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Seen on El Reg. Too good not to repost.
To be fair
While we're on the subject of fairness, I've eased off my criticism of "junk food" in recent years, as it's become increasingly clear that pretty much all "pre-made" food (i.e. not grown in your allotment) is essentially junk anyway, especially the stuff labelled "healthy". Not to mention the fact that the Powers That Be® constantly flip-flop between claiming something is an essential elixir of life and, basically, it'll kill you. In other words, I no longer know what to believe, so I have to assume that all claims, one way or the other, are just speculative bullshit.
Now I just eat whatever. Mostly bacon butties. I've often wondered why there has never been a multinational "Bacon R Us" in the vein of MacDs, Hell, it'd be my No1 feeding trough, if it ever happened. Seriously. Sod those utterly tasteless, virtually fat-free patties of minced beef from Hamburg. Give me huge wads of artery-choking bacon any time. Really, any time. Wake me up at 3AM on a Tuesday, if you like, just make sure you come bearing huge pallets of bacon butties, shrinkwrapped for freshness.
As for the arguably inappropriate use of Windows for, well, pretty much anything other than the PC Desktop, meh! I used to care. I used to stand on my upturned (and now empty) bacon box and scream obscenities at anyone daring to suggest using Windows for display terminals etc., spitting bacon bits onto the crowd (of one ... typically a bemused policeman) as I vented my spleen. But once I realised how much precious bacon I was wasting, in my futile efforts to bring salvation to the unwashed masses, I just gave up and went back to eating bacon full time, thus guaranteeing a short but blissful life.
I mean seriously, who wants to live forever anyway, especially without bacon? This irrational obsession with immortality is ill-conceived. An eternity without bacon isn't a good quality of life, it's a cruel and unusual torture. You might as well say wouldn't it be great to live for 200 years, where every day I have someone driving knitting needles through my eyeballs, while hedgehogs chew on my testicles. Well no actually it wouldn't, now that I think about it.
So bring on the greasemongers, and super-size me!
But there is some hidden truth inside of that rant, regarding the food hysteria. Closely related to light bulb hysteria. I mean, mercury based low consumption lights used to be the shit aand the fucking saviours of the day, then they started to report they were made of mercury (duh) and were toxic and polluting and dangerous. They started reporting just before they introduced LED in the market by the way.
Naturally, both technologies became less reliable when they went mainstream, and the manufacturers introduced the lower cost and planned obsolescence they'd enjoyed with incandescents.
If you can find new-old-stock of the original Philips AmbientLED 17 watt bulb ... buy them.
Fucking fuckers.
Here's a good leadership lesson: If you treat your volunteers as if they were your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
On the other hand, if you treat a volunteer who has decades of experience and mad skillz by ignoring, second-guessing, and micromanaging him, he's going to walk. If I wanted to be treated like a dumb pair of hands I would go work for my neighbor's landscaping business.
Learn some fucking respect.
Here's a good leadership lesson: If you treat your volunteers as if
they were your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming
your most valuable resource.
I treat my volunteers as if they were my most valuable resource and it usually does not work very well.
Managing volunteers sucks so much :(
https://www.careerplanner.com/Career-Articles/Generations.cfm
Which Generation are You?
| Generation Name | Births Start |
Births End |
Youngest Age Today* |
Oldest Age Today* |
| The Lost Generation The Generation of 1914 |
1890 | 1915 | 105 | 130 |
| The Interbellum Generation | 1901 | 1913 | 107 | 119 |
| The Greatest Generation | 1910 | 1924 | 96 | 110 |
| The Silent Generation | 1925 | 1945 | 75 | 95 |
| Baby Boomer Generation | 1946 | 1964 | 56 | 74 |
| Generation X (Baby Bust) | 1965 | 1979 | 41 | 55 |
| Xennials |
1975 | 1985 | 35 | 45 |
| Millennials Generation Y, Gen Next |
1980 | 1994 | 26 | 40 |
| iGen / Gen Z | 1995 | 2012 | 8 | 25 |
| Gen Alpha | 2013 | 2025 | 1 | 7 |
(*age if still alive today)
mini rant
After years of using the same credit card for everything, it suddenly occurred to me that I might have rewards points that could be used for something fun.
So I wiggled my way through the web site and learned that I had enough points to claim about $1,000 worth of rewards.
I need to replace my Intex pool this year, so I found one on Walmart that was about right, and selected "Walmart gift card" from the bank rewards site.
I figured it would just generate a card number and display it on the screen, right?
Nope. I have to wait two weeks for my *physical* gift card to arrive, and only then can I redeem the card and place my merchandise order.
Yay for computers. :P
Tue Apr 07 2020 09:45:11 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Nope. I have to wait two weeks for my *physical* gift card to arrive, and only then can I redeem the card and place my merchandise order.
Yay for computers. :P
This is how my fuel card rewards system works. Although the delivery time is under 7 days.
Tue Apr 07 2020 09:45:11 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Nope. I have to wait two weeks for my *physical* gift card to arrive, and only then can I redeem the card and place my merchandise order.
When family members get their cards it is usually within a week.
When family members get their cards it is usually within a week.
"Somebody" had to wait two years before he got his welfare card from the socialized health system, so don't complain too much.
This is how my fuel card rewards system works. Although the delivery
time is under 7 days.
You were right about that. Even though it said two weeks, the cards arrived in about a week.
I spent them, I discarded them, and I believe I accidentally discarded my actual credit card at the same time. So I hope the replacement card arrives quickly too. :(
For all the ills stemming from Covid-related madness, the one I will never forgive is if my mother goes to her grave without being willing to ever again hug me.
Mon Nov 16 2020 01:48:04 EST from nonservatorFor all the ills stemming from Covid-related madness, the one I will never forgive is if my mother goes to her grave without being willing to ever again hug me.
My wife put strawberry boba in her froyo tonight. I asked her what it tasted like, she offered me a bite. I hesitated. Like the boba is what is going to give me the Covid if she had it.
Irrational.
It is like a bath bead with fruit sauce inside.
Mon Nov 16 2020 01:48:04 AM EST from nonservatorFor all the ills stemming from Covid-related madness, the one I will never forgive is if my mother goes to her grave without being willing to ever again hug me.
This has to be the worst part, not being able to see family members. I am able to see my mother and one sister. The other family members live out of state. The family welcomed a new child earlier this year, and we have yet to see the baby in person. Viber videos are not the same. We didn't get together as a family this year.
Other children are growing up very quickly and seem to change with each video.
I hope we all get to hug family members soon.