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Making Soft Pretzels
So here's a little history behind the shape of the pretzels;
The German story tells that a baker was once put in prison for supplying bad bread to the people. After being in captive for ages, the authorities had enough of the bakers laments, and so told him that if he could bake something good and new in which the sun could shine through three times, then they would set him free. The baker then came up with the pretzel and was set free because, sure enough, the sun light was able to shine through it three times.
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Not sure whether I believe the history or not. All I know is that I've been craving for pretzels since I saw ~LiDac's photo and just had to make some.
[2g sugar + 8g dry yeast + 148ml warm water + 315g flour + 50g sugar + 4g salt + 8ml vegetable oil]
Yes, the sugar is mentioned twice.
So you take the warm water and dissolve the 2g sugar in it.
Then dissolve the yeast
Leave for 5-10 mins. It will be bubbly and frothy by then (which means the yeast has digested the sugar and made some CO2! wippeee!)
Measure out the flour, put into a mixing bowl.
Make a well in the center. Add in the 50g sugar and the salt
Mix into the flour, make a well again. Pour in the yeast water mixture
Add in the oil
Mix until the flour has incorporated into the liquid. Use your hands to work in the last bit of loose flour and dough bits into one ball. Leave to stand in damp, warm place for about 1 hour.
When the dough has risen, punch the air out and roll onto a floured surface
Shape into a thick rope as long as your forearm
Score the dough in half. Then half of the halves, then halve of the quarters
Trace the line and cut the dough to pieces
And now we're going to make the pretzel shape! Don't be intimidated, just follow the step by step and all will be well.
Take one small piece of dough and shape it to a long, thin rope (not too thin).
Make a U shape
Then twist the top part, like so
Then bring down the ends to the bottom of the "U". Be sure to secure the ends that is attached to the U, because if they're loose, they will unravel when you put them in the "soda bath".
Repeat until you've done it to the remainder of the dough
"Soda Bath"
[ 55g baking soda + 480 ml hot water]
Take a saucepan and heat up the water until it boils, then turn the heat down just enough to keep the water hot. Add in the baking soda
Throw in your pretzels into the bath
Leave them in for around 50 seconds. Get your stopwatch out if you need to, they must not be in there longer than 1 minute
Fish them out using a spatula or a slotted spoon
Placed on greased baking tray and lay on some egg wash (egg+water)
Bake in the oven at 230 degrees for about 12 minutes
When it's done, brush on some melted butter and sprinke with salt, herbs or cinnamon sugar. I chose cinnamon sugar!
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Initial reports claimed the death of two people in the incident, which could not be confirmed yet. Twenty-six people had been on board at the time of explosion.
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Tippets said that he is more concerned of safety of the personnel on board the platform at present. According to Louisiana's emergency management office's spokeswoman, the rig was not pumping oil when the explosion happened.
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A lot of the asks implied that I didn't know anything about racism or that I had not experienced any form of discrimination because i'm half white, and in their opinion I can "pass". I just wanted to set the record straight.
YES I'VE BEEN THE VICTIM OF DISCRIMINATION/RACISM IN THE PAST. My visuals are abiguous. Every person that looks at me sees something a little bit different. Some people think i'm full white. Others think i'm full asian. Some people think that i'm hispanic, and still others just look and me and try to guess. I've heard everything from Puerto Rican, to Inuit, to Russian. Becuase of this, i've been through a lot of shit.
When I around 6, I was beaten by a full grown man because I had "dirty blood". I've been called a spic, and cracker, and a chink, sometimes in the same day. I've had people tell their kids not to play with me. I've had people straight up ignore my existence. I've been followed in stores. I once had a Korean substitute teacher call me things I don't care to repeat. I've heard tons of slurs against both of my parents. I've been told that I "don't belong" in certain places/groups. I've been spit on. I've had someone tell me to my face that I don't count as a Korean person because i'm half white. I've had customers at my job ask for someone that can speak english, even after talking to me for a couple minutes. (By the by, I speak english fluently, and am pretty much accentless due to my Air Force brat upringing. Just a few slight traces of Australia and Philadelphia, but nothing to lead someone to think I don't speak english.) I've had family members tell me i'm not American because i'm asian. I've been a spectacle, and something dirty that should be hidden. I've been told to stop "acting asian", completely discounting the fact that I lived in Korea till I was in elementary school, and that my friends outside of school were almost exclusively asian, and that I was raised by an asian mother. I've had both sides of my ethnicity and experiences denied my entire life. And everything that i've written is just the tip of the iceberg. I could go on for hours.
If any of you had really read my last post, you would already know the following, but after reading the asks, i'm just going to write it here again. This is the internet. Reading a few pages of someones blog does not mean you know them. So unless you really know them, only say nice/constructive things. No need to say anything nasty, or that could be taken badly, unless you have definite proof they are being an asshole themselves. I'm not a nice person. I'm actually kind of a huge jerk, but even a douche like me know that kind of thing. So all you kind strangers should be much better.
Even when I'm not overly raging, white folks will refuse to listen and continue to defend their misappropriation of our experiences.
I don't need to know who you are to know that your username is still offensive as YOU ARE WHITE. You have no right to claim "honorary-asian" seeing as YOU AREN'T ASIAN. You will never experience what it's like, as an Asian person, to live within the U.S. You will never have racial slurs thrown at you or your safety at risk because of racists shitheads. You will never have to deal with the exotification and fetishization Asian people face nor the desexualization. You will never experience the diaspora any Asian person lives through or the pain along with it. You will never go through any of the various struggles that Asian people bear through.
You will never experience the dehumanization Asian people experience.
Fuck off.
While I'm fine with you being uncomfortable about people claiming "honorary" anything and if you want to claim that the Asian race has been through and goes through a lot, fine.
But you know what: white people face racism too. Just because we're "white" doesn't mean we're not a race and that harsh words against us isn't racism. In fact, the generalisation that all "white folks will refuse to listen and continue to defend their misappropriation of our experiences" in and of itself is racism.
