Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Woah woah woah. Hold on there. Poutine is awesome! Local place here makes some with duck gravy and duck confit and local cheese curds. The fries might even be fried in duck fat, I don't remember for sure. Awesome. I've also had some really good poutine in some places in Quebec doing a kind of gourmet take on French Canadian comfort food.

Even McDonalds in northern Maine have poutine!

Nah, I just can't. I've had good poutine and I still can't get over it. It's just too much.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Seriously though, **** this guy forever

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[The Rube]

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Poutine sucks. Fresh cheese curds are great, as long as they are not deep fried. Those suck, too.

It's cold out. I'm grumpy.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Poutine is awesome, as are curds as long as fresh (fried or not)

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Got a shipment of Ethernet cables today for a project at work. I didn't realize that there was going to be nearly 130 lbs of cable given that they were coming in lengths of 50 ft or less. I was going to go over to the dock to pick them up thinking a medium box. It was good for a laugh in our weekly project meeting.

"Hey dxmnkd316, did those Ethernet cables come in yet?"
"Oh yeah, I meant to talk to you about that. You know you had me buy almost 130 lbs of Ethernet cables right?"
Half the call-ins did a spit take.

Need humor.

 

[BassAle]

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Nah, I just can't. I've had good poutine and I still can't get over it. It's just too much.

well, if you're ever in the area you need to give them one more chance.

Finback Alehouse, Bar Harbor, Maine. Duck Poutine: Hand cut fries. Duck gravy. Duck confit. Pineland Farms Cheese Curds. Worth every penny at $17

Also Duckfat in Portland, ME. Duck fat fries, duck gravy, local cheese curds.

Last time I was in Quebec I had some Poutine at La Buche on Rue Saint Louis in Ville de Quebec. That was good too. You can also get it as a meal there, with the "topping of the day" (maybe some kind of brazed meat) -- that seems pretty common in Quebec (various meat toppings on your Poutine).


Lots of Poutine sucks. The gravy is ****ty or the fries are soggy. I wouldn't trust it outside of Quebec or Maine (and even in Maine, I've seen some places put some bad Sysco food service gravy on some sub par fries and call it good. I'd avoid it at any ****ty 'family restaurant'. Needs to be somewhere that makes everything from scratch and sources local ingredients. )

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Poutine sucks.

You now grind my gears.

 

[St. Clown]

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Ahhhh. that feels better now.

I just got to write a nicely worded FOAD letter to a production user who's been whining about receiving MQ message parsing error emails from her system when there were four MQ messages received that the system could not parse. In the message I got to explain to her all the ways in which she was wrong, and how her team could go about fixing the situation themselves because there's nothing my team could do to help them on this issue. My favorite part is that she included her team's operations analyst, her production manager, and her manager's manager on her email to my team. I replied all.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Ahhhh. that feels better now.

I just got to write a nicely worded FOAD letter to a production user who's been whining about receiving MQ message parsing error emails from her system when there were four MQ messages received that the system could not parse. In the message I got to explain to her all the ways in which she was wrong, and how her team could go about fixing the situation themselves because there's nothing my team could do to help them on this issue. My favorite part is that she included her team's operations analyst, her production manager, and her manager's manager on her email to my team. I replied all.

Hopefully you don't get word within the next day or two that they found your reply "condescending" and they were "deeply offended"...

 

[St. Clown]

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Hopefully you don't get word within the next day or two that they found your reply "condescending" and they were "deeply offended"...

I had someone else in my group, the Millennial hipster guy, read it to see what he thought. His response was that there's a lot of good information in the message, and nothing comes off as outright offensive. If it's Millennial Hipster Approved, you know that nobody could ever shed a tear over the nicely worded FOAD letter.

