All lane changes are based on deception, following the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu. When we are able to change lanes, we must seem unable; when using our steering, we must appear inactive.
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All lane changes are based on deception, following the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu. When we are able to change lanes, we must seem unable; when using our steering, we must appear inactive.
It was one of the available default avatars when I signed up, is all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
(Got here from snowjournal? nelsap site)
The resemblance to our beloved cat Basil (now gone), "spoke to me".
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Art of War driving survival.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocximus
In almost 20 years, I've never noticed that the cat has human teeth.
Hey thanks for replying to such an oddball question. That's very cool. Awesome when cats are comfortable enough to go for shoulder rides. Great pic.
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Originally Posted by Thaleia
If enough of us demand a colonic, it will become a movement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gepeto
^ Ha!
Fidelity says we have verified you by your voice. Great, don't you guys know they can AI your voice?
Supposedly you shouldn't answer spam calls because that's how they get a voice sample to fake. Or is that as real as waking up on a park bench minus a kidney?
In their minds those kids and their chaperones are the most important entitled people on the mountain. Make a separate trail for them. Or make them understand the simple rules and courtesies of being on the mountain. Or pull their fucking pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurxSki
They can also spoof your IP, steal your password, and social engineer things like challenge questions and other identifying info. I’d suspect they’re following a best practice of layered verification. Voice match is good enough to check your balance or get wiring instructions. To drain your account they’ll need additional verification, some of which may be transparent to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
It’s at least as real as not saying yes to anything on a telemarketer call because then they’ll have a voice sample of you agreeing to dastardly things. Or at least a subscription to some shitty magazine.
So not particularly real, but a fine thing to be paranoid about.
I don't say anything when I answer the phone. I wait for the other end to speak. It freaks a few people out. And it doesn't work with the financial institution with my car loan when they give me the 2FA code over voice. They hang up if I don't speak.
You could always answer in a Daffy Duck voice.
Great stuff Meadow Skipper!
You shouldn't answer spam calls because it encourages the fuckers.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Could you explain that to my wife? Or at least to not be polite?Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
People stopped in the WROD adds to the spiciness. Obstacles that increase the difficulty, especially obstacles that can move without warning, increase the difficulty and danger and turn an otherwise boring waste of time into a semi-enjoyable challenge. The risk of death is what makes life worth living (especially the risk of someone else's death).
When i wrecked my acl on the bottom of wolverine last June, I had wrod cowards yelling at me to move even tho I had my skis crossed. If I could have stood up they would have been dodging pole jabs
When I’m bored and accidentally answer I try to see how long I can keep them on the line. Especially if I’m driving. The other day I had to tell the nice young man that I was at work now so it’s time to be done. They didn’t want to let me go because I’d given them a fake ssn and they wanted the DOB to go with it.
I've been trying to get my parents to hang up on them. They won't not answer the phone, can't figure out call display, and don't use cell phones. There is usually a small delay you'll notice after you say hello while the auto dial system transfers to live scammer or telemarketer. Just hang up then. Parents won't do that. They're good at saying no but I'm a bit concerned about AI voice capture.Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
If you've got the time and patience, screwing with them and taking up as many resources as possible is a fair response. I don't have the patience, but one of my coworkers really gets into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Hang on a minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
*White Ribbons of Death* are an opening for the season phenomenon, imho, and not an end of season thing. So very different.
At end of season I am skiing at my strongest. At start of season, am still being kinda spastic.
Sorry you got injured.
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Never really thought them in terms of my own skiing only as strips of farmed snow where full run should be w too many kooks making unpredictable moves. Not sure how else to describe Alpine’s last week open
If those 2 foot wide, 100 foot long strips of brown snow strewn with rocks Dookey skis ass summer and fall aren't WROD, I don't know what is. (See Tahoe thread.)Quote:
Originally Posted by TurxSki
They are "patches". Just ask vets...you know...*PatchSkiing*.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
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And then there's Powdork's BRODs.
Depends on the ratio between width and length. If it's long and narrow it's still defined as a WROD by the OED>Quote:
Originally Posted by TurxSki
On my busiest day of patch skiing with Vets there was a total of 7 people on the October Patch.
Crowding is not a problem.
Brown snow makes it BROD.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Excellent point.
That’s just Ray . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by Lvovsky
Checks self. Self moderates.
