What made me happy today?

[Rath Darkblade]

"Hey, so, the intern you hired who has been with you for the entirety of your role has submitted his letter of resignation.... so now we have a hole in scheduling that we need to cover while the new you hires for a new intern"


I guess this still belongs here.... I'm happy my intern has gotten a full time position elsewhere?

but at the same time, GRRRRR!!! Now i have to cover desk shifts!

I never knowingly resigned a job in my entire life. (Sorry, I tell a lie: I quit a temporary contract once because the manager was an awful POS who verbally abused us temps and called us idiots if we made typos.

How did he know we made typos? Because he stood behind our backs while we were typing and watching us type.

Say, manager, don't you have something else to do? Like, I don't know -- MANAGE?! Grumble. Sorry. This was in the late 90s and I still remember).

The good news was that I also got another temp-to-perm while working at that shitty job, so I walked out the door and never looked back. In your face, so-called "manager"! *blows a raspberry*

 

[Homer Potvin]

GRRRRR!!! Now i have to cover desk shifts!

Welcome to the wonderful world of upper management. The bad news is that it never gets better. The good news is you will care less as time passes.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

After reading all that, I am glad I'm retired.

 

[Homer Potvin]

After reading all that, I am glad I'm retired.

Homer is still attempting to fill the position Homer#2 vacated 4 years ago. Homer#2 is still attempting to fill the position Homer#3 vacated two years before that. And now, to add even more absurdity, Homer 2.0 (a concurrent version of my present self and future self) is attempting to replace current Homer, which I still am in my corporeal existence.

Got all that? One future Homer to perform the duties of one current Homer and two past Homers. It's like a Star Trek episode where different space time continuum characters are bumping into each other on the Enterprise.

 

[big soft moose]

Hey moose, we know we didnt give you the promo, but if you could do half the work so the less capable person we hired instead of you can cope it'd be appreciated...what do you mean 'suck my plums' ?

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Homer is still attempting to fill the position Homer#2 vacated 4 years ago. Homer#2 is still attempting to fill the position Homer#3 vacated two years before that. And now, to add even more absurdity, Homer 2.0 (a concurrent version of my present self and future self) is attempting to replace current Homer, which I still am in my corporeal existence.

Got all that? One future Homer to perform the duties of one current Homer and two past Homers. It's like a Star Trek episode where different space time continuum characters are bumping into each other on the Enterprise.

I get it. I really do. Full disclosure: in the last 15 years, I have officially retired from four wildly diverse jobs, three of which I was juggling at any given time. I retired from dance alone at least four times before my body sealed the final deal. Now I'm down to writing and a greatly reduced teaching load. Occasionally it feels like a damn vacation. Not this week, though it still beats the holy hell out of turning up at a law office five days a week.

 

[DBwrites]

I broke free of a 3 week long depression stint and my writer's block is slowly going away.

I have more energy now than I have for a long time, and It's been pretty great. Trying to be more active in my social media circles.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Agent emailed. 923 physical copies of The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree sold last week. Doesn't count audiobooks. Best week yet.

 

[Set2Stun]

So so so happy for you, that is incredible !

 

[Amontillado]

I try to suppress schadenfreude. Sometimes I succeed, yesterday I did not.

The global accounting firm, Deloitte, is losing a bunch of money in Australia.

The Australian federal government hired Deloitte to produce a report certifying the legality, precision, efficiency, and general wonderfulness of certain Australian government operations. I think the fees were around a half million.

Deloitte proudly delivered the report and initially defended it when nonbelievers pointed out a few flaws. The footnotes didn't make sense. One of the sources for the report was a lofty tome that unfortunately doesn't actually exist. Legal citations were either inappropriate or whole cloth fiction. A quote from an Australian federal judge gave great credence to the report as long as you overlook the fact the judge didn't actually say what the Deloitte report claimed.

In other words, it was artificial intelligence pulling artificial facts out of its artificial rectum. How charming.

Two months ago, Deloitte released a YouTube video bragging about their work with AI, saying that before AI their processes were an impediment to achieving their ambitions (Deloitte's word).

Enter AI.

It's all mildly hilarious until you consider another fact, which makes the shameful tale extremely hilarious.

The government function the report analyzed favorably was an automated welfare violations system.

Deloitte's AI, in what could be the world's first case of cross platform artificial conspiracy, praised Australia's AI.

I hope I never have to give a briefing at work about Deloitte's various scandals.

The company's full name is Deloitte and Touche. I can't help it. My spooneristic snark reflex kicks in and all I see is Toilet and Douche.

 

[Luxuria]

The hostages were returned to their families today. I am so happy.

 

[Fantastical]

Well I hope to write more today, so im happy because of this.

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

Made a really fantastic soup today for my lunches the rest of the week. It's lentil barley, and I made the broth out of carrots, shallots, garlic, celery, and cabbage I blended up after sauteing. There's also red pepper flakes, cumin seeds, coriander, ginger, and fenugreek I toasted before dumping in everything. It simmered with a cinnamon stick and a few bay leaves (and leftover parmesan rind) for a few hours and it's so pleasant. My house smells amazing.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

The hostages were returned to their families today. I am so happy.

I hope fervently that all the dead ones will be returned to their families soon, too, so they can have proper closure.

 

[Luxuria]

I hope fervently that all the dead ones will be returned to their families soon, too, so they can have proper closure.

Agreed! I hope the living and the dead are treated with respect following their return home. I hope their families find comfort in their memories.

 

[Naomasa298]

I solved a forty year old riddle today. I knew the Thai rendition of a Japanese character name from a Chinese wuxia TV series that came out in 1979. The name sounded nothing like Japanese name. So I had to back-form it from Thai into Teochew (the Chinese dialect spoken in Thailand), back into Cantonese (the original broadcast language) to get the characters, then use the characters in Japanese to figure out the character's supposed Japanese name, thus converting "Tian Hong Jap See Nung" to "Amatsuka Juushirou". It's been bugging me quite a few years now (although not quite since 1979). Thanks ChatGPT!

 

[Amontillado]

I started to post in the "what made me unhappy" thread. Yet another apocalyptic AI video popped up in my YouTube feed.

Then, it hit me. The whole world will never replace humans with AI. Criminal organizations will never be able to tolerate the privacy drain and implied oversight of AI.

What a relief. All I need to do is learn how to twirl my mustache and master an evil chuckle. Anyone know any arch fiends currently hiring word nerds?

Asking for a friend...