| Something I happened to find in a heavy Russian novel |
[16 Aug 2010|04:30pm] |
'It is not enough for me to know what I have in me - everyone must know it (…) everyone must know me, so that my life may not be lived for myself alone while others live so apart from it, but so that it may be reflected in them all, and they and I may live in harmony.'
-Tolstoy, War and Peace
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| *pff* |
[26 May 2009|04:18pm] |
*blows dust off LJ*
Yep, still works.
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| Just to keep a few things clear |
[15 Jan 2009|01:31pm] |
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palate: the roof of your mouth; also a metaphor for one's taste in food (even though that's your tongue's job) or other matters
palette: an artist's tool for mixing paint; by extension, a range of colours or other artistic options
pallet: a wooden platform used when things are transported by a forklift
And while I'm at it:
cache: a stored quantity of things; a stash (with which it rhymes)
cachet: appeal, allure, aura of desirability; pronounced 'cash-ay'
caché: hidden; a word you can use in French
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| Do I really have to say this? |
[08 Oct 2008|11:32am] |
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A capital letter I doesn't need a dot on it! Sheesh.
Except if you're writing in Turkish, and then only some of the time.
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| Blue in tooth and claw |
[16 Apr 2008|03:10pm] |
Names people on the subway assign to their phones instead of the default 'Phone', the generic model number or things like 'Noah's BlackBerry' (courtesy of my phone's Bluetooth 'pairing' function that I don't quite understand):
Empress
GTFO newfag
Whoreasaurus
Cräçkèrs
Girl Shake That Laffy Taffy
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| That's the nature of our enterprise |
[06 Mar 2008|03:22pm] |
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I occasionally get misdirected e-mails, but they don't usually remind me of stuff designed to evade spam filters crossed with jargon from Office Space:
I brought my Doctors note in and decided
to check emails, therefore I am responding to your notes:
This is exactly what I asked you to do night before last but you failed to do so. See your note:
Additional kits were committed after the original
kits for second were assigned. I was able to add most of the priority orders
however some will carryover into first shift. H, I put a copy of the email
listing the wave #’s – these probably should go into Ms.
J’s gun first.
The waves for priorities the previous night were only priorities, however the first shift did not commit the next day using the same process, therefore I brought the subject up. The ones that went into the gun the previous night were immediately entered into the guns for
first fill after we discussed it (immediate status). I just wanted to make
everyone aware of the issue and incase any were carried over to first shift
they would be prepared to handle it. I cannot prioritize anything once I am
gone therefore it is out of my control once I leave the office. H
supports first shift and I second that is when I realized that the priorities
were combined with non-priorities the day after I gave Ed the priorities we
discussed.
We are receiving about 100 full returns per day.
From my original conversations with you this is easily accomplished in 3
– 4 hours per day. I don’t understand the need for assistance
if this is your only task
Last week we averaged closer to 160 per
day and one day at 200 I believe this was Friday. The time for processing
returns has increased due to heavy damaged orders and the packing slips
don’t list items by item # or item # order anymore, making it more time
consuming for locating item and entering damaged entry. I will do a current time frame to inform you of a more actual time for returns entry.
This is not my only task. I have been constantly backing up regular tasks all day long, especially last week to give H time to ramp-up with receivers. That process was taking most of her day,
and leaving me to handle problem orders and all other issues as well as
assisting with the receivers. If you recall I mentioned this when we spoke in
our meeting about the time issues with the receivers and new receiving process.
Much has changed recently and changes are still being made making daily
processes more time consuming until the kinks get worked out.
The returns are behind this week because I
was out last Monday and H out Friday. They got behind last week from my
time being taken up with helping H, and covering all other tasks. I have
asked for help several times and sent D an email regarding my concerns. This
week I spent 3 hours waiting to be drug tested on Tuesday, Wed 2 hours were
taken up in meetings.
From: L
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:22 PM
Subject: Shift Correspondence
02-14-2008
Happy Valentines Day Everyone!
I notice tonight while tasking the priority kit waves that
there were few priorities within the waves, yet they appear to be all priorities
as the waves were highlighted in red on the wave screen. When committing the
kit waves I suggest we commit all the priority only orders on there each
individual waves by kit # so we can truly get the priority orders out first
going forward. Please guys let me know your thoughts. This is exactly what I asked you to do night
before last but you failed to do so. See your note: Additional kits were committed after the
original kits for second were assigned. I was able to add most of the priority
orders however some will carryover into first shift. H, I put a copy of
the email listing the wave #’s – these probably should go into Ms.
J’s gun first.
Quite a few returns were completed today as I worked
diligently to complete the back log. We are still lagging and any help going
forward would be greatly appreciated.
We are receiving about 100 full returns per day. From my original
conversations with you this is easily accomplished in 3 – 4 hours per
day. I don’t understand the need for assistance if this is your
only task.
