And Then More Stuff Happened
Apologies for two consecutive posts concerning the banality of my Walter Mitty lifestyle. Here, as partial compensation is something pleasant by Sukabu.
Additionally, Sukabu still has a Tumbler page...somehow...Infer what you will from that statement.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Fri Jan 18 09:01:31 2019 (PiXy!)
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The "computer" overwrote an "A" with an "F"? Not that it matters at this point, but that's either one hell of a bug that's likely affecting hundreds of students, or someone is fibbing to you.
Posted by: Ben at Fri Jan 18 13:27:42 2019 (yXPNh)
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Yeah, that's a bogus explanation. Reminds me how one assistant professor in my wife's department was fixing to get a tenure. So other professor broke into an office (I don't remember if Dean's or some clerical office) and trashed the assistant's file with all the tenure docs.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Jan 18 13:37:21 2019 (LZ7Bg)
...that's either one hell of a bug that's likely affecting hundreds of students, or someone is fibbing to you.
That is the professor's story. And the professor is sticking to it.
It might well have been a PEBKAC error of course, something as simple as clicking on the wrong icon in the rush to turn grades in before deadline.
However, I THINK that what happened is that the computer system now automatically assigns a grade of "F" to any class that was marked as "Incomplete" and this has to be corrected. There may be other issues as well. For example, it's possible that if a person in a class with a strict departmental attendance policy is given a waiver because of, say, a doctor's note, the actual attendance figures might cause the system to override the teacher's waiver without additional steps being taken on the instructor's part. Both situations would have applied to me in that class.
The school has had various "issues" with its IT upgrades for months.
There is circumstantial evidence against the PEBKAC theory;
Yesterday, when I went to registration to get entered into my new class (which, as I'm an undergrad, required a waiver) I asked if THEY could see my change in status (I sure as hell couldn't). The young lady in registration who was helping me said it wouldn't be visible for a day or so, but she also mentioned that this was not a unique issue and that she'd been in the same position previously. I inferred the conversation that this was a not-unheard of situation. I don't know WHAT is going on, but I suspect (albeit with no hard evidence) that the root cause is someone in the administration with micromanagement tendencies.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Jan 18 15:53:30 2019 (gxCG3)
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At the university I teach at, incompletes become Fs after one calendar year. And it requires moving heaven and earth on the part of the prof to undo that. (I had a student once with a SERIOUS, and I mean SERIOUS health problem, who couldn't come back within the year and....well, he finally completed the class but I will note the then-Dean made *me* cry in her office with all of the rigamarole about what I had to do (she was also quite rude to me)
It's also totally possible, at least in today's grade-entry systems, for a professor to fat-finger the wrong grade. I've done it. Fortunately, not often, and the student usually e-mails me to go "this can't be right, can it?" (I have an online gradebook so each student should be able to look up what they are earning). If they let me know within a couple days, it's an easy fix. Longer, it's a bit more complicated but not hard...
it's entirely possible you F is an F for fat-fingering...
Posted by: fillyjonk at Fri Jan 18 19:14:02 2019 (+MBAo)
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Hm. It's certainly true that "the computer made me do it" is usually shorthand for "that's the way the bureaucracy is set up to work oh god are you going to make me go in there."
The true a**holes of the world are the ones who want a computer system to make irrevocable changes. The entire history of computing is is trying to get AWAY from that. The computer is meant to be your friend, not Friend Computer.
Posted by: Ben at Fri Jan 18 22:11:21 2019 (4TRZx)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sat Jan 19 09:18:44 2019 (PiXy!)
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Yeah, that pretty much encapsulates it Pixy. Badass thug-girl in a fictional Brazil-like country who's not as smart nor as badass as she thinks she is, but gets through on pure oblivious stubbornness. Rescues her kid from rotten foster parents and searches for the father while the girl tries to talk sense to her.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Jan 19 18:57:27 2019 (Ix1l6)
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Bifocal prescription safety glasses here, with removable side shields. Used to have the "Transitions" lenses, but they actually have to screw up the close prescription to make that work, leaving you with only a small spot that isn't distorted. Got regular bifocals this time. Much better.
Posted by: Mauser at Wed Jan 16 23:46:34 2019 (Ix1l6)
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Cool! You're only five or six years behind me...
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wed Jan 16 23:49:22 2019 (PzbzM)
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I've got progressive bifocals and I'm not sure I like them much. I get a lot of eyestrain from various screens...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Thu Jan 17 04:31:49 2019 (v29Tn)
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I'm just getting three different pairs of glasses. This clearly proves I am not old.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Jan 17 06:56:49 2019 (PiXy!)
