03/27/13 11:03 - ID#57434

Paper Wedding Invitations

As best man, I asked (e:mike) to make the paper invitations (offline folk) for my gay wedding and he really gayed it up with glitter hearts.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/27/13 11:03

Category: court

03/26/13 07:24 - ID#57431

Court

Went back to court to today. One more year of growing apart. I think everyone involved was in total agreement that it was best but it still made me sad in a way.

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Words: 33
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/13 07:24

Category: house

03/26/13 07:02 - ID#57430

24 Linwood Survey - My Property Measurments

I feel like I am always looking for these measurements so I am going to just post it here for easy access.

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Words: 28
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/13 07:02

Category: haircuts

03/26/13 06:58 - ID#57429

Part on the Side

I want to cut my hair soon, it might not even make it to tommorow, but I decided to try part on the side first.

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Words: 28
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/13 06:58

Category: food

03/26/13 06:55 - ID#57428

Colorful Meal For Sick Paul

I've had a cold for a few days so I am trying to eat good.

This meal is so delicious: zucchini, potatoes and onions cooked in wine, strawberries, blackberries, uncured, organic smoked bacon, a chicken thigh and leg, brussel sprouts fried in peanut and sesame oil and grapefruit.

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Words: 51
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/13 06:59

Category: bathroom

03/26/13 05:52 - ID#57427

Bidet/Toilet Combo

While at a plumbing show room today looking for bathroom stuff we saw this highly automated toilet/bidet combo. I find the combination to be so disgusting. I never want something that I shit into to also have a warm, shootback option.

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Words: 53
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/13 05:52

Category: food

03/23/13 05:02 - ID#57418

Sambucas on Church st

We headed over to the gaybarhood for breakfast this morning and ate at Sambucas on church

I love the eggs natascha which consists of eggs benedict on top of slices of salmon.

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Words: 38
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/23/13 05:02

Category: food

03/23/13 04:02 - ID#57417

Lemons in Canada

How are lemons so damn cheap in canada? I feel like you couldn't even pay someone to package them, let alone grow, pick and ship them for that price.

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Words: 30
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/23/13 04:02

Category: vacation

03/22/13 09:40 - ID#57414

Weekend Trip To Toronto

We came up to see Andy C at the Guvernment but have been traveling around as there is no parking by the hotel due to some game. I am starting to get a cold. I hope it can hold out till at least tommorow.

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Words: 50
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/22/13 09:40

Category: work

03/22/13 10:50 - ID#57412

the downside of being salaried

Sometimes I wish I could get overtime. There are so many things I want to program for work right now and I generally work about 45 hours per week but I would go back to working 50 or 60 if I could get compensated for it.

Like (e:terry), the harder he works the more money he gets. For me there is no benefit, in fact like many of my salaried coworkers, it encourage me to do work elsewhere.

jbeatty writes at 08:31:33 03/24/13 - Comment #69464: I'm always fascinated by the workaholic culture that programmers seem to thrive in.

I think being a salaried employee motivates my to do my work quickly and efficiently. There is no threat of me ever receiving a bonus or overtime, or an actual raise that would make a noticeable difference in my finances. I am simply motivated by maximizing my personal time and leaving work early everyday.

I would be a much better worker if there was some incentive to increase my productivity. But since my job is incredibly boring I'm pretty happy to have lots of free time.

tinypliny writes at 05:51:33 03/22/13 - Comment #69457: Depends on the job too, btw. When you are a professor, postdoc, researcher with a grant etc, hours don't mean much. You just need to do the job regardless of how long it takes.

YesThatCasey writes at 04:58:35 03/22/13 - Comment #69456: In my view, the problem has less to do with lack of compensation for overtime, and more to do with the erosion of correlation to average working hours. Salaries were intended to provide independence to workers who had fluctuating workloads and difficult output measurements. Some weeks, you might spend 10 or 20 hours in the office because that is what was needed, while others might see you there for 12 hours every weekday. If, on average, you were putting far more time in than the average worker, another would be employed to help rebalance the workload.

Today, however, the expectation behind salary is that you are at the office for 40 hours a week, and more whenever it is required (which is consistently trending upwards). This expectation deters hiring an additional worker, and strains the already overburdened worker, which at least partially creates the disincentive that you refer to.

Of course, you are not the average worker since you want to work 60 hours a week, and the unionization and politics of your workplace are bigger contributors to the problem than the salary model.

tinypliny writes at 12:29:28 03/22/13 - Comment #69451: I am conflicted. I think salaries encourage stability and constancy to work. Of course this comes at a cost - less money. But really, how much money do we all really need to live well? Are all our money wants even really necessary?

Robert writes at 11:57:13 03/22/13 - Comment #69450: I feel like salaries are such a rip off. i'd watch one of my managers at the hotel work like a maniac while the other ones slacked off and fucked everything up. I felt terrible for her, she should have been making bags of money... but she was salaried.

but wages are just as bad sometimes. if you weren't salaried, then you'd just have your hours tracked and they start freaking out on you about payroll etc...

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Words: 76
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/22/13 10:50

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