The billing in synapse is still showing no partials are
being completed on someday and few on other. Last time I addressed this I was
told the partials were being captured as full returns, in looking closer at
this it does not appear to me that we are getting credit for processing the
partial returns. I will do my best to research this, D and/or
G may we meet regarding
this issue? I will
also ask J if she knows anything that might cause this.
We have an order in released since 2-11, the order
date is 02-07. This order was sent out as a re-pick and sent to the customer
today T G called me and showed me how to look up aging, pending and
NS hold orders on the NS website. She specifically asked about this order
pending since 02-07 I explained to her it is shipped and the UPS tracking # is
notated in the customer notes screen of the order. I told her what happened and
she suggested two ways to resolve the problem contact the help desk and let
them process it to ship or re-release the order to the line and let them pick
it, once picked not packed return items to stock. This would force the order
into picked status then simply ship confirm manually as we do the postal
orders. Do we have
a written process for this so that we don’t have to continually be
reminded how to do this? We should document the process and incorporate
it in our daily tasks. We should try never to default to a process that
results in additional labor without revenue to justify it. Let the help
desk fix it.
I will be coming in late as most of you will be happy to
know – I am going to the doctors.
See you in the AM – L
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| I think they might have been panatelas |
[30 Nov 2007|10:24am] |
I dreamt that I had bought a rather large quantity of cigars, and that I was busily hiding them in various places around the house.
Chew on that, Dr Freud.
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| I'll know it when I see it. |
[09 Nov 2007|11:03am] |
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I'm told that I got up in my sleep last night and began rummaging through the drawer containing my boxer shorts, saying 'I think I can find the fibrous one'.
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| Phew |
[24 Oct 2007|01:59pm] |
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I just nearly lost my iPod in a really dumb way.
I was on the subway and belatedly realized that we were at my stop and the doors were about to close. So I leapt up, jumped out onto the platform and at the same time, my iPod decided to let go of its belt clip.
There I was on the platform, earbuds in, while the iPod lay on the floor of the subway car, whose doors were now closed. The woman who had been sitting across from me was on the other side of the door held up the iPod and just as I was pointing down the platform (not even sure if that was the direction of the train anymore) and saying 'NEXT STATION', the doors opened and she returned it to me!
Thank you, and I apologize for thinking bad thoughts about your sunglasses while we were on the train. Thank you also to the guard who noticed what had happened and opened the doors.
Self, pay more attention.
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| Schlocktober |
[19 Oct 2007|11:57am] |
I remain, as in previous years, strongly opposed to the idea of painted rather than carved Halloween pumpkins.
They're supposed to be scary/cool, not dorky.
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| Muppet karma's gonna get me |
[21 Sep 2007|01:27pm] |
 
Is it bad of me to see a resemblance between Sri Sri Ravi 'Not the Sitar Guy' Shankar and Dr Teeth?
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| The career meme (IM IN UR POWERPLANT, MELTING DOWN UR CORE) |
[14 Sep 2007|10:07am] |
My actual job didn't make the top 10, although it is in the top 20. I must have skewed the results by suggesting I was more responsible (air traffic controller, truck driver, power plant operator) than I actually am, or had better people skills (PR specialist, DJ, lobbyist, activist) than I do.
Trust me, you don't want me directing your air traffic.
1. Desktop Publisher
2. Cartoonist/Comic Illustrator
3. Animator
4. Political Aide
5. Market Research Analyst
6. Writer
7. Computer Animator
8. Artist
9. Graphic Designer
10. Activist
11. Medical Illustrator
12. Critic
13. Communications Specialist
14. Website Designer
15. Translator
16. Print Journalist
17. Public Policy Analyst
18. Fashion Designer
19. Interior Designer
20. Criminologist
21. Editor
22. Air Traffic Controller
23. Anthropologist
24. Archivist
25. Film Editor
26. Truck Driver
27. Disc Jockey
28. Health Records Professional
29. GIS Specialist
30. Film Processor
31. Technical Writer
32. Lobbyist
33. Industrial Designer
34. Public Relations Specialist
35. Exhibit Designer
36. Craftsperson
37. Potter
38. Power Plant Operator
39. Train Operator
40. Historian
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| Stealth food |
[12 Sep 2007|03:55pm] |
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Yesterday I think I ate Filipino food, or at least the food-court version of it.
I say 'think' because there was nothing about the place I bought it from or the way the food was named that overtly identified it and I didn't think it was necessary or useful to ask the cashier exactly what kind of food it was, so Filipino is my educated guess.
I kind of liked the unforced identity but it did leave me with two questions:
1. Did the owners consciously decide to downplay/obscure the identity of the food (the cuisine that dare not speak its name?) and if so, why?
2. Is it really that important to me to define something if it seems somehow ambiguous?
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