The Syndicate

G-Man wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:21 pm Email read receipts.

I have a long history with email read receipts, mostly negative. When asked to send one back to the person who sent me an email, I decline because, chances are, the sender also earmarked the email for a delivery receipt and should have gotten one.

One of my co-workers is now requesting a read receipt with every email she sends me. Not just for important tasks and questions, mind you. She is also requesting read receipts for one-sentence responses. My other co-worker has noticed this as well, so Ms. Read Receipt isn't just doing it to me.

What to do?

Get her to spit in a tube. It could be a genetic thing.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:29 pm

G-Man wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:21 pm Email read receipts.

I have a long history with email read receipts, mostly negative. When asked to send one back to the person who sent me an email, I decline because, chances are, the sender also earmarked the email for a delivery receipt and should have gotten one.

One of my co-workers is now requesting a read receipt with every email she sends me. Not just for important tasks and questions, mind you. She is also requesting read receipts for one-sentence responses. My other co-worker has noticed this as well, so Ms. Read Receipt isn't just doing it to me.

What to do?

Hand her a sarcastic hand-written note indicating that you read her email each time you do so.

Believe me, I considered returning the favor and spamming her with read receipts but I try to avoid petty retribution. Besides, Ms. Read Receipt is always striving for the 'good dog' pat on the head from the owners and she would probably complain about it. I don't know if it's her poor communication skills or her over-developed self-preservation instinct, but she regularly makes subtle put-down comments about me and our other co-worker when the boss men are present. She used to be the only office person years ago, so maybe she never got used to sharing the glory when things go right. Trouble is, she makes most of the mistakes, so she still gets most of the grief. Sharing is caring, right?

Anyway, she only recently started doing it, so maybe I can get her to stop it unless its an email that really matters.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:35 pm

G-Man wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:21 pm
Email read receipts.

I have a long history with email read receipts, mostly negative. When asked to send one back to the person who sent me an email, I decline because, chances are, the sender also earmarked the email for a delivery receipt and should have gotten one.

One of my co-workers is now requesting a read receipt with every email she sends me. Not just for important tasks and questions, mind you. She is also requesting read receipts for one-sentence responses. My other co-worker has noticed this as well, so Ms. Read Receipt isn't just doing it to me.

What to do?

Get her to spit in a tube. It could be a genetic thing.

RIP me, my latest version of a doc with 5hrs worth of extra work at least is corrupt

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:03 pm RIP me, my latest version of a doc with 5hrs worth of extra work at least is corrupt

Ugh. That sucks, sorry. Been there done that. My worst case of this was losing a week's worth of dissertation code updates because my flash drive corrupted and I hadn't backed it up in a week or so. That was the incident that pushed me over the edge to always saving my files in a paranoid fashion and working from the cloud.

RIP Barbara Bush

Been playing a browser based knock off of PUBG for a few days now and just now got my first win in solo mode. 7 kills. Feels good. Gotta say, I think I see the hype now.

air france worker strike means I might be stuck in Paris till the 9th...

dunya wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:15 am air france worker strike means I might be stuck in Paris till the 9th...

I was once delayed a full night in Madrid because of an airline strike occurring in France. They need to figure their shit out.

dunya wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:15 am air france worker strike means I might be stuck in Paris till the 9th...

'stuck in Paris' what a tragedy!

Although poor Lizzy

Brown family picks for the Kentucky Derby:

Simon- Bolt d’Oro
Abigail- Good Magic
Ephraim- Firenze Fire
Eloh- Vino Rosso
Me- Audible

Chalk won. Meh.

I don't understand the term "chalk"...

juliets wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 8:16 pm I don't understand the term "chalk"...

Biggest favorite.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 8:18 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Sat May 05, 2018 8:16 pm I don't understand the term "chalk"...

Biggest favorite.

TY

Well, my headphones are broken.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 2:29 pm Well, my headphones are broken.

That's a tragedy of the highest degree.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 2:29 pm Well, my headphones are broken.

Perhaps this just means that you are meant to share what you're listening to with the rest of the world.

I usually feel like one's taste in music is so personal, that sharing your playlist is like baring your soul.

I was mostly going to listen to SAW at work, and I can't play music out loud. But I'm not going to suffer through hearing half of an album with my right ear. :P

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 12:25 pm I was mostly going to listen to SAW at work, and I can't play music out loud. But I'm not going to suffer through hearing half of an album with my right ear. :P

I don't see the issue. Listen to the other half with your left ear.

