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Post by mandene on Feb 22, 2016 16:04:18 GMT -5
Warning!!!
Don't read this post if you are squimish. This is graphic.
This is a few years ago. A guy was overclocking his CPU. It fried. He bought a new one, and the day he installed it, he left the side of the PC open to check how it worked. Then he had ot leave the room. When he came back, he found his cat dead and the PC fried. Apparently, while he was away the cat peed into the opened PC, short-cirquited it, and got electricuted in the process. 9 lives gone, and instant-karma!
Another story. This guy was about 14. He met one of his neighbors (a 12 year old girl) while waiting to get the buss back to their village. She was quite giddy and told him she bougth something. She opened her jacket pocket, and something jumped out of it. Then the small hamster ran out on the road, just when a buss was approaching. Thud-thud..... thud-thud.... the buss continued on and what was left was a flat, hairy pancake. The guy started to laugh so hysterically, that he was weeping. And the girl was beside herself upset.
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Post by EDM Entori on Feb 22, 2016 20:02:02 GMT -5
I'll add something here then Mandene if you don't mind. Yesterday I was teaching fifth grade and as I'm getting the class inside from their afternoon recess I can tell a few girls are all worked up from the way they're clumped together. One comes up to me and instinctively I put my mental shields up expecting a talk about feelings and how so and so made fun of them. If only that were true as she then proceeds to tell me of a classmate from another room was talking about how he's going to shoot a bunch of them in the forehead. I tell them we need to go to the office and one of the girls tells me they've already told someone. Sure enough the intercom crackles to life asking for students from my room. I've been in education for 15 years and yesterday I felt the Danny Glover coming on where at the end of the day I leave the room and say, "I'm too old for this S#!t!" Some might think this is going overboard and that they're just being kids joking about and while I hope that is what happened, a joke too far, I'd rather not be the person that didn't react to a possible threat only to have something go down. I'm just happy I'm not a kid right now. I'm not sure how many times I swore black and blue I was going to commit murder but thank God no one took it serious.
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Post by mandene on Mar 8, 2016 9:36:23 GMT -5
Geeky teens defend their territory:
A girl's parents let her use tools and electronics. She soldered motion sensors to a tape recorder. And henceforth whenever anyone entered her room the tape recorder would play "Get out!"
A boy shortcirquited the amplifier on a small radio, then connected it to the door handle to his room. Whenever someone uninvited grabbed the door handle, he got small electric shock, and the speaker on the radio made a loud horrible alarm sound.
A boy figured out he could use a webcam as a form of motion detector, writing an algorithm that checked a received data numbers to an "arbitrary" constant (fine-tuned through trial and error). He then attached it to a robot with an attached airzooka. It could shoot, but the boy never figured out how to make the robot to understand which way it should turn to shoot, so he used remote control for that, unless of course the robot was facing the door and someone uninvited walked in.
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Post by styxxbone1 on Mar 8, 2016 22:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by lucid on Mar 10, 2016 9:48:04 GMT -5
Over the intercom:
"Rosemary, please come to the nursery. Rosemary, you're needed in the nursery immediately."
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Post by mandene on Mar 10, 2016 11:21:35 GMT -5
Needed personnel for penetration testing.
Locking Balls are stuck, even if the piston is retracted.
O.O
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Post by mandene on Mar 24, 2016 4:42:19 GMT -5
Sometimes I REALLY love my job. The size of the thumbnail is too small (maybe half the size), but the size of the expanded image is much much bigger than the actual card. That port in the upper right corner is the min-USB port.
