Nicholas Skvarla

02:25 pm: Belated Honeymoon Pics (SFW)

HoneyMoon

09:34 am: Honeymoon
I will be in Germany for the next two weeks, starting in about....an hour. More info and pics when I return. Will try not to invade Poland.

10:16 am: Wedding
So yeah, long time no speak. I'm getting married today. That'll be exciting. I also dropped my phone in the Genesee River last night, so if you've been trying to call me and all you get is whalesong, that's why.

08:42 am: My next car
http://www.flytheroad.com

I don't care what I have to sell to get it. I WANT!

07:59 am: A few things
1) Any plumber who runs copper pipe directly up to a faucet should be shot, and then made to remove the plumbing, then shot again for good measure. That also goes for not putting a (decent) shutoff valve in.

2) How does vacation work at your company? Here at P*****x we have a "Vacation Accrual Rate" based on the number of hours you work and your year level. Right now I earn 3.27 hours per pay period, which means every 6 weeks or so I get another day of vacation I can use. That seems....odd.

3) I heart batch/shell scripts now.

08:00 pm: Wierd day
I did CPR on a dead man today. Trouble is, he stayed dead.

10:35 am:

"...the profit margins in organized religion are absolutely amazing. I mean, there's like no overhead at all. God doesn't even have to show up during any of your organized events. It'd be like opening a movie theater and never actually showing a movie, yet people keep returning and paying every week in the hopes of possibly glimpsing Will Ferrel with an 'ironic' hairdo."

11:42 am: Rule 1

So at work (at the job where they don't want me anymore but had to give two weeks notice), in the course management system we use (myCourses), we put up a large banner that only the Online Learning students would see. It's about 150 pixels high, as wide as the page, has a large colorful logo on one side that says "Online Learning", and large bold text on the other half with a one sentence instruction to visit the shell we set up with important information.

So a student calls in saying he can't get to anything in myCourses. I tell him he wouldn't see his courses before they start, but he could go into the shell and review the information. The dialog goes like this:

him: "What shell?"
me: "The one linked to on the main page"
h: "I don't see a link on the main page"
m: "It's right at the top next to the large logo"
h: "I don't see that. I only see Settings, Courses, News, etc"
m: *impersonates student*
m: *sees banner just fine*
m: "It's right at the top of the page. The big logo with the link next to it"
h: "I can't find it. I don't think it's there"
m: "I'm logged in as you and I can see it"
h: "Wait, are you talking about the big logo at the top with the link next to it?"
m: ...

My rules:
Rule 1: People don't read
Rule 2: People don't listen
Rule 3: If people somehow read or listen, they don't comprehend
Rule 4: If people comprehend, they forget
Rule 5: If people forget, they ask you to explain
Rule 6: GOTO 1

01:46 pm: As I'm going to be an EMT soon,

I decided to look through the old medkit we have at work to see if anything needed replacing. It's been under the sink for as long as I've been here (7 years), and I thought we were keeping it up. I opened it to find that most of the ointments/salves/etc had expired more than a decade ago. Some of the bandages were older than that, but all of them were yellowed and dried out. The only things I could save were a cravat, a role of gauze, some scissors, and the instruction manual. Regrettably, I also had to toss the tincture of iodine.

Luckily I got approval to buy a new one.

In other news, less that a week before I'm (hopefully) a certified EMT Basic!!!!!

01:32 pm: Interesting

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love