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Progressive trifocals here, but the place I went screwed up the last set. Twice.
Posted by: ubu at Thu Jan 17 07:25:07 2019 (UlsdO)
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I have driving glasses and kanji glasses. I also have a pair of Foster Grant Multi-Focus cheaters that I bought at an airport that range from 0.5 to 1.0, which come in handy for late-night reading. (I haven't seen these in stores outside of airports, oddly enough)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thu Jan 17 17:36:13 2019 (LGSd2)
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Yeah, the Progressiveness is not worth it. At least if you have any astigmatism.
Posted by: Mauser at Thu Jan 17 22:03:24 2019 (Ix1l6)
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I got progressive trifocals last year, and I've had near-constant eyestrain ever since. I imagine next year I'll go to some basic bifocals.
Posted by: Ben at Fri Jan 18 13:22:12 2019 (yXPNh)
Mom in Hospital (UPDATED)
Last night, I got a call from my brother (who is visiting our folks) that Mom suffered chest pains and then got a case of the shakes, felt cold and her vision went blurry. None of these things are good.
This morning, the diagnosis was a clot in her lung, which is pretty terrible, however as of now that does not appear to be the case. She's being scheduled for "cathaterization" so it sounds like they are going to do an angioplasty or something.
I'm getting slightly conflicting reports from relatives on-scene (250miles away), but prognosis seems much better, even good as of now.
Blogging will remain light to nonexistent.
UPDATE:
They couldn't find a blockage, or a stroke or anything, which is troubling. More tests results are pending, but for now she is released and is staying in the guest room in their house (as she is forbidden to deal with stairs.) One theory is that she may have just been suffering from exhaustion. Perhaps now she'll listen when we tell her to calm down and not drive herself to hard about Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Nov 6 16:03:01 2018 (LZ7Bg)
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Indeed.
Cost isn't technically the issue though. I've been looking at downgrading to a flip-phone or smartwatch for some time now. However I now have a reason to upgrade from my Blackberry to a real smartphone...it's required for Uber.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Nov 6 18:55:28 2018 (gxCG3)
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As far as cost goes you can realize a huge amount of value by avoiding the headline flagship phones.
A Galaxy S9 costs, what, $900 or so right now? I ordered a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S from Gearbest a couple weeks ago for $400. This is an all-four-carriers Snapdragon 845 with a 6" screen and 6GB of RAM: basically the same specs as an S9, but at half the price, and it works on Sprint/Verizon! (It also is a dual-sim which is pretty rare in the US.)
If you don't need that much power, the Motorola G series (just to pick one example) give you most of the same power at a fraction of the price--I got a G5S Plus on sale a while back for about $200, or $50 or so less than it normally goes for. A phone like that will pretty much do anything but the most GPU-intensive 3D games.
Posted by: Rick C at Tue Nov 6 20:08:15 2018 (Iwkd4)
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I have a Moto G4 Play. Solid and reliable, but the camera is pretty bad. That's the bottom of the Moto G line though and two generations behind. Any current model will be a lot better.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Nov 6 21:54:47 2018 (PiXy!)
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I found the camera on the G5+/G5S+ to be pretty nice as cell phone cameras go. IIRC the 5+'s camera is widely considered to be good.
Having said that I don't take a lot of pictures.
Posted by: Rick C at Tue Nov 6 22:51:12 2018 (Iwkd4)
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If I weren't flying, I would still be using my flip phone. But I needed a backup device, and my $60 no-carrier phone just wasn't cutting it anymore for the Garmin Pilot app. So, I bought a carrier LG phone, which replaced both devices. Still, it was $240. You just can't get anything much cheaper from a carrier, unless it's a VNMO that rapes consumers in monthly fees.
I remember back when Europe had expensive phones with SIMs, and we had carrier-locked phones that were given away. That was the grand bargain. Now we have $800 phones and no portability - the worst of both worlds. Thanks, Obama!
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Nov 7 09:42:08 2018 (LZ7Bg)
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"You just can't get anything much cheaper from a carrier, unless it's a VNMO that rapes consumers in monthly fees. "
No, but if you're on AT&T/T-Mobile, you can buy any old unlocked phone and use it. The smartphones under $240 or so probably aren't going to be very good, though.
It turns out if you have an activated Verizon SIM card, you can stick it in a new (compatible) phone and it'll just work, like AT&T/T-Mobile always have, without getting special permission from Verizon like you used to have to. I found that out accidentally when I got my new Xiaomi last month. I was going through VZ's website, doing the "I want to switch my phone" form, which kept erroring out, but I'd already done the SIM swap, and noticed the phone went from "no service" to "Verizon".
