Nom Nom Nom
Originally uploaded by Maximum Occupancy
Nom Nom Nom.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Go track something.
During my last week at Dell, I had finished all of my main projects and my work had been entirely transitioned to the rest of my team. Unless they had a question I didn't really have anything to do, and they didn't have many questions.
This was not as much fun as you might imagine. People with actual work to do were less than receptive to my wandering up and trying to chat. So I decided that I needed a hidey-hole to quietly wait out my sentence.
We had about 18 bankers boxes of old files that we were sending into deep storage, but they weren't really in any sort of order, and the contents weren't always known. No-one really cared much, but everyone agreed that in a perfect world we would know which files were in which box in case we ever needed them again. (They were terminated employee files. You need to keep them but you never actually need them.)
So I 'volunteered', which I will admit was pretty slick. I managed to turn watching DVD's on my laptop in my own private office into 'working hard getting things in order' before I left. To be fair I actually did make a spreadsheet and sort all of the boxes, and I did a good job. But I also watched about 30 movies in between playing air hockey in the break room.
To read this comic at the end of that week was pretty amusing. (Click to enlarge.)
DILBERT ©Scott Adams/Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
-iRob
This was not as much fun as you might imagine. People with actual work to do were less than receptive to my wandering up and trying to chat. So I decided that I needed a hidey-hole to quietly wait out my sentence.
We had about 18 bankers boxes of old files that we were sending into deep storage, but they weren't really in any sort of order, and the contents weren't always known. No-one really cared much, but everyone agreed that in a perfect world we would know which files were in which box in case we ever needed them again. (They were terminated employee files. You need to keep them but you never actually need them.)
So I 'volunteered', which I will admit was pretty slick. I managed to turn watching DVD's on my laptop in my own private office into 'working hard getting things in order' before I left. To be fair I actually did make a spreadsheet and sort all of the boxes, and I did a good job. But I also watched about 30 movies in between playing air hockey in the break room.
To read this comic at the end of that week was pretty amusing. (Click to enlarge.)
DILBERT ©Scott Adams/Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
-iRob
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
The End
O.K. So we have established that I have no commitment for side-projects. That's O.K, I can live with it.
Well, I didn't finish, but I do like some of the pictures in my set, so I'm going to leave them up. And I'm going to compromise (further) on the rules, and finish anyway. They won't be taken on the right day, unfortunately, but there will be 365 of them. Eventually. No, really, I really mean it this time. But then I don't know if anyone reads this anymore anyway.
Yup.
So today's entry: Mr. Wrinkle.
-iRob
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Bristlebots!
I'm gonna make me some Robots!
It turns out that you can't buy these motors locally so I ordered some online. The most expensive part was the shipping, so I figured I'd buy a lot. I have a dozen coming which is overkill, so if anyone wants one or two let me know.
Hey, if I make some and you make some... if only there were some sort of competition that you could have between different objects to see which are fastest. Some sort of distance-over-time measurement, with a marked 'start' and 'end' points.
(I'm looking at you Dr. H.)
-iRob
It turns out that you can't buy these motors locally so I ordered some online. The most expensive part was the shipping, so I figured I'd buy a lot. I have a dozen coming which is overkill, so if anyone wants one or two let me know.
Hey, if I make some and you make some... if only there were some sort of competition that you could have between different objects to see which are fastest. Some sort of distance-over-time measurement, with a marked 'start' and 'end' points.
(I'm looking at you Dr. H.)
-iRob
Garfield Minus Garfield.
Riddle me this.
Either:
A) A somewhat socially-awkward man in his late twenties happens to share an apartment with an anthropomorphic cat who speaks. His life is a series of comic/tragic misadventures.
B) Jonathan Q. Arbuckle is a delusional bi-polar schizophrenic patient. His cat 'Garfield' is nothing more than a manifestation of John's subconscious, given form as a hallucination. In reality, there is no cat.
I know what my vote is.
-iRob
"- and after I tied my shoe, I tied the other one... Then I thought about standing up... Then I stood up."
Jon Arbuckle
Either:
A) A somewhat socially-awkward man in his late twenties happens to share an apartment with an anthropomorphic cat who speaks. His life is a series of comic/tragic misadventures.
B) Jonathan Q. Arbuckle is a delusional bi-polar schizophrenic patient. His cat 'Garfield' is nothing more than a manifestation of John's subconscious, given form as a hallucination. In reality, there is no cat.
I know what my vote is.
-iRob
"- and after I tied my shoe, I tied the other one... Then I thought about standing up... Then I stood up."
Jon Arbuckle
Merde! Il pleut!
In my apartment.
This really bites. We were forced to move out of our wonderful apartment in Lakeview after the fire. We had been there six weeks.
We couldn't be choosy as vacancy in Calgary was at an all time low, so we looked at five places and took the best we could. The view is gorgeous, as we are on the 14th floor. However, this being the top floor, and with the roof problems, well...
It has been leaking intermittently since we moved in last August. That's nearly a year, for anyone who is keeping track. Not only outside our door, but in our bathroom as well.
Blah. We need to move. Again.
-iRob
This really bites. We were forced to move out of our wonderful apartment in Lakeview after the fire. We had been there six weeks.
We couldn't be choosy as vacancy in Calgary was at an all time low, so we looked at five places and took the best we could. The view is gorgeous, as we are on the 14th floor. However, this being the top floor, and with the roof problems, well...
It has been leaking intermittently since we moved in last August. That's nearly a year, for anyone who is keeping track. Not only outside our door, but in our bathroom as well.
Blah. We need to move. Again.
-iRob
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Friggin' telemarketers
Hello sir or ma'am my name is state your name and I am calling today to see if you are happy with your long distance plan because right now we are offering a two for one deal on all extended warranties with purchase of a new timeshare in beautiful Laughlin Nevada which comes free with a twenty year subscription on many of your least favorite magazines so I will put you down for an order of thirty ok?
-iRob
-iRob
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)