And actually, there is just as much negativity out there toward white people as any other race. Its just that you live in America, you don't see it. Or rather, you choose not to see it.
Here's a fun article for you.
Racism can and is applied to all people.
So get off your damn racial high horse.
Lol, the "we have it just as bad as you do" argument. Nice touch too that I'm only "claiming" the struggles Asian folks endure.
All I really needed was a white person to tell me what racism was all about, my eyes have been opened.
Get the fuck out of here.
Let's look at the numbers based on the article.
So there were 58 racially motivated murders between 1995 and 2004 in the UK, according to the article. 24 victims were white.
The article cited above is from around 2006. In 2001, 91% of the UK's population is listed as white, and in 2011 about 85% was listed as white. Between 2001 and 2011, so I'll guess that there were maybe around 45 million white people in the UK out of the maybe 51 million. All people of color, including Black English, Asian, and others (as listed by the census) probably come to about 7 million - about 13% or 14%.
So statistically speaking the likelihood of being murdered for being white in the UK is about .47 out of a million (0.000047%).
For being a person of color, it's about 5 out of a million (0.000486).
Now I don't know anything about the UK other than what the BBC fanatics keep streaming into my dashboard, but I'm just using the numbers listed on the UK's census data.
And according to the data, you are over ten times more likely to be the victim of a racially motivated hate crime in the UK if you're a person of color.
But yeah, let's go on believing that white people are just as oppressed.
Maybe it's because i'm half white, but I can never understand why people say that you can't be racist against white people. Maybe somehow my pov is tainted by the whitey blood that flows through my veins. But since the general consensus on tumblr is that you can't be racist, or discrimnate against white people… I guess i'll have to degree. So from now on, if a person of color is treats a white person badly because of the color of their skin, I will no longer view them as racist. I'll just view them as a huge douchey piece of shit.
Also, to the orignal poster… Shit. You don't know her life story. Maybe shes a white girl adopted or fostered by asian parents. Maybe she has an adopted younger sister who is asian. Maybe her sister married an asian guy and she is really close with her inlaws and they nicknamed her that. Maybe she's a white girl that was born and raised in somewhere in Asia. You just don't know. Fucking hell. This is the internet. You are just a reader on some random persons blog. You don't know them, and you don't know their life story. Maybe she has a legimate reason for making that her screenname. Maybe it's just some kind of inside joke she has with her friends. My point is… you don't know why she has the screenname. So why comment on it?
Where to start… where to start…
Racism against white people does not exist because power dynamics. It does not exist against white people when they've systematically given themselves power and advantage at the expense of Indigenous and/or People of Color. Look at the history in which white people have conquered, enslaved, raped, and killed Indigenous and/or People of Color to attain power and how they've actively and deliberately maintained that power through a variety of cruel measures.
Maybe you should've actually looked into it more before speaking. This is hardly the general consensus across all of tumblr and if you thought so, you should've looked into why people were saying it doesn't exist against white people. Shut the fuck up with this "kumbaya" shit when that does nothing for those being oppressed, it is only allowing oppressors to remain comfortable in their position.
No matter the situation, she is still WHITE and therefore herself, will never experience the various struggles any Asian person would experience.
Shut the entire fuck up.
Are you kidding? There are blogs upon blogs upon blogs on the subject. It might not be the consensus in the real world, but on tumblr… yeah. The theory that you can't be racist against white people is living and strong. They took it out of the curriculum now, but when my brother was a freshman in college, they had a talk in his freshman seminar about how only white people can be racist. It's not some unknown, and unpopular thing. It's not prevalent in the real world, but it's definitely known.And i'm heavily versed in the subject. I minored in Asian studies, and for my major I had to take a shitload of classes on all kinds of discrimination, be it based on race, gender, or sexual orientation.
And call it what you will. Racism or whatever other word you want to use. If you are being mean, or treating someone badly because of the color of their skin. You are a bad person. It does matter if it's white>black, hispanic>asian, asian>native american, or any other combination of ethnicity. It's not a good thing. You can take away the world racism. I don't need it. You can say that it's not racism all you want. But no matter what you want to call it, it's not a good thing.
As for white people attaining power through discriminating against others actively… it's true. But it's not like they are the only ones who have done it. It's just that the world is currently under their control. If you look at history, people have been doing it for ages. I'm Korean, and we were treated like shit, and torn down by other countries for ages. If you open a history book, you can see tons of accounts of one ethnic group treating another ethnic group like shit to get more power. The people in charge of the world are usually unscrupulous, selfish people. because they are the ones who are willing to do whatever it take to get to a position of power. And the ones who are under control of those people are usually stupid like cows, and only care about their own comfort, and will believe for the sake of that comfort, that "others" are "bad".
We live in a society where racism is permeated through every breath we take. It's subliminally entered into our minds through the things we see on tv, and the stories we hear from out friends. It's part of the very core of American culture itself, and it's a terrible thing. But at what point does a retaliation against that stop being a positive thing, and start being something negative.
I went off on a long tangent that is fairly off topic, but my basic point is just this, if you don't know someone. And you don't know their reasons for doing something. You find out why they are doing it before criticizing. That's it. If it's something that deserves criticism, then criticism is due.. But you should know before doing it. Attacking the outcome, without looking at the source will just lead to wounds on both sides. Racism will never be gone. It will always, always be there, because people suck. BUT!! We can lessen it, and the effects of it by talking to each other calmly and rationally. Attacking others will only lead to more division, not less.
There are tons of scholarships available simply for being black. White people have to work harder for scholarships.
Find me one scholarship that people can get "simply for being Black" and I'll pay…
Can I just say.. "fuck all of you, i'm asian"? White/Black people complaining about school related racism…. rotflcopter. Worrying about scholarships? Before we even get to that point, asians have to do better then a white/black/whatever kid to get the same spot. Top colleges limit the amount of asians they let in to promote "diversity".


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"That's how shooters are," said Jeff Kind, Middleton girls basketball coach. "They usually have a calm demeanor, but they're little assassins. If you give them an open shot, they'll drain it."
