by the neighborhood guys, and I definitely enjoy a live draft with the guys, but fantasy football ruins pro football for me. The fake game impacted my enjoyment of the real games too much.

[Suburban Rhythm]

I refuse to play fantasy football. I've been drawn in a couple times in the past 5-6 years by the neighborhood guys, and I definitely enjoy a live draft with the guys, but fantasy football ruins pro football for me. The fake game impacted my enjoyment of the real games too much.

That's the part I miss.

This is year 3 of no fantasy football, and really, don't miss it at all now. If anything, the draft, seeing how things fall into place, building the team, that was the fun part.

Fielding a team each week became a nuisance, searching for bye-week replacements, dealing with injuries, and the stupid fighting between owners over silly things, I can do without.

[Ksyrup]

Yeah the mini-party, food, and smack talk was fun. But that was 3-4 hours and the season's long and tedious.

[Suicane75]

I'm the exact opposite. I always found FF abhorrent, mainly because I loathe the H2H, playoff format which I always found completely counter intuitive to fantasy sports. But in the past few years I've slowly gotten more and more bored with the NFL from a competitive standpoint. Now I'm in a couple leagues with a bit of money on the line and I can't imagine staying invested in the sport without betting or FF to keep me interested.

[Suburban Rhythm]

I'm the exact opposite. I always found FF abhorrent, mainly because I loathe the H2H, playoff format which I always found completely counter intuitive to fantasy sports. But in the past few years I've slowly gotten more and more bored with the NFL from a competitive standpoint. Now I'm in a couple leagues with a bit of money on the line and I can't imagine staying invested in the sport without betting or FF to keep me interested.

Really good point. This is probably a factor for me too. I still will watch every Steelers game, but I no longer will watch Thursday night, Sunday afternoon, late Sunday afternoon, Sunday night, & Monday night.

[Ksyrup]

I've gotten bored with the NFL, too, but that's where college football comes in. I've replaced Sunday afternoon with Saturday afternoon/night. I'll still watch NFL at night, but I usually miss most of the games because I'd rather have Saturdays for college than Sundays for NFL.

I've never been a gambler, so that aspect of it doesn't interest me in the least. FF was good for competition, but it wasn't any fun because of the nature of the game - you could have the best roster, but it all comes down to choosing who to play. Too much blind/dumb luck and not enough reward for building a good roster. At least with baseball, the full roster comes into play. But I gave up fantasy baseball years ago for the same reason - it ruined my enjoyment of the game.

[PilotMan]

I started a FF league when I was in eighth grade. I was FF before FF was cool.




Of course I gave it up over 10 years ago, because it was consuming my life and i grew to hate it. Don't miss it much at all.

[jeff061]

Yeah, I played FF back in the 90s, was ok but didn't love it. I straight despise it now and I don't even play it. There is nothing I care less about than articles and the talking heads that focus on FF. It's like a minefield, I start to read or listen only to realize what I stumbled into and how little I care.

[Suicane75]

See, that's how I feel about the NFL now. Millions of articles, every play seems to have it's own highlite show. It's become way too much of a pageant. This way, I bone up on players a week or two before the season, draft a couple of teams, and just casually observe.

[Chief Rum]

If it weren't for FF, I probably wouldn't watch much NFL at all anymore. After losing my team here in LA 18 years ago, what was the point?

Because of FF, I still love the game and now I can watch pretty much every game with interest, both for FF and for the real life competitive aspect of it.

[Logan]

I just don't allow myself to get too worked up over how my matchups are going. Maybe easier said than done for some, and it probably helps that I'm pretty successful overall...

[PilotMan]

http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/Jc52_gPlOIwk8N_KD62ZVw/l.jpg

This is a food cart in our area. Does anyone else find this a tad bit offensive?

[Autumn]

Yep. Seems clear they've decided who is and isn't going to be in their market. do they actually make Mexican food? Because if so, wow.

[Dutch]

Doesn't that just imply that "Joe" is here illegally?

[DanGarion]

Yep. Seems clear they've decided who is and isn't going to be in their market. do they actually make Mexican food? Because if so, wow.

The chalk sign says Tortas and Quesadillas.

[molson]

How much does it suck to plan a labor day weekend away, you make arrangement for the kids, put the dogs in the kennel, make hotel reservations in the city you're going to, show up at the airport on Friday afternoon, see that your flight is cancelled for no apparent reason, and learn that you can't be rebooked on any other flight before the weekend's over. So, trip aborted, everybody goes home. This didn't happen to me just now, but it did just happen to a friend's friend that was supposed to fly in from San Francisco to Boise. I'm sure she can get some bonus compensation or whatever, but that doesn't help, she's a busy lawyer with plenty of money, but not enough weekends off. I hate the airline industry.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Whenever I see someone who may or may not be a man in drag I hope it really is, just because if that actually a real woman... damn.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Doesn't that just imply that "Joe" is here illegally?

Only if it said "The 'Legal' Mexican" (is that how you quote something with quotes?)

As it is I think it means he's illegal, but Canadian. And one of many.

[JediKooter]

Only if it said "The 'Legal' Mexican" (is that how you quote something with quotes?)

As it is I think it means he's illegal, but Canadian. And one of many.

Isn't Mitt Romney a 'legal' mexican?

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Isn't Mitt Romney a 'legal' mexican?

His dad was. I think Mitt Romney was born in Kenya or something.

[JediKooter]

His dad was. I think Mitt Romney was born in Kenya or something.

Eh, close enough. They're all brown people anyway.

[PilotMan]

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/309133_512606972087550_280027004_n.jpg

Totally blown away by how many people got this question wrong on facebook. Well, it is facebook, but damn, it's not that hard.

[thesloppy]

I don't think it's 'hard' so much as it is a yes-or-no question ("Do you remember the mathematic order of operations?"), presented as a math problem, in order to make you feel stupid or smart, depending on your answer. The order of operations never really comes up in real-life use (at least it never has is mine), and that kind of crappy notation is certainly never going to be used within mathematics/science as anything other than an example of "how do you read this really poorly formatted equation?", like this one. It's a question of memory and/or reading purposely crappy formatting, rather than any depth of mathematical ability.

