Dave wrote: > ..awaking from entertaining Bondian-themed dream to hear the words: [...] > "And this week is the start of freshers week in universities across the > UK.."
> Oh yeah, that's really what I needed to hear first thing this > morning. Bloody hell..
That's because you don't have a wife who gets a 6-week consulting contract at the start of each semester at one of the local colleges to help disinfect incoming student computers before they're allowed to touch the school's network. (And she only works on systems for on-campus students. Students who live off-campus, and faculty need not apply.)
> ..awaking from entertaining Bondian-themed dream to hear the words:
> "And it's quarter-to-eight and it's time for 'Thought for the Day'"
> Yuck. Never a good start to the day. Then followed immediately by:
> "And this week is the start of freshers week in universities across the > UK.."
> Oh yeah, that's really what I needed to hear first thing this > morning. Bloody hell..
> Dave
Yep, September didn't start until late September this year. Campus full of kids, again. Spam levels through the roof, again. For the first time in about 5 years we have no demolition or building work in or around our building.
Mummies little darlings have to learn a) how to walk from one place to another place, not always in line of sight, b) how to work the public bus service[0] and c) leave our multi-level maze-like building in the evening before the pack of devil attack dogs reach them[1].
[0] It helps a) to know where you are going and b) to have some beer tokens BEFORE you get on.
[1] We don't have devil attack dogs. No, honestly we don't. Really! You found bloody bones? Damn, the Grue has escaped again!
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I'm currently Recovered, and set my alarm for 0830 this morning just because I didn't have to, and could ignore it if I wanted. And only because it's an improvement on drifting into consciousness to You and Yours.
Unrecovery. The sponduliks are nice, but y'all are otherwise welcome to it.
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Nomen Publicus <zzas...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> writes: > Dave <jrzo...@qfy.cvcrk.pbz> wrote: >> "And this week is the start of freshers week in universities across the >> UK.."
>> Oh yeah, that's really what I needed to hear first thing this >> morning. Bloody hell..
> Yep, September didn't start until late September this year. Campus full of > kids, again. Spam levels through the roof, again. For the first time in > about 5 years we have no demolition or building work in or around our > building.
Our first day of classes is tomorrow. The return of the student population has been annoying since last week (and especially over the weekend when the little darlings had nothing to do but form clumps in the sidewalks and streets and drop beer bottles). Spam levels haven't changed much, although server usage is reaching impressive levels. Good thing we upgraded some load-balancing pools. Tuning the commercial spam filtering product we purchased and installed over the summer has been interesting, as it has more mystery knobs than the freeware products but fewer avenues for figuring out exactly how to work them.
> c) leave our multi-level maze-like building in the evening > before the pack of devil attack dogs reach them[1].
> [1] We don't have devil attack dogs. No, honestly we don't. Really! > You found bloody bones? Damn, the Grue has escaped again!
"Release the hounds!"
-- Steve VanDevender "I ride the big iron" http://hexadecimal.uoregon.edu/ ste...@hexadecimal.uoregon.edu PGP keyprint 4AD7AF61F0B9DE87 522902969C0A7EE8 Little things break, circuitry burns / Time flies while my little world turns Every day comes, every day goes / 100 years and nobody shows -- Happy Rhodes
Dan Birchall <feeping.creat...@cow-tapult.example.com> wrote in <slrnhc3n4a.1lge.feeping.creat...@my-286.myhome.westell.com>:
> jrzo...@qfy.cvcrk.pbz (Dave) wrote: >> ..awaking (snipped the rest)
> The second worst possible way to start the morning. Second only to > not awaking, of course.
There's a fair amount of discussion centered on whether, if you start the morning by not waking up, you even *notice*.
-- Alas, my sources don't report when the first spam was sent. Probably about 2,500 years ago, but it went via Royal Mail and all I've seen so far is a "while you were out" card pushed through the door this morning. -- Peter Corlett
> Dan Birchall <feeping.creat...@cow-tapult.example.com> wrote in <slrnhc3n4a.1lge.feeping.creat...@my-286.myhome.westell.com>: >> jrzo...@qfy.cvcrk.pbz (Dave) wrote: >>> ..awaking (snipped the rest)
>> The second worst possible way to start the morning. Second only to >> not awaking, of course.
> There's a fair amount of discussion centered on whether, if you start > the morning by not waking up, you even *notice*.