It is kind of painful saying nice things about VZ, but there you have it.
Posted by: Rick C at Wed Nov 7 10:24:12 2018 (Q/JG2)
It appears that the Credit Union was struck by lightning. There are other issues as none of the local branches had phone service as late as yesterday because Verizon has rolled a critical failure on their "keep the phone lines running during weather" skillroll. (It's rained for over a week here.)
They have a backup server of course but it way out west and chose this moment to be down...I assume fires are involved though that is speculation on my part.
When I went into the main branch branch. I got them to do a withdrawal history on my account. Everything seemed copacetic when I left as the end of the month flurry of auto-draft bills had, apparently, been made, but I just got an angry alert from my to insurance company to the effect that this is not the case.
I'll be spending some time on the phone this afternoon.
Actually I thought I'd updated the post yesterday, but i just realized that I'd merely published (this time successfully) the original version when I got in.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Jul 31 15:31:50 2018 (3bBAK)
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I was speculating that if they have a centralised system and computerised phones, this is exactly what would happen if the network went down - a core router failure or something. The public website could well be hosted separately, but then it couldn't link to the back-end server for customer logins.
Didn't think about angry thunder gods. Need to update my DR plans.
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A Journey of Discovery
Banality slouches just below the fold. As compensation, here is a piece of art that has completely different implications depending on the intended perspective.
1...replying "OK get it out." counts as elective surgery.
This is the kind of thing that activates that small part of me that said "gee, is electing Trump and blowing everything up really something to be avoided?"
This is not a "1st World Problem" per se. I mean, confounding healthcare with health insurance is, but stuff like this is "Do you get paid be stupid, or do you do it for free/are just bad at your job/your boss is the World Destroyer?"
Posted by: Ben at Sat Jul 15 14:11:41 2017 (B1bvu)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sun Jul 16 09:09:45 2017 (PiXy!)
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In fairness to the hospital, the lady I spoke to there was suitably incredulous as to the procedure not being covered. According to her, the only other thing that it could be given the info she had would be if I had no insurance at all, which is not the case. Her theory (That at some point one of the doctors wrote something like "Paitent ELECTED to have procedure done." Got coded in as an elective procedure) seems likely. The fact that other doctor/dental/ER visits have been covered this year make it seem likely that this is either a coding error or an expansive view of the word "elective" is indeed in place.
Though I am not prepared to rule out Kobolds.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Jul 16 13:10:09 2017 (KicmI)
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At some point all surgery is elective unless you're brought in unconscious and bleeding out. But that's not what's meant by "elective surgery".
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sun Jul 16 21:50:22 2017 (PiXy!)
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Jun 5 16:51:57 2017 (ITnFO)
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No, no, that's a genre, not to be confused with a gender. Although, now that I think about it, if you switched those two around, no one on Tumblr would notice.
"I'm a topforty easylistening trancerap popsoul. With a bigband."
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Jun 5 20:42:23 2017 (tgyIO)
It was a Dark and Stormy Night
Due to severe weather delays, we were overstaffed at work this morning. As a result, I got off way early and about 5:30, as I was driving home, a lightning bolt struck next to me and showered my van in burning tree parts.
After a moment, I noted that the stricken tree next was next to a neighbors house and was burning with alarming intensity despite the downpour. I got out to see if it could be put out or to help the people get out as this was looking pretty grim.
The owner of the house and I tried to put out the fire but neither the rain nor our bucket brigade was having any effect. After an embarrassingly long interval, I had a neuron fire and realized that the tree wasn't burning, the ground was. I advised the gentleman to call the fire department NOW because it could be a peat fire and that could be the end of the whole block.
But wait...It was quite intense for peat. The ground around it was undulating and hissing...and it kept getting more intense until it was almost like...a blowtorch.
Oh. Lord. The lightning struck a gas main!
We kept the bucket brigade on it to keep it from igniting the tree or the house until the police arrived and decided to let it burn off the gas until the firetruck arrived, at which point I moved my van to make room for the ladder truck and carried my bedraggled ass home.
Looking at the rain, I really don't think I'm going to get the grass today.
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Glad you and your vehicle are okay. I am glad you helped your neighbor out. Good citizenship like that is the thing that keeps our whole society going.
Don't kick yourself about not getting 10/10 on every decision. Getting out to help was the important part.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Apr 28 09:21:05 2017 (S0Svy)
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Just being that close to a lightning strike is pretty disorienting even without flames shooting out of the ground. It's LOUD.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sat Apr 29 07:02:37 2017 (PiXy!)
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Damn right it's loud. I was half a municipal parking lot away from one, and it was so loud I never heard it. There was a *flash* and a ##SNAP## sound, but no thunder to speak of.
