Be Excellent To Each Other

Holy shit.

I'm fairly sure I have two operational k800i phones in my house. They're a bit battered, but if your casing is in better nick you could always swap shit over?

Thanks mate, but I've just bought a HTC Wildfire.

Fuck you! I'm charging you 12 quid for my time anyway.

I'll collect it from Grim...

I've just dropped a printer!

Has it been 9 months already?

I banged my head on a desk earlier. I'm obviously rusty at fumbling at cables under people's desks.

I like to bang my head on the nearest desk from time to time.

Was moving a load of junk that I'd forgotten about and a newish printer. I'd piled them all up on the trolley and figured, in my 'bull-in-a-china-shop' way to tackle the two steps down from the lab without assistance.

It did not go well

There is a lift...

Quiet you. In a stunning design twist, you have to go down two steps to get to the lift.

Take that, cripples!

Indeed. Also, half of the building is completely inaccessible to the disabled, but as that's the Dance side, it's 'ok'

Stupid Chrome is giving me the following stupid JS error:
IT IS FUCKING DEFINED!
Even IE can make it work

Heh! In fairness, I can sort of see the logic of that one.

The textiles department is also up there. Up 50 steps.

.. although obviously it's not "ok".

Have some bananas

I wasn't going to post anything here but I reckon it'd do me good to get a few things off my chest.

My wife had a miscarriage last Friday. We went into hospital, they did the scan and everything and she ended up having an operation that evening. It wasn't the best day of my life as you can guess.

We're both a bit out of it now and trying to carry on as normal. She's still sore and a bit slow but she's getting there but I've got to say, the hospital staff were excellent. Every last one of them were comforting and really sympathetic.

Then today, we took our hamster to the vets and it turns out he has cancerous lumps in/on him. We've got to take him back a week on Saturday but it doesn't look good for him. We probably won't bring him home.

I'm trying to put a brave face on it all but you know... sometimes life is a bit shit.

Fucking hell man.

Sorry to hear it, chap

Ah, Vision. That's shit. Sympathy to you and the Mrs.

Sorry to hear that, MrVision.

That's horrible news. Hope things get better for you both really soon.

I'm doing that thing again where I keep opening the thread, trying to think of a response, then giving up as I can't really put it into words.
Really sorry to hear that mate.

Shit man. All the best to you and Mrs Vision

Thanks chaps.. I'm the kind of guy who bottles stuff up and puts a brave face on for those around me.. putting all this down on here helps in a strange kind of way.

I love your avatar, Vision.

We've really had some terrible forum news lately, haven't we.

Thanks.. I like it too. It cheers me up.



Yes we have. Hopefully it means that things can only get better.

Don't utter that phrase. I'm reasonably sure it summons Tony Blair.

Also, I hope you're right.

I was going to create a Tony Blair account and use Riles avatar, but then I realised I was too lazy. Just pretend I did it and find it accordingly hilarious, thanks.

Nay!

Crikey Mr. TheVision, very shit. My condolences sir. I hope you and your other half are okay.

Just read page 3. Sorry to hear the news, TheVision.

Really sorry to hear that The Vision.

Oh The Vision, I'm so sorry. Sending good thoughts to you and Mrs. The Vision.

Just read the last few pages, really sorry to hear what's going on in everyones life and TheVision I'm sending condolences to you and your wife.

Part of the software I wrote uses a Javascript and Flash-based video player. Another part uses a more recent version of the same thing.
I have spent an hour updating the part with the older version to the newer one.
I look on the vendor's website, and I see that in the hour I've been working on it there's an even newer version out.

Bah.

So sorry to hear that, The Vision. Hope you and the Mrs get back on your feet soon.

Started working on a new project (for me) today, which involves using our stuff on someone else's server. This started last year, but various things have meant it being delayed.
The guy that use to have my job set it all up, and when he left, said it was all working and I just had to build the main bit like I would normally. All our software, which is written to work on our servers (because no-one else is ever going to use it - er, until now) had been moved over, all the code updated and tested.
I take a quick look it at, and get the "Apache is running" page.

Turns out he lied, and the server is bare.

Fuck.

Terrible when you expect someone to do something and it never happens.

I do not understand what Grim... said but sorry dude, sounds sucky. Hope you get that sorted.

Back in my world, I cannae feel my feets! And now I have to walk to the other end of the site, which is *measures plan* 430m away, to see if I can find the2no. 400/160 45° junctions I bought, that have somehow and mysteriously been misplaced. Incompetent fools! This why I work in a heated office and they work outside, fucking belming morons.

If I can't find them, I would not want to be my site manager because he will feel my wrath, even if I find them as I really don't want to walk through compacted snow and ice for nothing. Cunts.

Ooo, er .... letter's just been put on our intranet informing staff of the formal consultation on our office network closure and risk of redundancy. We knew it was coming, but it makes it all seem a bit more real. Lucky for me they've already agreed to let me go on early retirement.

Do wimmins not protect their feets from the nasty cold brrr shiver with those horrid Ugg boot things?

Mostly, yes but not me, unless you can now buy steel toe and midsole, waterproof ones? I am wearing cheap, unlined wellies made for builders. I don't even have any lovely, fleece-lined rigger boots as I've used this years boot allowance :-(

You used the whole year's boots allowance on cheap wellies? How many did you buy?!

I quite like Ugg boots. I'm far happier for the wife to be wearing sensible padded flat-soled boots rather than any of the other options - because it minimises the possible avenues of complaint or slow movement.

Fluffy boots are my favourites.

Ugg boots are fucking ugly, and make women look like they have cankles, no matter how slim their legs.

I just don't get why women wear them. They look rubbish.

Also, wimmins' feet seem to slide off the edge of the sole, and basically use part of the side wall as the base, after a certain amount of wear, as far as I can tell, making them look like tramps. Tramps with fat legs and no fashion sense. So they're not even that well designed, or "practical". Get back to the high heels FFS.