Nevermind
Annoys and amuses: space heaters at work. In somebody’s infinite wisdom (likely mine) thermostats in buildings are usually set between 69 and 72. Female dominated industry.
We have informally allowed small space heaters on a limited basis, as long as they are not anywhere close to a thermostat and as long as they aren’t plugged into a UPS. Found out some offices have run with that and every single workspace in those offices, enclosed or open, has a space heater running all winter. Now IT is annoyed because every now and then somebody plugs one into a UPS and creates small chaos. They want this to never happen again and are arguing that space heaters don’t make any sense in a building with central HVAC with thermostats and zones. Reasonable enough, if we’re being reasonable….
I told them if they would like to be the face of an initiative to take heat away from (what happens to be) all the young to middle-aged women in the organization, they had my full support. Fun to watch them chew on that for a while.
I suppose we’ll set all building thermostats to 75 and see if the reliance on space heaters goes down.
Heh. Semi-related, we've been in a new building for a week and one end (my end) has been cold AF the whole time (for reference, it was 29* this morning and I rode to work in a t-shirt, so if I think it's cold, it's cold). They finally figured out today that the gas company mixed up which meters were connected to which units and disconnected one of our meters, so there literally has been no direct heat to this part of the building since we moved in. Whoops!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
And then people will start complaining about all the hairy men in shorts and wife-beaters...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
:D
Hey British Airways, I really dig the automated posh English guy who provides the menu options when you call in. I picture a monacled chap in a smoking jacket, sipping a single malt by the fire who is genuinely interested in helping me with my international booking.
Why did you forsake me? The next gal, who could have actually just been a Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, kept telling me her shift was over and she needed to leave. I’m cool with not working past your scheduled time, so just connect me with someone who is actually on the clock.
After being rushed off the phone and told my booking details were accurate and would arrive in my inbox, no email arrives until the next day. My daughter had turned into my son, and all the mileage plan numbers had been transposed. One even had 3 too many digits.
I call you back and there you are with your dulcet tones, lulling me back into your embrace. But then you transferred me again. This new colleague explained that I needed to pay 40 cents to give my daughter her uterus back and update the system. Good luck to me, trying to understand where that fee came from, but whatever. Then it’s 40 cents more to get the mileage numbers sorted.
Anyone heard of a 40 cent fee to fix a booking issue? Weirdest 80 cents I have ever spent.
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Where I work the building was made in like 1950-something, and has had bits and pieces added on throughout history. It's a real shithole. The HVAC system is so sketchy - one section of the office will be like a jungle while I'll be sitting there with freezer-like air shooting down on me from above. I know the cold spots in all the meeting rooms, which ones need a sweater, which don't, and which ones I should sit near the projector to occasionally warm my hands. Ceiling tiles are disgustingly dirty (I should share a pic), the place sucks the life right out of me. Good thing we only have to go in 2x a week now...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Anyway this shit annoyed me yesterday: dude beside me locks his desk whenever he gets up - even to take a piss or rinse out his lunch Tupperware™. Even when it's just me there. In 17+ years I've never gone in someone's desk so it's not like I have a reputation. Either he does not trust me personally or is hiding something. My curiosity is annoying me.
Wait, the temp in the building is between 69 and 72 and some people still need fucking space heaters?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Facilities at work has just about made my manager's head explode. I'm in a group that formed during Covid, so we never had a formal physical office location. We finally got one and it turns out there are a number of desks that are stand-up desks (motorized raise) in the area. Facilities told my manager that they'll need to remove these for anyone who doesn't have a medical waiver stating they need it. What a waste! They are actually going to convert the stand-up desks to normal desks because the rule is you need a medical rationale for a standing desk. :rolleyes:
They are called women
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I don’t understand how whole fucking gender can be born without a proper thermostat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkhound Odin
This has the makings of an epic tr.Quote:
Anyway this shit annoyed me yesterday: dude beside me locks his desk whenever he gets up - even to take a piss or rinse out his lunch Tupperware™. Even when it's just me there. In 17+ years I've never gone in someone's desk so it's not like I have a reputation. Either he does not trust me personally or is hiding something. My curiosity is annoying me.
when he’s on vacation pick the lock and investigate.
And yeah. Wtf with AC cranked in office buildings and all the ladies having under desk coochie heaters.
I thought the planet was dying.