Long Day and Office Funnies
Published October 27th, 2005 in random ramblings, programmingSo I think I jinxed myself earlier with that post about it being slow. I’m now on hour 16 at the office with no end in sight. Oh well though, I’m on a roll and having fun sitting here by myself with my music cranked and my fingers typing furiously at the keyboard. It feels alot like those days when I was first getting into programming and every moment was exciting. Granted all the work I’m doing now isn’t as exciting as that was but still it is fun. One downside is that I was not able to go to the studio to finish up my band’s first EP, but we had gotten together last night and made a list of the changes and between that and a few phone calls it got done with the rest of the guys. So it’s been alot of fun listening to that while I work.
So the office funny of the day has to deal with the distribution of UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) in the building. Obviously not every machine has them, the cost is too high and it’s not really worth it. The servers have them of course, and a few dev machines, but the funny part is that the coffee machine has one as well. So while my computer may go out in an electrical storm, I can always count on a warm cup of coffee while waiting for the power to return.
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And if anyone thinks that that’s a waste of a UPS, then you obviously don’t understand the importance of coffee (or coke if your office is ill equipped)!
Where I work at [CENSORED] we have regular unscheduled power outages – I think we’ve had 4 so far this year. So I’ve gotten in the habit of typing like this:
H Ctrl+S i Ctrl+S , Ctrl+S y Ctrl+S o Ctrl+S u Ctrl+S r
Ctrl+S e Ctrl+S m Ctrl+S a Ctrl+S i Ctrl+S l
Ctrl+S h Ctrl+S a Ctrl+S s
Ctrl+S b Ctrl+S e Ctrl+S e Ctrl+S n
Ctrl+S r Ctrl+S
Ctrl+S e Ctrl+S c Ctrl+S e Ctrl+S i Ctrl+S v Ctrl+S e Ctrl+S d
Ctrl+S …