What Are You Doing Right Now
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first day i have to go back to work and everyone here turns up starts typing stuff
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller because we're 5 months into the year?
it's not funny when you try to rationally think about it.
it's a joke.
But I don't get the joke because 400 errors can be found by division into any year. A joke is only funny if it makes sense. If the joke depends on people "not getting it" and just laughing because they are confused, that's not a joke. I get not over analyzing jokes as they depend on a certain suspension of disbelief. But there has to be a basis for the joke in the first place. The core of this joke is that "5" is the magic number and by applying that magic number to the year, it becomes something funny.
But that the 5 is totally without foundation means that the foundation of the joke is missing. The suspension of disbelief would be understanding that you don't dig into that 2020 is arbitrary based on a randomly assigned calendaring system, that the number didn't always come out to be 2020, etc. We don't dig into that stuff for the joke. But the 5 is the joke. It's the whole joke. If the 5 isn't significant, the joke literally doesn't exist.
If you can reword the joke to be "did you know 404 can be dividied into any rational number?", that's not funny. And that there are tons and tons of error codes using HTML errors so every year has a joke like this makes it even less meaningful.
To make a joke like this would require...
- That the thing wrong with the year is related to the 404 error (missing / not found), not just being an error since essentially every number is an error. The joke only works if the specific error of 404 relates.
- That the modifier "5" be in some way significant to make it at least a perceived "coincidence."
That's just basic joke making.
You can see... the assumption about what would make this a joke takes so much work, it was all missed. A joke should be obvious, it should require tons of explanation to find what's supposed to be the funny part.
Ah fooey. It's people like you that killed Vaudeville.
Laughter is good, light heartedness is good, there are so many things in life that don't warrant thought and consideration, that joke was one of them, if it's found amusing then great, if not move on.
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
I don't see that as an option...
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
I don't see that as an option...
Yeah, everyone went a bit batty
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I actually thought this year was going to be the year of the optometrist.
Year of the optometrist: free glasses for everyone! :glasses:
Year of the optimist: the glasses are half full.
Year of the pessimist: 2020
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Working at office today but listening to Yakuza soundtrack on my new BeyerDynamic bluetooth headphones. They sound so good
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working at office today but listening to Yakuza soundtrack on my new BeyerDynamic bluetooth headphones. They sound so good
I replaced the ear cups on my Plantronics 8200 UC headset and it's like having a whole new pair.
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@Grey Ooh nice! I imagine if they are worn out then it will really affect sound quality.
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Playing with new Microsoft 365 updates, and by playing I mean troubleshooting silly user issues. Got one user trying to use the new dictation feature adn I do not think they understand it will not be a perfect copy.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey Ooh nice! I imagine if they are worn out then it will really affect sound quality.
Sort of? Mostly they're just firmer against my head so they're blocking more noise. The ear cup replacement was just the foam/leatherette part, so no electronics.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with new Microsoft 365 updates, and by playing I mean troubleshooting silly user issues. Got one user trying to use the new dictation feature adn I do not think they understand it will not be a perfect copy.
I've used that and the biggest barrier is a good mic with no ambient noise.
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@Grey Users always skimp on the mics around here.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey Users always skimp on the mics around here.
We used to deploy mics similar to https://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/en_US/Content/pbPage.speech-mike for the radiologists to use with Dragon. If your users are on a laptop mic or anything less than a boom mic (I switch from my 8200 to my Plantronics Focus UC for this reason), then the sound quality is too low.
Be sure to run through the speech learning process.
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@Grey Excellent process!
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Just saw this tool and am playing with it. I like it.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just saw this tool and am playing with it. I like it.
http://speed.cloudflare.com/sexy, but I am not seeing anything to test upload.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just saw this tool and am playing with it. I like it.
http://speed.cloudflare.com/sexy, but I am not seeing anything to test upload.
Yeah, all the stats in the world only do so much good if it only gives half of the picture.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just saw this tool and am playing with it. I like it.
http://speed.cloudflare.com/sexy, but I am not seeing anything to test upload.
On their blog they said there was issue giving incorrect results for very fast connections so they disabled it temporarily.
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On a conference call discussing a new marketing design for our company.
