Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> On 15.10.2022 15.29, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> [8<---]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What a coincidence! I'm a secret agent too!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I Don't believe you - so you don't have to kill me now.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And that fish smell? It's my new cologne --Fruit de
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mer. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Very -erm- catching...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> See? It's working already.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It would work on a cat...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Not my cat.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Do you want me to send you my dead mouse to try on your cat?
>>>>>>>>>>> It hasn't been dead for more than a day... yet.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Save the postage. Soonish I will probably have mice in the
>>>>>>>>>> house and she can catch a fresh one.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So she's good for something after all. When she's awake.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> She's been practicing with the toy mouse. At 2 AM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The squeaky kind?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The squeaky things are dog toys. Cat's no like noise.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've known of cats that very much like to make noise - loud,
>>>>> penetrating, undulating noise - in the middle of the night when
>>>>> decent people are trying to sleep.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Light sleeper, huh?
>>>
>>> Sounds that mostly allude to someone or something being brutally
>>> murdered do tend to wake me up, yes...
>>>
>>>> I think my cat is not adverse to noises that she creates herself.
>>>> She will leave the room if the tv is on too loud or someone
>>>> sneezes/coughs or if I am talking on the phone. She really hates
>>>> the Zoom conferences.
>>>
>>> So she wants to hear herself and only herself. I've known people
>>> like that. Also I've never participated in a Zoom conference. After
>>> my time, I guess.
>>>
>> 
>> *adds have Zoom conference with BeH to bucket list before 'get TikTok
>> account'*
> 
> Good luck with that. I still don't have a webcam.
You don't need a webcam, you need an internet connection.
<whispers...your cellphone has a camera>

>> 
>> I don't want you to die a virgin.
> 
> I did take part in some video conferences back in the day (1993-ish). 
> That involved a great big camera and a wall mounted tv. Mostly though
> it was 1/2 hour taxi -> 1/2 hour plane ride -> 3/4 hour drive to have
> a physical meeting. On behalf of the country's largest telecom
> operator... 

We had those too. Except that there were probably 2 or 3 conference 
rooms with the camera/tv. Now they all have them.

> 
>> We use MS Teams at work.
>> It has some advantages over in person meetings such as if you have
>> your camera off and the meeting is boring, you can play Candy Crush
>> or pretend that your internet connection dropped. When we were 100%
>> virtual, the director would ask to get invited to team meeting
>> randomly just to stay in touch with people. Like the rank and file
>> want to hang out with upper management. *eye roll* I have 2
>> programmers who report to me who would never put their camera on at
>> meetings. I'm cool with that. The director called me after a meeting
>> and asked how I knew they were working. Seriously?
> 
> Well, how do you know? It's not like those types produce anything 
> tangible. It's all bits and zeroes and ones with them.

Well, someone is loading the databases and creating custom extractions 
for clients. The only other person who can program on the team is me and 
I know I didn't do their work.

> 
>> The benefit of not having your camera on at meetings is that no one
>> can see you rolling your eyes when they say something stupid or
>> blather away off topic for an extended period of time. In the
>> before-time, I would doodle in my notebook or write 'OMG STFU' or
>> something like that which would often make the person sitting beside
>> me burst out laughing. MYOB. 
> 
> Heh. The first place I worked the boss insisted on going over the 
> accounting in d-e-t-a-i-l every month; overhead slides and all. All
> nine of us sitting there listening attentively (obv.)...
> 
Ugh! I leave my body at those meetings.Then someone calls my name and 
sucks me back into the vortex. What did I think of the idea? Yep. it's 
craptactular! I tell them I missed the question because I left my body. 
They all laugh because they think I'm joking.