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[nenjin]

Having to do an upgrade for a customer as a necessary requirement for doing yet another upgrade for them...

And they have 64,000+ images, some of which are corrupt. Which makes my file importer break. There's like 4 gigs worth of images.

So now I get to tediously subdivide 64,000+ images into different directories and import then until I identify the ones that are breaking the importer. All over a remote connection so it's slow as shit. That just added a wonderful 4+ hours of stupid fucking bullshit tedium to what otherwise should be a one hour process.

God dammnit, sometimes I loathe this job and and all the stupid problems we have to deal with. If I were some tier 2 or 3 specialist, I wouldn't mind. But I'm frontline, and have to deal with frontline shit that takes all day, on top of all my other responsibilities.

And now, their server has completely run out of memory so I can't even open the Task Manager to kill failing tasks. FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!

Aaaaannnndddd now they're taking their sweet time reconnecting it after a reboot, as I watch my free time slowly tick away to fucking nothing.

[Flying Dice]

I have another wonderful professor this semester. The guy teach poly sci. He opens the first class by asking how many of the students are freshmen (most of them, probably around 4/5 of the class, which cheers him immensely). He talks about how he loves teaching freshmen because he gets to be one of their first experiences in university. At this point, I would normally be thinking something along the lines of "fair enough", but I've been forewarned about him by people who have had him before.

At this point he starts talking about the last Ice Age, edging towards climate change in a truly painfully obvious way, ending on the note of, "Well, now, if global warming is only caused by the Industrial Revolution and SUVs, how did the Ice Age end?" No joke, that's word for word what he said. From there he segued into talking about propaganda, Goebbels, demagoguery, and how we have a responsibility as citizens to see through the lies propagated by the government and media. Followed by him quoting Bill O'Reilly verbatim, apparently from memory, without a trace of irony. If he had suddenly pulled a reveal at the end of the session, I would have called it one of the greatest pieces of satire I've ever seen.

Word from people I know is that the easiest way to get high marks on his paper assignments is to find a way to criticize Obama somehow, because that will distract him from the rest of the paper. One woman showed me one of her old papers where he had completely filled the margins of a page praising her for that, completely ignoring the gist of her argument.

On the flip side, he shot down someone who was advocating cultural relativism as a workable ethical system, but that's small potatoes compared to everything else. I mean, it's one thing for a professor to let traces of their opinions slip into what they teach, but it's another entirely for them to intentionally use the class to actively push their ideology. What happened to unbiased presentation of facts? >.<

[Graknorke]

Actually I'm pretty sure that there is still an ice age. At least by some definitions. Because there's still permanent ice sheets on the poles.

Not that it makes the guy any less wrong.

[Fniff]

Someone wrote a letter to their neighbor telling them to euthanize their autistic son. You never cease to amaze me, world.

Semi-related note. My former roommate and I were talking, and the subject of Autism came up. He started talking about a family he used to sit for, who had an Autistic Kid. He described how the kid "is making a slow recovery from it as he gets older. He might even be cured of it, but he can still name all the US Presidents." Confused, I asked a few questions, and started explaining how the kid sounds more like he had Aspergers, but was not Autistic, and was learning the methods behind socialization as he got older. He responded that, since "he worked with Autistic Kids first hand, he probably has a better idea than I do."

I made a point of not talking about how I was trained formally to work with children with rough family backgrounds, disabilities, and abnormal psychological conditions such as Aspergers. I also didn't talk about how my cousin and brother, and at least 1-2 of my friends, are diagnosed (or are very likely to be) high-functioning. Instead, I wanted to hear him talk more about all the things he knew.

He went on to describe the boy in detail. He used words such as "really stupid, sometimes", "retarded", and "idiot savant". He explained how "though it sounds really bad to say" you have to "treat them the same way you'd treat a Pet." He then went on to share an anecdote about how he got sick of eating at the boy's ritual lunchtime restaurant, and forced them to go get Bacon Cheeseburgers at Wendy's instead, which the boy hated. He considered forcing the kid to eat it his personal triumph, as a caretaker. "See, you've just got to be firm with them and break their habits, like with an animal. That's the only way to really get through to them."

