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How flat Earthers explain the extinction of the dinosaurs...

I love watching their videos. They have some interesting ones on Youtube. And by love I mean from a comedic "do people actually believe this" standpoint.

Even I don't go in for the flat earth and "The moon landings were faked" things, and I'm about as close as we come to being the tin-foil-hat wearing conspiracy theorist around here.

When I learned that there was a substantial movement pushing the "flat Earth" position, I gave it an honest look. It took about 2 minutes to "flatly" disprove the whole load of crap. You don't even have to be very scientific at all to realize that's a complete load of BS. lol

On the other hand, the notion of dinosaurs randomly flying through space is at least worth a good chuckle.

Frozen dinosaurs floating endlessly through space. There is something poetic about that.

Do flat-Earthers believe space is cold?

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How flat Earthers explain the extinction of the dinosaurs...

I love watching their videos. They have some interesting ones on Youtube. And by love I mean from a comedic "do people actually believe this" standpoint.

Even I don't go in for the flat earth and "The moon landings were faked" things, and I'm about as close as we come to being the tin-foil-hat wearing conspiracy theorist around here.

When I learned that there was a substantial movement pushing the "flat Earth" position, I gave it an honest look. It took about 2 minutes to "flatly" disprove the whole load of crap. You don't even have to be very scientific at all to realize that's a complete load of BS. lol

On the other hand, the notion of dinosaurs randomly flying through space is at least worth a good chuckle.

Happy birthday @scottalanmiller ! So what are you now, like 50 or so?

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Dominica has a mojito now...

Was someone cutting the lawn a little too close to her lemonade?

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Seriously??? Your wife is in Florida while you are in Italy, and she has to photograph her lunch and send it to you so that you can post a picture of your wife's lunch on the internet? You, sir, need to find yourself a more useful hobby.

Youtube Video

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Nah... after a B&E, you get the hell out of Dodge.

I don't think that qualifies as "breaking" in. Who locks their chimney?

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Heading out to fine some pizza.

Pizza behaving badly?

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Why have a title of IT Manager or Director of IT and not have the power to sign something that will cost us $293.28?

LOL because titles in SMBs are fake or made up to make people feel good.

Can I have a better title then???

I called myself Director of IT for about 2 years here. But after talking to Scott, etc, I ditched that and just call myself the IT admin - IT generalist is confusing to normals and always requires an explanation, but IT admin, oh your the person in charge of IT there, got it.. end of discussion.

I think my actual title still has the word "assistant" in it... even though I'm the whole department. I don't assist anyone. I'd be happy with any version of "admin".

Or.... you assist everyone.

That is possible... but I'm not an "assistant" to any IT person. I "help" users.

Yeah, so you can sound like a lowly assistant, or go with my suggestion and be the master of your domain.
(That could work on so many levels...)

Can I be HBAMFICOIT? (Head bada$$ mafk in charge of IT)

If you're gonna go that far - you might as well go HNICoIT

Or just the SLJoIT

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Why have a title of IT Manager or Director of IT and not have the power to sign something that will cost us $293.28?

LOL because titles in SMBs are fake or made up to make people feel good.

Can I have a better title then???

I called myself Director of IT for about 2 years here. But after talking to Scott, etc, I ditched that and just call myself the IT admin - IT generalist is confusing to normals and always requires an explanation, but IT admin, oh your the person in charge of IT there, got it.. end of discussion.

I think my actual title still has the word "assistant" in it... even though I'm the whole department. I don't assist anyone. I'd be happy with any version of "admin".

Or.... you assist everyone.

That is possible... but I'm not an "assistant" to any IT person. I "help" users.

Yeah, so you can sound like a lowly assistant, or go with my suggestion and be the master of your domain.
(That could work on so many levels...)

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I was Wegman's corporate guitarist a few decades ago and they treated me great and it was an awesome job. I've never met anyone else who felt that way. I worked for one of their biggest regions. I worked for corporate as a consultant for a year and a half and @andyw worked there too, also in IT. I was a consultant and it wasn't bad, I was able to name my price and work things out so that the job was okay - I literally worked with no one so it was just be making big bucks (2004 - 2005, $85/hr.) But the internal IT people, they were almost in tears every day. That job was so awful. In the department that @andyw was in, it was literally just people sitting around scrolling up and down on their computers because they had one policy that said that they could never stop working to do anything but "write code" and another policy that said that they were forbidden to do any proactive work that was not assigned and since the company was so disorganized that they could never assign work the whole department was caught in a limbo of being forbidden to talk or anything, while being forbidden to work. So they had to "look like they were working" but had to ensure that they created no actual work.

"corporate guitarist"???

Yup, salaried classical guitarist. It was an awesome job.

That ain't not bad.

It wasn't bad, it was one of those really awesome points in my life that I'm really proud of. I gave it up to move to Pittsburgh with NTG.

That's the depressing part. If I ever had an opportunity to be a salaried musician, you'd have to kill me to get me to stop. And I'd gladly kill and/or maim to keep such a position.

Carpal tunnel. I know it wasn't going to last for forever. I had a good run as a guitarist and trombonist and had medical issues that made both hard to keep going on. I kind of burned out, medically at least. I got to do some amazing stuff over a five year period in both instruments, some international work, studio work, and even got to work in music management and production with Greg Lake and ELP (and lots of local small time artists.) It was really cool, but it was time to move on.