And it _does_ have the advantage that, suddenly, all your problems are now Someone Else's.
It's a fairly small advantage, I'll grant, but it's there.
ab...@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett) writes: > Unrecovery. The sponduliks are nice, but y'all are otherwise welcome to it.
I need them. Despite officially being in deflation, perculiarly, everything to eat and drink at work this week is ten percent more expensive than it was last week. Bloody students and their cheap loans.
>> Unrecovery. The sponduliks are nice, but y'all are otherwise welcome to it.
> I need them. Despite officially being in deflation, perculiarly, > everything to eat and drink at work this week is ten percent more > expensive than it was last week. Bloody students and their cheap loans.
At least you've got your fasarta for comfort. You *do* have a fasarta?
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TimC <tconn...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> wrote in <125422965918430-...@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au>:
> On 2009-09-29, mikea (aka Bruce) > was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: >> There's a fair amount of discussion centered on whether, if you start >> the morning by not waking up, you even *notice*.
> Sometimes I notice. "Hey, how did I get here, already showered and > dressed, and pouring the cereal into my breakfast bowl!?"
Oh, Hell, that's just the bog standard sysadmin-on-automatic.
-- That's what I say when people ask me "aren't you scared of the traffic?" "Why? The cars are all stopped". And they look sheepish and agree that commuting on a bicycle in peak hour isn't that much of a problem. -- Zebee Johnstone
> TimC <tconn...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> wrote in <125422965918430-...@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au>: >> On 2009-09-29, mikea (aka Bruce) >> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: >>> There's a fair amount of discussion centered on whether, if you start >>> the morning by not waking up, you even *notice*.
>> Sometimes I notice. "Hey, how did I get here, already showered and >> dressed, and pouring the cereal into my breakfast bowl!?"
> Oh, Hell, that's just the bog standard sysadmin-on-automatic.
Point of order, sir. Bog standard sysadmin-on-automatic involves finding oneself pulling the trigger of a firearm that doesn't require manual loading of new shells.
On a bad day, sysadmin-on-full-auto.
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TimC <tconn...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au> writes: > Sometimes I notice. "Hey, how did I get here, already showered and > dressed, and pouring the cereal into my breakfast bowl!?"
Mornings that start that way end with finding the cereal in the 'fridge and the milk is in the cupboard... and now rather unpleasant. The ceral will be all soggy, too. Cold cereal isn't supposed to get soggy until at least the 4th spoonful.
(But if your porridge is crunchy, you might wish to turn the gas down when cooking it.)
-- "I thought we'd be dead by step two, so this is going great!" -- Verne, in "Over the Hedge"
In <hl84c51frg87dcep6qd1889iqk8srkr...@4ax.com>, on 09/30/2009 at 12:37 AM, Rob Adams <robad...@ozemail.com.au> said:
>And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful Wife
ObSagaOfJenny But is she yours?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> ISO position Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+bspfh to contact me. We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
In <ce47p6-h82....@buffy.sighup.org.uk>, on 09/28/2009 at 04:22 PM, Nomen Publicus <zzas...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> said:
>Mummies little darlings have to learn a) how to walk from one place to >another place, not always in line of sight, b) how to work the public bus >service[0] and c) leave our multi-level maze-like building in the evening >before the pack of devil attack dogs reach them[1].
ASPCA on line one asking whether you give the DAD's immunizations before they are forced to bite the students.
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In <Xns9C97AC743D2D5Se...@188.40.43.213>, on 10/01/2009 at 08:57 PM, Paul <pssaw...@comcast.net.INVALID> said:
>Did she make up her mind?
Jenny did, but I'm not sure about the vile husband she got.
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ab...@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett) wrote: > Rob Adams <robad...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > [...] > > You need to set your alarm for later then.
> I'm currently Recovered, and set my alarm for 0830 this morning just because > I didn't have to, and could ignore it if I wanted. And only because it's an > improvement on drifting into consciousness to You and Yours.
> Unrecovery. The sponduliks are nice, but y'all are otherwise welcome to it.
Myeah. Problem is, one does rather need the sponduliks if one wants to buy toys to properly enjoy one's recovery.
Also, I find that, without the forced contact with other people - even lusers - I tend to withdraw into myself even more than I normally do. So bizarly enough, unrecovery is both bad _and_ good for my SAN stat.
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