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Tuesday, and complaints:
- Arrived at work at 7:00am and the person I need to see is MIA
- More boring boring boring testing
- Cable came loose inside backup drive and left my tools at work
- Low on cold pizza
- NO BEER! (cry cry)
- Supposed to break 100f today
- Stupid meeting
- Did I mention NO BEER! (cry cry)
Non-complaints:
- Hopefully a quiet day
- Backup drive cable fixed, can re-try backup tonight
- Plenty of hot fresh coffee
- Buffalo wings for lunch (mild)!
- Tomorrow is Payday!
Could be a lot worse!
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Oh wow, that's cool!! History right next door! :coolosmile:
There is an old pie factory in our street that got turned into apartments but you can see how good folks had it in the 'hood with beer and pies :)
Hopes that is better for you by now :)
Thought this came up OK
My norithanarts3d.com website is locked right now, so I cannot edit it.
That's quite nice! :coolsmile:
TEA or cawffee this morning?
gotta get the brain gears going
20 min delays on the GW Bridge. slightly better in the Holland Tunnel. accident on I95. traffic snarls.
lotto scratcies were all duds this morning.
my vision is more blurred than usual this morning. weird. all that salad last weekend, what a wasted effort. need protein, but no appetite.
buppy gave me a hard time this morning. gave him his hiney boost up the back steps, but he came right back down without doing his business. a bit of rain and he doesn't like his toes wet.
Still works though, it is a pretty website :)
That's quite nice! :coolsmile:
TY :) Poser SSS is still prone to artefacts, think it is the multipass strategy that comes undone sometimes :)
Usually have tea and coffee in the morning, if one doesn't do its stuff the other does :lol:
They do migrate, but the direction of migration is "winters, down to the dales and valleys and forests; summers, up the hills and mountains to escape bugs".
Blech, bored. No new projects until the current ones wrap up and so here I sit waiting for other people to finish their jobs so I can fix any remaining bugs and I can get on with life. :blank:
IT'S RANT TIME!
Faintly considering moving again. While working here is interesting, there are a lot of structural problems that I don't see getting ixed. For instance, we have about 9 products in various stages of work and only 2 testers, one of whom is part-time, and nobody wants to hire anyone else! This means we spend a LOT of engineer time doing testing - a very expensive proposition. So, with light QA we ship buggy products, which is an issue. Then, they want to ship MORE products but don't want to hire more engineers so now e have less time to do more work - and even more bugs slip through the cracks. No code reviews, no design reviews, nothing - each engineer is designer, coder, tester, does documentation, and even handles some field support!! It's insane! And if anyone gets sck.. no work is done on that project until the engineer comes back well. Every single engineer here is a single point of failure.
It's not terminally stupid yet, but I can't see this going on for more than 2 more years before it all collapses under its own weight. Which is sad, they make some cool stuff here, but nobody wants to invest in making things better. Le sigh.
Intel is looking for contractors in Hillsboro all the time.. once I save up move money by the end of next year, I'll start looking at Seattle/Portland. Lots of tech jobs up there!
Ok, rant over. Coffee time.
The more extra virgin the less chemically refined it is ;)
The meaning depends on where it's from: in IOC countries, extra virgin means virgin (physically extracted only) with lower acid than is required for virgin, but both are extracted the same (non-chemically refined) way. In the US, it used to be unregulated (IOW pure marketing), now there are some requirements on what you can call virgin or extra virgin.
The other day I was flicking channels and saw Dr. Oz on Fox, and he had a guest that was talking about Extra Virgin Olive Oils. They said that because there is no regulation, there are imports into the US that are not extra virgin. Worse, it has been found that some imported extra virgin olive oils are not even olive oils, they're canola oil or some other. Some tested had a rancid odor. It was very disconcerting. I hate it when big business tries things like this to make more money. It is said that the process to get extra virgin olive oil is expensive, which is why the product is on the expensive side. These companies are selling crap as e.v. and making a lot of profit.
For some reason, the imports aren't subject to the same regulations as the domestic products.