Job interview today. Just to get my current job permanently. I'm not worried about it at all, or at least I wasn't, until yesterday my boss woke up in a cold sweat worried that the other two people she put on the panel won't appoint me. I still feel confident they will - I'm good at interviews and if I'm frank they need me. But now it's created a pressure to perform.

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 3:30 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 12:25 pm I was mostly going to listen to SAW at work, and I can't play music out loud. But I'm not going to suffer through hearing half of an album with my right ear. :P

I don't see the issue. Listen to the other half with your left ear.

I need a working left headphone.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 3:56 pm Job interview today. Just to get my current job permanently. I'm not worried about it at all, or at least I wasn't, until yesterday my boss woke up in a cold sweat worried that the other two people she put on the panel won't appoint me. I still feel confident they will - I'm good at interviews and if I'm frank they need me. But now it's created a pressure to perform.

Good luck! You got this.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 3:56 pm Job interview today. Just to get my current job permanently. I'm not worried about it at all, or at least I wasn't, until yesterday my boss woke up in a cold sweat worried that the other two people she put on the panel won't appoint me. I still feel confident they will - I'm good at interviews and if I'm frank they need me. But now it's created a pressure to perform.

Wow Golden you've been doing this job for how long? Seems like a year or so, maybe less. How could they just now be interviewing you for it?

juliets wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 6:02 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 3:56 pm Job interview today. Just to get my current job permanently. I'm not worried about it at all, or at least I wasn't, until yesterday my boss woke up in a cold sweat worried that the other two people she put on the panel won't appoint me. I still feel confident they will - I'm good at interviews and if I'm frank they need me. But now it's created a pressure to perform.

Wow Golden you've been doing this job for how long? Seems like a year or so, maybe less. How could they just now be interviewing you for it?

I'm on a temporary contract. This is for a permanent one.

Good luck, Golden!

Golden wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 6:23 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 6:02 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 3:56 pm Job interview today. Just to get my current job permanently. I'm not worried about it at all, or at least I wasn't, until yesterday my boss woke up in a cold sweat worried that the other two people she put on the panel won't appoint me. I still feel confident they will - I'm good at interviews and if I'm frank they need me. But now it's created a pressure to perform.

Wow Golden you've been doing this job for how long? Seems like a year or so, maybe less. How could they just now be interviewing you for it?

I'm on a temporary contract. This is for a permanent one.

Oh ok, well I know you've been doing great. An interview seems superfluous. You'll surely get it. Good luck!

For you number hounds here, I developed a BvP (Batter versus Pitcher) model in Excel. I'm excited to see how it performs tonight. It has colors and everything.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:46 pm

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:44 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Sat Mar 10, 2018 6:14 am For whatever reason, Agents of SHIELD scratches my Lost itch. I'm not sure it would be that way for everyone, but especially the last couple of seasons have just been so phenomenal. I think perhaps it's two things:

1) Each season feels different to me. I had that with Lost too, where I can actually imagine different colours, most important characters etc for each season, they are like 6 books in a series. I get that with SHIELD too.
2) The cast feels like a family (as the Lost cast did) dealing with the same kind of pseudo-scientific 'how the hell' stuff that the Losties did.

There's also the fact that they often like to begin seasons or parts of seasons with completely out of context scenes with characters we don't know yet - which Lost was amazing at, starting with Desmond in the hatch in season 2.

More recently, Westworld scratches the same itch as well - that did very well at recreating Lost's 'what the hell is going on' vibe.

It makes me realise that for the most part I judge everything scripted I watch against Lost.

AoS got infamous because the first half of Season 1 was subpar, so it never got quite a following. But after that it turns into a pretty great show.

I've watched the first 3 seasons. Need to catch up.

Yeah you do, because honestly, if you'd seen 4, you'd say the first 3 seasons were subpar

Seriously though, season 4 is one of the best seasons of anything ever in my opinion. Season 5 is also pretty damn good, although I think it isn't quite as universally considered to be as good as season 4 (I personally find it to be).

FInally watched S4.

Yeah it's... that good. I mean, the first third (the Ghost Rider part) is pretty weak (though not because of the ghost rider), but the other two thirds are really fucking amazing. Every episode feels different even though it's a well connected serial show of 22 episodes. I think it's ironic how this is so much better than most of the MCU Netflix shows, even though Daredevil S1 used to be the bar other shows compared themselves to (I might still prefer DD1 to AoS4, but it's a close one).

