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I don't know whether to hit the joke or the rant icon. Or both.
I can't even make a phone call from the phone at my desk. After smashing some buttons, the phone is "booting." I kid you not. It's a VOIP, currently doing a DHCP lookup or whatever. Now it's doing HTTP calls. There's a screen showing what it's doing...still not working....
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Ah, the Internet of Elephanting Things. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wait, how did we get from phones to internet connected sex toys?
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Wait, how did we get from phones to internet connected sex toys?
Well, most have a vibrate mode. Or so I've been reminded by some lady-friends.
More details than that, and we'll need to move this to the soapbox.
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Did you try rebooting it? 
My VOIP regularly irritates me by rebooting and losing certain settings. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: Listen kid, you paid for the call
You ain't bad but I've heard it all before
Don't call us, we'll call you
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That is so interesting.
I had to make a call today. I picked up my desk phone (IP phone) and began dialing.
I had pressed 3 or 4 numbers and it wasn't doing anything.
I said (out loud to myself) "Can you not just dial a number on this thing? How do I dial a number?"
Suddenly, all the digits appeared on the screen and then I could hear the next numbers begin making number-pressing sounds.
It's all junk!
Say all you want about our old rotary phones. They worked. Yes, 8s, 9s, and 0s were a pain to wait for while the rotary spun back around, but they worked.
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They even worked when the power was out too. I'm just old enough to remember the house having one.
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Bjarne Stroustrup I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
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Marc Clifton wrote: can't even make a phone call from the phone at my desk
And this is a bad thing? We have so many comms devices on the computer that the phone is redundant so I disconnected it some months ago - no one noticed.
Now can I get away with disabling skype messenger I wonder.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Are cold Jalapeños a little chilli?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually, they're pretty hot.
/ravi
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Serrano reason to believe that, Scoville you cut it out?
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I don't know but I once sold someone a piece of paper that had all the different species of cows on it for a few bits. I called it a cattle list for change.
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It's one of those mornings, where I need to be awake enough to fill out the annoying DB migration forms and submit them to one of the worst UX web sites, our internal SDLC site. But I also want a valium to ease the stress of doing this BS.
I think dark chocolate is a good compromise.
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Irish coffee - so you can simultaneously wake up, and drown your sorrows.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Skip the coffee and increase the whiskey, and maybe make it a double. Another option...weed.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Irish coffee
Amen to that!
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Sounds to me like you need to find a new gig. I am guessing that the pay is not bad, as you are still there, miserable, like John does from time to time wit this government gig.
I wish you peace and tranquility in your adventures. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Sounds to me like you need to find a new gig.
Working on it. 
Slacker007 wrote: I am guessing that the pay is not bad, as you are still there,
It's not that miserable -- the misery I experience is actually 90% my attitude. Yes, there are objective things regarding how unprofessional stuff is done around here that I just have to learn to be Tollian about (Eckhart Tolle - live in the present, yadada), and I'm not sure the best way to bring these things up with management, as they tend to get defensive very quickly. I've written down and nixed several approaches already. That said, pay is fine, I only work here 3 days a week, and the coworkers are great -- they actually are the ones that exhibit competency, they sort of have to, to make up for management.
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There is only one picture of a firefox worth showing, but I will not do it because of #puritans.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Is that the one with the plugins?
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Just a little kitten that found the perfect space to curl up.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, it crashed ... so true story.
I'd rather be phishing!
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