[sabotai]

Sounds like someone got the answer wrong.....


;)

[Dutch]

lmao!

[stevew]

We had a thread about troll math before.

[Dutch]

Would it be easier to figure out this troll math or to memorize the discussion points in 75K+ threads? Hmmm....

[thesloppy]

Sounds like someone got the answer wrong.....

Sad Trombone (http://sadtrombone.com/)

[Dutch]

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s480x480/387146_467630519924631_588752336_n.jpg

[M GO BLUE!!!]

If that is true, that is absolutely brilliant.

[MrBug708]

Why do football players hold hands on the way out for the coin flip?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Kinda bothered me tonight to realize that I couldn't name all of my HS English teachers. Dunno why that bothered me, just seems like I ought to be able to do that even if it has been nearly 30 years.

[21C]

I was teaching a 9th grade class recently where I mentioned that I had high school Math in the same room 30 years ago. A girl looked shocked and said "Do you still remember that?"

[JonInMiddleGA]

So either GT is suddenly a defensive powerhouse or VT ain't got much offensive at all.

[Matthean]

I'm amazed at the state of bathrooms are in that some of my male friends own. The showers seem to be the worst places to simply let rust and mildew build up. If you want to not care when nobody is over, then that's your prerogative, but if somebody is staying over, make some sort of effort.

[MacroGuru]

Today is the first day of school for the kids. I do not have full custody of my boys, but my daughter willingly decided she wanted to live with me last week.

Well, this is the 2nd year in a row I have them for the first day of school. Second year in a row I get a phone call 2 hours before I am to drop them off and told to bring them over in the morning. It means my kids are up almost an hour before they normally would be.

Damn my ex.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Today is the first day of school for the kids....
Damn my ex.

That sucks MG, I've got a friend going through something similar with his soon-to-be ex right now (compounded by his kids just starting school) & I know what it puts him through. I wish I had a magic wand for both of you.

[Ksyrup]

A paralegal at my former firm had major issues with his ex. He's had a real difficult time even getting copies of school work, report cards, school picture order forms, etc. The teachers give everything to the mom and shut him out completely. He's had to go to the principal several times to get "equal time." Really crappy situation.

[MacroGuru]

A paralegal at my former firm had major issues with his ex. He's had a real difficult time even getting copies of school work, report cards, school picture order forms, etc. The teachers give everything to the mom and shut him out completely. He's had to go to the principal several times to get "equal time." Really crappy situation.

I went through this last year and the only reason I am involved this year right out of the gates is because I had to take control with it. I was effectively being shut out by the ex and her boyfriend.

I will post in my other thread I have about a situation that sucks.

[DougW]

Michael Strahan takes Regis' old job. I like it.

Live! with Kelly & Michael

[molson]

I have 60 sick days saved up. Who the hell uses all these sick days? I guess it's just kind of like a bonus health insurance for if I get deathly ill.

[DougW]

I have 60 sick days saved up. Who the hell uses all these sick days? I guess it's just kind of like a bonus health insurance for if I get deathly ill.
Just send 'em this way.

[Suburban Rhythm]

I have 60 sick days saved up. Who the hell uses all these sick days? I guess it's just kind of like a bonus health insurance for if I get deathly ill.

My prior position, we didn't accrue sick time. It was a "if you're really sick, don't come in" policy, but monitored. The unwritten rule was 8 days/5 occurances (multiple day string) per rolling calendar year.

I used 2 sick days in 12 years. Others tracked when they "gained" a sick day back in the above system, and used it immediately.

My current position, I accrue .5 days of medical time per month. The rule is however, you must supply a doctor's excuse within 3 days of your return.

What I do alot is schedule doctor/dentist appointments for afternoon, and use .5 medical days. Chances are I wouldn't otherwise use them, and while I would accrue them, if I can't use them as true vacation, I'd never use them, and end up with 60 days as well.

[JonInMiddleGA]

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/396383_10151009785391556_132471932_n.jpg

[Dutch]

haha...nice.

[Lathum]

I have 60 sick days saved up. Who the hell uses all these sick days? I guess it's just kind of like a bonus health insurance for if I get deathly ill.

I love the fact that my company doesn't separate the two. We get what is called earned time. Sucks if you get sick but for someone like me who never does or guts it out I get tons of vacation time.

[cuervo72]

At my old job I got something like 22 days of vacation and 12 days of sick per year, and they could accrue up to...well, I forget exactly - maybe two years' worth (this was a long time ago). "Sick" was pretty liberally treated - this could be if a family member was sick, if I had a doctor appt, etc.

[Ksyrup]

I love the fact that my company doesn't separate the two. We get what is called earned time. Sucks if you get sick but for someone like me who never does or guts it out I get tons of vacation time.

Yeah my new job, I've got PTO (Paid Time Off). It's all lumped together.

[21C]

At my job, I get 11 weeks paid vacation a year. I get 32 sick days a year that accrue for a four-year rolling period. I also get long-service leave where I currently have 18 weeks accrued - even though I have used probably twelve weeks in the last ten years.

And I work from 9 to 3.

[cuervo72]

Were you not in Australia I'd ask if you were in Congress.

[molson]

At my job, I get 11 weeks paid vacation a year. I get 32 sick days a year that accrue for a four-year rolling period. I also get long-service leave where I currently have 18 weeks accrued - even though I have used probably twelve weeks in the last ten years.

And I work from 9 to 3.

Are there people that call in sick 32 days a year? (And have to dip into their 11 paid weeks vacation)?

I think I have 12 sick days a year and that seems excessive, to the extent they're used for actual illness. I'd love if they were just lumped together with vacation time, because it really just seems like a "benefit" that nobody would ever actually use. I guess it's possible someone is sick for 2 weeks, but not every year.

I haven't used a sick day in the 5 years I've been at my job, and the other 12 employees I'd say are averaging around 1 or 2 sick days every other year. And the nature of the job is kind of such that if you're sick and leave early Monday, you'll have to do extra hours towards the end of the week anyway to catchup, so you're rarely actually using sick time - everything runs by the hour with no set working hours, so you always can manage to get your 40 hours in even if you take a little time off for being sick, or just for taking half days.

