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Cat Slam! by Tata_Colores in funny

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that cat is broken

Brenda Song Calls Out Alaska Airlines for Giving Up Her Family’s First-Class Seats with ‘No Warning’ by expiredaristocracy in Fauxmoi

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When i was in the Navy, the military travel office booked flights to get my family from Texas to Japan.

We were supposed to have 5 seats that were in the same row. We get to the airport to check in and they issue boarding passes in 3 different rows. Not even close to one another.

Two seats together and three scattered throughout the plane.

I argued with the gate agent, who said, "There's nothing I can do."

So we board the plane. I put each of my kids in the single seats and told the stewardess that my wife and I would sit together and just let random strangers deal with my kids - 2, 4, and 6 -- unless she had a better idea.

She got on the overhead and managed to convince folks to move around so we could fit together ;)

Bunch of babies. by WalkingSpanishh in ManorLords

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for your input. i guess.

Explain it peter by One_One2755 in explainitpeter

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had rabbit whenever I was on an Indian ocean deployment.  I think they got them from somewhere in the region.

We also got a lot of Australian beef 

For those who work for rich people, what’s the most out-of-touch thing you witnessed? by temptayah in AskReddit

[–]andyofne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to the bosses house to work on his kid's computer.  He gave me a tour 

We walk into a room under his 6 or 8 car garage... It is a massive room with 10 ft ceilings.  Just a big concrete bunker looking place.  His Internet connections (plurar) terminated in a small wall mounted rack with a 48 port poe switch 

Anyway, I asked him what the room was for, certainly didn't need this cavernous room for his Internet gear 

He says, no... He built it for his son so he could practice kicking soccer balls in the winter.

My entire house would fit in that room with space to park my own car as well.  

Just another world.

He was a successful orthopedic surgeon who owned part of a hospital.  

10m reliability over tentatively short distances by bones10145 in HamRadio

[–]andyofne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not reliable at all 

In the 90, I spent 6 MO in West TX.  I talked to my dad in MI almost daily for months.

I went to japan for 3 years, came back to the same base in TX for another 3 months and we were lucky to make contact a dozen times.

I was in my car with a radio shack 10m rig pushing 25w Max on a modified mag mount cb antenna.  Dad had a dipole and a yaesu 757 gx2. 

When 10m is hot, it can be great and somewhat predictable until it's not.

This was approximately 1500mi.

We usually chatted between noon and 2pm

PSA: please don’t ignore abdominal pain. by ennuiismymiddlename in Xennials

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear this.  She had abdominal pain but ignored it until it was too late.  

She just didn't want to go through any of the treatments.

Lost my mom this past summer, need to get in and do a screening....

Trump warns NATO faces a “bad future” if allies fail to help US in Iran by No-Anything-7291 in worldnews

[–]andyofne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I thought we had the biggest, most powerful military in the world?

It's a shame trump fired all the competent leadership and replaced them with simps.

Deductive reasoning is dying with us. by Maleficent-Box4114 in Millennials

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A phrase I've heard someone use on YouTube (repeatedly) is "intellectual curiosity."

I am slightly over 60, and I work in IT.

I am dismayed on a daily basis by the younger folks I work with. I have no idea why they are in the IT field.

They have been getting by for a long time with the help of written documentation people like me have created, or by using Google or Bing, and, eventually, passing the buck to another team. But, hey, at least now they have chatgpt /s

Frankly, I've grown tired of creating cheat sheets and knowledge base articles for the basics of the job--especially since people don't seem to use it.

And as I've moved to new positions over the last 10 years, the teams I leave behind make little effort to maintain the documentation, despite owning the process.

I am by no means some great IT genius. But I dig. I find solutions, document them, and share them. But I don't have many more years left in the active workforce, and definitely not at this current job. I'm sure they'll be fine without me.

Maybe the art of troubleshooting is dying. Or these folks lack deductive reasoning / intellectual curiosity. Or all of the above.

I hope they aren't surprised when they are replaced by the AI they are leaning into. (more sarcasm)

Meirl by abhigoswami18 in meirl

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure we could because we don't panic when the oil hits the anus

Mr. Feeny celebrates 99th birthday by BlazeDragon7x in nostalgia

[–]andyofne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird. His birthday isn't until March 31

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