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Post by mandene on Mar 29, 2016 11:20:28 GMT -5
I tried to scare some of the guys at work, by telling them that next I'm going to make my nails match this little card. White and blue!! Also, when working with hardware nowadays... remember to never ever sneeze (or maybe even breathe). Enlarged this picture shows size of components. For comparison, this is just one of the compartments in this box:
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Post by mandene on Apr 20, 2016 4:52:49 GMT -5
Double food forgetfulnessA and B notice that they are very hungry during the afternoon. They eat more and more snacks and fruit as the afternoon progresses and are perplexed by their seemingly unmotivated hunger. When someone offers us pastry, they eat embarrassing amounts. Then B opens one of the microwaves and discovers a cold plate of pea soup. His pea soup - the one he heated up and was supposed to eat at lunch. In the nearby microwave he finds another plate of pea soup - the one A was supposed to eat. To clarify - they both had heated up their food and forgotten to eat it
Expensive perfunctory parcel (a.k.a How to send a bomb).So we have a client abroad, that sent us an obscure log with an obscure error message in it, saying that our library suddenly refuses to work on their "new" hardware. I had an idea what it was, but to be sure my theory was correct we needed that piece of equipment to test on. So the client sent us the hardware in a standard postal parcel. the hardware (that looks like electronics in a plastic box with some connection sockets) was just stuffed into the factory cardboard box, and that box was stuffed into a bigger cardboard box. No padding, no bubblewrap - nothing that would protect the electronics against damage during transport. Or nothing that would make sure it arrives where it should. When we were done, we informed our client, that the best thing for everyone would be if we kept the hardware, so that we can make tests against it in the future as well. The answer was: "We really need it back, we only have the one. It costs €20,000 a piece." Say what? So they sent us a €20,000 piece of equipment in unsecured cardboard box. Without any insurance. When we were sending it back, we packeted it thoroughly, we ordered a recommended DHL parcel shipping and payed for extra insurance for the item (that the client will be compensated if it gets broken or lost). Because, you know €20,000!!!! The DHL guy arrived the next morning to take it with him. And he refused. He told us we have to cut it open, because, for all he knew we could be sending a bomb. Sure thing, we opened the cardboard box and unwrapped the contents. He looked at the factory packaging, and motioned he needed to see more. So we opened it, and showed him the plastic container. He was happy, and nodded for us to repackage everything. And it hit me. He never did see the circuity inside the plastic container (it's rather difficult to open, but it's not undoable). So, we could have put a bomb inside, and he would've just allowed us to ship it with his name signed on the parcel insuring that it wasn't one. How good is a postal service guy at recognizing that something is/isn't a bomb anyway? Mind boggling!!
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Post by mandene on Oct 13, 2016 12:04:08 GMT -5
It's been a while since I bothered with this.. but here's one. The Curse of CurryI have a "gang" of 4 work colleagues that for one reason or another we spend some time with each other. A while back we've started to go out to lunch and/or "fika" ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_(Sweden) ) together. The lunch has become a trend to be on Thursdays and we go for Indian food. Twice. TWICE now have we tried to go to other restaurants to get something else. And BOTH TIMES the "today's special" was some type of curry!!!
The challenge of avoiding curry. Sounds simple, but in reality....
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Post by mandene on Nov 30, 2016 11:51:41 GMT -5
Leadership according to monkeys (heard it at lunch):Monkeys sit in a tree. The higher up in the tree, the higher your position. The monkey up the hierarchy looks down and sees monkey faces. The monkeys down the hierarchy look up and see an (another word for backside).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 4:56:28 GMT -5
Wanna know what I heard at work?
1 veteran employee fraternizing with an underling, having intercourse in the store's bathroom while the store is open
I'll spare the details as to how they handled customers when they walk in and that beautiful doorbell chimes
Meanwhile, in the south here
Underling employee also having an affair with the guy across the street at one of our other locations (who is at least being cordial and keeping it out of work - he's not in trouble), oh, and for the bonus of it all, Underling also having an affair with the "guy next door" at what will be an unnamed restaurant chain I don't even like (salt on the wound). By the way, while keeping the store open and letting them into restricted (or constricted?) areas.
Is there a mystery as to why I drink, after suddenly being forced to work 90+ hours in a week, after I fire me some people...Beyond that and assuming full crew, I'll still be seeing another 120 hour week during christmas because people need to erase their brains during the holidays, so I'll be right along with them. Although my snuggy kitten may demand otherwise at least.
I hate the holiday fever people get in retail.