Edit: Traveling for funerals can count as sick time, but if I flew back east for a relative's funeral, there's no way I could take 2 weeks off for it without requiring my co-workers to go over 40 hours. And I guess I'm pretty brainwashed because I wouldn't want to take all that time off anyway. I like working and I like to be busy. I guess it'd be awesome to work 6 hours a day and have 11 weeks of vacation, but damn, as it is I'm pretty ready to go back to work even after a 3-day weekend. I'm sure I could adjust and make take up surfing or become a heavier drinker (or both).

[Scoobz0202]

At my job, I get 11 weeks paid vacation a year. I get 32 sick days a year that accrue for a four-year rolling period. I also get long-service leave where I currently have 18 weeks accrued - even though I have used probably twelve weeks in the last ten years.

And I work from 9 to 3.

Read the first sentence and thought, "Wonder what country this poster is from.."

[Grover]

Michelle Obama is a minx. That is all.

[21C]

Are there people that call in sick 32 days a year? (And have to dip into their 11 paid weeks vacation)?
Not many but some have tried to take advantage of the system. There is one person who recently had heart surgery (he is 44 and superfit) who has had to use up most of his sick leave.

The 11 weeks of vacation is because I am a high school teacher and those are for the breaks between terms.

I haven't had any sick days this year but I would guess that I typically have between 5 and 10 a year. Being around 1000 students during flu season will usually do you in. Besides I subscribe to the view that you are only going to make others unwell if you come to work when you are sick with the flu.

[sterlingice]

Not many but some have tried to take advantage of the system. There is one person who recently had heart surgery (he is 44 and superfit) who has had to use up most of his sick leave.

The 11 weeks of vacation is because I am a high school teacher and those are for the breaks between terms.

I haven't had any sick days this year but I would guess that I typically have between 5 and 10 a year. Being around 1000 students during flu season will usually do you in. Besides I subscribe to the view that you are only going to make others unwell if you come to work when you are sick with the flu.

Yeah, unfortunately in America, everyone thinks it's their god given right to come to work and make everyone else sick.

It's a combination of selfishness ("but I won't get paid and I'm too closely budgeted in my $100K per year job"), a false sense of self importance ("if I leave, the world will fall apart"), and lack of concern for their fellow man ("it's only the flu- after all, I get to decide what's bad or good for everyone else")

SI

[Coffee Warlord]

Yeah, unfortunately in America, everyone thinks it's their god given right to come to work and make everyone else sick.

It's a combination of selfishness ("but I won't get paid and I'm too closely budgeted in my $100K per year job"), a false sense of self importance ("if I leave, the world will fall apart"), and lack of concern for their fellow man ("it's only the flu- after all, I get to decide what's bad or good for everyone else")

Or a guilt trip from their employer, many of which who believe you're just a lazy bastard if you don't come into work no matter how sick you are. Which is in my experience far more common than your above motivations.

[molson]

Yeah, unfortunately in America, everyone thinks it's their god given right to come to work and make everyone else sick.

It's a combination of selfishness ("but I won't get paid and I'm too closely budgeted in my $100K per year job"), a false sense of self importance ("if I leave, the world will fall apart"), and lack of concern for their fellow man ("it's only the flu- after all, I get to decide what's bad or good for everyone else")

SI

I think if you're not working around kids though, and especially if you don't have kids, adults really don't usually get sick 5 times a year, let alone 10. I think it's more kind of accepted in a lot of circles that those sick days are for opening day, last-minute vegas trips, etc.

[sterlingice]

I think if you're not working around kids though, and especially if you don't have kids, adults really don't usually get sick 5 times a year, let alone 10. I think it's more kind of accepted in a lot of circles that those sick days are for opening day, last-minute vegas trips, etc.

I agree. I think most adults tend to get sick between 2-5 days a year between colds and flu- basically one to three times a year. That said, I think if you're sick, you're sick and should stay home. If you're not sick, don't use your sick days, use your vacation.

For people who have kids, it seems to be a different matter. Then I tend to think of the sick days as combined between the parents and kids and it's pretty easy to get up to 10 days. Then again, there are also a lot of people who abuse that, too.

SI

[Ksyrup]

I'm good for a couple of days each spring/fall thanks to allergies. Of course, now that I get to work from home whenever I want, I can be flexible in terms of using my actual PTO for sick time. I'll probably work from home when I'm sick and not take off unless I'm bedridden.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Is Jaden Smith 2nd in line of succession to rule Freshness?

[DougW]

Getting ready to go see Kiss/Motley Crue; and just found out their Pyro truck flipped this morning and the show is postponed. Luckily, I can still go tomorrow ! :)

[Chief Rum]

Getting ready to go see Kiss/Motley Crue; and just found out their Pyro truck flipped this morning and the show is postponed. Luckily, I can still go tomorrow ! :)

It doesn't inspire much excitement in me for the show if the Pyro truck flipped but did NOT subsequently explode.

[JediKooter]

Why am I NOT surprised by this?

Report: US health care system wastes $750B a year - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/report-us-health-care-system-wastes-750b-140106406.html)

[gstelmack]

It takes more people to process payment for care than it does to actually provide the care, so no I'm not surprised.

[Passacaglia]

If banking worked like health care, ATM transactions would take days, the report said.

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

[JediKooter]

I think they are trying to say that if you went to the ATM to get 40 dollars, you would have to wait a few days before it would spit out that 40 dollars.

Unless I'm missing something.

[gstelmack]

I think they are trying to say that if you went to the ATM to get 40 dollars, you would have to wait a few days before it would spit out that 40 dollars.

Unless I'm missing something.

Because your trip to the ATM would result in printing a ticket inside the branch, which would then require someone to take, fill out all the appropriate forms to request the money, then mailed off to the bank's central office, who would review to determine if the $40 was acceptable, or maybe $40 is not customary for people in your area to withdraw money so they only want to give you $20, then put the money in an envelope to mail back to the branch, who could then put the money in the ATM for you to get.

[fpres]

If banking worked like health care, ATM transactions would take months (with a 90% success rate considered "good"), the report said.
corrected

Other than that, the article is pretty spot on.

[Ksyrup]

This is not a joke - I just found out that a girl on my daughter's soccer team is named Anemone.

