| In Russia, spill cleans you? |
[Aug. 5th, 2010|09:23 pm] |
I'm somewhat perplexed by my coworker on Thursday. She comes in from the warehouse with one of those extra large microwave soup cups and I look up and mention that the cup is dripping. She hurries to her desk and sets the cup there but does not come back to the spill and clean it up. (Is this some sort of Russian thing? She's from somewhere over there.) She didn't even come over to see how much the cup dripped, and it was a good amount on the floor in a line from the door to the desk. In an area that is high-traffic. In a few ways, it was revealing of a few personality things that were a bit worrying when they interviewed her.
We are bumping heads these past weeks that people have been away at shows. After three months on the job, she's asking what sales rep groups cover what parts of the country, like this was some mystery. And yesterday we got into a convoluted discussion about Quickbooks in front of the boss which was hampered by English syntax and grammar issues. I think she continued to hammer on the point I felt I explained just to make me look bad with the boss there. I can only guess if they see her do this in other areas. She continues to handle the phone in her own way even after I told her transferring a call to our extensions does not allow her time to explain who the caller is before the call is sent to voicemail. She continues to give me recall tag information on post-it notes. She says the form I made is a good idea but she does not use it.
The past two years I know I have my issues communicating, but throw in English for Russians and I'm a gonner! But I do see an impending blow up like I had with the first salesman if she continues this pushy attitude that is the trend. But if it's getting that she's above cleaning up after herself in more than just soup... I sort of see it now where she says she'll do a job but stops after a few days and asks me to do the job. The news that we're adding another receptionist has hints of inflating her ego all the more. I'll wait and see. I'll also keep my container of Clorox bleach wipes handy. |
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| Pang |
[Jul. 18th, 2010|05:58 pm] |
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Sort of had a pang of sadness that Gatecon 2010 is over and I didn't get to go. |
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| The missing core |
[Jul. 18th, 2010|05:35 pm] |
Apple has lead a charmed life for a decade. Now, they have to face the reality of a failed product. In actuality they had a great launch of their new (ten years previous) direction away from desktops. They poured everything the company had left over from the iMac to promote the iPod and phone combo. But that media machine is burned out. Apple is the American Sony. Apple isn't as cool as it once was. Apple stuff isn't even 'built right' from new hotness anymore. A few die-hard fanboys cling to them, but it's not the same as before. Products they introduce are 'step-back' products that don't include open-ness to being made to work with things that make them useful with other devices. The latest word used to describe unlocking a phone (jailbreak) has connotations for the cell phone/computer industry as a whole. That industry has been about for more control over devices so the geeks don't break the cell phone network.
Jobs has finally joined the staid, controlling, phone industry wholeheartedly. Because controlling a device top to bottom 'just works' with less hoopla than all the Mac Years. Phones as a platform gets the Apple device into far more hands than a desktop. Clearly, Apple met some goal the company set in 2000 for this new direction. Let's open a bottle of bubbly. But also look at me. I left off using Apple products in 2000. I have a Sansa player and a Nook reader. My phone is a Motorola from 2003. I'm still resisting Apple. And the Apple of old is what put food on my family's table and put me through college. So, what is going on that I can't leap at the iPad and gush over it?
The man at Apple's helm had his brush with death years too early. He's undergoing one of the Carl Jung stages of personality: He wants to save the lill' children from porn and graphic violence. (He's going about it opposite than Gates stepping back and opening a whole lot of foundations for important causes. Do we ever wonder about Gates' good works for the children? There's probably more going on than we've noticed.) Because Jobs is front and top of Apple while he builds his late-life crusade, Apple is recently painted in geek circles and major tech podcasts as *being* the 'big brother' in the 1984 Mac commercial, not the runner flinging the hammer. And that's not how to be a innovative device creating company. I guess I'm left wondering, "iPhone 4 is for the 'I can live with this flawed technology' crowd. So, where's the really cool stuff for the rest of us?" |
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| No DHD's? |
[Jul. 6th, 2010|01:45 am] |
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Just puzzling over how none of the worlds in Stargate: Universe have DHD's. So, the stargate-seeding ships just construct 'gates and the worlds are quarantined from each other until the explorers get there on Destiny? And, burning question for season two is will there be more galaxies with humans? |
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| It's not always good to be so 'up' |
[May. 28th, 2010|12:55 am] |
I think I'm back in the wild, manic phase of my cycle. I stayed up all Wednesday night to 4am Thursday. Watching a Stargate:Atlantis season two episode at 2:30 am dind't help. This is still the autographia-like fan fiction writing that's killing me. Why the world does not need a Atlantis fic with my SG-1 fic character in it hasn't quiet penetrated my brain. And following the first fic is the expected six other fic outlines which always happen when I'm just trying to flesh out the first. And some of them are too close to stuff the show did. So. They won't be any use writing.
