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Offline rich_t

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Where is everyone?
« on: December 07, 2009, 06:26:02 PM »
Seems I have the place to myself.

I hope you all hid the stuff that breaks easily.

LOL.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2009, 06:28:28 PM »
At work.  Won't have much time to play tonight.

Night shift sucks.  Man, didn't we just get done with an outage?
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2009, 06:29:48 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on December 07, 2009, 06:26:02 PM
Seems I have the place to myself.

I hope you all hid the stuff that breaks easily.

LOL.

Nope. Already broke it.

Did you bring booze ?
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2009, 06:29:53 PM »
Wondering the same thing.  I'm trying hard to postpone a serious effort at an annotated bibliography, and Mafia Wars can only distract me for so long.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2009, 06:36:30 PM »
BTW...  who hid the popcorn and microwave?

Oh well.  Maybe I'll just redecocrate the place.

 :uhsure:

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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2009, 07:06:10 PM »
Oh crap! I forgot to lock up the magic markers and beer again!
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2009, 07:09:34 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on December 07, 2009, 07:06:10 PM
Oh crap! I forgot to lock up the magic markers and beer again!

Hehe...   Just wait until you see the walls.

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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2009, 07:11:29 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on December 07, 2009, 07:09:34 PM
Hehe...   Just wait until you see the walls.



Just don't pass out early or I'll turn you into this guy...

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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2009, 07:22:45 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on December 07, 2009, 07:06:10 PM
Oh crap! I forgot to lock up the magic markers and beer again!

Hell, those are the least of your worries.  Thor forgot to lock up the fireworks and blow-up sheep.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2009, 07:29:07 PM »
Quote from: Chump on December 07, 2009, 07:11:29 PM
Just don't pass out early or I'll turn you into this guy...



Hey! Where'd you find that picture of Chris at the last CC party? :rofl:
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2009, 07:34:38 PM »
Quote from: Chump on December 07, 2009, 07:11:29 PM
Just don't pass out early or I'll turn you into this guy...



Sometimes you feel like a nut - sometimes you don't.



*edited to remove redundant picture..... :hammer:
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2009, 07:54:27 PM »
I feel like sometime, like I am in a echo chamber.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2009, 07:58:41 PM »
People are here, they just aren't posting.

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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2009, 07:59:44 PM »
Only the lonely, know how I feel tonight
only the lonely, know this feeling aint right....

Ray Orbison could do really amazing music...
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2009, 08:32:20 PM »
I have an excuse... internet was down due to a Qwest screwup.

And..

I actually worked today.  :-)
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2009, 08:37:34 PM »
Quote from: Baruch Menachem on December 07, 2009, 07:59:44 PM
Only the lonely, know how I feel tonight
only the lonely, know this feeling aint right....

Ray Orbison could do really amazing music...


Roy Orbison was better.   :hammer:
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2009, 08:38:07 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on December 07, 2009, 07:58:41 PM
People are here, they just aren't posting.

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Between Thanksgiving and shortly after New Year's Day internet traffic all over declines, because people tend to get busy in real life.

However, something such as a megamassive snowstorm that afflicts a large part (populaton, not area) of the country causes a big bump, for the duration of the storm and a couple of days afterwards, because millions are snowed in.

It's been slow here at conservativecave since a couple of days before Thanksgiving, but not disastrously so.  Also, the timing of traffic seems to have changed.  It used to be that evenings were busy here, but at the moment, mornings and afternoons are busier.

In my case, the weather in southern Minnesota and western Utah has interfered with internet service (wireless) all day long, driving me to distraction.  I posted something here at 8:00 a.m. and then walked away, because I already knew what would happen.

It finally posted three hours later.

It makes me want to go back to dial-up internet; that never went out.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2009, 08:38:14 PM »
Quote from: bkg on December 07, 2009, 08:32:20 PM
I have an excuse... internet was down due to a Qwest screwup.

And..

I actually worked today.  :-)

Does that happen often?  The work I mean, not the outage.

I got a phone call from one of our clients.  "I need to have 700 users added to our account; here's 20 pages of login IDs."  So I'm working on my day off tomorrow.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2009, 08:40:13 PM »
I just saw bkg's comment.

Yeah, QWest.

My internet service provider is NOT QWest, but is linked with QWest in Minnesota and Utah.  I assume, without knowing a damned thing about it, that connecting point.com buys bandwidth or something from QWest.
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Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2009, 08:48:01 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 07, 2009, 08:38:14 PM
Does that happen often?  The work I mean, not the outage.

I got a phone call from one of our clients.  "I need to have 700 users added to our account; here's 20 pages of login IDs."  So I'm working on my day off tomorrow.

Dude.. You need an Identity Management Solution... I can help.  :-)

I like the flexibility in my job. But it comes with consequences as well. I drive to Rochester, MN on Thursday, back on Friday, and take an 8am Flight to KC on Saturday for a 1 hour speaking engagement... then fly back. Boss told me to take a couple of days off and not record it. She's British, so he's big on vacation... er... "holiday."
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2009, 08:50:30 PM »
Wow.  The crappy weather made the news today.  Try not to slide off the road or anything.

We have some old (old-looking, at least) software that I know nothing about.  I can copy and paste an entire page of data into it, but users have to be entered one at a time.  There's no way to import anything into it.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2009, 08:52:49 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 07, 2009, 08:50:30 PM
Wow.  The crappy weather made the news today.  Try not to slide off the road or anything.

We have some old (old-looking, at least) software that I know nothing about.  I can copy and paste an entire page of data into it, but users have to be entered one at a time.  There's no way to import anything into it.

that's gotta be a pain. Been doing Identity Management for 10 years. Automation is key!  :-)
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2009, 08:54:28 PM »
I'm not in Development or QA... programming is not my bag.  At least this doesn't happen often -- normally it's only a small handful or a couple dozen users at most.
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2009, 08:58:05 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 07, 2009, 08:54:28 PM
I'm not in Development or QA... programming is not my bag.  At least this doesn't happen often -- normally it's only a small handful or a couple dozen users at most.

haven't programed since Z-script. Gotta love Canukian script languages. Now I just sell the stuff. Let me make you a deal.  :-)
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Re: Where is everyone?
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2009, 09:14:05 PM »
Quote from: SilverOrchid on December 07, 2009, 07:54:27 PM
I feel like sometime, like I am in a echo chamber.

That's probably an inner ear thing.  Maybe booze related.
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