Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on September 15, 2003, 10:02:26 PM
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If you happen to be in the VA national Guard you should give your unit a call.
As Hurricane Isabel draws near, Governor Mark Warner has declared a state of emergency in Virginia. The National Guard, State Police, and the Department of Transportation are now on full alert. Warner has appointed 500 Virginia National Guard troops who will go to the hardest hit areas if the commonwealth gets hit. The first couple hundred could go out within the next 24 hours to begin preparations.
By implementing the state of emergency, government agencies can implement emergency plans and pre-position key resources and personnel. At the same time, Warner advises Virginia residents not to panic, though it would be wise for everyone to prepare for hurricane Isabel's possible arrival, and get whatever items they might need- including batteries, flashlights, and plywood-now.
For people in the N. Va area this means batteries, candles, water and for me propane (cant cook on an electric stove.)
Why everyone buys milk is a mystery to me.
Here's hoping she goes inland to NC.
Sorry guys I just couldn't resist.
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Well, my company finally decided what to do about impending hurricanes. I have the day off tomorrow. Which should be fun, the worst I expect is a lot of water and perhaps a power outtage.
Anyway, they had us take down any loose or hanging papers, which meant also my extensive collections of action figures and posters. So I'll be putting up new posters after the storm (it's been a year, time to change anyway), and I got three new figures, so time to rearrange them anyway.
The desk now has nothing on it but a few catalogs (I understand the people who do have to go in tomorrow will be covering things like that) a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and phone. It looks naked. There's also a lot more reflected light than when every light colored surface is covered with pictures, cartoons, and superman insignias. It was very alien. Not normal. I'll be relieved when I can set back up my den of horror.
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Heh... my dad (operations director of a company) would throw a bloody fit if he saw that :P
You have freaky bosses.
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Oppressive managers like that have been shown in several studies to hurt their employees' moral enough to damage production. It is better to let your employees surf a little bit and decorate their desks. It makes them more productive in the long run, because in the latter case they feel more comfortable. IN the former case, they don't have to take time off to get minor errands done, and therefore don't lose that productivity time.
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Ok so the news story I just read must've been written for remedial geography students...
the hurrican will make landfall in Eastern North Carolina!
Id be more worried about one that would make landfall in Western North Carolina!
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FIRST CASUALTY
My friend Herb's car (in Fredricksburg) was hit by a tree. The tree is the casuality, the car doesn't seem to have a scratch
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Right now I'm not feeling so bad about being in Utah. Except for one freak tornado, some wild fires and some bad snow storms, is fairly low on the natural disaster list.
Well, enjoy your hurricane while you have it.
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Hurricane report, the day after.
Power is out for loarge chunks of the state. MOre to the point, power at MY house is out. Due to a broken power line nearby. I call every 3 minutes hoping that I'll annoy them into fixing it.
Water is undrinkable without boiling in Fairfax County. Actually, I don't know if I believe that. It's just not being processed properly, so it has a good chance of being undrinkable. I've stocked up on Coke, so we're all good (need to cook the corn hunny? Just boil them in some coke!).
And uh.. I still have to go to work. This sucks.
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Hurricane Report, the Day After, part 2
Ok, so I had to clean off my desk (per earlier report). So when I came into work, my desk was this naked wasteland of formica and bare walls. I had a lot to do, so it's only been the last couple hours that I've been able to break all my toys out of the drawers and start working with them. I'm taking my time, because I work all day tomorrow and should have lots of time to decorate
The superheroes are all out. I manated to almost create a scene. Toybiz usually puts some sort of stand in with their action figures (except for most of the X-Men Movie line, of which I believe only Storm comes with a stand). So I made a little building. It actually works pretty well, with Venom and Punisher on balconies and Daredevil on a ledge in front of a stained glass window. the Scarlet Spider is preparing to swing from next to DD into the space over my monitor. The "movie" Spider-Man is swinging from a lamp post below all this.
The problems are these:
Storm's stand can't a) be hung like almost all the others, and b) doesn't even remotely urban. More like arctic waste.
The Impulse figure still looks like crap. I guess that's what I get for paying $1 for an 6 inch figure (I almost bought a Superman/Batman 6" set the other day, but I went with two toybiz figures instead: Punisher and Gambit).
The "classic" spidey stand doesn't fit in. It looks like a wall, but while everything else is gray/dark, this stand is red (so is the Scarlet Spider, but it looks like the "spotlight" spidey uses in the comics, so it could just be a red light shining on it). This stand has a nice arrangement of Spidey going head-to-head with Carnage though, with Mary Jane as the prize standing on the ledge in front of a billboard (she has a stupid grin, but that can't be changed.
Gambit's stand looks NOTHING like the rest of them. It's the wreckage of a Sentinal, which he stands on flinging his cards. I decided I wanted to hang as many as possible, but it doesn't fit in hanging, thouch if you can think of a way the back of a wrist from a giant robot could become embedded in a wall, fingers down, I'd love to hear it.
The Masked Platypus sits on my monitor, ready to take on Godzilla, who sits next to it. They look peevish, so I may arrange some sort of combat in the future.