My friends at the bar a block farther on, though... they heard an almighty boom.
Brick ol' chum? Now Zeus is after you, and he knows where the gas mains are. How did you piss off Asgard this time?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Apr 30 00:32:37 2017 (KNafx)
Aaaaaand..They're Off
A bit over a week ago Dad dropped a 4x8 on his foot and broke it. (Well, the breakage was mostly his big toe...Mostly.)
Shortly thereafter, Mom had what we thought was a stroke and went to the hospital only to find that it was a drug interaction. Dad quickly compensated for this good news by lancing his toe to relieve pressure...and the next day it was horribly infected, requiring another trip to the hospital.
So, it's been hectic here.
Naturally, these two walking wounded decided that these reminders of their mortality meant that now is the time to attempt THAT TRIP again.
Day before yesterday...they set out.
They'll make a destination decision when they reach Florida, they're either going to Belize, the Bahamas or Puerto Rico.
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Damn, man. Why do I get the impression that given the opportunity, you'd upload to a network and have done with the meat once and for all? (Hell, I'd consider it and my flesh mostly works!)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed Feb 1 23:33:44 2017 (/lg1c)
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That sound wave thing (Lithotrypter?) not an option?
Posted by: Mauser at Thu Feb 2 00:37:58 2017 (5Ktpu)
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I'm torn between sympathizing with your latest agonizing graduation roadblock and wanting the GPS coordinates of that store. That picture puts me in the mood for some "kit-bashing".
(and reminds me how much I like the artist's wrench-wench/witch/robot-girl crossovers)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thu Feb 2 17:40:20 2017 (tgyIO)
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I guess the semester is not advanced enough for Incompletes (if your school even does that). Where I teach, if you're passing, if you've completed x percent of the stuff (I *think* it's 50% or more), and you have a documented medical issue, you can press "pause" and then come back after you're better and the prof will let you complete the class.
But yeah. Stones in the tubes sounds no bueno and hopefully you can get a tuition refund and finish next year.
Posted by: fillyjonk at Thu Feb 2 18:18:16 2017 (gf8bV)
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Mauser, I think the lithotripter only works for stones in the kidneys; once they're in the tubes it's not effective.
Also, Brickmuppet, my condolences, all of that sucks.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Feb 2 21:45:12 2017 (PiXy!)
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That really stinks.
Have you talked to your profs and advisers? I mean, you have completed at least a degree and a half of credits, so they really ought to be getting you graduated by now. Even if they have to visit you in the hospital.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Feb 3 09:36:25 2017 (S0Svy)
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Talked to the professors, but not the advisors yet. I'm feeling better (thank you antibiotics) but am also exhibiting several symptoms that I was warned about (though not involving my eyes, thankfully). It looks likely that I'll be going in to get cut, perhaps as early as next week.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 4 01:59:06 2017 (KicmI)
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Mauser, the spines are dug into all sides of the tube, so if they explode it...things could be bad.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 4 02:02:33 2017 (KicmI)
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J. Greely, Sadly I don't have coordinates, but I do have an actual photograph here of the interior. It appears to be like Kotobukiya was before they moved, with a whole bunch of little shops and kiosks leasing space throughout the larger store.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Feb 4 02:11:22 2017 (KicmI)
If I Had A Ronin For Every Year I've Been Around, I'd Be Secure in the Knowledge That I'd Be Avenged When Assasinated
As it is, I find myself pondering the things that I have not done in my time on this earth.
Trigger Warning: Banality
Yes, banality lurks below the fold.
As is traditional here, we atone for this by providing an image of some exotic and atypically proportioned young ladies enjoying the last of the good weather as they relax next to the ocean.
Posted by: Clayton Barnett at Sun Oct 16 13:30:55 2016 (ug1Mc)
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Providing us with the free ice cream of sweet, sweet blogging content is not personally imperative upon you.
Graduating your butt, keeping a roof over your head and food in your belly, and taking care of family -- those are the important things.
<hugs>
On the bright side, it sounds like that delivery facility would make a great start for a horror movie, or a cute space opera book where the aliens are trying hard to fit in as managers.
Posted by: suburbanbanshee@gmail.com at Sun Oct 16 17:10:51 2016 (S0Svy)
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On my way through Tonopah, Nevada, I made a little detour to check out their airport, when a little twin landed there. People in UPS uniforms unloaded stuff from it into 3 miniature UPS trucks. It appears that the family of the airport manager actually lives in the old pilot's lounge. At least they have electricity.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sun Oct 16 18:20:30 2016 (XOPVE)
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