[JediKooter]

Because your trip to the ATM would result in printing a ticket inside the branch, which would then require someone to take, fill out all the appropriate forms to request the money, then mailed off to the bank's central office, who would review to determine if the $40 was acceptable, or maybe $40 is not customary for people in your area to withdraw money so they only want to give you $20, then put the money in an envelope to mail back to the branch, who could then put the money in the ATM for you to get.

Sounds about right. And good luck if you have to reschedule your trip to the ATM.

[Passacaglia]

Because your trip to the ATM would result in printing a ticket inside the branch, which would then require someone to take, fill out all the appropriate forms to request the money, then mailed off to the bank's central office, who would review to determine if the $40 was acceptable, or maybe $40 is not customary for people in your area to withdraw money so they only want to give you $20, then put the money in an envelope to mail back to the branch, who could then put the money in the ATM for you to get.

This is a bit of a stretch. The other comparisons made in that paragraph, I can see their line of thinking. But at this point, I don't think you're talking about getting money out of an ATM, you're just talking about getting services from a hospital, but calling it getting money out of an ATM.

[gstelmack]

This is a bit of a stretch. The other comparisons made in that paragraph, I can see their line of thinking. But at this point, I don't think you're talking about getting money out of an ATM, you're just talking about getting services from a hospital, but calling it getting money out of an ATM.

They were talking about the cost of healthcare, and what I described above is a big reason for the overhead in healthcare. Yes, another big reason is simple overcharging (I wouldn't need a prescription plan if I got the prices my health insurance gets, $60 vs $180 for one example) or multi-charging, but there is also quite a bit of overhead and delay in simply getting payment. People at the doctor's office who have to handle all the filing, plus people at the insurer that have to review and make payment.

More of this is getting electronic which is good, but health insurance rates have been going up like 20% / year which is absurd.

[JediKooter]

I took the ATM metaphor as an example of how inefficient things are in the health care industry. Kind of like that letter from Ford or GM or some other company (can't remember which company) responding to a letter from someone at Microsoft comparing windows to one of their cars. The letter from the car company person basically said, "If our cars ran as well as windows does, it would break down every 2 miles".

[Passacaglia]

They were talking about the cost of healthcare, and what I described above is a big reason for the overhead in healthcare. Yes, another big reason is simple overcharging (I wouldn't need a prescription plan if I got the prices my health insurance gets, $60 vs $180 for one example) or multi-charging, but there is also quite a bit of overhead and delay in simply getting payment. People at the doctor's office who have to handle all the filing, plus people at the insurer that have to review and make payment.

More of this is getting electronic which is good, but health insurance rates have been going up like 20% / year which is absurd.

I'm not saying there aren't problems with healthcare (although I'm skeptical of your 20% per year figure). I'm saying that trying to compare anything in healthcare to withdrawing money from an ATM makes no sense.

[JediKooter]

I'll take metaphors & similes for 1,000 Alex. :)

[Sun Tzu]

I honestly believe there are a good number of people that would be happier with a semi-regular dose of MMJ.

I would also like to add the following:

Gunga galunga...gunga, gunga-lagunga.

[molson]

Why am I NOT surprised by this?

Report: US health care system wastes $750B a year - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/report-us-health-care-system-wastes-750b-140106406.html)

One of the easiest things to do in the world is be some type of hack "medical provider", and bill the government for services you've never provided. They didn't even check for this until very recently, but now, enforcement is still left largely to to state attorney general offices, which only have so many resources. Pharmaceutical fraud is also hilariously easy to accomplish and get away with. I won't get more political in the random thread except to say that making waste and fraud enforcement a priority would do plenty to help the state of health care and free up resources for actual medical care, all while acting as something of a stimulus because you'd have to hire a bunch of people at the state and federal level to combat this stuff. But there's no political party that shares these priorities.

[Radii]

Having worked in Healthcare technology for the last 15 years, I started replying a few times before ending up in a fit of unintelligible rage and deleting what I'd written.

I've been using the "if banking were like healthcare" analogy for a really long time, just with regards to healthcare's approach to advancing technology and creating reasonable standards for the industry, here's where I end up:

If banking were like healthcare, your ATM card not only wouldn't work at banks other than your own, it probably wouldn't work at other branches within your own bank other than the one you opened your account at. Cards would be different sizes, have different information on them, basically each one would be completely unique. About 10% of the time the transaction simply wouldn't work. You wouldn't know for a month if the money was taken out of your account or not, but you certainly didn't get the money. Another 10% of the time you'd get a different amount than you requested. If you got less, haha fuck you. If you got more, it'd be your legal responsibility to fill out 5 pages of forms and return the extra money to the bank within 24 hours or you'd be prosecuted. Despite the fact that the transactions are entirely electronic, most banks would turn off ATM service for 8-12 hours a day during weekdays and 16-24 hours on weekends.

Most importantly, the database that the ATM service uses to look up your balance and process your transaction would be different than the one that bank branches maintained that contained your *actual* balance, so even when it works, every single electronic transaction would be inherently unreliable and potentially inaccurate. This may or may not be corrected within 30 days of the transaction occurring.


There, without typing up 10,000 words on my experience over the last decade+ with healthcare technology, that is what I believe being a banking customer with an ATM card would be like if technology in banking were treated the way technology in healthcare is currently treated.


Final thought: A month ago I connected our healthcare technology company to a major blue cross blue shield payer for electronic eligibility. When we signed up with them, they sent us all their documentation. We received information on their dial-up service. They offer a connection via webservices, but their default is to send out information for dial-up customers, we had to request the additional documentation to connect using another method.

[Lathum]

Yeah, unfortunately in America, everyone thinks it's their god given right to come to work and make everyone else sick.



Or worse bring treir sick kid to daycare and get everyone elses kid sick along with the daycare provider, forcing you or your spouse to now stay home with a sick kid.

Or a guilt trip from their employer, many of which who believe you're just a lazy bastard if you don't come into work no matter how sick you are. Which is in my experience far more common than your above motivations.

This was my experience when working in the restaurant industry, if you tried to call out sick you were either told no or treated like you were commiting some major crime. They would also make you get your shift covered before letting you stay home.

[stevew]

Michael Strahan takes Regis' old job. I like it.