Fun fact, my father dropped by my side when I was watching the penultimate episode and I kept staring at him thinking "how the fuck do I explain this" while robots and simulations and teleportation and ghost rider flashed on the scream. And my father is a no-nonsense guy when it comes to entertainment. lol. Tho he didn't say anything.

Now I think I'll take a small break (tho hopefully not that long) before S5 so I can process this.

Yeah the Ghost Rider bit is the weakest part of s4 to be sure, except that it lays the table. By the end I think 5 is weaker than 4... the budget shows. But the storytelling and characterisations remain strong.

Anthony Bourdain dead at 61, suicide. I can't process this. That man showed me the world. So many fascinating people and places he got to experience and share, and yet his life is cut short. Depression's a bastard. Bon voyage, Tony.

Terrible week for suicides.

got a formal complaint against me by a client who said I was coming onto him inappropriately...lmao. so I'm "officially" under review.

This jerk asked me out for coffee earlier this week, which was totally unnecessary since we covered everything in the office, and I politely declined. I've done it several times before (refused outside interaction with clients unless it's a business dinner with co-workers and/or management present), and I didn't think much of it. Apparently, he doesn't handle "no" very well.

humans are fucking jerks.

My former student signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.

https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/

I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:15 pm My former student signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.

https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/

I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.

Impressive!

juliets wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:57 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:15 pm My former student signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.

https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/

I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.

Impressive!

I don't have stats, but things went like this:

When he was our running back, we won a lot of games.

After he graduated, we lost a lot of games.

That’s awesome. I think the Chargers are in a position take a step forward this year so hopefully he gets a spot on the roster and can contribute to it!

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:11 pm That’s awesome. I think the Chargers are in a position take a step forward this year so hopefully he gets a spot on the roster and can contribute to it!

And I can roster him in fantasy.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:15 pm My former student signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.

https://www.chargers.com/team/players-r ... z-newsome/

I used to joke with him that if he ever went pro, to remember me financially. Now is the time to pony up.

I say call him up, don't say anything to him, just play him Rihanna's Bitch Better Have My Money

Golden wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 10:45 pm Yeah the Ghost Rider bit is the weakest part of s4 to be sure, except that it lays the table. By the end I think 5 is weaker than 4... the budget shows. But the storytelling and characterisations remain strong.

Watched the first 5 episodes of S5 and I already like it more than S4. S4 was a little awkward in that it pretends there is something at stake other than just freeing the protagonists from a virtual reality, while S5 starts with a huge cataclysmic event right out of the bat and goes to town with it (and it isn't too silly like the cataclysmic event they try to prevent in S3). Villains are good, situation feels super hopeless in a way that keeps me wanting to see more, and the pacing is so great it hardly feels like I watched so few episodes.

Episode 5 was the Boba Fett origin story I thought I didn't need (with Fitz instead) and probably better than the Boba Fett film Disney is planning to make. it says a lot that this was the return of Hunter and that wasn't even the most interesting thing in the ep.

Fitz/Simmons is the best couple in television since Lily and Marshall. No, seriously, forget the Avengers, all you need to defeat Thanos is have one of them disappear and the other one will flip the universe upside down and probably build another infinity gauntlet just to bring their love back. They are that badass.

I'm really satisfied for this show.

I’m looking forward to rewatching episode 5 now that I’ve seen the end.

Kasius and Sinara are fantastic villains.

So what's new with everyone?

DrWilgy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:12 pm So what's new with everyone?

My drink.

Sadly, that's about it.

Better than nothing I suppose.

Dr Wilgy where have you been?

Fifteen years in matrimony.

Do I get out for good behavior?

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:28 pm Fifteen years in matrimony.

Do I get out for good behavior?

Today is your anniversary? Congrats!

juliets wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:44 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:28 pm Fifteen years in matrimony.

Do I get out for good behavior?

Today is your anniversary? Congrats!

I'm taking her to a seafood restaurant. It's taken this long, but I've gotten her loving fish and tea and coffee.

Give me another fifteen years and I'll have her drinking whiskey.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:46 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:44 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:28 pm Fifteen years in matrimony.

Do I get out for good behavior?

Today is your anniversary? Congrats!

I'm taking her to a seafood restaurant. It's taken this long, but I've gotten her loving fish and tea and coffee.

Give me another fifteen years and I'll have her drinking whiskey.

Lol I hope you guys have fun!

Do you guys have the same anniversary as LC and BR????? I just saw them posting about theirs on FB