What Stpid Thing Have You Done Today?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

Hey, wrong thread! Going to this is a GOOD idea.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

Cool yer jets there, Dilbert. You'll survive

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Cool yer jets there, Dilbert. You'll survive

Oh, I totally didn't go.

I did my penance, spent the work day and lunch schmoozing. There was no good reason for me to go to the after work thing. Plus, turned out to be far more of the developers and tech sales guys than I realized. Which made for a far more palatable experience during the day, but no way in hell that would have translated well to a pool hall. No, the only thing that made the thought of going to a pool hall after work with coworkers was when I thought they weren't tech guys.

I did stick around later in the week for an on-premise after work BBQ. Made for a decent end to Thursday I guess.

[Kevy Baby]

Last night, our IT people needed to perform some maintenance on our computers (remotely - they did not come in). When I came in this morning, my monitor was saying that it wasn't getting a signal.

Trying to wake the computer did nothing. I pushed the power button on the computer to reboot that way and got nothing. Cycled the monitor off and on - nothing. Pulled the power cord on the computer and powered back up. Still nothing.

As I was sitting there contemplating my next step, I happened to notice that the monitor cable was unplugged from the back of the monitor.

DOH!

Yeah, I feel kind of stpid.

(And how exactly did that happen? I really want to know.)

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

(And how exactly did that happen? I really want to know.)

It's not uncommon. Generally it's caused by a polarized flux on the feedback pin causing a negative pixelation which results in counter rotational stress on the cables thumb screws leading to complete detachment.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

It's not uncommon. Generally it's caused by a polarized flux on the feedback pin causing a negative pixelation which results in counter rotational stress on the cables thumb screws leading to complete detachment.

Just re-allign the dilithium crystals.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

It's not uncommon. Generally it's caused by a polarized flux on the feedback pin causing a negative pixelation which results in counter rotational stress on the cables thumb screws leading to complete detachment.

Well, as long as there is a reasonable explanation...