For fuck’s sake. How many times can I explain to someone how something works, and then demonstrate that it is working, to have them tell me, “But that can’t work that way.”
Getting beyond frustrating.
Day: October 18, 2013, 1:46 PM
Years
Telling me how many years you’ve worked in IT doesn’t help your argument any when you are doing something absolutely stupid.
Why do people do that? I have never said that once in my life in a work environment.
Great, you’ve worked in IT fifteen years. Then you should know that a GPO in loopback mode means that the computer config settings replace the user config settings, and not argue with me about it for two hours and then break every goddamn thing I set up when you decide to change it even though I tell you it’s going to utterly fail.
Burrito
These days, tortillas outsell burger and hot dog buns; sales of tortilla chips trump potato chips; and tacos and burritos have become so ubiquitously “American,” most people don’t even consider them ethnic.
Welcome to the taste of American food in 2013.
To my grandmother – born in the 1930s – any such food was indescribably exotic and not really food. A burrito might as well have been a chocolate-covered grasshopper. Like many Americans of her era if it wasn’t meat and potatoes, it was suspect and probably dangerous.
Good to see that is changing. Cuisine in the US has improved noticeably since I was a kid.
Renew
I’ve seen many articles by people claiming that renewable energy is a pipe dream, etc. Some of them seem to be written by actual non-shill scientists, and as I am not an expert in the field I wasn’t sure what to believe.
However, I prefer the evidence of the real world where it is already working.
The studies I’ve seen saying that renewable energy just won’t work are flatly contradicted by it, you know, actually working.
Admittedly, not everywhere is the same as Germany. But consider this: Germany isn’t particularly sunny nor is it particularly windy, and they are able to achieve such a feat.
Imagine what we could do in the US where there is far more sun and wind. But we won’t.