Some are. I work for one. I have no doubt that the goal of the administrators of our hospital is to provide the best care possible for our community.

It helps that we are a non profit with no shareholders.

I’m not a drummer, but I raised one.

The electronic set isn’t a bad starting point, but according to what her teacher said, you’re better off with an acoustic drum set if you’re learning.

I no longer remember exactly why, but I think it had to do with how the sticks rebound of the drum heads. You can get a better feel and learn dynamics better on an acoustic set.

So, you might want to get an acoustic set later. You can get practice heads and cymbals that aren’t as loud.

When I got hers, I found a used set on eBay. It was her Christmas present that year:

Is this your way of telling us that we’re seeing the rise of the distopian world that you told God to create?

1200 years old…

… creator died

I guess so. Pretty good run though.

Do the Republicunts know the term, “cost-of-living”, or do they think that’s another made up word like “affordability”?

Forbeeden

The only possible cou ter to this is to enshrine the right to own a computer and internet access into your constitution or something like that.

Our constitution? They’ve got that thing hanging from a nail in the shithouse.

My understanding was that there was nothing wrong with the service the client was getting. They were just assholes who liked the ego boost they got from being able to force their vendor to fire someone.

They didn’t have any legitimate complaints. They just needed to believe they were important enough to get anyone fired they wanted to.

I think the issue is the one client that needed the special treatment needed to see them fire someone new every time, and they couldn’t send someone who didn’t know enough about the storage system to be worth firing.

Not mine, but a guy I know got hired to be fired.

He got a job with a company that managed storage systems. They hired him and gave him some basic training for the systems. After a few months, they sent him to a client who was irate. The client was angry when he got there and there was nothing he could do to appease them. The client demanded that they fire him so they did.

He found out after that this was all theater for the client. The company would regularly hire someone new specifically so they could fire them when they sent them to this client. It sounded like the client was borderline insane, and this was how they managed to keep sucking massive amounts of fees out of the client without losing employees they actually valued. Once they fired a sacrificial tech, the client would be happy, and they could send one of their “permanent” employees out to deal with the technical issue.

It worked out well for the fired guy. They hired him at a salary much higher than he was getting previously. The training he got there allowed him to move on to better jobs doing the same thing for even more pay working for employers who weren’t insane.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again

He was talking about the U.S.A. He just didn’t realize. Or care.

Holy crap!

They could have used our high school auditorium and still had open seats.

Years ago I had a little LED flashlight hanging from my keychain.

I was running cable in my house, and had wiggled along inside a wall in the attic. I was looking down a section of wall next to the bathroom and was using the flashlight on my keys to peer down the wall.

Luckily I realized how stupid I was being, and managed to put my keys back in my pocket before I dropped them down inside a wall.

Cultural Appropriation.

I was listening to Frank Zappa, then I rewatched Bohemian Rhapsody and switched to Queen.

No.

https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/vladimir-putin-1999-russian-apartment-house-bombings-was-putin-responsible

He’s a terrorist.

I had a friend at work who would come to my office at lunch time and remind me to stop working and have lunch. I’d be stuck on a problem and want to keep working on it, and he’d insist that I stop. He say that if I took some time away, I’d come back with the solution, and he was usually right.

He would also stop by my office at the end of the day to remind me to go home. I worked with him almost 20 years.

He retired in November of 2023 and passed away in June of 2024. I still miss him.

Leo had a busy day:

We went to the pet store to get some three dog bakery cookies, and then he spent some time practicing not barking at people going by.

Rose and Daisy:

Got new hay.

I read that they turned off the fire suppression system to try to avoid damaging inventory while fire fighters tried to put out the fire.

Perhaps there’s a chance that the insurance company will try to use that to avoid paying off the claim.

It had happened years before, but it happened when he was an adult.