Dana
OK? I think it's pretty great. Skin on his face looks a bit shiny, but maybe he's beginning to perspire.
Dana
I have found that a lot of companies these days seem to want a "Chief cook and bottle washer". Many of the job descriptions I've looked at want someone who can do .NET, SQL Server (developer and DBA), javascript, Sharepoint, several things I don't even know what they are, quality assurance tester, implementation manager, design, help desk, hardware tech, network sysadmin. And they want you to be on call 24/7/365. And they want you to do it on an entry level salary! No matter how desperate I am, I don't want such a job. There are too many things involved and failure is almost guaranteed.
Dana
every great cup of cawffee should be followed by an epiphany, doan ya think?
can't remember last time i had an epiphanie. mebbe never had one.
can yoo remember your last epiphany?
Ironman3 dvd comes out Septemver.
do they show the Cap being fished out of the ice in any of the movies? how did the tesseract come to earth in the first place?
oen of the lab gizmos looked like a movie popcorn machine. some of that stuff might have been leftover Alliance. goram hi tech alliance weapons
i put Gorgonzuella in my rendo gallery. only 43 views.
would she get more view if i made a deviant art gallery? wondering if it's worth the effort.
watched ironman 4 times last weekend. jeff bridges is more annoying each viewing. obie.
I have found that a lot of companies these days seem to want a "Chief cook and bottle washer". Many of the job descriptions I've looked at want someone who can do .NET, SQL Server (developer and DBA), javascript, Sharepoint, several things I don't even know what they are, quality assurance tester, implementation manager, design, help desk, hardware tech, network sysadmin. And they want you to be on call 24/7/365. And they want you to do it on an entry level salary! No matter how desperate I am, I don't want such a job. There are too many things involved and failure is almost guaranteed.
Dana
Yeah, it's an issue. I've seen Linux driver jobs asking for C# skills! Wth, the only C# implementation on Linux is Mono and it's not .NET 4.5 compatible yet! I don't know a single driver/kernel hack that knows any C# (ehm, except me, but my hackage skills are stale)..
I think I'm going to target larger companies or small tightly-focused ones. Our entire engineering staff here is 5 people to support over 2 DOZEN shipping products! :ahhh: It's insane but as long as I can tolerate it, it's solid, steady work.
I have.. A PLAN! :snake: Save for a vacation in Portland.. then get a 3D laptop, move my writing tools on to it along with my 3D stuff.. turn my i5 system into a dedicated software development machine and buy a few commercial tools.. then bank cash until nthe end of next year.. and MOVE! I think the SeaTac area next.
For the past 8 years I've flirted with the idea of being a nomadic engineer.. well, now that my parents have passed away there's nothing keeping me in Texas. And there are places I'd love to see that have nice 8-18 month contracts in my area of expertise.. heh.
Time to freshen up my Linux kernel/driver skills and bank some cash! But alas.. somewhere, a stripper is going withut her cheeseburger.. :down:
pretty flutterbee :)
pretty flutterbee :)
Thank you! I am trying to think of a way to save the site. I am going through the photos I took yesterday.
Chicken enchiladas in mild sauce, no hot peppers, for lunch!
Very.. sleepy... now... snzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I have a weird urge to render a short animation of WAR VIXEN eng swallowed by a giant flying shark. Weird. :ahhh:
Coffee and a spreadsheet now.. computing vacation, laptop, and moving costs. I think one year will be more than enough time to prep for the jump. :coolsmile:
The meaning depends on where it's from: in IOC countries, extra virgin means virgin (physically extracted only) with lower acid than is required for virgin, but both are extracted the same (non-chemically refined) way. In the US, it used to be unregulated (IOW pure marketing), now there are some requirements on what you can call virgin or extra virgin.
The other day I was flicking channels and saw Dr. Oz on Fox, and he had a guest that was talking about Extra Virgin Olive Oils. They said that because there is no regulation, there are imports into the US that are not extra virgin. Worse, it has been found that some imported extra virgin olive oils are not even olive oils, they're canola oil or some other. Some tested had a rancid odor. It was very disconcerting. I hate it when big business tries things like this to make more money. It is said that the process to get extra virgin olive oil is expensive, which is why the product is on the expensive side. These companies are selling crap as e.v. and making a lot of profit.