Live! with Kelly & Michael

I actually will watch this show a fair amount and I'm not thrilled. I wish Kelly and Marc was a possibility. Obviously Anderson Cooper wasn't realistic either. At least Tiki destroyed his career so that Strahan could get the opportunity.

[stevew]

Lathum-
Totally agree about the bullshit nature of the restaurant. It's scary to think how sick I would be some days. I'm making like 8 bucks an hour with no health care and you want A doctor's note. Situation is so fuck.

[Scoobz0202]

Lathum-
Totally agree about the bullshit nature of the restaurant. It's scary to think how sick I would be some days. I'm making like 8 bucks an hour with no health care and you want A doctor's note. Situation is so fuck.

Pretty much this. I'm 25 and didn't go back to college until Spring of last year. I worked eight years in the restaurant industry and I was always commended because I only called in like one day a year. It had nothing to do with being committed to my job but every thing to do with not wanting to be bitched at and expected to find somebody to cover my shifts. I worked mornings a lot. I'd rather come in with strep throat then attempt to find somebody to cover my shift at 5:45 in the morning.

[stevew]

Did you ever get lunch breaks?

[JediKooter]

One of the easiest things to do in the world is be some type of hack "medical provider", and bill the government for services you've never provided. They didn't even check for this until very recently, but now, enforcement is still left largely to to state attorney general offices, which only have so many resources. Pharmaceutical fraud is also hilariously easy to accomplish and get away with. I won't get more political in the random thread except to say that making waste and fraud enforcement a priority would do plenty to help the state of health care and free up resources for actual medical care, all while acting as something of a stimulus because you'd have to hire a bunch of people at the state and federal level to combat this stuff. But there's no political party that shares these priorities.

To me that is just crazy that it's that easy to do that. It's like those fake faxes for invoices saying you owe X amount for services you never used, but, someone just sees a bill and pays it without any due diligence. Fraud and waste is one of my biggest pet peeves. Especially in industries that have captive consumers like health care. I honestly don't think it's political (maybe there's some), I think it's just good old fashioned laziness and status quo-ness.

Radii said: "A bunch of really good things I agree with...".

It almost seems like the health care industry is in some kind of competition to out inefficient and out waste the government or something. Their motto should be: "You think the government is bad...wait until you see us in action".

Dialup? Seriously? Do they still use mimeograph machines to make copies?

[Lathum]

Did you ever get lunch breaks?

:lol:

[stevew]

:lol:

I worked at Bennigan's and they sold us on this "Lunch Plan." Except that you couldn't take lunch ever. The whole industry seems to suck like that. I worked at multiple places for like 10 years. Lunch is eating a handful of fries out of the sight of management.

[Coffee Warlord]

I cannot believe they found Drew Peterson guilty.

[stevew]

that Drew Peterson movie is awesome.

[Suburban Rhythm]

It almost seems like the health care industry is in some kind of competition to out inefficient and out waste the government or something. Their motto should be: "You think the government is bad...wait until you see us in action".

Dialup? Seriously? Do they still use mimeograph machines to make copies?

In my position I deal with school districts, county/state governments and managed care organizations.

I do believe sometimes it's a competition of who can force the most asinine things on us to seek payment/reimbursement.

One state education board requires we fill out a form, only for special education kids, that consists of me filling in dates on a blank calendar template, marking the student as present or absent, or the date as a weekend or holiday. I did it the first month in Excel, they called and said "No, you need to use our form...and handwrite the information in".

The catch is this...this is a NEW request for the new fiscal year. Prior to July, this wasn't done. Someone, in the year 2012, decided that, a form they didn't use in the 1980's or 90's of handwritten information, is now necessary in 2012.


Similar story, one agency requested we fax their invoice monthly. My first thought was "meh...I guess faxing is still relevant". At one point I suggested I could send via email, encrypted if needed. No go. "I don't trust that, there is sensitive information on there."

But a fax is OK? Her reason was she checks the fax every few minutes, it's just outside her desk, so nobody else would see the information.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[stevew]

do you work for UPMC by any chance?

[DanGarion]

Yeah, unfortunately in America, everyone thinks it's their god given right to come to work and make everyone else sick.


Or sometimes it's because the employee get's penalized on their year end review for attendance. (used to be like this for me in another department at my company).

[JediKooter]

In my position I deal with school districts, county/state governments and managed care organizations.

I do believe sometimes it's a competition of who can force the most asinine things on us to seek payment/reimbursement.

One state education board requires we fill out a form, only for special education kids, that consists of me filling in dates on a blank calendar template, marking the student as present or absent, or the date as a weekend or holiday. I did it the first month in Excel, they called and said "No, you need to use our form...and handwrite the information in".

The catch is this...this is a NEW request for the new fiscal year. Prior to July, this wasn't done. Someone, in the year 2012, decided that, a form they didn't use in the 1980's or 90's of handwritten information, is now necessary in 2012.


Similar story, one agency requested we fax their invoice monthly. My first thought was "meh...I guess faxing is still relevant". At one point I suggested I could send via email, encrypted if needed. No go. "I don't trust that, there is sensitive information on there."

But a fax is OK? Her reason was she checks the fax every few minutes, it's just outside her desk, so nobody else would see the information.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

We've got to be living in Bizzaro Universe. It's the only thing that can logically explain this.

[JeeberD]

Y'all worked for some bad companies...I've never had that problem. I would MUCH rather be slightly short handed than have a sick server or cook in the building. I do usually ask them to try and see if they can find someone who wants to work in their place, but I'm not going to make them come in.

And we give doubles breaks, with 50% off meals before or after a shift.

[Lathum]

Y'all worked for some bad companies...I've never had that problem. I would MUCH rather be slightly short handed than have a sick server or cook in the building. I do usually ask them to try and see if they can find someone who wants to work in their place, but I'm not going to make them come in.

And we give doubles breaks, with 50% off meals before or after a shift.

I would say this kind of treatment is very much the exception.

[stevew]

What's a break, especially if you don't smoke.

The difference between Jeeb's and the typical manager is that jeeber is not a fat retard and/or a underqualified woman.

[Suburban Rhythm]

do you work for UPMC by any chance?