I... okay. I know he is a good person. He's offered me help when I really needed it, and though he is insensitive and misinformed, he generally means well. But he is so wrong. And so sure of himself in his wrongness. There was no diplomatic way to get through to him, so I agreed to disagree.

It took a while, but I'm starting to really, honestly resent him.

Dear God. No offense, but your (former) roommate sounds like someone I'd rather not meet.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Depends on whom you talk to. In the DSM-IV it was a separate (but recognized as similar) disorder, in the DSM-V it is on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum.

[Descan]

And then there's the recent research that says Aspergers and Autism have different, seperate mechanics of action in the brain. >___>

[Solifuge]

I'm not an expert at all... but as I understand it, Autism Spectrum Disorders have both genetic and environmental factors. They describe a group of similar psychological profiles that are adaptive for some kinds of tasks, and maladaptive for other tasks It's not really a mental disorder, so much as an alternate psychological structure suited better for a primarily solitary life, as opposed to a primarily social life.

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Dear God. No offense, but your (former) roommate sounds like someone I'd rather not meet.

Yeah, I guess I have always resented the guy in some ways... but he's one of my only remaining college friends. I also have him to thank (directly or indirectly) for introducing me to most of the non-family, non-internet people I have in my life right now, and helping me out as I got started on this whole freelance/contract work thing. He also brought me in on a lot of fun things like tabletop campaigns, waterskiing, backpacking, and so on. He's just got strong convictions about things he doesn't know about (but which he likes to pretend to know), has a serious passive-aggressive streak, and can be a complete ass at times.

I may hate some of the things he does, but he is not inherently a bad person, nor one I can hate personally. People are complicated. :\

[Vector]

I'm not an expert at all... but as I understand it, Autism Spectrum Disorders have both genetic and environmental factors. They describe a group of similar psychological profiles that are adaptive for some kinds of tasks, and maladaptive for other tasks.  It's not really a mental disorder, so much as an alternate psychological structure suited better for a primarily solitary life, as opposed to a primarily social life.

This is correct.

[Descan]

I hope I'm not the only one who saw that report on that research I mentioned, since I have no idea how I would find it again to verify it. :< My google-fu has become weak. ;_;

[Pnx]

That is pretty much the best brief description I've ever heard anyone come up with.

[ggamer]

Y'know, what the fuck LoL?

I fucking left one game in the middle, then reconnected within five minutes. Now I'm fucking autobanned for three days.

Nice big crock of bullshite if you ask me. Maybe windows 7 will stop me bloddy client from crashing, maybe not.

[Greiger]

Consider it a vacation from the community.  I played awesomenauts recently and kept being told by a teammate that I was a bad for playing a ranged character instead of a melee.  I'm too much of a bitch to choose someone who can contribute apperantly.

We won the match.  I got 5 kills 1 death.  He called them killsteals, I call them sniping someone who was getting away.

Last I played LoL it's community was much worse than that. I'd think a few days with no worry about playing would be welcome.

[Xantalos]

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My dad tried to software update my smartphone. THis had the effect of it having to reset at some phase, erasing all data including stories I've written ovr a period of several months.
They're backed up nowhere else.
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[Putnam]

Remember the rules of making anything anywhere:

1. Make a backup.
2. Make sure you have backups for that one.
3. Make sure the backups are not all in the same building.
4. If possible, keep at least one backup on a different continent.
5. If you can get a backup running without interference on the moon, that's perfect.

[Xantalos]

I have most of the stories on this site somewhere. The trouble is I lost all my pictures (fffffffff) my contacts (FFFFFFFFFF) and a bunch of other things including a list of stuff I was reading.
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