For some reason, the imports aren't subject to the same regulations as the domestic products.
Dana
The problem, as I understand it; it is difficult to find enough virgins (old enough to be employed) here in the US in order to meet the market demand for olive oil, which has skyrocketed in the past few years.
Captain America is an excellent film, and will answer all your questions. Do not want to give you spoilers from it Misty, full of surprisey goodness. :)
Wow, I'm having a V8! :coolsmile: Lots of Vitamin A, I think I was low as my red veggie consumption has been non-existent. One V8 has 80% of my USRDA of Vitamin A.. should help my eyes improve over the next couple of weeks, tey've been blurry (a sure sign of Vitamin A deficiency).
Sigh.. can't move until early 2015 if I want a reasonable cash cushion. I guess I can grit my teeth and stick to the plan, I'll console myself wit Friday and Saturday night beer bashes (lol)!
One last go-out this Friday to say goodbye to my fave girls - get some closure. Then it's save for Oktoberfest in Portland! After that, it's the new 3D laptop, then everything from that point on goes into the move fund.
During this time I'll re-learn Linux/Android kernel hacking and driver development. And write, and render! :smirk:
Argh my snout itches! :-S
,... CNN: Dateline: Portland OR: October 2013.
Beer reserves in the entire city were drained over the last six days as a duo known only as the Wooly Loach and Kyoto Kid descended not only on the pubs in the city, but in one day, drank the entire Mount Angel Oktoberfest totally out of beer forcing shutdown of the annual celebrated event one day early While the duo's whereabouts are still unknown, many of the publicans in the city are praising the near record profits from the six day binge. Even organisers of the Mt. Angel Oktoberfest were pleased as they made more in just that one day than they ever did for the full run of the event ever since it began back in 1988. When interviewed, the event's coordinator mentioned that this would be the "banner year" for the charities that benefit from the event and welcomed the duo back for next year's celebration promising even a larger supply of beer.
Surprisingly, the two were said to be most cordial and accommodating never once creating an unpleasant scene or offending other patrons. Barkeeps and staffs were also quite pleased at the generous gratuities they received from whom they referred to as the "Pint Pounding Pair"
On the downside of course, local Portland craft breweries and brewpubs are now scrambling to replenish the supply of frothy malt and hops beverage which they said should be ready in two to three months. Meanwhile, thirsty patrons await a massive airlift campaign of fine handcrafted brews from other parts of the nation to see them through the drought. Already breweries in Michigan, Wisconsin Texas California, Washington, and Colorado have upped production to export to the suds beleaguered city.
Stay tuned to CNN for the latest updates on "Crisis in Beervana".
This is Wolf Blitzer reporting
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Priceless! You missed your calling as a news writer!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
...thanks.
Actually I did take a few Journalism courses in secondary school and college. Also worked on college newspapers (mostly as an illustrator/cartoonist) but did have an interview published in the Olympian (Olympia WA) which I did with composer Peter Schickele (who is best known for his classical music parodies under the," P.D.Q. Bach") when he brought his show to town. The News daily actually contacted me about it because of the classical radio show I used to host on the local campus station. I guess many considered me the local authority on classical music while I was there.
When I first started at the station, I hosted a 30 minute evening news and interview show (even compiled my own intro/outro tracks).
I was heavily influenced by the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, David Frost, and more recently Linda Elerbee (used to love watching NBC News Overnight).
Unfortunately, that and the print media, are a dying occupation due to this newfangled thing we have called the Net. Most broadcast news and commentary today is crap, or what some refer to as "infotainment" and has become caught up in the "ratings game". When I watch CNN, MSNBC, or Fox I cant help feeling that it's akin to the Weekly World News or National Inquirer with all the sensationalism and fluff they throw at us. I almost lost it when the NBC Nightly News took a page right out of the Film "Network" and had their anchor (I think it was still Tom Brokaw) standing on a stage with a backdrop of vidscreens and theme music composed by John Williams.