Nope. We deal with them some, they aren't bad in my dealings, technology wise.

What's a break, especially if you don't smoke.

The difference between Jeeb's and the typical manager is that jeeber is not a fat retard and/or a underqualified woman.

Previous job, pretty sure we've discussed the company I was at, 2 of us would hang outside regularly. My unit manager and her boss both smoked, and questioned what we were doing outside each time. Stock response "Smoke break"...just without the cigarettes.

[terpkristin]

I love the fact that my company doesn't separate the two. We get what is called earned time. Sucks if you get sick but for someone like me who never does or guts it out I get tons of vacation time.

Yeah, us too. We call it "Composite Leave."

Unfortunately right now I'm over the Use-or-Lose cap by about 2 weeks (and will accrue another 3ish days before the year is up) and there doesn't seem to be an opportune time for me to use them. I am thinking about taking the time for my surgery using my leave instead of short-term disability...but that would take me so far under the cap, it might not be good.

Still thinking it over...

/tk

[RainMaker]

I cannot believe they found Drew Peterson guilty.

Me either. But fuck, that piece of shit deserves to be in jail.

[Ksyrup]

I cannot believe they found Drew Peterson guilty.

You can't? He convicted himself.

[Ksyrup]

Ha! So true.

edsbs‏<s>@</s>edsbs
Caillou is the Canadian Ralph Wiggum.

[Grover]

Bought the domain for Inherently Meaningless | Poems and Other Assorted Writings by Justin W. Grover (http://inherentlymeaningless.com) today, and also created a Facebook page for it.

It feels good to be productive.

[JediKooter]

Shame on you vegetarians and vegans...shame on yoU!!

Plants cry for help when an attack can be expected (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906084306.htm)











;)

[Suburban Rhythm]

Shame on you vegetarians and vegans...shame on yoU!!

Plants cry for help when an attack can be expected (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906084306.htm)











;)

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[JediKooter]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CQkA9WTyWrs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Haha!

This reminds me that I am less than an hour away from eating a nice piece of prime rib and broccoli.

[Rizon]

Did the infidelity thread get deleted?

[Suicane75]

Ha! So true.

edsbs‏<s>@</s>edsbs
Caillou is the Canadian Ralph Wiggum.

Caillou is awesome man.

[Grover]

Shame on you vegetarians and vegans...shame on yoU!!

Plants cry for help when an attack can be expected (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906084306.htm)




;)


Bill Clinton is our leader.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I moved from New York to Detroit last year. One thing I can no longer understand here in my hometown is how people drive to bars... You have to drive home afterward! And if you don't go because this makes no sense, everybody else acts like you're from Mars.

[Grover]

Update Your Browser | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/InherentlyMeaningless)

Shameless plug, give me a 'like!' ;)

[cartman]

For all of the crap that is generated by The Internet, every once in a while something happens make it all seem worthwhile.

Internet Pulls Together 1,200 Cars For Terminally Ill Boy (http://jalopnik.com/5941906/internet-pulls-together-1200-cars-for-terminally-ill-boy?utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_facebook&utm_source=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow)

[Coffee Warlord]

So I'm on call this week. Get called while trying to make dinner, have to scramble to get the oil off the burner, remote access is screwed up because some idiot decided to change security policies without telling us...get it fixed. Get called 5 minutes later by my coworker, scramble to turn off the burner AGAIN, find out more shit is broken.

Get that resolved, make dinner in record time so my kid can eat at a normal time...get called again after dinner about a problem I can't do anything about. ...then get called again about it at midnight (waking me up). Then my kid wakes up crying about 2am.

And of course, I had a doctor's appt this morning. I'm shocked when they tell me my blood pressure was high. Shocked I tell you.

[DaddyTorgo]

Did the infidelity thread get deleted?

Looks that way. I'd make a "people lost posts!" joke, but that's not really important.

Hope he's doing alright.

[Passacaglia]

I'm looking for a new phone, that can do video chat without a bunch of lag, that doesn't cost too much. I've got T-Mobile, and don't get a discount on phones at their store. Any suggestions?

[spleen1015]

Looks that way. I'd make a "people lost posts!" joke, but that's not really important.

Hope he's doing alright.

It was mentioned a few times that it may be a bad idea due to it being evidence of some sort. Or she may have found out about it and part of the healing process is getting rid of it.

I wish him lots of luck moving forward.

[Passacaglia]

I think it's just that he didn't like the advice he was getting.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Y'all worked for some bad companies...I've never had that problem. I would MUCH rather be slightly short handed than have a sick server or cook in the building. I do usually ask them to try and see if they can find someone who wants to work in their place, but I'm not going to make them come in.

And we give doubles breaks, with 50% off meals before or after a shift.

Only 50% off meals for people working a double? Jeez. At CPK it was 50% off for servers on regular shifts (free meal for hosts/bussers/bartenders) and 100% for working a double.

[stevew]

I'm looking for a new phone, that can do video chat without a bunch of lag, that doesn't cost too much. I've got T-Mobile, and don't get a discount on phones at their store. Any suggestions?

The Galaxy Nexus from Google Play store at $350 is the best value to price unlocked unsubsidized phone. There's some decent t-mobile prepaid phones astound $200 as well.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I think it's just that he didn't like the advice he was getting.

Perhaps we should have all lied and told him he was overreacting, take it easy & she's right. :banghead:

[Passacaglia]

Perhaps we should have all lied and told him he was overreacting, take it easy & she's right. :banghead:

Or we could give him a break and realize he's going through a tough time.

[Passacaglia]

The Galaxy Nexus from Google Play store at $350 is the best value to price unlocked unsubsidized phone. There's some decent t-mobile prepaid phones astound $200 as well.

Thanks! Can a prepaid phone be used just like a monthly-billed phone?

[stevew]

Yeah. You just have to make sure it's an unlocked phone. Also you want to make sure it supports tmobile 3G if you're using data. Most of the unlocked phones only support AT&T

[stevew]

This actually looks like a really good deal here. Older phone, but effective cost of 169.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-phone/Samsung-Galaxy-S-4G-Prepaid

Unsure if it does video chat, but I'd imagine.