But last year, Norregaard was playing on an entirely different court. The 16 year-old was playing on the Danish junior national team.
"I feel like the game in Europe is more fast-paced," said Norregaard.
She is originally from Denmark and moved here with her parents in September after her dad accepted a job in Madison.
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Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez criticized his side's defending following the 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday. The Spaniard claims his sides failure to control the ball allowed Tottenham Hotspur to equalize and deny Chelsea the opportunity to win the game.
Tottenham Hotspur came back from behind twice with goals from Emanuel Adebayor and Gylfi Sigurdsson after Oscar drew first blood and Ramires put Chelsea into the lead for the second time in the day.
"I think that we had four or five counterattacks to finish the game, and we didn't do it," Rafael Benitez told Sky Sports. "[Spurs] were pushing and we had to defend but we had the chances on the counterattack to score the third goal and finish it.
"We could defend both [goals] a little bit better because we are talking about transition defending when we conceded the first goal and with the second it was the same.
"I think [the second] was offside anyway, the position of Adebayor - but we still had to stay more compact and be more aggressive in defense.
"The second half was too open. In the first half we had control of the game, we gave them the opportunities to play on the counterattack and it was a great goal.
"When we were winning the game we had to have more control and all the counterattacks that we had we didn't finish so it makes a big difference.
"I think that we had the chances, not clear chances in front of the keeper but in the counterattack you have to do something more.
"We had the chances to score the third goal, but we didn't do it and as you say credit to Tottenham because they were pushing and attacking."
The Blues are scheduled for a Villa Park where they will play against Aston Villa on May 11 before taking up the challenge of defeating Benfica four days later. Chelsea's last game of the season will be against Everton at Goodison Park.
Chelsea will have to avoid losing points the remaining two games of the season if they want to acquire Champions League action for next season. Rafael Benitez believes Chelsea are now in prime position to qualify for the Champions League.
"We are in the position we said before, we have to win one game to guarantee the top four and we will try to win both to get in the top three," Rafael Benitez added.


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Help desks are not always helpful.
I dread having to call ours. I'm technically literate and when I call the help desk I have a pretty good idea where the problem lies but I'm not in the right part of the organisation to do anything about it.
The most recent call was to try and find out what the hell was going on with the proxies. I knew I wanted to talk to the network folks but first I had to get through the help desk.
It took three days.
The first day nothing happened, but when I got in the next morning I had a voicemail message saying they'd tried to contact me. Correct. They'd tried to phone me after I said I would no longer me in the office so I wasn't, as I'd said, there.
The second day they wanted me to try some commands. First they told me to get a command window. This is Linux, I knew I was on to a bad thing. I just said OK, I'm running Linux, what command do you actually want me to run. Oh, they said, hold on a minute.
Little while later they came back and said can I ping an external machine (this would be on the other side of the proxy). I explained that no, you cannot ping a machine on the other side of the proxy because proxies don't do that. OK, can you run this command, they started spelling it ...
The command was traceroute. I explained that traceroute doesn't work for the same reason that ping doesn't -- you can't get that through the proxy.
OK they said, we'll get back to you.
This was Friday.
Nothing happened.
On Monday I came back into the office and I had another voicemail. This time they'd tried to phone me on Sunday. Admitedly, it was mid-afternoon Sunday, but it was Sunday nonetheless.
They wanted to try something else.
The something else they wanted, bearing in mind that this was Linux, was that I run the task manager to see if I had any spinning processes that were slowing the machine down.
I was slightly dumbfounded. I still can't work out how they thought a spinning process would slow down access through the proxies but leave internal access entirely alone.
They also wanted a load of information I'd already given them. I filled in the form in the browser and was somewhat surprised to see, right at the bottom, that they wanted a phone number that they could contact me on. And this was after three phone calls (admitedly for two of them I wasn't actually there)
I basically pleaded with them to pass this on to the network people.
So, five days after I logged the call the phone rang -- one of the local network guys rang and sympathised with me.
The problem was discussed and resolved in about thirty seconds: in fact the problem had already been fixed by then.
My favourite one recently
An email...
From: xxxx
To: Chris
Subject: Help
My email is not working. Can you sort it out please?
Also had a woman come in a couple years ago. Said she'd bought a computer from the local dental surgery, but they'd removed the hard drive due to patient confidentiality and can she buy one. I whipped out a hard drive in an anti-static bag and she cried "That's not a hard drive, THAT'S a hard drive" (pointing at a tower) "Don't you know ANYTHING about computers?"
From further back in time:
1: The woman who insisted that her machine needed more memory to run her Excel spreadsheet (she had 512MB, every other desktop in the company had 64MB, and some of the servers only had 256MB),
2: The request to replace a laptop keyboard, but the user then went on holiday and took the laptop with them,
3: The long conversation with a (British) guy in China, politely trying to explain why trying to connect his laptop to our DUN server in Cornwall via his mobile phone in the basement of a building in the demilitarised zone 250 miles from the nearest city didn't stand much chance of working.
4: The drawing guys who wanted their GBs of data moved onto a network share "to speed it up". This in the days of 10Mbit networks.
5: My argument with 3rd Level Support who swore blind they knew what they were doing, but didn't believe me when I said there were 2 different IP addresses in the DNS manager for one remote server. The result, it was pot luck whether you connected to the server in a nearby village, or another unrelated server halfway across the country. Someone in Atlanta put the wrong IP address in, and rather than edit the entry just typed it in again.
6: A call that started off as "X can't log in". A quick glance at the switches on that floor showed everything connected, but it quickly became apparent that not only did this Director have problems, but so did the entire SAP team. And a few machines in Logistics. And a secretary's PC on the floor below. At this point I asked for a schematic of the network layout. "What schematic?" was the reply. The building had literally of miles of cabling running between switches and the server room alone, and nobody in 3rd had thought to map it all out. After a LOT of testing I decided to take another route and checked through the list of faults that had been logged at the same time. There were two printers in a Lab 5 miles away that weren't printing. I duly popped into 3rd and asked to see the stats on all the Novell gateways, and lo and behold one card on one gateway shows no traffic. Removed the fried network card, slapped the cable in a spare point and everything sprang back into life. The network wiring in that place was truly bizarre. I did my work experience there and in order to print to the printer right next to the PC I was using (an IBM PS/2) the print job went round the building twice, out to America and back, and then half way around the building again.
