If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it.This is the most dangerous e-mail virus yet.
It will re-write your harddrive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to yourcomputer.
It will recalibrate yourrefrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles.
It will demagnetize the strips onall your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.
It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number.
It will mix anti freeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table whenthere's company coming over.
It will hide your car keys when youare late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic. Badtimes will make you fall in love with a hardened criminal.
It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.
It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their dates and rendezvous to your Visa card. Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.
It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk with whole.
It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.
It is also a rather interestingshade of mauve.These are just a few signs.
Be very, very afraid.
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07/07/2006 13:41 #29553
Warning! Incredibly Harmful Virus!07/06/2006 22:47 #29552
Godfuckingdammit!!I understand life is unfair. Hell, that's the world for you and in the middle of the TW-Adelphia takeover, I'm doing my best to roll with the punches but I'm feeling worked and it has a trickle down effect on everything else.
I've had estrip on a lot in the background to help keep my sanity. I'm being shoved aside not for some marketing wunderkind, but for a recent college grad who's rents are connected with the people who make a lot of cable tchotckeys, tote bags and crap. Essentially, I've been dealt to ensure a steady supply of souvenirs. That does not do wonders for one's self esteem. My big mouth got me into trouble too. When the transition happens, hourly employees will not get paid for a week, yet salaried won't miss a beat. I pointed out the double standard as well as how patronizing it was to tell hourlies "to save a little" for the transition.
My question of "Why punish those who could afford the least?" I'm thinking if the salaried folks can seamlessly work their way in, why can't the hourlies? We get commission and ot. I'm fine with settling that in, but if salary is going to get pinched, do for all or not at all.
I'm doing my best to cope with the shift in position -- Went to my new desk and posted a coming soon -- watch this space sign, with but not too closely in small print and the three women closest started carping about is that your desk? are you sitting there? Perhaps we should break you at that spot instead?
Oy vey! I can work with anybody, but this is going to be tough.
My current department had a work gathering to go to at the ballpark (causing me to miss India.Arie (dammit)), but it felt good to sit in the sun and have a few cold beers and forget about all the prima donnas and troublesome finances and questionable social life.
I got a funny feeling I'm not going to get the job I interviewed for before the holiday.
My esteem is taking a beating, sort of screaming in a crowded room and nobody turns.
Sucks
I've had estrip on a lot in the background to help keep my sanity. I'm being shoved aside not for some marketing wunderkind, but for a recent college grad who's rents are connected with the people who make a lot of cable tchotckeys, tote bags and crap. Essentially, I've been dealt to ensure a steady supply of souvenirs. That does not do wonders for one's self esteem. My big mouth got me into trouble too. When the transition happens, hourly employees will not get paid for a week, yet salaried won't miss a beat. I pointed out the double standard as well as how patronizing it was to tell hourlies "to save a little" for the transition.
My question of "Why punish those who could afford the least?" I'm thinking if the salaried folks can seamlessly work their way in, why can't the hourlies? We get commission and ot. I'm fine with settling that in, but if salary is going to get pinched, do for all or not at all.
I'm doing my best to cope with the shift in position -- Went to my new desk and posted a coming soon -- watch this space sign, with but not too closely in small print and the three women closest started carping about is that your desk? are you sitting there? Perhaps we should break you at that spot instead?
Oy vey! I can work with anybody, but this is going to be tough.
My current department had a work gathering to go to at the ballpark (causing me to miss India.Arie (dammit)), but it felt good to sit in the sun and have a few cold beers and forget about all the prima donnas and troublesome finances and questionable social life.
I got a funny feeling I'm not going to get the job I interviewed for before the holiday.
My esteem is taking a beating, sort of screaming in a crowded room and nobody turns.
Sucks
07/05/2006 17:43 #29551
Bono & BushGotta love people with too much time on their hand. The President never sounded better.
libertad - 07/05/06 21:46
haha i love that. I have seen it before...was it in ajay's post? i dunno
haha i love that. I have seen it before...was it in ajay's post? i dunno
07/04/2006 20:01 #29550
Racing in the StreetI can see my house from here, well not really, but this was pretty cool. This was the view from the birdseye seats at Holland Speedway last night where the caution flags appeared on a average of every 1 and 1/2 laps. These guys aren't Jeff Gordon, which is what made them fun to watch
Holland runs midget races on the 8 track and yes two "kissed"
They even had their own fireworks. Ever tried to take a picture of those. It ain't easy.