[Passacaglia]

Looks like it does, thanks! I'll have to check that one out.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Or we could give him a break and realize he's going through a tough time.

I thought we were... he wanted advice. We gave it to him. Whether it is followed or not is his choice. It's tough on him. I just hope he knows that people are there for him

[Chief Rum]

I was just pleasantly surprised to discover that if someone leaves their gum in one of those waterless toilets and you blast it around the bowl, you can get a little bit of a minty scent out of the toilet.

[stevew]

The Amish, specifically their on-road transportation, really test my limits of religious tolerance. They should be kicked off the road

[JonInMiddleGA]

(http://www.facebook.com/InherentlyMeaningless)

Shameless plug, give me a 'like!' ;)

Alright, done.

[sterlingice]

The Amish, specifically their on-road transportation, really test my limits of religious tolerance. They should be kicked off the road

Shouldn't this be in the Pet Peeves thread?

SI

[MacroGuru]

There are certain people that should be thankful I am no longer an angry person that loses his temper...because I would be serving jail time after the shit that was pulled tonight.

[Ron Mexico]

I want to wear a Falcons Mexico #7 jersey to the Eagles-Falcons game this season, but the NFL Shop still has it banned. :banghead:

[britrock88]

Can you grab a generic #7 and have someone else put "Mexico" on there?

[korme]

Can you grab a generic #7 and have someone else put "Mexico" on there?

I believe you can do this at Cardboard Heroes, it's one way many people around here use to get a Pete Rose jersey

[booradley]

I'm toying with the following Personal Challenge - throw myself into my job 100% for one year and see what dividends it reaps. Don't get me wrong, I do a good job now, but I definitely pursue "life balance." What if I didn't? If I went absolute balls-to-the-walls, I'd have a major impact on my company. Transform it. But there'd be a major hit to time spent on games, girls, sports, socializing. Basically, I'd be a tunnel-visioned beast. Does anyone else here wonder what would happen if you made your job the end-all-and-be-all of your life? Just for a while? No? Well, this IS the thread for random thoughts, right? :)

[DaddyTorgo]

I'm toying with the following Personal Challenge - throw myself into my job 100% for one year and see what dividends it reaps. Don't get me wrong, I do a good job now, but I definitely pursue "life balance." What if I didn't? If I went absolute balls-to-the-walls, I'd have a major impact on my company. Transform it. But there'd be a major hit to time spent on games, girls, sports, socializing. Basically, I'd be a tunnel-visioned beast. Does anyone else here wonder what would happen if you made your job the end-all-and-be-all of your life? Just for a while? No? Well, this IS the thread for random thoughts, right? :)

I wonder this sometimes...

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I want to wear a Falcons Mexico #7 jersey to the Eagles-Falcons game this season, but the NFL Shop still has it banned. :banghead:

How about an Eagles 7 Mexico? VT?

[Ron Mexico]

How about an Eagles 7 Mexico? VT?

"Mexico" is a banned word, so it won't matter for an Eagles #7 (although I wouldn't be caught dead in an Eagles jersey-- even for a joke)

Didn't think about VT, and I'll have to give the Cardboard Heroes thing a shot.

Tried to link the image, but I do have a t-shirt of Vick in a sombrero with a caption of "I'd hit it". The jersey would be far better though.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

How about a Falcons 7 with "Woof"

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Mxeico

Then you get out the scissors, needle & thread.

[sterlingice]

I'm toying with the following Personal Challenge - throw myself into my job 100% for one year and see what dividends it reaps. Don't get me wrong, I do a good job now, but I definitely pursue "life balance." What if I didn't? If I went absolute balls-to-the-walls, I'd have a major impact on my company. Transform it. But there'd be a major hit to time spent on games, girls, sports, socializing. Basically, I'd be a tunnel-visioned beast. Does anyone else here wonder what would happen if you made your job the end-all-and-be-all of your life? Just for a while? No? Well, this IS the thread for random thoughts, right? :)

I've wondered what would happen if my wife died and that's the only thing I could come up with. That said, my marriage is pretty much infinitely more important than my job so we won't know barring something awful happening

SI

[Ron Mexico]

Worst part is by the time the game comes he'll either be a) hurt or b) benched

[Matthean]

Going from 0 hours of math in my life to 24 hours in a week just to stay afloat in my 8 week college class has been a wee bit more of a jump than I was expecting. Granted, I thought it was a typical 16 week one and I figured it was "only" precalc. It is, but it's been so long that getting back into it has been a bigger struggle than expected.

[stevew]

Going from 0 hours of math in my life to 24 hours in a week just to stay afloat in my 8 week college class has been a wee bit more of a jump than I was expecting. Granted, I thought it was a typical 16 week one and I figured it was "only" precalc. It is, but it's been so long that getting back into it has been a bigger struggle than expected.

I'm dreading taking math. I already passed it a bunch of years ago, but they won't count it cause they are dicks.

Also not digging the foreign language requirement.

[cartman]

I haven't taken a decongestant with pseudo-ephedrine in a few years. I took one last night, and have they changed the formula or something? It is only one step removed from straight crystal meth. I only slept a couple of hours last night, and am still wide awake right now. Pseudo-ephedrine has never affected me like that before.

[sterlingice]

I haven't taken a decongestant with pseudo-ephedrine in a few years. I took one last night, and have they changed the formula or something? It is only one step removed from straight crystal meth. I only slept a couple of hours last night, and am still wide awake right now. Pseudo-ephedrine has never affected me like that before.

Decongestant rules for me are simple: Psuedoephedrine during the day (Claritin D is my drug of choice), good old fashioned Benadryl at night. Both work really well as decongestants and that way you mitigate the side effects as you want to be awake during the day and asleep at night.

SI

[gstelmack]

Going from 0 hours of math in my life to 24 hours in a week just to stay afloat in my 8 week college class has been a wee bit more of a jump than I was expecting. Granted, I thought it was a typical 16 week one and I figured it was "only" precalc. It is, but it's been so long that getting back into it has been a bigger struggle than expected.

I'm taking an online machine learning class through Coursera, and even thought I've done a lot of 3D math programming since school, it's amazing how much linear algebra I'd forgotten when it comes to giant matrices and vectors and the math operations you can do. I think I'm finally over the hump, though.