That's when you stick a butter knife in your cramped, mangled fingers and play the blues...

So that's how slide originated? lol

I actually met an older guy that had polio as a kid, his fingers barely moved, and that's how he played slide. Ripped it, too.

Heck, you don't even need a left hand! You can duct tape a butter knife to a stump. And, it makes a pretty cool prosthesis.

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Why have a title of IT Manager or Director of IT and not have the power to sign something that will cost us $293.28?

LOL because titles in SMBs are fake or made up to make people feel good.

Can I have a better title then???

I called myself Director of IT for about 2 years here. But after talking to Scott, etc, I ditched that and just call myself the IT admin - IT generalist is confusing to normals and always requires an explanation, but IT admin, oh your the person in charge of IT there, got it.. end of discussion.

I think my actual title still has the word "assistant" in it... even though I'm the whole department. I don't assist anyone. I'd be happy with any version of "admin".

I think "the whole IT department" sounds like an intimidating title. I'd go with that. You could even maximize the impact with an expletive in there, too.

Philip Virgil, TWFITD

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I was Wegman's corporate guitarist a few decades ago and they treated me great and it was an awesome job. I've never met anyone else who felt that way. I worked for one of their biggest regions. I worked for corporate as a consultant for a year and a half and @andyw worked there too, also in IT. I was a consultant and it wasn't bad, I was able to name my price and work things out so that the job was okay - I literally worked with no one so it was just be making big bucks (2004 - 2005, $85/hr.) But the internal IT people, they were almost in tears every day. That job was so awful. In the department that @andyw was in, it was literally just people sitting around scrolling up and down on their computers because they had one policy that said that they could never stop working to do anything but "write code" and another policy that said that they were forbidden to do any proactive work that was not assigned and since the company was so disorganized that they could never assign work the whole department was caught in a limbo of being forbidden to talk or anything, while being forbidden to work. So they had to "look like they were working" but had to ensure that they created no actual work.

"corporate guitarist"???

Yup, salaried classical guitarist. It was an awesome job.

That ain't not bad.

It wasn't bad, it was one of those really awesome points in my life that I'm really proud of. I gave it up to move to Pittsburgh with NTG.

That's the depressing part. If I ever had an opportunity to be a salaried musician, you'd have to kill me to get me to stop. And I'd gladly kill and/or maim to keep such a position.

Carpal tunnel. I know it wasn't going to last for forever. I had a good run as a guitarist and trombonist and had medical issues that made both hard to keep going on. I kind of burned out, medically at least. I got to do some amazing stuff over a five year period in both instruments, some international work, studio work, and even got to work in music management and production with Greg Lake and ELP (and lots of local small time artists.) It was really cool, but it was time to move on.

That's when you stick a butter knife in your cramped, mangled fingers and play the blues...

So that's how slide originated? lol

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But this poll doesn't look at employee satisfaction. It is focusing on customer satisfaction, including those in the corporate workforce.

What are customers in the corporate workforce?

Even that, though, keep in mind that this is a regional company with no local competition. People often like it because it's way better than Tops, their big rival. But it is far more than Tops sucks hard than Wegmans is that good. I'm not saying it isn't good, it might really be the best grocery store in America - but the margin of excellence is not nearly as wide as the locals would have you believe. If you go to a Wegmans after being away from the area you don't really miss it, it's nice but it's not exciting or anything.

Sounds like Buehler's Fresh Foods around here. It's nice, they have good fresh food, salad and hot bars, if something isn't available, they'll order it for you, etc. That's what I grew up with, so it's my baseline on what a grocery store should be. Sounds like Wegmans is about on par.

Is it the size of a Super Walmart? Wegmans stores are.

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Trying to convince an engineer buddy of mine to mix 1 song for us before the EP is done (we have him booked for 2-3 months from now to mix the whole thing, but we want to see how it's going to sound asap, in case we need to tweak the arrangements or recording setup). I've known the guy since I was about 13-14, so hopefully he will squeeze us in.

@art_of_shred do you know any good engineers that could possibly mix/master a small project for a reasonable price?

I know a number of local studio guys. I'm not sure who does mastering these days. When I was more involved with studios we sent tracks out to mastering houses still! I can ask around, though.

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• Those CSI shows aren't that far fetched anymore.

I'm not sure I'd go that far...

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If only...

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We take privacy very seriously.

Wish more amaericans did.

Stress seriously, not the tin foil hat types like @travisdh1

At least I own it. Anyone else want one? I'll share.

I'll take one.

I'm too much of a free-thinker to not realize that a sizeable portion of "conspiracy theories" are at least connected to truth. If I'm going to pick one side and go with it, I'll err on the side of caution.

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Moved the gaming rig to my office so the kids can play while I work.

Because you purposely want small children playing video games in the same room as you while you're trying to work? You've got that all backwards. It should be "I moved the gaming rig OUT of my office and to the bedroom, so the kids can play games while I work."

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My lady just bought a whole goose to cook this weekend. Never had goose, can't wait.

All I can think of is something about your goose being cooked, but I digress...