UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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My cumberland pie was lovely. But there was not enough of it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, i like your thinking. it's not a peter though. and it can't be a fonda, too many other connotations, i would have to explain it to myself all the time. hmm... hey, you should SEE it first. DROOL.

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I lost ILX for about half an hour! I thought I was done for! everything went dark in here!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

The ilx on port 8080 has been flickery update your bookmarks with the port 80 version.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have any port bookmarked, it just assigns itself.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

You know, since I stopped eating massive curries, I've had a massive resurgance of the after-lunch crankies.

I wonder if there's something in curry which is calming, or if it's the sheer volume of carbohydrates. I'm not even that hungry today, just cranky.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

rowr carrot soup, i am king of carrot soup

i restrained myself from going down to the carpark after eating it just to perv over the bicycle

went to evans to look at bags where they have helpfully placed all the rackbags ON THE WALL WHERE YOU CAN'T REACH THEM grrr

the nice boy was very nice but anyway evans are the evil empire in waiting

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, you know what's making me cranky? It's the constant smell of cooking meat from the pub below.

:-(

God, I cannot wait until we move to the new office. We might actually have temperature control there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

And my office is NOISY today. Bah. Everyone is gathered around my desk for various reasons nothing to do with me.

And the new bloke (to replace the Finn, who I actually liked, who is leaving) is into FOOTIE and is shouting over my head at my other colleague who sits next to me about some fucking football thing. SHOOT ME NOW. THIS IS MY IDEA OF HELL.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I said the F-WORD. This is how fucked off I am by this whole development. They're so loud that even playing music doesn't drown them out. How can I work in these conditions?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

You can't. Who could reasonably expect you to? You should just get up and leave.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know who you are!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

If you can't beat em , join em'?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

My name's William. I've been posting to ILX for 3+ years now.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, you're new to the 'Cooler, though!

I think my colleagues were all drinking at lunch because they are all very loud and boisterous now.

Maybe I'll go out and get a flapjack and hope they've passed out by the time I get back.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've spoken to William on AIM chats a few times. He's very nice!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Honest!

What's on your headphones today, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to the Sons of TC Lethbridge, but it's too noisy in here. :-(

I went and got a flapjack. And then my boss told me that I'm getting hungry in the afternoon because I'm eating the wrong kind of carbs which give me a quick sugar burst and then a downer - the reason I didn't get hungry when eating curry was because I ate it with a load of brown rice.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

So you're going back to eating curry then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

See, the 'Cooler is really boring and no one posts when it's all nice and friendly and there are no FITES. I swear people only ever used to come in here to rubberneck and now it's just a study in endless stiffling office boredom.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Where's tissp and mitya these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Did they go on holiday with Ailsa?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya said he was having trouble getting to Nu ILX. Or maybe he kicked the habit while he didn't have access. TISSP! I have no idea where he's got to, in fact, he isn't even answering his email at the moment, which is annoying because we're supposed to be collaborating and he hasn't responded to the MP3 I sent him of my rough mix. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

tissp has been missing for aaaaages. Hope he's well.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to the new Hella album and now it's Odawas. What an excellent album this is.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

He was at the FAP last Friday.

I am so bored I'm actually trying to register to vote. I cannot believe that I've got to this age and never done it before.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there.

I have a question.

Why is it, when you work in any sort of roughly support-related IT job, you end up having conversations like this:

Annoying colleague: "Why can't you get X to behave the way I think it should?"

Me: "[long, factual explanation, carefully filtering out tech jargon and tricky concepts]"

Annoying colleague: "Yes, but that's no help to me, why can't you just get it to work the way I want?"

I mean, sometimes I feel as if noone ever listens to *any* explanation I give them, so I'm not sure why I bother. I could just as easily say "because it would upset the Silicon Pixies and they would sneak into your computer at night and let all the magic smoke out" for all the use it would do.

Today's discussion is about laser printers with re-used waste toner bottles giving spurious Toner Bottle Full alarms, but it could be about anything really.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Because people don't actually want you to tell them what's wrong with it, they just want you to FIX IT for them.

You could tell them anything you bloody liked, so long as the thing worked again. It's not their job to know, so why should they care?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

So why ask for an explanation then!

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Because you haven't got it to work the way that they think it should.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Moreover: if I want something and I get told "that's not possible", I want to know why. I ask them why, I listen to the explanation, and I try to be constructive. I don't just ignore what I've been told or say "well I don't see why you can't do (the impossible)"

Am I just odd, then?

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you are odd in that you actually think, and want to know how things work, rather than expecting everything to be done *for* you, like most users do.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. Been busy these last few days, hence me being quiet. It's not that I hate you all!

Just had more strong coffee. Have the caffeine shakes. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Also talking like Bridget Jones. V. bad.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is it really such an odd question, wanting to know how and when people first started voting?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Kate you really need some closed back headphones for work isolation, check out sennheiser HD25 (or HD 25SP, but the cord on those is really annoying) or Beyer Dynamic DT770s

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't need closed back headphones, I need noise cancelling headphones to work around here. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

(Also: Hi Dere everyone)

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

And we thought you were just ignoring us and HAAAAAAAAAATED me, etc. etc.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Trust me I can block out jackhammers with my HD25, they are broadcast studio floor headphones, very isolating.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

And we thought you were just ignoring us and HAAAAAAAAAATED me, etc. etc.

Nope! I've been a bit busy work-wise and haven't managed to get online much, sorry :(

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hey tissp!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

hey kerr! what's cooking?

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. Clearly, I don't exist around here. Not only did I get left out of the leaving cards for the Finn, but the head of the department gave this speech about her being the second longest serving member of the department - like what am I? Chopped liver?

This is actually the "Finance and MI Department" but because the MI department is just me, and my boss is in a different department, I just get left out of everything. :-(

If I don't exist, maybe I should just go home and not do this huge complicated report the head of teh department just asked me for. :-(((((((

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

:( :(

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe this is mine own fault for never going to the pub or lunches or Xmas parties or that stupid social crap with them, but still.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

We had a bloke retire today (I don't know why he finished on a Wednesday) who started aged 16 in 1969! He has left to look after his aging parents.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Bollocks to them.

Are you going to send me the orginal of that track Kate? I am off to rural Dorset all next week but I can take my laptop and piss about with NOISE IN DAS COUNTRY!

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

oops, that was an xpost, obv

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I thought you meant 'bollocks to his ageing parents'!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

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