
Re: Can't they just tweak one of the employee phone apps...
Sounds like William Rees Mog and his "sorry to have missed you" notes. Being Apple, they have an app for that...
220 posts • joined 22 May 2020
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun
(the song ends with)
You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun
I wouldn't be too concerned about the amount of lead being ingested by holding solder between one's teeth. It would be insignificant compared to the Tetra Ethyl Lead used to enhance the octane rating of petrol back in the day.
I would be more worried about having my face close to the soldered items and breathing in the flux fumes...
At one point in time (late 80s to early 90s) the official TdF signature tune was "tour de France" by Kraftwerk. Yup, German band doing French icon.
@Jake - saw Wild Willy Barrett and the French Connection a few years ago. Their encore is Ca Plan... - I sang JBJG and enjoyed every second of it...
Many years ago, work provided me with a WAP enabled Nokia that would accept some MIDI files as ringtones. I downloaded several from a film-and-tv-themes website and, after having to discard many good tunes because they weren't coded "just right", had several on my phone to entertain and annoy co-workers.
One day, I had to take a team on a site visit to an unused factory unit. We'd just got through the gates when my boss rang me. Cue much laughter as we drove into an empty yard with the theme from "The Sweeney" blasting out...
One of the many reasons Mrs C doesn't like me 'helping' with grocery shopping was due to the time we saw a couple with two very young babies in a carry cot on their trolley. My comment of "ooh look, buy one get one free on babies" got one up vote - from the new dad - and two down votes. The babies didn't vote either way.
Shame it was a school building a theatre in the basement. I've been involved in a hotel building a ballroom (i.e. wedding reception room) in a basement that used room-in-room to cut down on noise transmission to the remainder of the hotel. Trouble for us was that the outside room was already built...
Address labels, delivery advice pages and pre-printed returns notes all get used as kindling for our log burner too. With the exception of labels stuck to polythene mailing bags or labels made waterproof by the sender's use of selotape which get burned in the garden incinerator when we have a clear out. Our temporary store for these is a large paper bag marked "dirty burn" but now known (thanks to a chisel-tipped marker pen and my poor handwriting) as the "dirty bum" bag.
"This strikes me a being a bit like a grocery shop claiming "We're located just around the corner!" when in fact you have to drive the first 27 miles to get to that particular corner they're just around."
I (used to) regularly ask our supermarket till staff about their carry-to-your-car service, just like the "ask us about..." sign requested.
"Yes, certainly. Where's your car parked?"
"On the drive at home." (Quite true as we tended to use Mrs_C's car).
"household appliance makers are making models that were supposed to have WiFi connectivity without that feature"
I do hope that's true and that customers go out of their way to buy WiFiFree. That way the manufacturers might start to realise that there is still a market for non-internet enabled toasters.
"will these members be contacted or have their passwords automatically reset?"
No and No. Most TV users don't expect to hear anything from the unresponsive team at TV these days.
I learned of the leak because TV user rssalerno posted a message in a TV group (then read about it on el reg, Gareth posted his story at about the same time. Confirmed that my account is one of the "handful" via "have I..."
Password is unique to that site, but changed it on the site and updated my password manager just in case some joker wants to upload anything to my account.
"one nautical mile equals 3467.2452432 yards" certainly would be a stupid conversion.
1nm(*) is 200 yards. Or 10 cables. Or 100 fathoms.
But be careful, 100 fathoms of cable-laid rope is really 3 x 120 fathom hawser-laid ropes.
(*) yes, i know a nano metre is slightly shorter.
Agreed.
And when the real person tells me who they are (i.e. doctor's surgery), I explain why I gave them the silent start. I have _never_ had anyone be anything other than understanding about the tactic.
One day it will be a smart scam merchant, at which point I will ask what their mother thinks about how they earn a living. No, wait - I'll ask her myself next time I see her working a street corner.
Yup, I'm very sympathetic to scam callers
Similar, but slightly different as it involves four wheels (and - spoiler alert - some flight)
Mister_C senior told me a story about two duty-free sales reps who had enjoyed the hospitality of the chief steward on board a docked ship. They decided that a race back to the hotel would be fun.
The first set off to drive round the 400 yards long dock shed.
The second thought he'd take a short cut through the shed - drove in though the dock-side door and out through the lorry loading door on the opposite side. He'd forgotten about the loading platform and achieved 4 feet of altitude very briefly before gravity booked him a meeting with a tow truck and the transport manager...
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