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Post by mandene on Dec 1, 2016 5:49:19 GMT -5
[...] I hate the holiday fever people get in retail. I'm there with you. I hate that too and I don't even work in retail. But, when I see the annoying adds, the retail (owners) want to have it that way. "Black Friday! Everything 30% off!" Holiday season stands for a huge chunk of the yearly revenue. In my town they make public transport free on Starudays/Sunays 2-3 weeks before Christmas, to try to help out with the traffic situation (to convince people to leave the car at home and take the buss). SparaSpara
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Post by mandene on Dec 2, 2016 9:59:49 GMT -5
Great fun to be had.
We found this little beastie today:
#1 Find errors in this C# code snippet.
namespace Test{ class Program{ static void Main{ var demo = new AsyncAwaitDemo(); var result = demo.DoStuff(); while (true){ Thread.Sleep(3); Console.WriteLine("Doing Stuff on the Main Thread parallel to demo.DoStuff ..................."); } Console.WriteLine(result); Console.ReadLines(); } }
private class AsyncAwatDemo{ public async Task DoStuff(){ string returnValue = await new LongRunningOperation(); return returnValue; } private static async Task<string> LongRunningOperation(){ for (int counter == 0; counter < 1000; counter++);{ Thread.Sleep(3); Console.WriteLine(counter); } return "Counter = " + counter; } } };
#2. Write another solution to question #1 if you believe that there is one.
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Post by Fluffy the Mad on Dec 2, 2016 12:01:43 GMT -5
Only had one project in C#, but the first thing that might come to mind is overzealous semicolons. Haven't done work with either async or await so I may have missed something there.
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Post by iangallowglas on Mar 6, 2017 23:26:28 GMT -5
So, if you didn't know this already, the main reason I've not been on FRC much over the last year or so, is that I went back to college after 25 years and got a master's in education. (Yes, I am crazy). This is my first year teaching and I teach high school science here in the Twin Cities.
So I was in class today, and I say "alright everyone, we have a quiz today on Newton's Laws" the response I get from one of my female students is "well F--- me in the ass". I'm not sure how other teachers would have dealt with that, but I spontaneously broke out laughing.... Not very teacher like on my part.
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Post by smacrasmacrasmacra on Mar 7, 2017 1:25:10 GMT -5
So, if you didn't know this already, the main reason I've not been on FRC much over the last year or so, is that I went back to college after 25 years and got a master's in education. (Yes, I am crazy). This is my first year teaching and I teach high school science here in the Twin Cities. So I was in class today, and I say "alright everyone, we have a quiz today on Newton's Laws" the response I get from one of my female students is "well F--- me in the ass". I'm not sure how other teachers would have dealt with that, but I spontaneously broke out laughing.... Not very teacher like on my part. I find both of your reactions completely appropriate.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 2:10:31 GMT -5
So, if you didn't know this already, the main reason I've not been on FRC much over the last year or so, is that I went back to college after 25 years and got a master's in education. (Yes, I am crazy). This is my first year teaching and I teach high school science here in the Twin Cities. So I was in class today, and I say "alright everyone, we have a quiz today on Newton's Laws" the response I get from one of my female students is "well F--- me in the ass". I'm not sure how other teachers would have dealt with that, but I spontaneously broke out laughing.... Not very teacher like on my part. That's when you call Fox News and you make sure you cover your basis...
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Post by malclave on Mar 7, 2017 2:19:32 GMT -5
So I was in class today, and I say "alright everyone, we have a quiz today on Newton's Laws" the response I get from one of my female students is "well F--- me in the ass". I'm not sure how other teachers would have dealt with that, but I spontaneously broke out laughing.... Not very teacher like on my part. Well, an opposite and equal reaction to what she said could have gotten you into trouble...
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Post by mandene on Mar 7, 2017 3:19:06 GMT -5
So I was in class today, and I say "alright everyone, we have a quiz today on Newton's Laws" the response I get from one of my female students is "well F--- me in the ass". I'm not sure how other teachers would have dealt with that, but I spontaneously broke out laughing.... Not very teacher like on my part. Well, an opposite and equal reaction to what she said could have gotten you into trouble... I see what you did there!
