COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Comment on J. Neil Schulman’s Facebook Wall –
Hey, J. Neil – PLEASE tell me that Lady Magdelene ends up strapping Agent Goldwater to the crate and leaving him in the desert with the buzzards for companionship . . . ?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Magdalene%27s for more.
- Follow-up 16 July 2009 –
I saw a few of your Rational Review postings a few years ago – it seemed like you fell under the Bushevik spell of “If we don’t fight them over there, we’ll fight them here” and “the Muslims are out to get us” – Lady Magdelene’s seemed to be more in line with the Bush Doctrine than Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza. I’m hoping I’m wrong about this, or that if I’m correct, you’ve learned the error of your ways.
Whatever the case, a pox upon Agent Goldwater and his lying, thieving, conniving buddies.
NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.
- I got a few extra hours on the day job Tuesday night – management almost begged me to come in to take care of the annual Loss Prevention Audit checklist – that is, to check everything on the list to make sure it’s up to snuff before the official auditor came in the next day. What a joke – I was done with it in about 90 minutes, and that’s allowing for the 30 minutes that I spent checking the backside of the building for graffiti.
I swear, if these auditors and senior management types had a working brain cell in the lot of them, they would show up with ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING. That way, they would see the place as it usually is between the announced visits.
Anyway, the store’s camera room is overfilled with gift sets of perfume and cologne, among other things. It’s an actual safety hazard for anyone that needs to go into there for anything. When I mentioned this to management, I was told that the district manager said that “Every store in the country is like that.” I wouldn’t want to be the one needing to access the Loss Prevention file cabinet in a hurry, as it’s buried under the fragrances.
We got out Wednesday night at 10:45 PM (usually the latest is 10 PM), as a bunch of us stayed late spiffing things up for the dog-and-pony show on behalf of the inspector from Corporate HQ.
- I just had the first half of Lab 3 in my Intro to Fiber class on Thursday morning. This involved attaching ST connectors to the ends of a segment of 62.5/125[1] fiber optic line to create a patch cable. This part (and the second half – creating another patch cable to using anaerobic glue to attach the connectors) of the Lab is a pass-fail. The national standard for power loss through a connector pair is 0.75 dB – the “front” end of my patch cable read 0.20 dB, and the “rear” end read 0.44 dB.
Anyway, stripping the cable ends, putting on the connectors, cleaving the fiber ends and polishing those fiber ends is easier than it looks on the videos we saw in class demonstrating the procedure. Not bad for only having about two hours sleep the night before.
- The Advanced Laser Systems course that I need to actually complete my Associates Degree is STILL up in the air. Michael Cranney, the Ad Hoc “Chair” of the Photonics Department since Gordon Bennett got the boot, FIRST said that he wouldn’t offer the course because we didn’t have twelve people showing an interest, but that he would run it in the spring semester, as Sandia National Labs had four people that needed to take it, THEN he says that he’ll offer it on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. What a scheisskopf (or is it culo?).
- Today (Friday 17 July) I went to the Albuquerque Tea Party (separate blog entry to follow shortly[2]). The event started on 2nd St between Copper and Tijeras, then moved to Central Ave between 2nd and 3rd Streets. At around 11 AM, the 100 or so people there were told to disperse by APD for not having a permit.
NOTES
- Fiber optic cables are classified in one manner by the diameters (in microns) of the core and cladding, repsectively.
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