The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[NotWise]

It's nothing like a flageolet, which I carry with me often.
A cassoulet requires different handling and no fingering.

Tragedy here. Coffee, cocoa, tea, all banned. Booze too. I'm probably not allowed any té maté either, only this herbal tea crap. Lotsa meds though. Maybe the bans will be rescinded after the heart reset / restart and I don't know when that'll be. Probably after the next laser to me eyeball.

Meanwhile, it's too late for breakfast. But since I slept all afternoon, I guess it's a sunset breakfast. Gourmet fish sticks, spinach salad with bleu cheeze, walnuts, dried cranberries, tangy yogurt dressing -- and V8. No wine or beer. No cocoa for dessert. Terribly uncivilized. Shoot me now.

I'll die with my flageolet.

You have my condolences. I hope it's temporary.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'll die with my flageolet.

You have my condolences. I hope it's temporary.

I hope death is temporary, too. But the flageolet is forever.

 

[TxRad]

This time change has my internal schedule all screwed up.

Fresh coffee now available for the midnight crew.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I want cocoa or something but it's two am so I shan't. Up with the sick munchkin. Zinc tablets seem to be working for me.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Pour some coffee, gonna be a long day. Up with the munchkin during the night and I don't think I'm taking her to school. Sigh.

 

[TxRad]

Pour some coffee, gonna be a long day. Up with the munchkin during the night and I don't think I'm taking her to school. Sigh.

Morning MP, sorry to hear about the sick kiddo. Makes life miserable for everyone.

My sense of time is still off. It's not nearly as early as I think it is.

Fresh coffee for anyone in need on this Moanday morning.

 

[NotWise]

My sense of time is still off. It's not nearly as early as I think it is.

I adjust to the time change pretty easily. The problem I have is that now and for a while I'll be driving into the sun both going to and coming from work.

 

[Handley_Page]

I adjust to the time change pretty easily. The problem I have is that now and for a while I'll be driving into the sun both going to and coming from work.

A tricky thing, that.
I've had the same problem a time or two.

J'ave a problem Grande. My main PC has drawn it's last breath; gorn to the great Silicon heaven, scuffed it, taking with it all my written stuff. and Im using my old lap top [passwords are a bit of a problem] .
There's a remote chance I can extract a lot when I put the drives into a new tower machine. Cross your collective finger, folks, please.

 

[MagicaPractica]

A tricky thing, that.
I've had the same problem a time or two.

J'ave a problem Grande. My main PC has drawn it's last breath; gorn to the great Silicon heaven, scuffed it, taking with it all my written stuff. and Im using my old lap top [passwords are a bit of a problem] .
There's a remote chance I can extract a lot when I put the drives into a new tower machine. Cross your collective finger, folks, please.

Been there, I've had good luck retrieving stuff. Now I back up to flash drives. I figure when a computer goes now I can just kill the hard drive and not worry about it.

Of course, I've had flash drives die too so I keep things in more than one place.

 

[Hypoxia]

J'ave a problem Grande. My main PC has drawn it's last breath; gorn to the great Silicon heaven, scuffed it, taking with it all my written stuff. and Im using my old lap top [passwords are a bit of a problem] .
There's a remote chance I can extract a lot when I put the drives into a new tower machine. Cross your collective finger, folks, please.

Off to Great Silicon Heaven, eh? Most of our old hardware seems to lurk in the wings awaiting disposition, so this place must be an adjunct Silicon Purgatory. We've only fairly recently shipped-out our systems dating from 1980-2000, and we still have a few weird circuit boards hanging around uselessly. I can't quite bear to part with that AdLib music card, ancestor of the SoundBlaster standard.

Fear not with thy brain transplant. The soul of a system resides on its drives. Even the C: drive can undergo a mind-meld to extract the old personality. You might even retrieve those passwords. Might not even need a wizard's help.

G'luck there. Meanwhile, it's no coffee or cocoa, only some wimpy herb teas and pureed juices. This is living? Go on, drink your coffee. Torture me. Oy...

 

[NotWise]

There's a remote chance I can extract a lot when I put the drives into a new tower machine. Cross your collective finger, folks, please.

If the hard drive wasn't the cause of the crash then it might be completely undamaged. If it is damaged (and the content is important enough to justify an expenditure) then there are services that can recover data from a damaged hard drive. We had that done earlier this year and it worked well.

 

[MagicaPractica]

With all this computer talk, it made me think of the book, Ready Player One. I've read the book and enjoyed it a great deal. Spielberg is making a movie of it, due out in March. Anybody else looking forward to it?

Ready Player One trailer

 

[Handley_Page]

With all this computer talk, it made me think of the book, Ready Player One. I've read the book and enjoyed it a great deal. Spielberg is making a movie of it, due out in March. Anybody else looking forward to it?

Ready Player One trailer

Do you remember that road problem in 'MiB' - the one where his car is forced off the road and all that ? That trailer reminded me of that.
But how can we get a trailer for a film due NEXT YEAR ?
A bit of a long run-in, ain't it ?

Meanwhile at chez HP, the main box is undergoing a temporary fixt, with the original Windows installation thing (the Good Lord alive only knows what happens with a system which came all fixed up and no installation disk).

But of course it means my e-mail addresses have gone.
This really IS a pest. /In addition to pals on Lit, I have a son in Oz who is now 'unknown'.