I still remember watching an interview with Mr Cronkite well after he retired (I believe it was on PBS) where he totally took mainstream broadcast journalism today.to task for it's loss of integrity.
There is a supporting character in my story, Lord Marshall Trevor, who owns one of the largest Indie news networks in the UK (NET47). His inspiration and influence come from the same sources as mine and he is a champion of integrity in an era which makes even today's news networks look good.
The meaning depends on where it's from: in IOC countries, extra virgin means virgin (physically extracted only) with lower acid than is required for virgin, but both are extracted the same (non-chemically refined) way. In the US, it used to be unregulated (IOW pure marketing), now there are some requirements on what you can call virgin or extra virgin.
The other day I was flicking channels and saw Dr. Oz on Fox, and he had a guest that was talking about Extra Virgin Olive Oils. They said that because there is no regulation, there are imports into the US that are not extra virgin. Worse, it has been found that some imported extra virgin olive oils are not even olive oils, they're canola oil or some other. Some tested had a rancid odor. It was very disconcerting. I hate it when big business tries things like this to make more money. It is said that the process to get extra virgin olive oil is expensive, which is why the product is on the expensive side. These companies are selling crap as e.v. and making a lot of profit.
For some reason, the imports aren't subject to the same regulations as the domestic products.
Dana
...if companies are selling something under a name that it is not (eg. Canola as Extra Virgin Olive Oil) , that is false advertising and it needs to be reported to the FDA. I am on a low budget, yet I still use extra virgin olive oil in my cooking. For one it adds a unique flavour important in certain styles of cuisine (I even use it in my Cajun cooking). Second, it is also healthy for you, especially compared to Canola which is a genetically modified industrial oil (there is no real "canola" plant, it is a derivative of rapseed oil which was created in a Canadian lab, hence the name Can-ola).
I occasionally shop in one of those "Natural/Organic" food stores and have to laugh to myself when I see bottles of "Organic Canola Oil" on the shelf.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Priceless! You missed your calling as a news writer!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
...thanks.
Actually I did take a few Journalism courses in secondary school and college. Also worked on college newspapers (mostly as an illustrator/cartoonist) but did have an interview published in the Olympian (Olympia WA) which I did with composer Peter Schickele (who is best known for his classical music parodies under the," P.D.Q. Bach") when he brought his show to town. The News daily actually contacted me about it because of the classical radio show I used to host on the local campus station. I guess many considered me the local authority on classical music while I was there.
When I first started at the station, I hosted a 30 minute evening news and interview show (even compiled my own intro/outro tracks).
I was heavily influenced by the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, David Frost, and more recently Linda Elerbee (used to love watching NBC News Overnight).
Unfortunately, that and the print media, are a dying occupation due to this newfangled thing we have called the Net. Most broadcast news and commentary today is crap, or what some refer to as "infotainment" and has become caught up in the "ratings game". When I watch CNN, MSNBC, or Fox I cant help feeling that it's akin to the Weekly World News or National Inquirer with all the sensationalism and fluff they throw at us. I almost lost it when the NBC Nightly News took a page right out of the Film "Network" and had their anchor (I think it was still Tom Brokaw) standing on a stage with a backdrop of vidscreens and theme music composed by John Williams.
I still remember watching an interview with Mr Cronkite well after he retired (I believe it was on PBS) where he totally took mainstream broadcast journalism today.to task for it's loss of integrity.
There is a supporting character in my story, Lord Marshall Trevor, who owns one of the largest Indie news networks in the UK (NET47). His inspiration and influence come from the same sources as mine and he is a champion of integrity in an era which makes even today's news networks look good.
Ah, now it makes total sense! :coolsmile:
I have to agree with your opinion and comments on the state of journalism today - it's a hopeless wasteland of bias, spin, and sensationalism suitable to the Enquirer and other yellow press sheets. I gave up on network T long, long ago when "news" meant "how many people died today?". I think the Don Henley song "Dirty Laundry"covers it neatly.