You see, it's not just the "customer", it's something to do with the human psyche.
For me, the big thing is continued lack of any training by companies for these lusers. They are someone expected to "know" things that they've never experienced before, just because computers are now "ubiquitous".
Then they put non-technical management in charge of the helpdesk, because of course it's just another department, what could possibly go wrong.
Then they put the LEAST experienced I.T. staff on helpdesk, those with the least knowledge or understanding.
Then they put in scripts because these helpdesk trainees (to be polite) don't know a router from a hard disk.
Then they put in "measurements" that measure how many calls they close, as opposed to how many actual problems they solve.
Then they put in "call management" software whose REAL purpose is to make those fake measurements and create fake stats so that the fake managers can be really happy about the fake help they're supposedly providing.
They they wonder why the fuck the helpdesk isn't helpful, the I.T. group doesn't fix things (because the ignorant helpdesk doesn't know where to send things maybe?), and why the users want the heads of the helpdesk folks (but never, NEVER the head of the fucking management that put the stupid system in place in the first instance)
It'll all end in tears I tell you!
"That's just the switch, they do that!"
The scene: Old house in Mountain View, converted to Vet clinic.
The time: Late 1999.
The job: Convert the Vet's database from non-Y2K compliant PSI/Idexx on HP/UX to Cornerstone on Win98 (I know, I know, but that was what the Vet wanted).
Considering that Cornerstone included the database conversion in the cost of the 8 hour staff training session, my job was basically setting up the Windows boxes, installing software, and pulling wire. Easy. In fact, I did the complete network setup back in my lab, so all I had to do was make space for the computers, printers, label makers etc., plug it all in, and turn it on.
Unfortunately, the house was built in the post-war building boom, and originally had 2 prong plugs for mains power. Some had been converted to three prong, but not all. I had to convert the six locations where the Vet wanted the computers installed. Three new breakers, pull some wire ... Again, pretty easy.
Day of install, the Saturday afternoon before the Sunday the Cornerstone rep was to hold the staff training session. The Vet wanted me to plug a scanner into her personal machine. The floppies that came with the scanner didn't come with Win98 compatible drivers, so I used the new-fangled V.92 modem to dial into my ISP ... But the connection speed reported as 2400 baud instead of the expected 56K (or so). I broke the connection, redialed, same result. And again. Now, I had already used the modem from my lab, just to verify it worked, so I knew it wasn't my hardware ... I picked up the phone. Line noise. 60hz line noise, to be precise.
I turned to the Vet and asked how long the phones had been buzzing ... she brightly answered that "That's just the switch, they do that!" ... WTF? After further questioning, it turned out that instead of having six phone lines coming in, she had a small switch with six extensions. It was installed when she took over the practice about a decade earlier. (You can probably see where this is going ...).
She lead me to a storage and washing machine room in the back, and pointed at the wall. Hanging there was a dusty, cobweb covered, slightly sad looking $TELCO supplied switch. It had a three-prong cord ... plugged into a two prong socket. The $TELCO tech who did the install had cut the ground pin off the power cord to fit the availabe mains power. I asked her to go get me a cordless 'phone and grabbed a wire coathanger. With phone to ear, I grounded the case of the switch to the cold water pipe with the coathanger ... No more AC hum.
I explained the situation to her, and she went ballistic. After she calmed down a little, I asked if she wanted me to call $TELCO for her. (I could have put a new cord on it myself, and put in another 3-prong socket, but if you touch $TELCO gear, they will refuse to fix it if anything goes wrong in the future.) On further questioning, she allowed as to how in the last decade she had had techs out half a dozen times or so to service her telephones, including what sounded like a firmware upgrade to the switch itself.
Long and short of it, we had a $TELCO tech out 45 minutes after I hung up the phone.
Sometimes they tell the truth...
Over phone:
"We were trying to install <software>, but the machine ate all the disks"
Conversation ensues where I am trying to figure out how the hell they can be making any sense but they are adamant it is "eating" disks.
I trot on down there to discover that there was a slight gap below the 3.5" drive that user had mistaken for the floppy slot. I open the cover to find a stack of 3.5" disks at the bottom of the case.
@Jake, @
@Jake ¨ Line noise. 60hz line noise, to be precise.¨ Funny that. In most civilized areas the mains work at 50 Hz. I wonder what this ¨precise¨ 60 hz of yours was. Oh. I see. You´re a Merkin maybe. ;-)
¨we had just finished a complicated little website for a client and they were really impressed with the results and had asked our sales rep if they could have a copy of it on a CD to show their partners. Took me about 30 minutes to explain to our sales lass that it was a dynamic website that needed a web server and database to run and we couldn't just 'copy it to a CD'. She says 'fine, ok' and calls the client back on her new mobile in front of me... 'no, I'm sorry we can't put it on a CD..(pause as client talks).... DISKETTES!!! Well of course we can put it on DISKETTES!!'
D´uh. You´re new to this computer thing, aint you? What´s wrong with a website snapshot, stored on a CD (or diskettes)? Oh right, it´s dynamic and all that, right? So I can´t give you a snapshot. See, it´s dynamic. Same a your car: I can´t sent you a pic of your car ´cause it has the ability to move, so the car might not be there anymore 30 min. after i took the pic. Therefore it is technically impossible to take a pic of you car. That´ll teach her: next time, she´ll ask people with a grasp on IT instead of Web designers.... I mean, how difficult is it to just burn a snapshot of the website on a cd? Sure you won´t get the fancy database interactive stuff, but it will still be more than enough for a demo. Or do you not know how to do that?
Having fun with bosses,...
