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I remember he signed your book. I was wondering if you had him sign anything else. Like, did he sign a picture of himself signing your book?
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I was once working with a developer, whose name I won't release, who had this stupid habit that I called Homer typing....
He would quickly punch keys on the keyboard, as if normally typing, but without actually pressing the keys, just on the surface, to convince people in neighboring cubicals that he was doing something, while his eyes were often shut during such process.
It didn't embarrass the guy when I caught him doing this a few times, he just laughed, but when his boss eventually caught him at it, I thought he was going to nose-bleed.
I guess there is a Homer in just about any organization 
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I work with a guy who will stare at his screen-saver for, and I'm in no way exaggerating, 2 hours. This happens about once a week and I am convinced he has perfected the art of sleeping with his eyes open.
He is also known to walk over to the window and stare up at the sky for ages. We believe he is trying to contact the Mother-Ship.
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TPFKAPB wrote: I am convinced he has perfected the art of sleeping with his eyes open.
I once spent the night in a Cortina with 4 other lads in a car park in Leeds.
One of them, when he went to sleep, didn't shut his eyes, just rolled them up inside his head so all you saw was white.
Freakiest thing I have ever seen.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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ChrisElston wrote: I once spent the night in a Cortina with 4 other lads in a car park in Leeds.
Dogging?
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We were actually waiting for the England National Team American Football trials which were taking place there the next day.
We'd driven up from Leicester, had a night out in Leeds, picked up a couple of slappers from Bradford, driven them home at about 4 in the morning, then to where the trials were taking place to get a few hours kip.
Upon waking we decided we were in no state for any sort of physical activity, went to get breakfast then drove home.
On the M1 on the way home I was in the passenger seat and fell asleep, when I woke up we were doing about 120 mph. I asked the driver why and he replied "I'm seeing how fast I can go to try to stay awake".
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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ChrisElston wrote: didn't shut his eyes, just rolled them up inside his head
I knew an older man at the warehouse, that would go out to his car to sleep on his lunch break. He would have me wake him up sometimes after lunch was over. He slept with one eye open, no sh*t. I later found out that he did 15 year's in state prison for drug smugling.
I'm just glad he didn't ask me to nap with him. 
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"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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The arrow keys, shift and control are much better for that, you can type properly and get full key-action noises.
Or so I have been told... 
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I have an awkward habit, I close my eyes when deep in though (bad eyesight related I guess) or spin plastic gears shafts (3-4 cm in size) on my desk when waiting for a compiler to finish (cue Inception gags!), still waiting for the Basket Ball under my Bosses desk to hit me!
Glenn
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I have a really bad habit. I swear I'm not joking. When I am in deep thinking, I don't know where my eyes are looking. But when I'm done thinking, I sometimes find myself staring at a female colleague. It's embarrassing. 
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krumia wrote: It's embarrassing
Why? Give her your most charming and at the same time least guilty smile you can, and then see what happens.
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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This may be better than actually having him type.
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Our Father, who are in prison
Mother knows not his name.
Thy Chavdom come, thy shoplifting be done, in JJB sports as it is in Poundland.
Give us this day our welfare bread
And forgive us our ASBO's as we happy slap those who give evidence against us.
And lead us not into employment
But deliver us free housing
For thine is the chavdom
The Burberry and the Blackberry
For ever and ever
init
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There was one bolloxing of a storm last night. Thunder, lightning, wind and rain. The elephanting lot!
There must have been a hit nearby as our fuse switches blew. Woke up this morning and I wanted to listen to the radio [Today on Radio 4] so I switched on the lappie and that was fine but no intarweb. I checked the router and it was off.
When I took the power thang out of the plug it rattles. I think something inside went boink. 
So I will piggy-back on nextdoor's wi-fi today until I can get the router fixed or replaced.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Year ago the company I was working for got hit by a ground strike during a storm. Took out the telephone exchange, fax machine and the IDE card on every computer that was plugged in, whether it was turned on or not. That was it - no other damage. The company down the road was much worse off - they had a UPS which exploded, showering the area in battery acid...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I'll have to go out and get this sorted as I'm still here for another two days. 
[OT - WTF is happening with the banks]
Just heard on the radio that several UK banks have been downgraded. Does that mean I can demand higher interest on my savings?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Not only that but NatWest[^] have screwed up big time with their IT systems, where the jobs that update balances overnight fell over.
It will be interesting to hear what is behind this, although I imagine the full story will probably never come out.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Been there, done that.
If the End of Day processing fails it can become somewhat tense. The best I ever had was the year end process failing and we had to reload the DB from the pre-EOD backup. While that was happening we had to find the bug, fix it and get the change approved to go into production.
It was a fairly minor change, but it was a race to get everything fixed and all the jobs run before the bank opened on the 2nd January. IIRC we got things up about 10 minutes before opening.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Good on you - makes me wonder why NatWest did not have a proper roll back strategy in place(although I have worked on projects where once the switch is made a roll back is impossible).
Nagy Vilmos wrote: get the change approved to go into production
I had something similar recently where I even used words to the effect of - "can we bypass the change control system this one time" - I'm sure if anyone else had suggested that to me I would have gone ape 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Demand all you like - these are banks we are talking about, and they ignore pretty much everything that doesn't come from an old school pal.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I think you'll find that a wee stash o cash has an amazing impact.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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 That's where I've been going wrong all these years! Spending the stuff instead of giving it to bankers to lose!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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My balances are all below the guarantee threshold for each bank.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Can you lend us £20,000 until payday?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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