Happy Friday Posbang Thread!
Heading north tonight for a boys weekend - me, my son and the dog. There will be junk food, boat rides and pigskin flinging.
the kids to a local waterpark - with weather cooperation
So good. just...so...good.
OK I'm awake now
I want my Coronas now.
Looking forward to the end of my first full training week coming off a knee. It still hurts a bit, but I think I will just ignore it. I'm sick of waiting.
On another note though, anyone out there an Excel power user? I'm starting to work with spreadsheets a lot that have macros and everything and it's totally foreign to me, we never learn that in school.
do you need to know? Any specific questions?
I know alot, but not nearly as much as this guy: Mr. Excel
We live and die by spreadsheets and tracking about 300,000,000 things at DTE, but if you need some Excel assistance, I do nearly all of the reporting for our planning region out of Excel, so I would be happy to try and help out.
I came into this years ago knowing quite a bit from previous positions already, but yeah, you basically get a crash course in Excel (or the company does send folks up to Horizon Learning Center in Livonia for training too) in a lot of engineering / management positions in this company, especially ones which touch any of the CI teams or Centers Of Excellence and their efforts. In those cases, you'll know an eerie amount about what goes on.
you'll know an eerie amount about what goes on.
It's amazing what people will put in spreadsheets and think by Hiding a column that it's "secure".
Very unsettling to learn what everyone in the company's pay grade was...then finding a corresponding mapping spreadsheet on the intranet...and realizing the schlub a$$wipe next to you could buy and sell you.
Being a computer programmer and currently writing code to create an online store, security is a crazy issue. One slipup in my code and a regular joe hacker could access every database that exists in the company.. right through the URL.
"and realizing the schlub a$$wipe next to you could buy and sell you."
That will never ever stop happening. It's like a bad trip, man. You just go with it and don't get too worked up about it.
This is why you don't abbreviate standard as STD. Electrical STDs sound awful.
Heading up to the island this weekend with the Mrs for "Christmas in July" at Put-in-Bay. Woo dogie that place is nuts.
before I leave, but then the UP for a week! fishing the Escanaba and Black and maybe the Driggs and Fox as well as a couple pike lakes. There will be pike gumbo, smoked whitefish pate, Lehto's pasties, cold beer and cigars by the campfire. YES.
Noodling.
My wife and 4 yr old son are in California visiting her sister who just had a baby. I'm home with my 7 yr old daughter for a week. I'm thinking I'll take her to Lake Michigan tomorrow, probably via Hoffmaster St Park.
I hear there's a wave advisory out there...keep an eye on her.
He's a Bielemer.
They'll have a good season every once in a while, people will be amazed when they finished 2nd or 3rd but before long they just kind of suck again without any hope of sustained success
Still trying to figure this out.
At first, I thought maybe the guy is actually sitting with his back on the ground, and his feet on the wall and it's just an optical illusion, but then if that was the case, he'd have to have a ridiculously strong core. And wouldn't the couch have to be bolted to the wall? It doesn't look like it's been edited, but then again, what do I know?
Look at the baby's feet. They drop towards the "wall" as the baby is being moved.
I just watched this last night.
About halfway through my GF came home drunk and started scolding me about how awful and gross that movie is. I stood up and went to bed.
This morning she woke up having remembered nothing of what happened and said "TGIF!"
/ugh...
Your left ... gravity is pulling the cuff away from the shoe.
And, while I don't have a "ridiculously strong core", I have okay conditioning and could carry this off. The baby probably weighs less than 20 lbs and he's twisting to his right, actually lowering the baby to the floor.
Still, this is a great illusion. Very well done.
You can see the chair tip back towards the "wall" a little when he puts down the kid.
But you are 100% correct; knowing how it was done doesn't mean it wasn't effectively done.
Working a half day, then going to the Michigan Beer fest in Ypsi, then the bars in AA after. Going to be a good night
I need me some posbang. This day is going terribly. Our design-build project that is going very poorly since our own internally staffed contractor has departed from our design plans. They even knowingly lied to me about As-Constructed items. Now the client and regulator are admittedly upset.
in French Riviera and headed back to the States tomorrow.
I'll be taking my wife out to dinner for her birthday and probably starting edits on my next novel. Also enjoying the first full day of the next month off of chemotherapy. Which means I can finally have a goddamn beer!
BTW, sloths are my favorite animal, so thanks to the OP for the gif!
? Where is said bar that has 120 on tap? Only place I had it on tap was at the Dogfish Rehoboth tavern.
After two of those, you won't care if she's big and ugly, either.
Half over. Catching up on my morning during lunch, then will make the final push until the end of the day. Thankfully my 3:45 slot is empty.
May hit Home Depot to get some crabgrass killer to spread before the weekend. Eating dinner somewhere in Ellicott City, MD with the wife and pooch. Tomorrow, dropping off pooch at her boarding/daycare place, and heading to Ocean City NJ for a drunk weekend with the fam.
canoe trip, lots of imbibing and general debauchery.
Rest on Sunday to rehydrate.