 

[leswp1]

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French colonists were poor. Quebec was really quite poor until well after WW2. Hundreds of thousands came to Maine to flee poverty and work in textile mills, shoe factories, and paper mills. (This is when Maine was an industrial power and Quebec was not. Now Quebec has way more industry and most of Maine's factories are gone -- we have like 5-6 peprmills left)

When I was in school 30 yrs ago the avg # of children in a Quebec family was 10 Yes 10. That would mean not a lot of $ to go around

Poutine sucks. Fresh cheese curds are great, as long as they are not deep fried. Those suck, too.

It's cold out. I'm grumpy.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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When I was in school 30 yrs ago the avg # of children in a Quebec family was 10 Yes 10. That would mean not a lot of $ to go around

Wasn't Heliodore Cyr pushing up the average? (or was he from the Maritimes? I recall he was a Francophone...)

 

[bostonewe]

well, if you're ever in the area you need to give them one more chance.

Finback Alehouse, Bar Harbor, Maine. Duck Poutine: Hand cut fries. Duck gravy. Duck confit. Pineland Farms Cheese Curds. Worth every penny at $17

Also Duckfat in Portland, ME. Duck fat fries, duck gravy, local cheese curds.

Last time I was in Quebec I had some Poutine at La Buche on Rue Saint Louis in Ville de Quebec. That was good too. You can also get it as a meal there, with the "topping of the day" (maybe some kind of brazed meat) -- that seems pretty common in Quebec (various meat toppings on your Poutine).


Lots of Poutine sucks. The gravy is ****ty or the fries are soggy. I wouldn't trust it outside of Quebec or Maine (and even in Maine, I've seen some places put some bad Sysco food service gravy on some sub par fries and call it good. I'd avoid it at any ****ty 'family restaurant'. Needs to be somewhere that makes everything from scratch and sources local ingredients. )

I was wondering if you were referring to Duckfat. I read about it a year or two ago and have been looking for an excuse to head to Portland to eat there (it's a tad far to drive just for lunch). Maybe when the weather warms up. Good to know it's recommended by a local.

 

[BassAle]

I was wondering if you were referring to Duckfat. I read about it a year or two ago and have been looking for an excuse to head to Portland to eat there (it's a tad far to drive just for lunch). Maybe when the weather warms up. Good to know it's recommended by a local.

I was actually talking about Finback in my original post since it's local (I live in Bar Harbor). Also Duckfat's poutine doesn't come with duck confit. It is a bit cheaper though. I don't think Duckfat would disappoint. It's a foodie place (Finback caters to tourists).

 

[leswp1]

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Wasn't Heliodore Cyr pushing up the average? (or was he from the Maritimes? I recall he was a Francophone...)

A mere amateur. mr les X # g grandfather had 28 kids from 3 wives No telling the number of unsuccessful pregnancies that were not recorded because they died too young

 

[Kepler]

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I have one hockey game and one football game I give a sh-t about this entire weekend. So, of course, they overlap.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

Ahhhh. that feels better now.

I just got to write a nicely worded FOAD letter to a production user who's been whining about receiving MQ message parsing error emails from her system when there were four MQ messages received that the system could not parse. In the message I got to explain to her all the ways in which she was wrong, and how her team could go about fixing the situation themselves because there's nothing my team could do to help them on this issue. My favorite part is that she included her team's operations analyst, her production manager, and her manager's manager on her email to my team. I replied all.

I'll bet you get at least one back-channel reply from one of them to the effect that she does this all the time.

The best ones of these are when OP includes a screenshot or datadump which contains the solution right in it.

 

[St. Clown]

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I'll bet you get at least one back-channel reply from one of them to the effect that she does this all the time.

The best ones of these are when OP includes a screenshot or datadump which contains the solution right in it.

No such reply. They know that I'm already well aware, and vice versa. Sadly, she's the production team leader.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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A mere amateur. mr les X # g grandfather had 28 kids from 3 wives No telling the number of unsuccessful pregnancies that were not recorded because they died too young

How many multiples involved, though? (twins, triplets, etc.)

 

[leswp1]

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How many multiples involved, though? (twins, triplets, etc.)

I don't think any. He killed em off bearing kids and then married the next one.