Saw a Dilbert 10+ years where the PHB asks how to reboot his laptop and the answer is "hold it upside down and shake it" (ie. its a exa-sketch). As my boss resembed the PHB (and was an arsehole) I brought an exa-sketch and swapped it for his laptop in his bag Friday afternoon, along with a printed copy of the cartoon. He had to drive back across town on Saturday morning to get his real laptop from under his desk. (I don't work there anymore.)
Mothers and computers
My mum is quite bright (school teacher) but one day she dragged and minimised the toolbar on Windows 98, and it took me ages to figure out what she had done. (I gave her a workaround of pressing ctrl-esc to get the Start menu bar up, but had to travel the 5 hours home for christmas to fix it permanently).
Speaking of mothers and family support.
I am the tech go-to guy in our family, doesn't matter if it's a pc, a tv or a toaster...
I remember my mum got a new pc - I think she upgraded from 95 to 98 (or similair), I told her to not plug in her old scanner as the drivers were different, anyway long story short - she plugged in the scanner and completely stuffed the system and it then became my urgent job to fix it!!
I took the machine home, fixed the driver issue and at the same time swapped her swanky new GeForce 3 graphics card for my long in the tooth GeForce 1 - she didn't need it she didn't play games!!
Don't think I ever did tell her what I did :)
You haven't worked on many CMS based websites have you? Making a comparison between a picture of a car and a dynamic website shows a stunning level of ignorance.
What type of snapshot of a page are you going to get when there's no database to tell it were to get its images from or were its style sheet to tell it what to look like or where to gets its contents from?
Try saving this page and then browse it locally and see what you get.
If you had at least made the suggestion that a stand alone server could have been setup on a live CD to demo the website instead of a snarky comment, I would have though of you being less clueless.
This much I know...
Wireless networks don't like large metal objects such as car bonnets getting in the way of a signal, and wired networks are allergic to electric welding equipment!!! (We have some garages as customers!)
And I once tried to email the department to tell them that the email wasn't working.
Well it was very early, after a very late night.
Oh, and I challenge anyone to find a weirder one
Network keeps crashing at one of our customers sites.
Cue dozens of visits and almost every single piece of kit being swapped out until one engineer happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Whenever someone walked through the front door, a loose floorboard pinched a cable and dropped the connection to the server.
And the weirdest one by far was a Server rebooting, seemingly at random.
Further investigation revealed that the Electricity Board was doing some work outside and had done something to one of the phases, which meant that if someone pressed the button on the Pedestrian Crossing outside the shop, there was a power drop and the Server rebooted.
Working back in the 90's our office had recently installed wireless (it had just come out and we were getting fed up of the one manager constantly loosing network cables for his laptop).
I was working on the support desk at the time and had the joy of being on call overnight.
I had a call at 2am from a manager who was pretty irate as he was unable to print out the documents he was working on (it kept telling him that it had failed to print)
First question I asked was to check that the printer was still turned on / online. His response was "It was on when I left the office". It took me a moment to register that he was at home, approx 7 miles from the office. Said manager was under the impression that the small 3" antenna on the wireless router was capable of picking his laptop up from anywhere on the planet.
Same manager also came in and started screaming at the IT support staff the one day demanding to know why he couldnt access the internet or the servers. We pointed out that there was a power cut in progress and that until the lights came back on he would not be able to. It took a further 15 minutes of explaining that his laptop had a battery in it so that it could work without power, while the rest of the building did not, and that no, it was not possible to have the entire building on battery with the budget we had for IT spend (by this point the battery in his laptop died and he buggered off home leaving us in peace).
More recently we had a customer call up panicking as their server was beeping and telling them it was on battery power and had 8 minutes remaining. After several attempts to get them to check the power cable from the wall socket to the UPS (after each request I was told that no-one was stupid enough to unplug it therefore it could not be that) it was down to 2 minutes before shutdown. At which point I said to the customer that they could either (a) check the power cable was plugged in and turned on, or (b) wait for me to make the 90 minute drive to site, during which time they would not be able to work and would be charged a call out fee. Customer came back on and sheepishly informed me that the power cable had been unplugged from the wall so that he could plug his iPod charger in.
I wonder some days how I have not ended up like the BOFH with a collection of cattle prods and alternative user education devices.
I remember when...
...a laptop with keys stuck back onto the keyboard with double sided foamy tape. Those keys (and the laptop itself) had dog's teeth marks on them...
...a user telling me "my son must have done something to my pc... the homepage has been changed, to erm, some sort of spanish brothel site".
...opening a laptop that isn't working to be greeted with the smell (and crusty remnants) of gone off milk from under the keyboard.
I've actually been privy to the "any key?" incident, the assumption that the monitor is actually the entire PC, and many, many other tales of IT yore. and I've only been in the business 2 years...
On the other hand, we had one incompetent fool working on our helpdesk who installed a desktop PC *upside down*. I have no idea how he got past initial screening. Even the user thought it was odd the way the PC was setup, but thought "he's from IT, he must know best".
The list is endless, but the buffer in my brain has been overflowing since about the second week of work...
ps, and why is it that it always seems to be the same users who come back week after week with virus problems, eh?
@ Seno
"If you had at least made the suggestion that a stand alone server could have been setup on a live CD to demo the website instead of a snarky comment, I would have though of you being less clueless."
Standalone server on a CD, with the whole database, too, I guess? Right... and I'm the clueless one...
"What type of snapshot of a page are you going to get when there's no database to tell it were to get its images from or were its style sheet to tell it what to look like or where to gets its contents from?"
I dunno, maybe something made by one of the hundreds of utilities out there that trawl dynamic websites to output a static snapshot? My preference would probably go to httrack but hey, pick yours, as I said there are hundreds just lying around doing nothing. You might want to pick a clue while you're out there, too.
Fail, obviously
"The mail server's down"
A few years back, a secretary in the law firm where I work rushed over to my desk to tell me that the mail server was down.
I looked at Outlook on my computer and everything looked fine, so went back to the secretary. It turns out that some Chinese whispers had taken place, and the actual problem was that one of the lawyers wanted to check his email and couldn't. Solution -- turn on the monitor.
