Today the house of a hoarder in Germany burst because of too much trash.

Aschebescher · 3 days

I'd rather not give that word away, I'm sure we could use it for something.

dieselnut · 5 days

I'll definitely call Lowside if I get into a pickle.

Seattle Towing probably doesn't give a plugged nickle about this bad review, but they should.

phlogiston · 11 days

Nice story. I was impressed by how level-headed you were through the whole thing.

Btw, many states have a labor board that is /very/ interested in employers not paying employees properly. If the owner is doing this to anyone today, or has done it in the past, it might make their lives easier by letting the state know.

DrAnalCucumber · 12 days

Dear Penthouse Forum,

This has never happened to me before, but . . .

dislak · 14 days

I had a beeeyoootiful teacher for German in 8th grade. Stunning. Frau Chenowith, of Fort Collins, CO, circa 1976, if you're out there, I'm sorry I couldn't learn a single word of German in your class, all year 'round. I think you knew why, and that's why you didn't fail me.

Teachers in middle grades should be ugly battle-axes, then we'd probably learn something.

dacracot · 19 days

A "cat's whisker" crystal radio, which you could build in the 30s and earlier, certainly counted as "solid state" even before they called it that.

recket · 26 days

Dammit, I thought it would print /houses/.

lundah · 1 month

My parents used to live near Oak Ridge, Tennesee, where the government did a lot of the uranium separation work for the first atomic bombs. (The "Project Y" plant).

When I visited them, I'd often see people fishing off of a particular bridge. One spring break I drove by that same bridge and there were concrete barriers set up, with signs saying "Danger! Do not stop! Do not fish!"

They weren't exactly careful about waste disposal in the 1940s and 50s.

Aubie1230 · 1 month

None of them. Mistrust them all. Backup early and often, and try to restore your data at least once so you can debug the process.

Savir5850 · 1 month

Not so much the capacity to download and store titles, though. (Which are 6 GB plus and climbing, on consoles).

Cuukey · 1 month

I love it when support people ask me this. I get to say stuff like "My packet trace shows that your DHCP server isn't responding to request packets. At. All. Please fix it."

And you get to say, "um . . . you're right. We'll get on it."

Short, sweet and professional.

sburn · 1 month

Epoxy and plywood.

internetNazgul · 2 months

John M. Ford's How Much for Just the Planet is good, and funny.

(I recommend anything by Ford, btw)

RogueAngel · 2 months

Once, at a small start-up, I nailed my boss with a screensaver like this one. He was a top-notch kernel engineer and was totally taken by it. We could hear him muttering and swearing over the cubical wall.

We had a company policy of locking workstations after that.

airwalker12 · 2 months

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

dromio47 · 2 months

A bunch of Imperial Stormtroopers doing surgery. Huh.

davidreiss666 · 2 months

Everyone I know who's worked there hated the fuck out the place.

Also, they bought PeopleSoft. OMFG. That stuff is /radioactive toxic evil slime/.

finaleclipse · 2 months

I ran into this "must affect at least N users" problem once. Nope, can't help you. Eight hours response time, sorry. Rules. Hey, it's Saturday, give us a break.

It was a Saturday morning, net was down on our floor. Major software release happening Sunday night. Eight or ten of us were fixing bugs for a launch of very high-visibility product.

I don't know what our VP said to the network support folks, but things got respectful and moved /fast/ after my boss made a phone call to Not Tech Support. I think they cannibalized routers from another building to make ours work again. I honestly didn't care.

EquanimousMind · 2 months

This.

I'm guessing that it's perfectly constitutional for a branch of the government to be ineffective and counterproductive, as well as redundant, incompetent, inefficient, wasteful and a bunch more stuff.

Being unconstitutional (and/or unlawful) is a totally different animal.

tempuscash · 2 months

Reamde != Snow Crash. Really not even similar (though there is an online avatar aspect to it).

Reamde is 130 pages of setup, and 800+ pages of ending.

Forever_Flaccid · 2 months

"Bullies are people, too."

Sure. I also have NO problem with bullies getting their asses kicked. And if this bully has a "rainy weather" reminder the rest of his life, that's fine with me, too.

networkdeskpeon · 2 months

Give me four systems programmers in the right position, and I can free (or enslave) hundreds of millions.

Electronic voting systems scare the crap out of me.

joshqueens2 · 2 months

Depends on what you enjoyed.

John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar is a wild departure from 1984 and BNW in style, but there is a similar thread of angst and a sense of the world being out of control. Cast of thousands, no single hero, though.

Ptwiz · 3 months

Several hundred books "in the queue."

You're fine.

The only time I get rid of a book is when I get a new edition that supersedes one I already have, or the book is obsolete and utterly devoid of value (e.g., all the Java books I had, from the 1990s).

I don't /sell/ books. I just bring them into work and leave them in the kitchen in a stack labeled "Free to a good home." Generally they're gone within a few hours. I hope they do indeed find good homes (though the Java ones could be used to heat good homes and I wouldn't shed a tear).

a_priest · 3 months

What level are you IRL? :-)

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