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Post by mandene on Mar 7, 2017 5:36:06 GMT -5
I switched jobs, and started at a new company January 2nd.
I thought that, considering what day is tomorrow, I'll share one of my experiences as a female engineer. This was actually at my previous employer (the place where all the quotes come from).
A male junior project manager rounds me up and asks me to have a short meeting with him. We choose the comfy meeting room and then he tells me this:. Note the guy is younger than me and has lot less experience than I (Specifically, since he's onloy had one employer, and has never been hired out to other places).
"When you started here, I was troubled, because I thought that you were incompetent. But since then you have proved me that I was totally wrong. And I've observed that all the trainees and junior emploeers tend to go to you for help."
*sigh*
Recently I heard from a female junior employee (that still works there) that he told her something similar.
I never heard that any of the guys have had this "talk".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 9:15:15 GMT -5
Oh god, best wishes
Document and document is all I got to say
Then you could end up owning his poor young soul
Wait, are you wearing elf ears to work again? Didn't I tell you that gets the young blood all riled up!
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Post by tbone on Mar 7, 2017 10:55:35 GMT -5
So I teach Band and Math at a small k-12 school. I work mostly with high-school students, but every now and then I get to hear some really funny things from the middle schoolers and elementary kids during their passing period. Earlier this school year, prior to the election, I heard a pair of 6th graders talking while walking down the hall:
Student 1: "Hey... do you think Bernie Sanders and Colonel Sanders are the same person?"
Student 2: "Yep."
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Post by malclave on Mar 7, 2017 12:09:16 GMT -5
Recently I heard from a female junior employee (that still works there) that he told her something similar. I never heard that any of the guys have had this "talk". Meh... he's an idiot. Hopefully if he continues, someone will call him on it by asking why he thought she was incompetent. If it helps at all, remind yourself of the following (read this a year or two ago in a blog comment from another woman engineer)... Q: What's the difference between a male and female connector? A: The female's the one with the power.
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Post by tbone on Mar 7, 2017 12:44:17 GMT -5
Another one from earlier this year... some 3rd grade students were standing in line, waiting for their teacher to come get them from the music room and take them back to class. (I don't teach this class, but our choir teacher does and she and I share an office.) From inside my office, I hear one little girl say to someone else "Step on up, then, motherf**ker!"
So, she got to go to the principal's office, at which point she tried to convince the principal that what she had actually said was, "Step on up, motherSucker." The teachers have been saying that ever since. Amongst ourselves, anyway.
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Post by mandene on Mar 7, 2017 14:15:48 GMT -5
Recently I heard from a female junior employee (that still works there) that he told her something similar. I never heard that any of the guys have had this "talk". Meh... he's an idiot. Hopefully if he continues, someone will call him on it by asking why he thought she was incompetent. If it helps at all, remind yourself of the following (read this a year or two ago in a blog comment from another woman engineer)... Q: What's the difference between a male and female connector? A: The female's the one with the power. What boggles my mind, aside of the obvious, is that he admits it. If he didn't I would have been happily unaware of that idiocy. So during the rest of the talk I was struggling between the concepts of him being total idiot, or not as much since he proved to be man enough to admit that he was wrong. Though he lost any respect I had for him by repeating the same stupid mistake.
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Post by mandene on Mar 7, 2017 15:12:52 GMT -5
Oh god, best wishes Document and document is all I got to say Then you could end up owning his poor young soul Wait, are you wearing elf ears to work again? Didn't I tell you that gets the young blood all riled up! Hahaha! No, it must be the LEGO Ariean on my desk.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 15:14:43 GMT -5
Awesome
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Post by mandene on Mar 14, 2017 6:49:40 GMT -5
Heading back from having pizza for lunch. One of the guys: "I have a dilema. If you needed to borrow money for luch, and the other guy bought you the lunch (instead of just giving you the money). Would it be OK to return the favor by paying with a '2 for 1' coupon?"
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Post by mandene on Mar 16, 2017 9:51:07 GMT -5
Persian proverb:
"When you go into a hair salon always look for the hairdresser with the worst cut, because (s)he is the one that did the others."
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