A colleague of mine and I were discussing I think user we didn't like and he told me this story.
Said user calls helpdesk.
"My password isn't working"
He resets it and says "try this one"
"Its still not working"
He tries again, still nada.
He goes down and see's her. He types the password in, it works....
He logs off and gets her to try.
Turns out her long fingernails kept brushing other keys when she was typing.
I've remember a few more:
I arrived at work to find a plastic case (almost CD-shaped) on my desk with a post-it note that read "please install on my computer". It was a desk calendar sent as a gift from one of her contacts.
We have a bar across the road from our office called Number 7. We also number our printers. One of my colleagues explained to a user that he couldn't fix her printer, but that he'd set her up to print to number 7. "What, so I have to walk across the road to get my work?"
Another lawyer complained that his laptop kept shutting down after a few hours each morning. It turned out that the cleaners had been unplugging it to plug in their vacuum cleaner. The lawyer in went on to ask if his computer could be configured not to turn off when the battery ran out.
A trainee came to tell us that he needed a new keyboard because his was broken. We replaced his keyboard and he came back to say that the new one was also broken. Turns out he thought his "i" key wasn't working because his font was set so small that i looked like l.
At the time of the Blaster worm, my then boss was setting up a new laptop for himself, as he frequently did. Sitting opposite, I saw him plug his laptop (still attached to the network) into a phone line to test the modem. "Have you got a firewall on that", I asked. "No". "Have you installed any patches, like the one for the Blaster vulnerability?" "No, I'm only testing. I won't be online for long".
One of the best efforts at screwing up a PC I've seen was someone who'd managed to create a file association for .exe to open with Word. That wasn't easy to fix.
And of course "this file is corrupted" generally means that the file has been opened with the universal file opening application -- Microsoft Word.
"Standalone server on a CD, with the whole database, too, I guess? Right... and I'm the clueless one..."
You sure are - you can take a slice of the database and fit it on a laptop, and an app stack can frequently fit there too if you only need to serve one user. It's work, but you can do it.
1) User did not know they needed to click on the little [+] beside their Outlook inbox to see subfolders... even though they had created those subfolders a week or so before.
2) User did not have admin access to install a printer on their laptop. So I logged in as admin, gave them admin rights ('s OK, company policy allows it) and logged off. Gave user laptop back. User could not log in... because they didn't know how to change the displayed username from administrator to their own username.
3) Many years ago... user's SCO server died. OK, after trying everything else, hard reboot it with the power switch. They do so and nope, green screen is still the displaying the same words. OK, try turning off the server not the monitor this time.
@ CoonDoggy
"- you can take a slice of the database and fit it on a laptop, and an app stack can frequently fit there too if you only need to serve one user. It's work, but you can do it."
yes you can. Yes it's a lot of work. Yes it's pointless., and no it won't fit the "put it on a CD for demo purpose' requirement. So what's you point?
@ CoonDoggy -bis
About fitting a whole dynamic website on a CD with a standalone webserver, plus database management system, plus database...
¨You sure are[clueless] - you can take a slice of the database and fit it on a laptop, and an app stack can frequently fit there too if you only need to serve one user. It's work, but you can do it.¨
You´re right. I am clueless. Taking a slice of the database and fitting it on a laptop so totally fits the bill. After all there is no difference between a CD and a laptop. Or is there? Sorry for being stupid. Of course nowadays CDs come with half a terabyte of storage, a quad-core processor, 4 GB of ram, a nice display and the X server to use it. How stupid of me not to know that. That´s the third millenium CD for you.
@ CoonDoggy, and others
Do not feed the troll
Insert the CD in to PC. They work better that way.
Was speaking to a lovely chinese chap the other day, and had a clash of alphabets that proved quite amusing. Have you ever tried to explain a letter of the alphabet to someone who doesn't know what it is?
Me: "Your username is h u a w"
Him: "H u a u u"
M: "No sorry, H u a w"
H: "Double U?"
M: "No. Think like George W Bush, or when you type a web address, the character you use at the start."
H: "I'm sorry I have no idea."
M: "It's nestled between Q and E on your keyboard."
H: "My computer is all in mandarin."
M: "Excellent. Have you got a mobile number? I'll text you what a W looks like."
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•Good-bye wallpaper. The flowered wallpaper throughout was cozy, quaint and just right for its time; that is, when Doris Day was hot and Elvis was cool. But today's buyers want a fresh, neutral, but not-boring, palette to build on. We stripped the paper, retextured the walls and painted them Sherwin Williams Boutique Beige, and painted doors and trim Whisper white.
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•Can the lights. We swapped the large fluorescent kitchen light for six can lights, and the brass bathroom light fixture for one in brushed nickel.
•Ditch the drapes. After removing the dowdy drapery, we left the wood-paned windows undressed, which let in light and garden views. Over the aluminum windows, we hung 2-inch white wood blinds. They finish the windows, provide privacy and light control, but will let new owners add drapes if they want to suit their décor.
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Adele, if you go to Dictionary.com there is a translation feature there. You type in what you want translated and indicate the language and they give it back to you in French or whatever.
It might be a bit wonky but it gets the point across. That's how our son traveled in Europe, we made our own cards for restaurants and getting help.
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Hi Peg, Thanks for the information. I've already gone to Dictionary.com for a basic translation but it's pretty rough. I was hoping Rach could clean it up a bit for me.
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Do you guys think that when humans look back on our civilization hundreds of years from now they'll find dozens of recaps about a show that purported be all about true love but was really about exploitation and the lengths people will go to for fame and ultimately feel really ashamed of our indulgence? No? Me either. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BACHELORETTE!
The world traveling kicks off this week with everyone heading to Atlantic City. Let me tell you, their feigned excitement over visiting such an exotic locale is through the roof! They try really hard to make Atlantic City not look like the dated, bizarre hell-hole that it is, but a roller coaster on a rainy boardwalk can only entice one's desire to travel to Atlantic City so much.
"MAN THIS PLACE IS AWESOME. IT'S BASICALLY LIKE LAS VEGAS ON THE OCEAN," Kasey yells.