Regardless of smash-ups, somebody always made it to the winner's circle. Got to admire the passion of those folks. For me it was a fun night out and some nice cold beer with a friend after a long day at work. For many of those folks, it's a lifestyle.
Fun night out if you are ever inclined
Holland runs midget races on the 8 track and yes two "kissed"
They even had their own fireworks. Ever tried to take a picture of those. It ain't easy.
Regardless of smash-ups, somebody always made it to the winner's circle. Got to admire the passion of those folks. For me it was a fun night out and some nice cold beer with a friend after a long day at work. For many of those folks, it's a lifestyle.
Fun night out if you are ever inclined
theecarey - 07/04/06 23:47
Havent been to the races in years. Not really my scene anymore, and yeh, I used to be part of it; helping to fix cars and such. Not at the speedway, but in a garage of someone who was very much involved in that lifestyle. It was fun being a bit of a pseudo-mechanic, but it sucked to see all that hard work come back crunched up.
Havent been to the races in years. Not really my scene anymore, and yeh, I used to be part of it; helping to fix cars and such. Not at the speedway, but in a garage of someone who was very much involved in that lifestyle. It was fun being a bit of a pseudo-mechanic, but it sucked to see all that hard work come back crunched up.
07/04/2006 10:54 #29549
A Night at the RacesHappy 4th everybody!
I always worry about a little about the various fireworks shows that are visible from the thruways because the last thing you need around here are Western New York drivers ooh-ing and aahing at 70 mph, especially when they are taking calls etc.
I had an expected blast last night. A work colleague invited me down to the Holland Speedway for some auto racing. I've never been a big Nascar fan or anything but it seemed like a hoot. We've done some promo work for the track owner so he replied with a couple of passes. We saw him immediately upon coming through the gates. So, he hooked us up. "Follow me" were the instructions. We went up a steep flight of stairs behind the grandstand into the building at the top, passed a few Suites, behind the officials booth, up a steep flight of stairs behind the closed circuit broadcast team, through a door and out onto a patio that gave a view of the whole park. I could see my house from there (not really), but it truly was the best seat in the house.
It's mostly local guys who like to race, with a bunch of different types of cars thorough out the night. They know just enough to be dangerous. The midget 8 track race on the infield looked like it was going to yield a bunch of carnage, as it was pretty obvious the drivers weren't "family." The late model race had the most money at stake in terms of what the drivers put into their cars. We're not talking Nascar talent so a 40 lap race took forever to complete. They couldn't get a complete lap in without something happening, wrecks, parts falling what have ya.
I took away from this that watching the leader was always dull. It's watching the goings on back in the pack, because somebody was inevitably starting something.
The track had a nice lil fireworks show to close the night. Not bad for the price of a few drinks.
Enjoy the holiday, ya'all
I always worry about a little about the various fireworks shows that are visible from the thruways because the last thing you need around here are Western New York drivers ooh-ing and aahing at 70 mph, especially when they are taking calls etc.
I had an expected blast last night. A work colleague invited me down to the Holland Speedway for some auto racing. I've never been a big Nascar fan or anything but it seemed like a hoot. We've done some promo work for the track owner so he replied with a couple of passes. We saw him immediately upon coming through the gates. So, he hooked us up. "Follow me" were the instructions. We went up a steep flight of stairs behind the grandstand into the building at the top, passed a few Suites, behind the officials booth, up a steep flight of stairs behind the closed circuit broadcast team, through a door and out onto a patio that gave a view of the whole park. I could see my house from there (not really), but it truly was the best seat in the house.
It's mostly local guys who like to race, with a bunch of different types of cars thorough out the night. They know just enough to be dangerous. The midget 8 track race on the infield looked like it was going to yield a bunch of carnage, as it was pretty obvious the drivers weren't "family." The late model race had the most money at stake in terms of what the drivers put into their cars. We're not talking Nascar talent so a 40 lap race took forever to complete. They couldn't get a complete lap in without something happening, wrecks, parts falling what have ya.
I took away from this that watching the leader was always dull. It's watching the goings on back in the pack, because somebody was inevitably starting something.
The track had a nice lil fireworks show to close the night. Not bad for the price of a few drinks.
Enjoy the holiday, ya'all
Glad you at least enjoyed the game and got to relax. I wish you the best of luck with the transition. At least you know it is going to be tough so you can kinda be prepaired, it still will suck; but it is better knowing that then thinking it would be a smooth one then finding out it sucks. Yeah losing a weeks pay sucks, hopefully at some point they will make it up to you. I wish you the best of luck with all the changes.
whatever happened with that other interview?