What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

I posted this on Facebook but thought you yayhoos would enjoy it as well.

Bought a new power strip for the bedroom since the nightstand and bed block the outlet. I turned it on, plugged in the lamp and phone charger, and didn't think anything of it until this morning.

I roll over to turn off my phone's alarm off and it looks like the gates of hell have opened beneath my bed. No longer groggy, I tried to assess if there is a fire under my bed or if the seventh seal had in fact been broken.

Apparently the fine manufacturers of the power strip decided it needs a 25,000-lumen red LED just in case you need to know if your power strip is operational from the International Space Station.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

White hockey tape will take down that gates of hell vibe while still letting you see that the switch is in the on position.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

I used some good 'ol 3M masking tape. I turned it down from gates of hell to dying campfire.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

dxmnkd316 said:
I posted this on Facebook but thought you yayhoos would enjoy it as well.

Bought a new power strip for the bedroom since the nightstand and bed block the outlet. I turned it on, plugged in the lamp and phone charger, and didn't think anything of it until this morning.

I roll over to turn off my phone's alarm off and it looks like the gates of hell have opened beneath my bed. No longer groggy, I tried to assess if there is a fire under my bed or if the seventh seal had in fact been broken.

Apparently the fine manufacturers of the power strip decided it needs a 25,000-lumen red LED just in case you need to know if your power strip is operational from the International Space Station.
Click to expand...

this made me giggle
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

A DVD player I had in my dorm had a piercing blue light. Lit up the room at night. Of course, that meant it was OFF. Ended up having to unplug it when I wasn't using it.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

I used to have a USB adapter for my car that had a blue light like that. Since I needed to charge my phone, but still didn't want to get involved in a car accident, hockey tape was the great answer. It was helpful, since my bag was in the trunk of my car at the time I first used the power adapter.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

dxmnkd316 said:
I posted this on Facebook but thought you yayhoos would enjoy it as well.

Bought a new power strip for the bedroom since the nightstand and bed block the outlet. I turned it on, plugged in the lamp and phone charger, and didn't think anything of it until this morning.

I roll over to turn off my phone's alarm off and it looks like the gates of hell have opened beneath my bed. No longer groggy, I tried to assess if there is a fire under my bed or if the seventh seal had in fact been broken.

Apparently the fine manufacturers of the power strip decided it needs a 25,000-lumen red LED just in case you need to know if your power strip is operational from the International Space Station.
Click to expand...

Well, you are a Goof fan, so it's understandable that you'd be worried about hell. :D
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

You know what grinds my gears? Dumb as **** drivers. I'm heading home on 694 (a fairly major highway for those of you unlucky enough to not live in MN) and there's a full traffic backup about a mile and a half before my exit. I keep moving forward looking for an accident on the shoulder. Just before my exit i pass a guy in a Lexus doing about 20 in the right lane with his hazards on. Looks like he's trying to limp to the next exit but doing it in the roadway illegally.

He then proceeds to keep driving past the exit!! What the hell is wrong with people?

Buddy, you drive a Lexus. You can afford a tow. In fact that tow is going to be less expensive than the ticket for impeding traffic and driving a non-roadworthy vehicle on thr highway.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

dx multiply that by a factor of one-jillion and you might get an idea of the capability of the average driver in this ENTIRE COUNTRY. Not only are they not required to take drivers ed, but common sense, common decency and common courtesy are 99.99% non-existent in driver mentality. They drive too fast or too slow, turn signals are not allowed, straddling the line is ever present, pull into traffic now and hope the driver with right-of-way will slow/move is a right of passage, mix in scooters/cycles that never use lane protocol...

I so wish the only problem here were a-holes that drive slow in the left lane and cannot circumnavigate a zip-merge.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Grinding my gears right now: being stuck in the office until 5:00PM. I only have 7 minutes left, but we've not had a support request for almost five hours now. Nobody's in the office with exception to some people putting some finishing touches on various reports, things that do not require my presence. And I'll have to hustle to get to my bus on time because of it being a holiday week and they f---ed with the bus schedules. Mine was moved up 5 minutes, which I can barely get to the bust stop in time during a normal week, and the one after that will be a 20-minute wait. Blah!
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

St. Clown said:
Grinding my gears right now: being stuck in the office until 5:00PM. I only have 7 minutes left, but we've not had a support request for almost five hours now. Nobody's in the office with exception to some people putting some finishing touches on various reports, things that do not require my presence. And I'll have to hustle to get to my bus on time because of it being a holiday week and they f---ed with the bus schedules. Mine was moved up 5 minutes, which I can barely get to the bust stop in time during a normal week, and the one after that will be a 20-minute wait. Blah!
Click to expand...

Looks like you were stuck at the office until 5:20
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Hammer said:
Looks like you were stuck at the office until 5:20
Click to expand...

I got off at 5:00 and quite literally ran to the second bus stop five blocks away. I made it just in time, too, saved myself 20 minutes and only had to grow back one lung.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

St. Clown said:
Grinding my gears right now: being stuck in the office until 5:00PM. I only have 7 minutes left, but we've not had a support request for almost five hours now. Nobody's in the office with exception to some people putting some finishing touches on various reports, things that do not require my presence. And I'll have to hustle to get to my bus on time because of it being a holiday week and they f---ed with the bus schedules. Mine was moved up 5 minutes, which I can barely get to the bust stop in time during a normal week, and the one after that will be a 20-minute wait. Blah!
Click to expand...

I take it your incoming tickets potentially involve ad-hoc queries/reports against the system(s) you support, and that's why you have to be there (other than overarching schedule requirements)?
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I take it your incoming tickets potentially involve ad-hoc queries/reports against the system(s) you support, and that's why you have to be there (other than overarching schedule requirements)?
Click to expand...

Yup. I have inquiry-only access to almost all of the systems in Trust Ops, and modify in a couple of them. When the users complain about whatever, I can usually find what's happening, all the while on the phone with the actual tech people. My job decsription is more along the lines of representing the business to the techs, though I do have the access rights to do a small amount of actual tech work.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Some horrible human is trying to poison dogs again in St. Paul. This summer, biscuits with rat poison were tossed into people's yards and ended up killing three dogs. What is wrong with people?
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

The guy started up his wretched hobby again, but now he's putting the poison into chunks of bread.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

I just thought about 17 years ago when my Agency and the entire world was in a tizzy about Y2K. All sorts of disaster preparations.

After upteen meetings I developed a "If the lights go out in Tokyo, it's time to worry" attitude. I had the procedures mapped out for the info systems I was responsible for, but if the lights went out, that would be the least of our worries.

As it turned out, the lights stayed on and I earned a full day of OT+ checking out our systems that were fine.

Note: The systems were still written in Clipper S'87 and all we did was add a SET CENTURY ON line in the master program for each system.
 
Last edited:
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

If the world didn't spend years and untold sums of cash to fix it' bride hand, I don't think it would have been the non-event it ended up being.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

dxmnkd316 said:
If the world didn't spend years and untold sums of cash to fix it' bride hand, I don't think it would have been the non-event it ended up being.
Click to expand...

That middle part is rather confusing but I think I know what you meant.

Yeah, that was a weird time.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top