Movie Idea: Shitnado!

The weirdest thing about the current state of AI is being able to take random ADHD thoughts and turn them into something real. Today, coworkers and I had the idea of “a movie about an AI that takes over a water treatment plant, then creates a tornado to wreak havoc.…
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A Trail of Manuals

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My resume has a line saying, “leaves a trail of manuals in his wake”. It’s there to show some personality, but it’s also a unique professional quirk of mine. Throughout my career, I’ve made these ‘Work Bibles’ to help keep notes organized and keep myself efficient. I’ve been told they’re…
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Copilot Helping Me IT

I took on a networking project and had to expand my IT knowledge base. I’ve set up and worked on simple networks a lot over the years, but nothing that required five ‘hops’ through managed switches to connect a server and a workstation. One of the things that trips me…
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Another Repair Success

When they tell you the new one is more than $200, you tell them, “I do it for three-fi’ty!” This was a really fun repair that exercised the skillset for my new job. Awesome way to get my hands into something without any risk. I’m told these fixtures normally get…
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Some Reason for Optimism!

After losing an entire night worrying about my family’s Dwindling reserves (and having a long convo with an old friend with a financial background) I settled on giving things a few weeks, then cashing out my smaller retirement account and taking time to finish projects and let things settle down…
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Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?

[Originally posted on Reddit to ask for help…] I was laid off in the middle of July as part of the tech layoffs. I am the only person able to and do many household chores while my spouse is between major eye surgeries. My family of four was struggling paycheck-to-paycheck…
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Paid to Meme?

Saw a friend post on Facebook: “I need a meme about Zillow’s Zestimate being inaccurate.” Got me thinking about all the random meme’s I’d generated for LiquidWeb over the years (mostly to complain about customer’s). If I could get paid to generate memes, I’d be a thousandaire! Here’s the latest…
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Canned Like Tomato Soup

So I had a new experience. It’s about 10 o’clock and I’m chugging along with a mind toward lunch when I see a weird email come in saying that I have a Google Meet with a long-timer that had disappeared into the corporate structure and who, I haven’t seen or…
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An Allegory About Work

If your girlfriend told you all the time how much you’re loved, but also reminded you that she could easily do better than you, we’d call her a crazy bitch and tell you to get away!
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Job Red Flags

Is it a red flag when a job description says, “This position deals with some aggressive personalities and could be stressful”? Or is this the lawyer speak for, “you deal with people”?
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