Want a beer. Having a diet Dr. Pepper. Desolee'. :down:
The meaning depends on where it's from: in IOC countries, extra virgin means virgin (physically extracted only) with lower acid than is required for virgin, but both are extracted the same (non-chemically refined) way. In the US, it used to be unregulated (IOW pure marketing), now there are some requirements on what you can call virgin or extra virgin.
The other day I was flicking channels and saw Dr. Oz on Fox, and he had a guest that was talking about Extra Virgin Olive Oils. They said that because there is no regulation, there are imports into the US that are not extra virgin. Worse, it has been found that some imported extra virgin olive oils are not even olive oils, they're canola oil or some other. Some tested had a rancid odor. It was very disconcerting. I hate it when big business tries things like this to make more money. It is said that the process to get extra virgin olive oil is expensive, which is why the product is on the expensive side. These companies are selling crap as e.v. and making a lot of profit.
For some reason, the imports aren't subject to the same regulations as the domestic products.
Dana
...if companies are selling something under a name that it is not (eg. Canola as Extra Virgin Olive Oil) , that is false advertising and it needs to be reported to the FDA. I am on a low budget, yet I still use extra virgin olive oil in my cooking. For one it adds a unique flavour important in certain styles of cuisine (I even use it in my Cajun cooking). Second, it is also healthy for you, especially compared to Canola which is a genetically modified industrial oil (there is no real "canola" plant, it is a lab created derivative of rapseed oil).
When the wife and I took a couple of weekend classes at the local Cordon Bleu school one of the instructors pointed out that the vast majority of olive oil on American supermarket shelves is probably rancid. He said you really need to pay up for the top of the line brands to insure you're getting what you want. I used to have a list of brands that were known to be good and were what they advertised (i.e. extra virgin) I'll see if I can dig it out. One of the surprising ones was the Kirkland brand from Costco, it's actually considered fairly fresh and lives up to its label. I guess that's because their target audience is actual commercial kitchens.
Another suggestion was to find a local source. Two that we've used are Oh Olive and VSOP Taproom. I also like to get their infused olive oils and their infused balsamic vinegar.
I'm sure that there is something similar in your area, especially Portland.
Lately unless what I'm cooking really needs the flavor of the olive oil (say coating veggies in oil and vinegar for roasting) I've switched to using coconut oil. It's slightly healthier than olive oil and if you get the right type it doesn't impart any flavor to the food. I've pretty much been using it anywhere that the recipe calls for oil or butter for searing/frying. It's cheaper than the good olive oil so it lets me save the good stuff for the places where the flavor actually matters.
I really doubt that. ;)
Dana
The meaning depends on where it's from: in IOC countries, extra virgin means virgin (physically extracted only) with lower acid than is required for virgin, but both are extracted the same (non-chemically refined) way. In the US, it used to be unregulated (IOW pure marketing), now there are some requirements on what you can call virgin or extra virgin.
The other day I was flicking channels and saw Dr. Oz on Fox, and he had a guest that was talking about Extra Virgin Olive Oils. They said that because there is no regulation, there are imports into the US that are not extra virgin. Worse, it has been found that some imported extra virgin olive oils are not even olive oils, they're canola oil or some other. Some tested had a rancid odor. It was very disconcerting. I hate it when big business tries things like this to make more money. It is said that the process to get extra virgin olive oil is expensive, which is why the product is on the expensive side. These companies are selling crap as e.v. and making a lot of profit.
For some reason, the imports aren't subject to the same regulations as the domestic products.
Dana
The problem, as I understand it; it is difficult to find enough virgins (old enough to be employed) here in the US in order to meet the market demand for olive oil, which has skyrocketed in the past few years.
Kyuck, kyuck. Oes, Olives!
Dana
Captain America is an excellent film, and will answer all your questions. Do not want to give you spoilers from it Misty, full of surprisey goodness. :)
Yes, please, no spoilers. I haven't seen any of them except Iron Man, and Iron Man II. I've been wiating for them to show up on HBO or one of the myriad other pay channels I still have...so I can watch it OnDemand.
Dana