The first one-on-one date is going to Brad, the one with the kid and an addict ex-wife. This will be interesting because we haven't seen much of him other than when he told her that sordid bit of his past.
As James and Mikey voice over how they think Brad is a nice guy but maybe too quiet for Des, the couple have a blast going on all the rides on the boardwalk. Brad does seem a little quiet, but maybe that's what Desiree needs. I don't know; I'm not her.
She and Brad get to tour a candy factory without hairnets or any other sanitary gear. After visiting the taffy room, Des whispers that she smells chocolate. "Where's the chocolate?" she urgently whispers again. Well, they find it! It's like a sterile and un-beautiful Willy Wonka! They just dive right in and grab chocolate covered pretzels off the conveyor belt. I'm concerned about the health standards at this factory.
High from their glassed-in prison, Bryden and Zak W. (and Ben but I hate him) spy on what they think are Desiree and Brad on the boardwalk.
"This is a disaster," Zak sighs, exasperated, "Especially on a carousel! Things always happen on a carousel." Do they, Zak W.? What kinds of things always happen on carousels? On the Bachelorette Emily and Arie made out once, and one time there was a haunted carousel in the feature length made-for-tv "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" movie, but those are the only two things I can think of that have happened on carousels.
Regardless, Zak W. is upset and becoming a little obsessively psycho about Brad on this date.
Wow. Check out the sick ass sandcastle of love they get to lounge in. It's pretty impressive and probably super cold. They have a pleasant but vague exchange.
God I feel like the dates this season have six bajillion parts. They have their dinner at yet another location, this time a lighthouse. Desiree is unsure if at this point Brad's good qualities are translating into a connection. I'm unsure at this point if Brad likes girls.
Between many awkward pauses filled by drinking wine, the conversation is strained. It's uncomfortable to watch them be so uncomfortable. Even after climbing to the top of an historic lighthouse that should be a romantic lookout point, the two have nothing to say to each other. Ok, Des, please, cut the cord.
She does. Des cuts the cord. AT THE TOP OF THE LIGHTHOUSE. They are trapped up there together. Brad is getting dumped in a room from which his only escape is a tiny, tiny door in the floor. Poor guy. He is a sweet accountant who will make another woman very happy.
Group date time, y'all! Brooks, Bryden, Zak K., Kasey, Drew, Juan Pablo, Zak W, Mikey, Ben, Michael, and Chris will be trying become Desiree's "Mr. Right." Brooks describes Des as a unicorn. Drew is still super duper cute.
Everyone gathers in the gymnasium of Boardwalk Hall to meet with Chrarrison and the current Miss America, who hails from New Jersey. Boardwalk Hall is where the first Miss America pageant took place 90 years ago, so for the date these boys will be competing in their very own all male revue in a Mr. America pageant! I love this. I love when they are forced into frivolity and peacocking.
Guys. Guys. Guess what Michael G. says. You're never going to guess. It's better than anything I could make up that he says in reaction to this date. He says, "As a young kid, I often dreamed of becoming Mr. America, and now I have the opportunity to make those dreams a reality. And that's all you could ask for out of life." WOW! HE DEFINITELY LIKES GIRLS NOT BOYS!
World famous pageant coach (I'm not sure those words can technically be used together truthfully) Christopher Dean sashays onto the scene to also help the guys prepare for the pageant. This show is such a gift to me and my life.
The first task to take care of is choosing a talent for everyone, AND JUAN PABLO GOES STRAIGHT FOR THE BATON AND STARTS TWIRLING AND TOSSING IT. LIKE, JP IS REALLY GOOD AT BATON TWIRLING. ¡DIOS MIO!
More and more antics ensue. Drew accurately describes the proceedings as a "hodge-podge of tomfoolery." Bless, Drew. Bless. Additional blessings unto Drew for deciding that he will recite Romeo's famous monologue from "Romeo and Juliet."
As a final twist, Mr. Dean reveals that there will also be a swimsuit competition. The guys have preassigned swimsuits; some are trunks, some are speedos. When asked how Juan Pablo feels about his speedo he replies, "I FEEL GREAT!" I can't handle my amor for this total goon.
The audience is assembled, the stage is set, Chrarrison is in his best hosting suit, and it's time to get this dog and pony show on the road. Miss America Valerie Hagan, Mayor Lorenzo Langford, and Desiree shall be the judges presiding over this most presitigous affair.
Kasey is first up in the interview portion. His question is "In a relationship, are you a giver or a taker?" Boring! So is his response! Most of the questions are weird like "would you be water or fire?" or "what animal would you be and why?" These are the kinds of questions my friends and I ask each other on road trips, fun, but not the kind of thing I care to know about Zak W.
Chris is starting to shine very brightly here. He stumbles through his response but is charming and adorable the whole time. He also would not part with his strappy pink high heels earlier while practicing.
Um, Juan Pablo reveals that he has a daughter? So. Yeah. Way to be upfront with me about that JP. Like, I'm going to forgive you but I need you to not disclose such important details to me during a mock beauty pageant.
Mikey tries to say that women just see men as bodies and can't see that they are real people. Yeah, Mikey, I'd say WOMEN are definitely the worst perpetrators of the objectification of the opposite gender. You MEN really have to struggle with being seen as a piece of meat.
TALENT SHOW TIIIIIIIIIIME! Kasey comes out in red pants to tell a terrible story and do some equally terrible tap dancing.
Mikey, who recently berated women for objectifying him, does a strip tease. He takes off his clothes for his talent. His abs are his talent. ABS AREN'T A TALENT, MIKEY.
Brooks hurts my ears with a made up song on a ukulele that he cannot play.
Ben ribbon dances without a shirt; Drew reads that monologue from a script and I silently deduct points for not memorizing; darling Chris does some hula hoop tricks in the aforementioned pink high heels; Bryden regales us with another strip tease.
And then, a funny thing happens. Zak W. sings pretty well and plays guitar to a nice, simple song he wrote. Is he Bob Dylan? No. Was it sweet? Yes. Does he still have crazy eyes? YES.
