Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 4:49:16 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 4:59:10 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 4/8/2021 5:03:48 PM

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"If you like your genitals, you can keep your genitals."

---Big Trans

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 5:05:20 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:
Did you hear about the pool player who changed his gender?

Minnesota Fats became Trans Fats

buzzsawmonkey 4/8/2021 5:09:29 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:

No more "pocket pool" for him...

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 5:10:34 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:There were a few times when we were still in business that I would have enjoyed throwing my paperwork into the wind, lol, but I would also had to clean up the mess.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 5:11:40 PM

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In #5 buzzsawmonkey said: No more "pocket pool" for him...

Two balls down.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 5:11:43 PM

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In #3 buzzsawmonkey said: "If you like your genitals, you can keep your genitals." ---Big Trans

LOL!

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 5:16:20 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 6:

That office looks quite a bit like the worst place I ever worked.

And I am under a nondisclosure to say where it was. 

For example, the written policy was stay at home if you were sick.

The unwritten was drag your ass in, and be sure to help someone else by grabbing their mouse so they get sick too.

Snow days? The executives lived in expensive places nearby in ***** (part of Boston) and if they could walk to work, they expected you to, as well.

I spent several days fixing a customer problem. but when the favored person came back from vacation, they had him re-do it.

I did not meet schedule because they thought that a lot of code had been updated to where my changes would be easy. It was a major project to make those changes. I had a week.

Two weeks later, TWO people familiar with the code weren't done, but I was the one screwed.

A technology company, but not in a tech industry, so I stuck to tech places after that.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 5:18:28 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9:

OMG how awful.  I'll bet you were glad when you found another job.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 5:23:21 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 10:

They got rid of me but I had another one soon, not like some other times.

The one after that was software to lock down computers to take exams. Very small company, but worked out. They were willing to let me put in time at home in return for making it to the commuter rail inconvenient schedule. But the project I was working on there was delayed and I was gone for somewhere else, that worked out.

However, there was a 20 year period where I was unemployed over 5 years.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 5:35:55 PM

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In #11 Kosh's Shadow said: However, there was a 20 year period where I was unemployed over 5 years.

That had to be rough.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 5:41:03 PM

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Two songs with the same name

Song1

Song2

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 5:57:58 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13:
Both songs "Suzanne"

First one by Leonard Cohen.

Second by Passenger. While Mike Rosenberg (Passenger) doesn't quite come to the level of Leonard Cohen, he's closer than I'd expect in his generation, and I think the particular song is more powerful.

buzzsawmonkey 4/8/2021 5:59:18 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 6:02:01 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 15:

Good night. I had to go to bed early last night.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:08:35 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 15:

Goodnight and feel better.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:13:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

I didn't even make it here last night.  The facility my husband is in insisted that he go to the hospital and get checked out since his left leg had kind of been twisted on Friday at the CT scanning place.  I stayed there until almost ten but he didn't get out of there until about one AM.  He had missed dinner so had a hot dog and some chicken wings at about 3:00 AM with the night crew.  I took Lyft to the hospital and back.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:17:28 PM

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@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:27:58 PM

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Facedown Crashing Sends Social Media Into Meltdown

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:29:06 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 20:

It went down for me today and it was apparently a world-wide thing.  I also heard that Instagram was having a problem as well.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 6:31:41 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 18:

{PBJ}

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 6:33:31 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 21:

Serves farcebook right. Sorry, but I do not like them,

Want to set up a version for dogs called "BehindSniffBook" but that won't work until we have smellphones.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:51:21 PM

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In #22 Kosh's Shadow said: {PBJ}

Thanks so much but at least I wasn't stuck there as long as he was.  I was a bit worried about getting exposed to Covid 19 after a doctor who escorted me to his ER room said that even though I have had two shots over a month ago that I had a 30% chance of catching it there.  We were in one of two Trauma rooms and the fellow in the other bed had a kidney stone.

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 6:53:03 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 23:

We'd better get to work on those smellphones, LOL.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 6:56:04 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 6:58:10 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 26:

Sometimes I've felt too close to this

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 7:17:04 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27:

{{{{{Kosh}}}}}

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 7:24:50 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 28:

Thanks. Too many years unemployed - and software companies wonder why they still have software with the same bugs as years ago.

MAYBE IF YOU HIRED EXPERIENCED ENGINEERS WHO KNOW HOW NOT TO MAKE THE MISTAKES

But you want cheap, and that is on the record

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 7:33:14 PM

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In #29 Kosh's Shadow said: But you want cheap, and that is on the record

I'm sure.  Sometimes I think about Pi Guy and wonder if he has had to go through anything similar yet.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 7:42:40 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 30:

The on the record is when some tech guy was saying how they needed people from India, and the reporter said his wife was a tech person, and could do the job - but was told she was too expensive.

I say H1B visas should require companies to inform all citizens who were rejected, and the reasons. They would HAVE to show how the foreigner was qualified but the American was not, or pay the American anyway.

Too many cases where they could say they could not find an American who fit their requirements- but the H1B person did not fit them either.

For example, years ago requiring more .NET experience than .NET was released. 

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 7:43:17 PM

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In #30 @PBJ3 said: I'm sure.  Sometimes I think about Pi Guy and wonder if he has had to go through anything similar yet.

I think he has, and that is why he has the job he has

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 7:48:42 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 31:

I've heard that some of the folks with those Visas don't know much at all!!

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 7:51:42 PM

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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: I think he has, and that is why he has the job he has

That's too bad.  It seems like I remember he got very good grades when he was going to that school.  It's too bad that we lost touch with him as well.  For all we know he could be married now.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 8:09:18 PM

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Reply to @PBJ3 in 34:

Actually, was thinking about someone else, but...

@PBJ3 4/8/2021 8:13:23 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 35:

Don't worry about it.  I get mixed up on names a lot.

Kosh's Shadow 4/8/2021 8:44:54 PM

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@PBJ3 4/8/2021 8:46:16 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 37:

Goodnight to you!