Awesome Necropost rant is locked

[El_Squid]

Sigh!

'Tis such a shame that Jonah's singular post, an awesomely virulent diatribe against an venerable, 8 year old thread, is locked by the ever vigilant Platypus. Such fun we could of had, with this remarkable resucitation, but the moment has past and I can only wonder at the fiery exchanges that could have been.

Perhaps we could set up some windmills in Politicos and enjoy some pointless tilting! Viva Don Quixote!

[slgrieb]

Rats! See, this is what happens when you spend too much time in the field! You miss the fun stuff! All I can say is that I hope I at least had a post in the thread that this guy found offensive.

Moderator, move that thread!

[El_Squid]

Top of the morning, Longhorn!

How are you faring done there, this fine Spring season? We've kicked off Tornado season in fine style here in the Land of the Red Man, with 25+ twisters spawned last Monday. I managed to drive home between two sets of them, commuting on I-35 from OKC to Soonerville.

I'm afraid you did not contribute to Papa Smurf's Scottish Inventors thread, which offended Jonah's sensibilities so much. In fact, our Anglophilic friend joined this fine community just to flame it. I cannot claim an unbiased view on this, as I am a Stormont on my paternal grandmother's side of the family, who originated in Scotland, migrated to Ireland and then immigrated to the USA in 1775, just in time to join the Revolution. We are reportedly related to the fine Scottish Inventor/Engineer, Robert Fulton.

[Guts3d]

Crap, I don't have any cool ancestors...

[CeeBee]

Necropost: http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=15292

[Platypus]

Necropost: http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=15292

Woah! That is necro

[El_Squid]

Wow! slgrieb, do you have any of those Narwhal "bones" handy? I think one needs to be awarded for this.

[El_Squid]

Crap, I don't have any cool ancestors...

Some ancestors can be a bit of a drawback. For example, on my mother's side I am a Guerrero, who were military men and adventurers from Spain, originally. There were Guerreros on the caravels with old Columbus when he "discovered" the Americas and very likely were a part of the extermination of the natives on the Caribbean islands they first landed on. Oops!

[slgrieb]

Concur. I fully agree the thread is worth at least two Necroposting Awards.





BTW, sorry about some of your ancestors being avaricious genocidal fanatics and all, but as a wise man once said, "you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family." OK, so maybe I don't remember the quote so good, but you get the drift.

[El_Squid]

Absolutely, but doesn't everyone have avaricious genocidal fanatics somewhere in their family tree? You just have to go back far enough and look at it from the right/wrong perspective!

So, you got enjoy some of that lovely monster hail? The amateur videos of that are impressive, it looks like they are under orbital bombardment.

[slgrieb]

Absolutely, but doesn't everyone have avaricious genocidal fanatics somewhere in their family tree? You just have to go back far enough and look at it from the right/wrong perspective!

So, you got enjoy some of that lovely monster hail? The amateur videos of that are impressive, it looks like they are under orbital bombardment.

If we didn't have avaricious genocidal fanatics in our heritage, none of us would be here now

Actually, the trip to see the weather was mostly about trying to see how much damage one of my customers might have sustained. Seriously. As it turned out, they didn't have any structural damage, and while three workstations initially failed to reboot after power was restored, only one was totally toasted. Had to put a spare machine in its place. Zero downtime for their customers.

A couple of years ago their building was hit by lightning, and in spite of having spare equipment on hand, it still took me from 7:30 am to noon to get them restored to full function. We're talking Ethernet cables and the like where the insulation had been melted off the wires and puddled on the floor, or inside the walls. Sometimes, being a contractor sucks, but there are those times when the billable hours and emergency charges make up for it.

[El_Squid]

Well, I have discovered that being on salary is good because it is dependable, has great benefits, etc., except on those days when you have to burn the midnight oil to finish the project and you get nothing for the extra hours and inconvenience. Of course, as a State employee, my piece of cheese is significantly smaller than real world market value.

As for the lightning strike, it is always fascinating to me how much damage can get by the "safety" devices. And, how little things like humidity and heat can cause undetectable damage that doesn't show up until much later. We have all types of sensors, power regulators, redundant air conditioning systems and even a diesel backup generator, and crap still happens! But, that is job security, I guess. And, as a code monkey, most of it doesn't affect me!