[Honolulu_Blue]

This morning I was reading my town's little free weekly newspaper. I enjoy reading it, mainly for the entertaining "crime watch" reports or whatever local "scandal" is going on. I like my small town dramas.

One of the cover articles this week was about a woman in my neighborhood who got the West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite. It turns out it was our next door neighbor.

OUTSIDE. BANNED.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

i just fanboy'd out on somebody that called pt anderson overrated. DO YOU KNOW WHAT UNCANNY IS!?! of course you don't you fucking dullard

then i felt bad and apologized. then we bonded over agreeing that maya rudolph was a good choice for a wife and heather graham was super hot in boogie nights

i get mad at people that espouse opinion as truth then i do the same thing :banghead:

[stevew]

I dunno what it is with Maya Rudolph, but I used to think she was really hot. Now I could do without her.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

marriage

[stevew]

All of PT's films have either been straight out masterpieces, or at least spent long stretches in that category. I'll confess to never fully watching PunchDrunk Love, however

[DaddyTorgo]

This morning I was reading my town's little free weekly newspaper. I enjoy reading it, mainly for the entertaining "crime watch" reports or whatever local "scandal" is going on. I like my small town dramas.

One of the cover articles this week was about a woman in my neighborhood who got the West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite. It turns out it was our next door neighbor.

OUTSIDE. BANNED.

Yikes. I'll say. You should prolly order some of those portable mosquite-repellant things you clip on your clothes and have them delivered and not leave your house until you get them on.

Fuckin freaky.

[cartman]

i just fanboy'd out on somebody that called pt anderson overrated. DO YOU KNOW WHAT UNCANNY IS!?! of course you don't you fucking dullard

then i felt bad and apologized. then we bonded over agreeing that maya rudolph was a good choice for a wife and heather graham was super hot in boogie nights

i get mad at people that espouse opinion as truth then i do the same thing :banghead:

When you fanboy'd out you didn't shout at him "I drink your milkshake!"? Son, I am disappoint.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

All of PT's films have either been straight out masterpieces, or at least spent long stretches in that category. I'll confess to never fully watching PunchDrunk Love, however
well, i get why people don't liek him. there's no strong narrative or grand metaphors in his films. but i think it's refreshing

at some point there became this rule in screenwriting where every stitch of dialogue has to reinforce the theme. it's like 'the descendants' i liked it but they beat the theme into your head with a baseball bat

[Honolulu_Blue]

All of PT's films have either been straight out masterpieces, or at least spent long stretches in that category. I'll confess to never fully watching PunchDrunk Love, however

I think he's a very talented filmmaker. I just watched "Boogie Nights" again on Sunday. It's hard to turn off.

That said, I never liked "Magnolia". I found it very irritating overall.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

When you fanboy'd out you didn't shout at him "I drink your milkshake!"? Son, I am disappoint.
RESPECT THE COCK

[molson]

well, i get why people don't liek him. there's no strong narrative or grand metaphors in his films. but i think it's refreshing

at some point there became this rule in screenwriting where every stitch of dialogue has to reinforce the theme. it's like 'the descendants' i liked it but they beat the theme into your head with a baseball bat

Ya, I like my films to meander on occasion. It's not even just dialogue, the modern idea is that every shot has to "advance the story". To hell with that.

[stevew]

So I'm sitting at the local overpriced grocery store and they read "will the owner of the Saturn Sky Convertible" please come to the front office, and then they bother to painfully and slowly read off the license plate. As if there would ever be a situation where two 30K "SATURN" two seater convertibles would ever be parked in the lot of anything in pennsylvania. The grand total of Sky's sold was somewhere around 30k nationwide, and I'm just guessing that PA is not the target market for convertibles. But whatever.

I think an old guy hit her car, but I'm not positive.

[Vince, Pt. II]

So I missed out on the second half of FA in our OOTP league, and while I was able to solidify my OF hole, I signed zero SP's. I put up a trade block the day before opening day for pitchers, get about five teams interested and start negotiations (I need 2 pitchers, though I might be able to get by with just 1). Opening day sim happens...and my ace is out 4 months. In less than 24 hours, all but one person has cut off negotiations.

I am rather frustrated right now.

[stevew]

I have some flyer type guys that are decent, but I need to shed a few more days of service on some starters first.

[I. J. Reilly]

This morning I was reading my town's little free weekly newspaper. I enjoy reading it, mainly for the entertaining "crime watch" reports or whatever local "scandal" is going on. I like my small town dramas.

One of the cover articles this week was about a woman in my neighborhood who got the West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite. It turns out it was our next door neighbor.

OUTSIDE. BANNED.

You could hop on a plane and come visit me in Fort Worth; you probably won’t want to watch the local news though. According to them it’s not really a question of if you’ll die of West Nile, but when.

[Rizon]

Hey, you know what? Don't image search MRSA. It turns out none of those pictures show beginning stages.

Oddly enough, my buddy wound up with this this week. Probably got it from the hospital (mom has breast cancer). Dude's lip is swollen like he got punched.

[terpkristin]

I read a headline today that said, "ebay Straightens Out its Logo After 17 Years" and the only thing I could think was, "holy crap, ebay's been around for 17 years?!?"

I mean, yeah, thinking on it, I guess it has. But it doesn't FEEL like it...

/tk

[JonInMiddleGA]

Mostly Maui Waui man, but it's got some Labrador in it.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I hate when a check has a nice perforation to tear, but it is just above the fold in the paper, then the check rips at the fold instead of the perforation.

[Autumn]

I read a headline today that said, "ebay Straightens Out its Logo After 17 Years" and the only thing I could think was, "holy crap, ebay's been around for 17 years?!?"

I mean, yeah, thinking on it, I guess it has. But it doesn't FEEL like it...

/tk

Please take this to the things that make me feel old thread. Stat.

[bhlloy]

From the terrible news reporting files - a headline on kcal9's website this morning

"Metro Bus slams into tree in Downtown Los Angeles - injuring everyone involved"

Everyone involved? Did bystanders and people driving past thirty minutes later spontaneously burst into flames at the sight? Am I about to get chest pains and a numb feeling in my arm just from reading this article?