Then we watch a handful of the guys prance around in swimsuits. Mikey does that creepy peck flex thing that male strippers do. I do not get to see Juan Pablo in a speedo. I am greatly upset by this. But Drew is surprisingly cut.
After much (minimal) deliberation, the results are in! Brooks is our second-runner up, followed by Zak W. And the winner of the whole crown is…Kasey? I guess. Seems pretty arbitrary. He gets a giant dopey crown, flowers, and a sash.
After the pomp of the pageant, Desiree plans a pool party for her posse! So much chill fun. Chris snags her away first to show her his more serious, not high heel wearing side.
Oh my gosh. He writes poetry. Don't make fun of him guys. He went through some tough times with baseball, so he goes to coffee shops to write poetry. If he wasn't so cute I would murder him for this confession, but he is precious. Des is super into it too, for she does the same thing!
Back at the other pool, Bryden hates Ben a whole awful lot. His hatred is so fierce that it makes me like Bryden more. Ben decides to have his one-on-one time with Desiree right in front of all the guys which sends them up the walls.
Des is completely taken by him though. She totally digs the fact that he wears a necklace with his son's thumbprint. I mean, look, wear a necklace with your son's thumbprint but don't try and play it like you "tried to show it to her during your talent" when your talent was RIBBON DANCING.
Zak W. uses his time to play the rest of his song based on his experience on the Bachelorette. I want to hate it, but it's actually not terrible. He just really wants a rose. He gets the rose!
Chris is bummed that he didn't get it, but he'll be fine. He's too cute to send home yet. Bryden didn't get any one-on-one time with Des, which is weird for him and me. That's unusual.
Has anyone heard more than two words from Zak K? Who is that guy? He's a beefy book publisher. That's all I got.
James is excited for his date. His bags are packed, but his hair is gelled in hopes that he'll earn a rose. They are going on a helicopter ride, but this isn't your typical Bachlorette helicopter ride. They are going to tour some of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy along the Jersey Shore. That should be a fun and sexy time for them, yes?
The destruction is intense. It's real people's lives that have been affected here, so I can't make light of that.
What I can make light of is that as they're touring Seaside Heights from the ground, they walk past the actual "Jersey Shore" house. I would know that shack of doom anywhere, and that is the real deal.
The Red Cross guide takes James and Des to meet a real couple in the process of rebuilding. They're in their sixties and true New Jerseyians. The woman is so excited to meet Desiree from the tv! They are just lovely, and their story really affects Des and James.
We find out that Manny and Jan had to spend their wedding anniversary in a Red Cross shelter right after the worst of the storm. With that in mind, Des and James "decide" (are coerced by producers) to give their fancy date to this sweet couple so they can properly celebrate their marriage.
Instead of dinner in a gaudy Atlantic City ballroom, Des and James grab some food at a dive bar. That food is probably terrific, and I would prefer that as a date anyways.
James tells Desiree that he cheated on a girlfriend he dated for five years during his freshmen year of college. I appreciate that he's being honest; I would want to know that. But at the same time, that was almost ten years ago for this guy, and what person didn't make beyond stupid, awful, dumb-dumb decisions their freshmen year of college? I'm not forgiving what he did, but I'm saying it probably doesn't mean he'll be a bad person now. Turns out Desiree agrees with me.
Back in Atlantic City, Manny and Jan are presented with their wedding photo album that was ruined in the flooding. They have a letter from a volunteer saying they helped to restore the photos in that album. They're crying looking at it. I'm crying looking at them. It's a very nice gesture! True love is real!
Here's a link to the American Red Cross website. I give $20 a month, and I really don't make much. But every time something like Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and any other disaster happens, I'm glad to know I can help people like Manny and Jan. Also it's tax deductible if that's a thing that means something to you.
And then there's a private concert for James, Des, Manny, and Jan from Darius Rucker. If it was Hootie and the Blowfish I might get excited but it's not so I'm not. Oh yeah and James gets the rose.
Going into the cocktail party and rose ceremony, Bryden is feeling uncertain. He's not sure his feelings for Desiree are where they should be, nor hers for him. He even tells the guys he's not sure if he would accept a rose if he was offered one.
In order to stake his claim for a rose, Michael has designed a grand gesture. He writes out D-E-S-I-R-E-E and with each letter tells her a reason why he likes her. It's an acrostic poem of love. Kill me. They share a lukewarm kiss.
Bryden has his talk with Desiree. She tries to reassure him and give him the confidence that she does want him there. Bryden is still doubtful and hasn't made a decision. I respect him for being honest, though, that he isn't necessarily head over heels for a girl he's been on one real date with.
Tonight, there is only one guy who won't be receiving a rose. But who knows what Bryden will do. What's to become of this?! Here goes nothing. She calls out Chris, Brooks, Juan Pablito, Drew, Michael, Ben, Kasey, and then she calls out Bryden and he accepts. And the final rose goes to Mikey. Zak K. our stoic but beefy book publisher is going home.
He's actually really eloquent and seems perfectly nice. What the hell, producers? Why didn't you even show him more? Whatever, she's got enough guys to deal with as they travel onward to Munich. It looks like some of the building tension will boil over in Deutschland, and I cannot wait. Auf wiedersehen, my friends!


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The Teton Pass area is home for a variety of mountain wildflowers. The Old Pass Road is a beautiful road winding past meadows and forests filled with wildflowers. We plan to hike the lower portion (approximately 2-3 miles roundtrip) of the Old Pass Road on these hikes. Amy Collett from Teton County Weed and Pest District and Rachel Daluge from the Teton Conservation District will join us on the morning walks on the Old Pass Road as we identify and discuss wildflowers, native and non-native plants as well as noxious plant species. Meet at the Old Pass Road Trailhead (carpooling is encouraged). Participants should plan to pack snacks, water, hat, sunscreen and raingear. Lunch provided: wraps and drinks will be at the trailhead following the hike. Register at the Recreation Center by 12:00 pm the day priorto each walk.
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