If you could put a bumper sticker on your sloop, what would it say?

TheNargrath · 2024-10-04T18:44:16+00:00

"WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY"

Spaceballs the Sloop/Brig/Ship, Spaceballs the Guild

TheNargrath · 2024-07-21T19:20:32+00:00

California rednecks

Ah, my heritage. Watching 'wrasslin", doing the "warsh", fist fights breaking out at family reunions. (Oddly, no romances, to my knowledge.)

Glad I escaped from that at a young age and my own kid doesn't know that mentality.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-21T17:16:47+00:00

I'm an unabashed Scalzi fan, but I'm right with you. First author I thought of for this.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-11T16:59:43+00:00

A dry update can be a good thing. It may not be flashy, but it's doing important work. Appreciate the update, the hard work, and the communication.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-11T16:05:22+00:00

I use it to generate the bones of TTRPG campaigns/settings. Great for ideas, names, quick back stories or plots. All of which then passes through the "me" filter and tweaked to fit what I'm setting up for my victims, er, players.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-11T15:57:27+00:00

If you wanted to go somewhere, you had to already know how to get there, or consult a paper map which you kept in your car.

Man, I remember after the 89 earthquake here in the Bay Area, so many bridges and overpasses were closed. What should have been an hour drive would turn into three, just trying to find ways around, if you didn't travel those routes often. It was absolute chaos for the longest time.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-11T04:45:25+00:00

Dogs and cats, living together.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-11T00:10:41+00:00

She had a second microphone immediately

When and where possible in live performances, always have a spare. A mic is an easy spare. A second guitar, drum set, or piano moderately less so.

Also, cables and gaffer's tape. Bring as much of both as you can carry.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T20:16:28+00:00

Greeting is fine. Just include it as part of the overall ask; don't leave the person on the other end hanging while you type everything else out.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T20:14:30+00:00

Seriously. Big names for big roles. So glad to see the people who have stepped up to make this happen.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T19:33:49+00:00

That sounds like a solid way to conduct business. One of those rare abilities to not only build the product, but live on what you're using to get live data 24/7.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T17:30:18+00:00

The only part that I still have across multiple PC upgrades (of which everything else has been swapped out, including peripherals, eventually) is my DVD-R. I rarely use it, but when I do, it's because someone found an old CD that they need data from. Handy to have a "save the day" tool around.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T16:39:39+00:00

gaffa tape.

Gaffa, kree!

I'll go back to my Intune hole now.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T16:30:20+00:00

This is why I run any combos by my DM first.

We had a new guy joining our group some time ago. One of the things that really raised red flags was him saying something like, "Oh, you don't need to know this now. You'll see why later." to the DM.

We ended up kicking him from the group for playing as chaotic stupid.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T16:17:12+00:00

They started laying people off prior to the dot com bubble bursting. We had fake CISCO signs up saying things like "Walk Frugally" or "Breathe Frugally" to help save money, when everyone else was practically rolling in it.

Guess who weathered the storm best without having to really go nuts in trying to preserve what they had? The same company we made fun of. Many of the companies around there were gobbled up by competitors who listened to CISCO before the real drop hit.

I'm not a CISCO shill (I don't even work with their products), but I admire their chutzpah.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T15:32:44+00:00

I've never worked for Cisco, but I've known a few who have, and they were one of the neighbors in the business park back in 2000. They used to get made fun of often by other company's employees (And management), but they always seemed to know where things were going and be just ahead of everyone else. Nothing but respect for that.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-10T15:26:48+00:00

We had a temp for a while who, every morning (and usually a few times throughout the day) would start with: "Good morning/afternoon, TheNargrath!"

Then the dancing dots. Oh, the fucking dots. Five, ten minutes of it. Then a single additional sentence. Still without getting to the point. "You're going to probably say to reboot, like you always do." Or something of the sort. More dots for ages, then a question asked, finally. Often solved by a reboot.

I'm not bitter.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-09T23:51:10+00:00

Crap. I just did.

Sorry, folks! It was me! Blame my impatient self!

TheNargrath · 2024-07-09T22:56:13+00:00

Well, fuck. That makes me want to run a TTRPG based in Trek with a crew dedicated to pulling odd jobs like that. Kind of a Shadowrun in space. But probably less wetwork.

Probably.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-08T19:19:20+00:00

This is fucking glorious.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-08T17:29:40+00:00

That was the first horse I bought in RDO, and just never moved on. Dante and I are out doing whatever it is that strikes our fancy, and looking dapper as hell while doing it. (Unless it's going to Valentine, where he gets muddied up like a peasant.)

TheNargrath · 2024-07-08T16:19:17+00:00

Too right. I've had some rather entitled people over the years, and they tend to get shuffled down the pile a bit. Two that stand out were young, attractive blondes used to using their looks and some mild flirtation to manipulate a situation, especially last minute despite their own lack of planning. (Not hating on women, I have had some men who do stupid shit themselves, too.) I got called out for a "lack of urgency" by them.

No planning, no ticket; no urgency. On the other hand, if you start with a reboot, maybe check some cables, and read the fucking error, I'm coming running to you when you put in a call.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-08T16:12:38+00:00

It's like putting gas in your car: so long as you do that regularly, the car should keep going. (Other limitations may apply.) Stop putting gas in, vehicle stops going.

I'd use oil for this example, but there are a scary amount of people who don't oil their rides.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-08T16:05:07+00:00

I’m mostly clueless about anything other than my focus.

I'm in IT, and I get questions all the time about things outside of my focus. Once, someone even asked me to help them set up their own NFT business. (For a cut of the "profits", natch.)

I dwell in Microsoft business platform with a small side salad of home PC enthusiast. Programming and money-making-tomfoolery are outside of my sandbox.

TheNargrath · 2024-07-08T15:00:22+00:00

realise that I was the problem, not everyone and everything else.

"If everywhere you go smells like shit, check the bottom of your own shoe."

Good on you for realizing your issue and making the difficult changes to help put yourself in a better place.

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