The Iggblog

This showed up today in OT:

props to rogue on the club. not sure where he got it.

My rig had a *minor faliure* this afternoon. I was playing C&C or something, and I heard this crazy noise coming from one of my RAID drives. then I see a spark throuigh my BlingWindow(tm) coming from the vacinity of my hard drive bank. screen goes black. I get this terrible feedback through the speakers. I shut down the computer, and as the fans were spinning down I heard the feedback noise get lower in pitch, so I figured the noise must have been from one of the fans being fried or something. Smoke comes out of the top of the computer from the power supply area. I says to myself “Oh damn.”

The rest

Happy easter to everyone in LJ-land. Happy weekend to all those of you who aren’t religious. That’s all I got. Enjoy the day. Or else viking kitties will eat you in your sleep.

-Igg

Indexing a list of links to rally music videos for myself. Anyone who hasn’t seen rally racing before, and is interested in this crap I keep spouting off about, DL a vid or 2. Britan and Sweeden are 2 good ones. Everyone else can ignore the cut.

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I’m bringing home the analysis software for the acoustic microscope today. I have a report to work on at home tomorrow (“day off”), and I need to be able to manipulate the images I have and play with a small amount of data that I took. Let me describe what a “small amount” of data is… words behind cut to spare those who could care less.

Those of you that play with/produce music might be able to appreciate this on some level if you deal with waveforms.

clicky

Dear IggDawg’s boss,

I spent a 2 days collecting and interpreiting the data for a project I did last week. You reviewed the data because peer review is required. You spent 10 minutes glossing over the results, and you wrote down the changes you wanted me to make to my text. The implication is that your edits are well warranted since you have more experience. I admit I should have checked your notes against my data, but I made changes to my report based on your authority without checking. In one very important section, you wrote a part number wrong and forgot to write down another one. the result of this is that a good part was indicated as bad, and two bad parts weren’t indicated at all.

It displeases me that you made these errors, since my text was fine in the first place. Your “streamlining” was unneccecary. It displeases me further that when the client called out these mistakes, you deferred them to me… you implied the data and report were my product entirely. I had to flounder, coming up with reasons for the discrepancies. The client was satisfied when I was done with them but I am not at all amused that I was put in that position.

I assert that I hate your soul, and kindly request that you fuck off and die.

Sincerely,
-IggDawg

“who will you be stuck with” meme behind cut.

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Few things are as enjoyable as finding out the ATM gave you an extra 20-spot.

Curses!!! Damn those farmers and their unholy time magic! Once again, I have had an hour of my day stolen from me by dead farmers. It’s beyond me why we still have daylight savings time. It’s not all bad… it gives me something to complain about. and an excuse to get into work an hour late tomorrow.

In other news: Homeworld 2 continues to be one of the most visually stunning games I’ve ever played. The graphics and sound are amazing. I liked the combat system in the first one better, but it’s still good in this one. Too “Streamlined” for my taste. I don’t say this often, but the graphics make up for any shortcomings the game has (which are few and far between).

-IggDawg

Wow. the things people do at the hands of OT. in case any of you missed it, and for those of you who don’t frequent the club, this incident was a particularly good one…

In this thread, one of the members (Gongzero) was whining that he forgot to “powder up the boys” this morning. no gold bond and loose boxers makes for a swampy day. He sets it up as a poll and puts up a number of “just kidding” options as to what he should do as an alternative. one of these options was to powder them up with instant coffee. The denizens of OT egg him on, and eventually he caves and actaully does it. so now he smells like a coffee house, and has slimy instant coffee residue all over the inside of his pants. comedy gold… definitely check out the threads if you have some time to kill. I don’t even post in OT that much anymore, but these sorts of antics are what keep me coming back.

-Igg