So if pals on Lit can still find it in their hearts to trust me with their e-mail addresses, I'll be suitably happy.

 

[_Lynn_]

If the hard drive wasn't the cause of the crash then it might be completely undamaged. If it is damaged (and the content is important enough to justify an expenditure) then there are services that can recover data from a damaged hard drive. We had that done earlier this year and it worked well.

I had that done, too. In other cases, I accepted defeat and moved on to new work.

 

[TxRad]

Evening all,

I learned my lesson on several occasions about multi backup plans. At the present, I am backed up on the main computer to a second drive, to a thumb drive, and to a a usb hard drive. This is done automatically every hour, twenty four, seven. Everyday Auto Backup is the name of the free program.

A little writing this morning and a lot of time in the shop during the day. Tomorrow it looks like I spend some time working on my old truck. I have a brake hanging up on the left front. Time to replace the caliper.

Ok, fresh coffee for the evening crowd.

 

[NotWise]

We've had a long-term client (like, 30 years now) for whom we've done an enormous amount of undocumented research. I'm approaching the end of my working years, and one thing that bothers me is that a lot of knowledge will be lost when I retire. I had lunch a few years ago with one of the most influential people in my field--in Texas anyway. He wanted me to publish everything before it's lost, but our cost structure doesn't allow time for publication.

Last week the client approached us with an open-ended task to justify their current, expansive plans to their members, and their members' consultants. All I have to do is adjust the scope to let me report some past work and my worries are over--or at least alleviated. It would be better if they could be published, but passing them down to the next consultant is second best.

 

[TxRad]

We've had a long-term client (like, 30 years now) for whom we've done an enormous amount of undocumented research. I'm approaching the end of my working years, and one thing that bothers me is that a lot of knowledge will be lost when I retire. I had lunch a few years ago with one of the most influential people in my field--in Texas anyway. He wanted me to publish everything before it's lost, but our cost structure doesn't allow time for publication.

Last week the client approached us with an open-ended task to justify their current, expansive plans to their members, and their members' consultants. All I have to do is adjust the scope to let me report some past work and my worries are over--or at least alleviated. It would be better if they could be published, but passing them down to the next consultant is second best.

It's funny how most employers don't realize how much knowledge will be lost when they retire a long time employee. The company I worked for when the bottom fell out of the oil field, dropped everyone over forty. What they kept were the spit and polished yes men. They are great at brown nosing the company people but know very little about what they do.

I get at least one call a month from company men and or geologists wanting information on this area or that area. Why? Because I knew the areas in question like the back of my hand and all that information is locked up in my head. The consultation fees aren't great but they are a little something in the way of payback.

 

[NotWise]

The consultation fees aren't great but they are a little something in the way of payback.

My wife's uncle was the district geologist for Humble and it's successors. His specialty was in the Teapot Dome and some other east-Texas trends. They kept him fairly busy after he retired and maybe he died a little early to suit their tastes.

I only met him once. I remember that he had an office at their home in Tyler with an old-fashioned drafting table covered in proprietary maps. There's a rock garden at the Jackson School of Geology at UT that's named for him. That was a gift from his wife, who was the president of the Garden Clubs of Texas. That organization is largely a political lobby, but they like gardening, too.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I was having the devil's own time trying to copy and paste Ch 4 of Tales of the Guilds. The text was easy but the proper footnoting was NOT working so I attempted to upload from my original saved copy. I have no idea whether this will work or not but I have hopes . . .

 

[NotWise]

I was having the devil's own time trying to copy and paste Ch 4 of Tales of the Guilds. The text was easy but the proper footnoting was NOT working so I attempted to upload from my original saved copy. I have no idea whether this will work or not but I have hopes . . .

If you review it after you upload it and it looks right, shouldn't it publish looking just the same?

 

[Handley_Page]

If you review it after you upload it and it looks right, shouldn't it publish looking just the same?

I don't think that the Lit machine understands footnotes and so on [a favourite feature of Terry Pratchett's original tales].

My main PC is still knackered.
It's no fun realising I have to go and buy a replacement.

Coffee - Please !

 

[TxRad]

I don't think that the Lit machine understands footnotes and so on [a favourite feature of Terry Pratchett's original tales].

My main PC is still knackered.
It's no fun realising I have to go and buy a replacement.

Coffee - Please !

Sorry about the computer. Finding something with 10 on it may be a big problem. It is over here anyway.

I'm awake way too early but I'll make fresh coffee.

 

[Handley_Page]

Sorry about the computer. Finding something with 10 on it may be a big problem. It is over here anyway.

I'm awake way too early but I'll make fresh coffee.

And, as always, the coffee is appreciated.
Well, the Mk 1 replacement failed miserably.

I must try and find my drivers disk; I re-loaded everything.

 

[NotWise]

We're having a beautiful morning, and I got to enjoy it for an unusually long time because my commute--which lately has been about twenty minute--took a half hour. There was a time not long ago when it took just fifteen minutes.

Fortunately, I had coffee with me.

 

[TxRad]

My commute is such a hassle. From the bed, twenty steps to the coffee maker. Turn that on. Another twenty steps to the bathroom on the way to the office. That's another fifteen steps. The agony of trekking to the kitchen to pour that first cup of coffee.

Retirement does have rewards.