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At my former work most of us in the office ate together, the boss ordered out lunch and paid for it everyday or you could bring your own. I was out of the office 2 days a week at least and just stopped and ate and the boss reimbursed me for it. Mainly they/we talked about the boss since he...

I had plans of talking and getting to know them a little outside the office. We're pretty laid back and no BS. Normally what I have always done is talk about my background then we BS about people/companies in the same industry we know and/or similar projects then just BS some more about what...

Fork lol. I'm not talking a great fancy meal. Many times in the past we would go eat a po-boy at the greasiest place in town (with the best po-boys) and just talk or whatever. We're a small office, I have to make sure you will fit in and not be on a crusade to put oil companies out of business...

Did some more interviews this morning. Taking the afternoon to clear my brain. During an interview do you ask much about the company? So far only one person has really asked other than "What do you do/build here". Even when I was a peon at the very bottom I always asked questions about what...

His pre swastika days.

Lake Travis is full again now after this spring.

It was both then. I just traveled there again 2 summers ago and the number of Asians was a lot less than it was then in the 90's when they were afraid of Hong Kong going back to the Chinese. Everyone I talked to said they were having kids and then going back. They were everywhere. I went to...

I went to Victoria in 1992. All I saw were Asians. At the time they were flooding in to have children if in the fear of what was going to happen when Hong Kong when they were taken over by the Chinese later that decade.

Only morons fire someone because they are gay. There's a 1,000 legal things you can fire even a great employee for. The easiest is to lay someone off and change the title of the person you hire to replace them.

NSA, FBI, CIA, all alphabet......

Sisters cosmo mag had topless women in some of the ads. Just saying.

First job out of high school the computer guy we contracted with every so often sold me a chip to unscramble all the pay per view and such. Best $20 I ever spent. It lasted about 2 years then they sent a signal that flipped it all off in a dramatic popping fashion.

Someone filling out a crossword puzzle ask you something you might know since you're "old" and you know the answer. Original DnD company. TSR duh. Got books on them that say TSR. Old.

Eventually you will. They already sell it boxed and keys for it. If you build a new computer you will.

Guess I remembered wrong. They are available in 23 states according to their wiki page, but they are the best selling ice cream brand in the US. I guess their competitors are regional, store brands etc...They are big in the south so maybe the south eats more ice cream since it's hot. Also on...

I think I remember reading they are available in 85% of the ice cream market or some such.

Thanks, no desire to learn SQL but they have others I may look at.

I guess my biggest issue is I pay for an OS to be an OS. Not to use me to make money by selling what I do at home for ads. Search engines do it, but I'm not paying for google. I also don't like them pulling it out of something I write locally like a letter etc...

I think insurance brought part of this on to themselves. I got hit while stopped about 20 years ago. Guy in front of me was making a left turn on a 2 lane road. Guy hit me going 70mph in a van (in a 55mph zone). Pretty much crushed my truck. Luckily there was a cop behind the guy turning who saw...

Both of the cars I mentioned above the ferrari and maserati had CA plates. About 1/3 of our office is recently from CA when they shut down that office. They are in the same boat. OMG I took a massive pay cut and can buy a 6 bedroom house now. They really freak when upper management gets...

Google is acting like safe search is enabled ALL THE TIME now even tho it's not checked to filter content nor is safe search enabled in settings. Doesn't matter if I'm signed in or out. Still does the same searches and everytihing is PG rated at most.

The original Monday Night Football crew is all dead now, Frank Gifford died.

Cousin posted a video on his faebook he took (as a passanger) behind a google self driving care in Austin yesterday. Good luck. They'll have to reprogram it since everyone knows "rules of the road" are just a suggestion in TX. I like it that way lol. Speed limit signs are really the minimum...

If you do, please record it.

I'm part redneck. Last hole I found in the yard full of them I poured gas down and let it soak it and repeat a few times. Then lit it on fire. Really didn't impact the yard but the flame coming out of the hole about the size of a coke can was pretty impressive. I didn't have any more yellow...

At the weekend job now. Not bad. I work for 10-30 seconds then have 2-4 minutes of do nothing time to cruise the net or whatever else.

Stopped in Lockhart, TX on the way back from the girlfriends house. Lockhart being the epicenter of brisket and BBQ in TX. So I'm having brisket and some ribs. Got enough brisket to make a few sandwiches later this week as well. Ummmm good.

I haven't delved into it, but from what I just glanced at Windows 10 now has the ability to collect stuff from your other applications like word and anything you type on the computer. They market it as collected data about the way you type to help you get ads and "experience" targeted to you...

And they complain about me being part of the 1% lol. I eat blue bell, it's sold damn near every where.

I guess I'm totally out of touch. No suprise. In the job I currently have they offered 3x salary to work in the bay area and 1.5 to move to Phoenix. Both were listed in this thread. No thanks. On the Austin deal. Money is flowing in left and right. The company put me up in an apartment for 2...

Across the road from a senator. I lived in BFE East, TX where dial up was tops. It was 20 miles from there to the nearest stop sign and 45 miles to wal-mart. Kay Bailey Hutchison bought the land across the road while still in office and they put a CO for DSL at the end of my driveway. This...

Give you the option to enter a valid license? Get one off reddit for a fraction of the cost. I had to get a new windows 7 license and upgrade on a dual boot. I got it from the company, but I looked around. A windows 7 pro key was $20 and a windows 10 I want to say $45.

Someone had a flat and 14 lanes of traffic have to slow down to look at it. Never been to CA but that seems to be modus operandi for most places.

My girlfriend lives in Austin. She hates it, but she's like me. More of a rural get the hell out of town type person. She makes almost as much as I do and she still complains about how much housing cost, and traffic. I live close enough I can run into town there if I need something or want to...

How have you never heard of it, it's one of the top movies for Chuck and I still hear references to it today. I see vanity plates referencing it at least once a year.

38, 39, whatever it takes 110, 111 whatever it takes

Love story. Meh. (1971). Starring Ali McGraw.

You don't charge with a 1 hour minimum? I thought that was pretty standard for any business. If I have to draw a base plate that is 12 inches square with 4 holes in it and takes less than 5 minutes I charge an hour. I just thought everyone did that.

You see a LOT of computers in manufacturing and even plants sites in the petro chemical field that are very old desktops controlling an entire process. You walk into a control room and they have state of the art displays for instrumentation. But the computer there controlling the actual process...