Site-Seeing
Work continues apace, meaning that I’m extremely limited in the time that I can even think about blogging, let alone working up full posts. In lieu of some genuinely new and original content, I’d instead like to offer up links…
Category Work
Klaatu! Verata! Necktie… Nectar… Nickel…
Well, it looks as if I can put a stop to my pursuit of a Grand Army of the Undead, as I finally brought Oracle to heel this morning. And all it took was 20 hours of research on Google,…
That’s It. I’m Done.
It’s 11:30, I’m still at the office. I hate Oracle. I’ve decided I’m taking up necromancy – I won’t feel as dirty and it will have less of an impact on my everlasting soul. Garrrrr.
Corporate Wind Tunnels
I’ve been tied up in meetings all day, but I wanted to share an interesting effect that I’ve noticed in our building recently: corporate wind tunnels. Our building is laid out in several wings, each of which is served by…
Hey Jerkface
Yeah, you there. Stop printing out 75 page stock prospectii on the printer in my area. We’re behind a card-keyed door, so you can’t even get to the bloody thing, yet day after day you print out veritable tomes of…
OfficeGuns: Point Away From Face.
OfficeGuns – for those of you without an office anti-violence policy. Who knew those little black spring clips were so, well, MacGyver? (Did I just coin the use of “MacGyver” as an adjective?)
I Swear That Scott Adams Works At My Company
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Scott Adams is eerily gifted at describing the work environment at my place of employment. What else can account for his accurate portrayal of Power Point Engineers: …or his scathingly accurate…
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working? A-Hyuk!
I threw my back out sometime late yesterday and thus called in “sick” today. However, my boss allowed me to work from home in lieu of charging Personal Illness, so I’ve been VPN’d in to work all day. I’ve been…
Today’s Assignment
Attend meeting with networking equipment vendor. Attempt to not giggle every time vendor representative mentions “out of the closet” and “in the closet”. Berate self, Dimsdale-like, for juvenile sense of humo[u]r. All of this hypothetically, of course.
Purveyors Of A Pleasant Experience
After learning that I had been the victim of credit card “skimming” fraud, I found out that the dispute process is nowhere near as easy as card vendors (particularly American Express) make it seem in their advertisements. A portion of…
