Miles O'Brien

"NOTICE

Wives choosing (insert tools here) must have a signed note from their husband"

Legit every time someone from the US says “indian” and it’s not immediately obvious in context, I ask “do you mean people from India, or Native Americans?”

I mean, yeah, being required to do something or else you’ll be starving and homeless is pretty fucked up and worthy of a day being ruined.

I got an email like this a few weeks ago, and then about 2 minutes later I got a new email with the corrected replacements.

I replied with a screenshot zoomed in on the “candidate name” bit and left it at that. Didn’t even get a half-assed “lol sorry Bruh”

Yes, but line go up fast enough?

Personally I’m a huge fan of bouncing a ball off a couple of sticks, but you like what you like, eh?

It’s the difference between a claw and an articulated prosthetic hand.

The claw is better than nothing

The moving hand is much nicer, while still not being perfect.

Not the best metaphor, but hopefully gets my point across?

I’m very slowly learning ASL and signing is different than spoken English. Not everything gets signed, and it’s often much quicker to sign back and forth than speak if two hearing people are fluent.

And what about very old fiends?

I would love to have a small Wikipedia browser that can survive the apocalypse.

E-ink display, mini keyboard and touchpad, multiple ways/ports to transfer info, All wrapped up in a heavy duty equipment case that’s able to survive a building collapses and burns in an earthquake, that’s shielded from EMP.

You ask a bunch of questions about a task in order to convince the client that the task doesn’t need to be done at all.

I ask a bunch of questions because I’ve forgotten half the answers already and am trying to make enough stick that I can make something close enough they don’t notice my attention is wandering while they blather.

We are not the same.

But you know… It’s TOTALLY politics to not want your money going to people who want you dead, so RULE 3 GUYS RULE THREEEEEEEEEEEEE

To many people nowadays, the actual job itself doesn’t matter, it’s the fact that it’s a job and it pays.

nearly kills her

Based on the picture of the broken square section, I think that might be a bit of a stretch…

But “person avoids injury at final destination screening” doesn’t have that same allure.

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

It was.

In Ohio? I’m almost positive it isn’t legal. It’s definitely illegal in states like California. But they’re banking on nobody recording their interview audio (which I will now be doing as Ohio is single-party state) and nobody complaining if asked.

I doubt it’s a company policy, but I did send an email to their company offices to complain about it, for all the good it will do.

Not programming, but in the same vein, A Trek Bicycle store manager asked me in an interview if I would be willing to work a trial shift the next day building bicycles. Unpaid, of course. Just to see if I was a good fit.

Of course, since I was used to building 50 a day, I would have gotten all of them done in a single shift whereas they were needing to call in stores from surrounding areas to come help in a few days.

I laughed and said if they needed help tomorrow I would be happy to work for my usual fee of $20/bike.

Oddly, I did not get the job

“or should I say us 🇮🇹”

“Sopranos was my favorite show”

Oof. Imagine saying “roots was my favorite show so it makes sense my great great great grandparent was black”