Above all this, the ninja duel rages. Ok, right now the "raging ninja duel" is Donatello and a single Foot Clan ninja, but that may change. (THe foot soldier is going to lose fast, I've opted for variety, so he has a single sword and a single throwing star, where as, since DOnatello has a beld, he's got two bo staves, a sword, and an axe (the latter two fit on the ends of the bo staves, if so desired, and with the axe I do) as well as two throwing stars. I should probably buy a Shredder to make this a challenge.
The problem is where to put all the other figures.
As implied above, I was thinking of a ninja battle royale on the wall of my cube. I've got Stormshadow and Snake Eyes, as well as a handfull of Jedi (and one sith) to make this look good, but that leave Jango Fett, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a clone trooper with nothing to do. ALso that stupid blue guy from the Senate (what's up with him? He came in a set of four with Chewie, Mace, and Quigon). Plus these guys are all 3.5 inches, which makes them dwarves compared to the 5" Foot. (what's up with the non-standard sized for TMNT figures?). Plus, that leaves My X-Men figures no where to chill (esp. with storm in the scene above).
I also have a few other things: Simpsons stack dolls (from Moscow! 7 pieces), 3" tall yoda and R2-D2 from Taco Bell, a Z-bot, a Darkwing Duck flashlight, a couple model cars, a Battle Toad, a mini Princess Leia (fits inside the R2, don't know why), a few Pez, and a few puzzles (like a Rubiks' Cube). Any ideas where to stick 'em all?
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Wow, that's one of the most enjoy posts I've read in a long time. Any chance you can take a dig pic of them and post it to the board?
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Well Im here at work, sort of, the National Response Center in Exile (our building in washington flooded apparently) is located at TISCOM on telegraph road in the US Coast Guard navigation Center...
Well I lucked out as I was one of the few people in my neighborhood to have power when the ruckus was over, no cable, no phone, but at least I had AC and Chilled soda.
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my parents have power, and now that water is running again, I had a shower. I can take a digital picture, but I'll have to power the in-law's camera. So it might be a few days.
Plus no power at my computer, so I have to sit down at someone else's to get around to uploading.
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You see, this is why i like talking to Saint. No matter how much of a Narcissistic loner geek i am, he shows himself to be an even greater geek, which cheers me up. Plus, he has promised to give me free goodies. Fetch boy!
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Yeah, that contact information is on my computer, see, which has no power right now. Which is why I can't contact them. Send all that information to me at my work address and I'll get on it on monday (today if you send it in the next 1.5 hours), or when Fell tells me that he hasn't talked to them (he doesn't answer my emails, I don't think he gets half of them) -- and I don't think he has.
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You just cannot get decent hired help nowadays...
Once i remember your work address (keep forgetting it, coz im stupid) then i'll send em over, once i remember what they were...
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ehlerse at teachco dot com
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I literally just emailed you. I found the addy by doing a forum search, first time i have used that feature.
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Hurricane update: Day 4
Power and water came back yesterday. So besides people who stored valuable yet non-water-resistant items in their flooded basement, and the tree pruners/landscapers, I'm calling the hurricane "over"
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Well its not over for my family in tidewater who can expect to be without power for another week and drinking water for about 4 days. VA Beach, Portsmouth and Hampton Rhodes got smacked down hard.
Oh and for anyone thats interested The US Coast Guard HQ bldg has 1.4 million gallons of water in its basement.
Thats 529958 cubic meters of water!!!!!
The word on the street is that we will be able to go back into the building on December 9th, because the building needs to be thouroghly inspected and tested.... that much water can really mess up a load bearing wall.
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OVER! OVER I TELL YOU!
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Someone needs to stop that penguin from talking.
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OVER!!!!!
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My Grandfather doesnt think its over, and he's the one without any power, so your wrong!
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O-VER. How many times do i have to say this for you to understand?
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maybe if you keep saying it untill it actually is over! :P
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over over over over over over.
OH WAIT! I know what the problem here is. You've forgotten that the universe revolves around me. See, I have no more hurricane related concerns. Therefore, it's over.
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Wow. For a minute there I thought I was reading transcripts of Bush addressing congress about the war in Iraq.
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Three points to Mustard.
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BWAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!
I want to say something witty in response. but
BWAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
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So does that make me Ted Kennedy? Wait a minute I just need to pop out and drown my girlfriend!
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I think it would be hilarious if Ted Kennedy said, referring to Bush: "Someone needs to stop the penguin from talking."
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38060000/jpg/_38060366_kennedy-ap-150.jpg)
"Someone needs to stop the Penguin from talking!!!"
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I like to imagine that Bush is the penguin getting knocked into the water in my graphic, and I'm the other penguin. It brings me hours of joy.
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So im sitting in the dark at USCG hq, munching on MRE's and drinking bottled water while contractors run willy nilly about the space.... the damage to our power system is extreme and we are running on emergency power. And Im bored, since my only job right now is to sit here... at least my computer works...
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It's good to know that what little power the CG has it being used to make snide remarks on the Time-Waster's Guide. Your tax donuts at work, gentlemen.
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Nah we have our operations shifted to another base, I was just there to make sure people like you didn't loot the place.
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well, it didn't work, did it? I got all this....
Er... I'll shut up now. and speaking of looting work, I picked up a couple other courses for you. You need to come over and pick over my "spare" pile.
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cool, hey do you have that sci-fi one?
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I'll check tomorrow if there's another. If not, you can just borrow mine.