I think the only joy I get is figuring out how to write how the actors say their lines in English grammar. That has to be the most stupid thing ever to spend my life doing!
I spend time thinking I should Wordpress or Squarespace a new Silverdreams fan fiction site, and then I sort of think 'But, duh. Copyrighted-inspired material on a public server. Oh no, that's asking for trouble.' I never tried what others do here on Livejournal blogging the stories. I just don't know if it's trouble or not. I'm really regretting letting my domain names from 1996 lapse. All my website designs were pitched to the names and they're now under some reseller's name. (So, last century cheese. Those name speculators.) So, I ought to think up a new domain name but nothing is really coming to me.
Did anyone ever visit my site more than once? I think I had one "fan" who ever wrote to me. So I start thinking that I've done all this writing only for my own edification and wasted years of hours.
Meanwhile, the clock ticks off hours while I'm struggling to write two sentences of dialogue. I'm a dufus. |
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| Internet leaching from clubhouse |
[May. 23rd, 2010|07:31 pm] |
It appears that my bandwidth use has irritated someone in the clubhouse management. They have unplugged my repeater which made it possible for me to get the clubhouse signal from my mother's condo. I'm now in a sort of moral conflict with myself. Do I remove the repeater or plug it back in and continue my admittedly "larger than casual" internet uses? Do I hide it in some new place where they cannot unplug it? Who unplugged it? After two years with my mother should I broach the idea of my getting internet service again? Should I spring for a mobile mo-fi card or some other tethering phone? I think it is the bittorrent of the Stargate:Universe episodes that has annoyed someone. |
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| SG:U |
[May. 8th, 2010|06:03 pm] |
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I think they're settling down. I'm starting to like stuff. The clock on Sabotage was ticking like a fiend. I'm just really wondering if it's going to last more episodes. |
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| I finished a project! |
[May. 2nd, 2010|11:31 am] |
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Set myself a goal to make a Nook bag this weekend and just had to report that I finished. It's very sloppy and lumpy but it covers the Nook. Just need a chunky button from craft supply place and then it's really done. I've even got time to try knitting one instead of my half-assed crochet. It just feels good to finish something. It's so rare a thing. This is in Red Heart Kids, #2955 "Dream Girl" a 4 ply 100% acrylic yarn by Coats and Clark.
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| Nook! |
[Apr. 30th, 2010|10:27 am] |
I did it. The gadget bug bit me again and I got the Nook. It's the unending quest for e-books that really work that I've been on since my sister first gave me a Palm III b/w. I've been willing to give e-books a chance for eleven years now. This might be the day they really come through. Reviews say the black and white format will die, but really, majority of stuff is black ink on white paper. So what the device makers really have an eye for is continuing to cater to advertisers. I think people will have to fight to keep a book like a paper book and to keep it ad free. You really have to start considering a book a form of a block of data. And I suppose that kills the perceived romance of owning a book. We will have to pay a new premium to achieve that goal.
Only thing is the "free" books will be so locked down by Google in the next decade. My dad said he's reading a history textbook on his computer. When he told me that, I was like, cool. But then he mentioned it was from 1921. Took the cool right out of it. I'd rather he dig up a 1976 history textbook. I can read Bram Stoker's "Dracula," or "Little Women" or "Pride and Prejudice." But content is going to be horribly locked down unless libraries get on board quickly. I immediately customized it with some Star Trek wallpaper and screen savers. So now it is the LCARS Nook. |
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| jeez |
[Apr. 26th, 2010|07:14 pm] |
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My mom says today she put Rain-X on my car's headlights yesterday. She's touching my car. |
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