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Toonce(s) · Post by **Toonce(s)** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:42 am

Thanks Rench. Things are looking bad enough that the big players are going to have to prop up the service industries so they don't evaporate completely, because they won't be able to just magically appear when prices go back up. The IT peeps and software developers we lost will find work easily enough, but the processing geophysicists are pretty fucked. Lost a good friend and project buddy, sad day.

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:41 pm

I was wondering how long it'd take for that shit to start hitting.

Sorry, man.

--Jaeger

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:35 am

Electrified ukulele.

Toonce(s) · Post by **Toonce(s)** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:21 am

guitargeek wrote:Electrified ukulele.

The electrified ukulele is seriously jangleplatz. Time to break out the distortion pedal.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:39 am

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-Rench

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:54 am

Rench wrote:

-Rench

Fixed that for ya.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:00 am

Yeah sorry, no readily available code on mobile.

-Rench

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:37 am

Adminning this board.
Because I read this:

Rench wrote:Yeah sorry, no readily available code on mobile.

-Rench

Don't do that! Don't scare me like that!

Yes, the mobile style isn't so good with the code buttons, I know.
I also know I'll get kicked for pointing out the following to you.

The default full style will adjust itself to fit small screens, and the buttons will still be there.
I actually just checked it on my phone, them buttons are there. Even the one for font color.

wyckedsin · Post by **wyckedsin** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:30 pm

Healing...

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:31 pm

That sucks Toonce, being in a similarly volatile industry I can commiserate on sudden declines in my market. In fact, a lot of construction people jumped over to O&G in the last few years, I wonder if any of them will be crawling back anytime soon.
Houston is still booming, just sayin'...

Toonce(s) · Post by **Toonce(s)** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 7:59 pm

I guess I neglected to mention that our headquarters in Houston lost 70 people

Yeah overall the economy seems to be doing okay though.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 6:36 am

If you don't mind my asking, what is the company name?

Toonce(s) · Post by **Toonce(s)** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 8:45 am

Bigshankhank wrote:If you don't mind my asking, what is the company name?

Ion Geophysical. http://www.iongeo.com

The Calgary office is actually going to be closed.

Been to Houston a few times. I really want to find a reason to visit the Edinburgh office.
I heard to not ever eat a burrito in Edinburgh though.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:14 am

Hmm, never heard of them, but then again every energy company in the world is here now, and they are all building new office buildings along the I-10 "Energy Corridor". I wonder how many of those projects will sputter a bit for lack of funding. Same with the billions in new road projects slated for West Texas where additional trucking is tearing up the roads for all the shale oil being extracted.

Toonce(s) · Post by **Toonce(s)** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:30 am

Bigshankhank wrote:Hmm, never heard of them, but then again every energy company in the world is here now, and they are all building new office buildings along the I-10 "Energy Corridor". I wonder how many of those projects will sputter a bit for lack of funding. Same with the billions in new road projects slated for West Texas where additional trucking is tearing up the roads for all the shale oil being extracted.

Ion is just a new name for an old company, used to be IO (Input-Output Inc) for decades, since they spun off from Texas Instruments to make land seismic sensors. A several mergers and acquisitions later they finally noticed that Input-Output was a dumb name. Been around since the dawn of seismic. Office was in Stafford til recently.

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:28 am

Steeling myself for spending some time on the garage floor to fix an exhaust leak on my wife's car--I HATE doing exhaust work.
Then I need to deal with a coolant leak on my car and finish repairing the front wing that broke when I hit a dog on the way to work last week.
I only have like six beers left. Good thing, too.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:44 am

... trying to read the short novel that came with Buttzilla and AZRider's Chanumas card that only arrived today.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:35 am

You're one to talk, Herr Doktor... What's the German word for "wall of text"?

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:31 am

??

Oh, text, not tags, I thought you'd said tags ...

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 5:18 pm

Finally.

--Jaeger

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:21 am

Okay. The suspiciously german biker, who uses his English lit degree to spin contracting proposals in order to feed his stealth-jewish kids (his words) now also has a black belt.
I smell a tv series in there ....

calamari kid · Post by **calamari kid** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:59 am

Nice, congrats!

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:17 pm

Cursing out my damn ISP, the cable company.
Something is a bit ... off. Well, fucked.
Half the time I try to access google, I get an error message. Like, any time I try to search for anything. Bing works a little better, but only a little. Facebook won't work at all. Amazon Prime will load, eventually, but damn if I can watch a video.
And yet, this place pops up, fresh and not from cache, like always. Wikipedia, too. Even lets me search for stuff. WTF?
I suspected my DNS settings, but fiddling around with those didn't help any, either. Rebooting, different browsers, resetting the cable modem, unplugging the wireless router and going straight to the modem, no joy. The websites that are, in a way, most important to me work fine. But no others.

I tried calling tech support, but all I got was a "the wait will be more than eight minutes ..." which I know is company speak for "We have no clue when anybody will be available for you."
Internet on my phone works, which let my find out that the cable company has basically shut down most of it's services in the entire land, or state, due to some technical glitch or other.

What the fuck is going on there! Fucking heck, what kind of incompetent morons work there?!?!

...
Oh.

...
Guess I can find out at work tomorrow ...

EDIT: Netflix seems to work. Small blessings...

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:22 pm

Currently researching the numerous problems with my 96 Merc W202 (C280). Blocked up EGR, vacuum leak and random misfires. Misfires are likely related to the EGR, so I gotta clean that, the vacuum leak, well the Germans in their infinite wisdom linked a whole gaggle of systems to the engine vacuum, among them the blend door for the AC (not uncommon) as well as the transmission kick down and inexplicably the windows. Problems like this keep me from working on my bike.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:23 pm

Bigshankhank wrote:C280

That's got the big six, right? Nice car, fast and comfy.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:53 pm

Turns out the problem wasn't my ISP/employer, after all. It was the Avast anti-virus.
I found that, while Chrome and Firefox wouldn't load facebook, Comodo Dragon would, a Chrome variant from the makers of Comodo Firewall. Turns out, Comodo and Avast, they don't cooperate.
Avast does some extra scanning when an https connection is established, and this somehow didn't work and things would get stuck and websites wouldn't load. Huh.
Interesting to see the problem from the other side, it is. You know how many customers I've told to check some firewall or whatnot to see whether that is blocking something? Very many.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 1:55 am

guitargeek wrote:
Bigshankhank wrote:C280
That's got the big six, right? Nice car, fast and comfy.

Don't know about it being a "big" six, its a 2.8 liter inline 6, my Toyota Avalon had a bigger V6 in it (3.6L IIRC) although it is RWD which makes it a little more fun except that it is also rather heavy so drifting is a bit tough.
Nice car yes, very fast, my dad always drove it around at 90mph and scared the hell out of my mom with it. A little cramped on the inside, comparable to a modern Corolla size-wise but comfortable. There's a reason it has been in the family since new in 96 and 250k later it still runs like a top, it just needs to get caught up on maintenance after a few years of my daughter's neglect. I tried to tell her an old Mercedes needs more than oil changes, but at least she kept up on those.

wyckedsin · Post by **wyckedsin** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:44 pm

Getting ready to shave my head...

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:40 pm

wyckedsin wrote:Getting ready to shave my head...

Hunting knife in a darkened room? I just get that mental picture...

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:45 pm

Bigshankhank wrote:

Don't know about it being a "big" six, its a 2.8 liter inline

Biggest motor available for that platform, wasn't it?

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