If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

What's bumming you today?

252 responses total.

I'm sad that I messed up the candidate list, which caused some problems voting.

IBB I have way too much work to do before I leave.

My Western Digital 4TB "My Cloud" drive bit it. It's not even a year
old. Red light in the front. I never had anything critical on it but
still...  waste of time and money.  It always was very crunchy. I
thought it was just the way it operated. I  used it to stream music and
movies at home and occasionally streamed some  of the content from work.
Nice device when it isn't dead. I'm thinking of  putting a different
drive in the case. I also ordered one of those SATA  hard drive
enclosures to see what's really going on with the drive. 

a 4 TB drive...was it USB?

#4 Yes, USB. Not even a year old. I voided the warranty by taking it 
apart. With the mac I just reformatted it and it seems to be fine. I 
just backed up all of my data and put the drive away for safe keeping. 
No sense in wasting a nice 3.5 drive of that size. 

Right now I'm kind of burned with the streaming appliance idea. It takes
 seconds just to throw a move on a flash drive and plug it in the tv. 
Alternately, PLEX is excellent. A very good use for a retired mac mini. 

I just read that Raspberry Pi 3 is coming out with integrated wifi and 
bluetooth and a 50% faster processor. IMO it won't be long before a 
version 5 or 6 is out that runs Desktop Ubuntu. It would be great to 
rubber band a Pi to a hard drive and use it as a media server. Low 
power, low maintenance, low cost, small footprint. 

re #4
I've heard great things about WD Live TV for streaming.
PS4 is wonderful if you like Cinavia chasing you down like a rapist.
I like my Asus 66U's media server with the WD Passport snapped into it
but you have to have something like the WD Live TV there to not
screw with big brother's hand in it.

Keith Emerson died.  Darn.  Only 71.   George Martin died the other
day, too.  Who's next?

Prince, apparently. 

Sad

Genius, great sense of humor, master song writer and musician,
provocative,  interesting, original, remarkable (for making it despite
adversity), ladies  man, made a huge impact, inspired a lot of people,
gave from his heart and his  wallet, known by all as an awesome human
being. 

He will be missed. Gone way too soon.

re #10
I'm still here man...

It s Slinky; it s Slinky.
For fun it s a wonderful toy.
What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs
And makes a slinkety sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!
Everyone knows it s Slinky.
It s Slinky; it s Slinky.
For fun it s a wonderful toy.
It s fun for a girl and a boy.

re #12
I dated her

I'm sad M-net has been down for days.

I've emailed tonster asking for ultraman's help
will post update

In times of trouble I find myself contacting Johnny Socko and his 
flying robot. 

No response yet..this may require chocolates

It turns out my robot distress transmitter was a cheap toy from the 
60's made of tin and a flashlight bulb.
Now I'm pulling the "oh sh@#" handle in my car. Will that do anything?

Re #18:

-- https://youtu.be/jH0Mz8gjyyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9JYqhFV-M

Who needs "oh shit" handles?

I'm sad because I've been kicking this can down the road for 30 years 
and nothing has changed. Perhaps I'm kicking the wrong can? 

Tuna can or peaches

Water chestnuts but I'd rather have the peaches. 

I like canned bamboo chutes

IBB because I'm working long hours and weekends due to too much work and
not enough people to help (plus some people on vacation).  However, I may
get some comp time, if I'm lucky.

Hope you get comp time
Hang in there

Thanks, tod.  

Okay I got one day of comp time out of weeks of extra hours.  Oh well.

That sucks. There's only one solution: slow down on your deliverables.

Yeah. 

It's not getting any better, I'm afraid.

Still going on this project.  The deadline is tomorrow and we had to
reprogram a bunch of things at the last minute and you know who got
stuck doing it.  At least the main program is working correctly
finally.  We'll probably be working into the weekend again.  Some
places like the Death March method of project scheduling and staffing.
I hope this doesn't go on and on and on.

You need a better job. Don't let the bastards wear you down.

That's how I got into this job.  Needed a better job.  It seems
this entire industry has just gotten worse over the last 10 years.
Anyway, thanks.  I might try to go back to the job I had 10 
years ago but there's no guarantee it might not be just as bad
now.  If I hang in here, maybe I can get a promotion out of this
mess or at least on a different project.

Good luck.

For me, the Japanese retirement age of 60 is looming closer with alarming
rapidity.

They are considering moving me to management.  That might be a good
thing. 

Great, if you don't mind manaaging.

You'll manage
It's like camp counselor with twice the responsibility

Heh. I don't mind.  What I do mind is trying to do programming
while going to meetings all day.  Hopefully it won't be like that.

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