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Cordless phone sitting on my desk
Headset (wired) attached to my phone and my head
Cat jumps on lap
Trips on headset wire in mid leap
Phone falls to floor
Headset rips off my head
Customer wonders what all the cussing is about.
Marc
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Did the cat says anything? 
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On Saturday, I was at a friend's house deconstructing a dryer (we wanted pieces for other projects). When I went to load the shell into the trailer, the sheet metal back, which had refused to budge all day, slid off and onto my exposed foot - where my foot meets my leg.
Slice, bleed, 10 stitches, but no cussing.
The expression was "Son of a biscuit!!!!". Repeatedly... as my friend said, a lot of biscuits were made.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Slice, bleed, 10 stitches, but no cussing.
Ouch! Hopefully no injured nerves, muscles, or tendons!
Marc
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It should be fine... the cut doesn't hurt now, but the arch where the needles went in to numb it hurts when my foot bends.
It provided a good lesson to the kids I work with on the importance of Personal Protection Equipment.
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Here[^]. Go watch it.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: Go watch it.
 That is great!
Marc
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Did you notice the computer in background?
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Wow. Is that an original IBM PS-2 or something?
Marc
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I have no clue. I was amazed by what looks like a CRT monitor and really ugly keyboard. I am a simpleton.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Yay, cats! 
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The fierce huntress stalks her prey.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Marc Clifton wrote: Customer wonders what all the cussing is about
I can imagine.. you don't often hear cats cussing 
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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The phone call was cat off.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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You should stop catcalling your customers, that's rather unprofessional.
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How does one change their password in CodeProject? I'm using the temporary one assign to me.
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Thank you Sean - I miss that.
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I can help. What is your current password?
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Just make a new post on the lounge.
Subject:
Password change for mbhildebrand
Body:
Old password: <OldPW>
New password (try 1): <NewPW>
New password (try 2): <NewPW>
Don't worry about exposing it, CPs software will automatically filter the post so the rest of us only see stars[^] instead of your real password.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 18-Aug-16 14:57pm.
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Nice. Always enjoy strong vocals.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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As far as I've observed, the lesser technically precise ones prefer calls.
Where they can bluff around randomly about things and go unnoticed. They fear chat as things have to be concise and precise and it's easily copied and circulated around.
Many times while explaining the requirement over call, I see no meaning in it. The explainer gets a free ride wasting time and finally says , "I think there's some missing blocks". (APPARENTLY!) Okay we'd revisit this again tomorrow.
This has been happening for a very long time. as so-called "Requirement discussion"
Now , I had to force one session towards Slack instead of phone call. Guess what? it was taking so much time for him to type a single meaningful statement. Please note he usually types faster while chatting about non-work topics. I just hate random calls.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Same reason why people rather call the "developer" than write a bug-report.
Yup, normal behaviour.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I prefer a call - where information can be transferred far faster and less painfully.
Similarly, I don't like waiting around for my turn amongst all the other conversations the chat-help drone is trying to handle along with mine.
It's an inch-by-inch affair, and from my experience, the busier they are (as measured by delays) the more the information they request is in small bits so they can give you smaller time-slices.
Or, perhaps you'd prefer to tweet, cutting down on the chatter?
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