I think Websense is a guy. Normally, Websense blocks our access to YouTube and to all webmail sites that it knows about (Yahoo!, Gmail, etc.) Today, those sites are available. (I know this because I can see the image for the YouTube embed a couple of posts back.)
The logical conclusion is that there's a guy looking at every website typed in, and his job is to select either "allow" or "disallow". Today, that guy stayed home because of the tropical storm.
Websense has no sense! It blocks youtube but lets other video sites in. I think our IT idgets programs that thing so that they can still see sites they like. Hope it never pings Pleonast!
Ha ha! That guy either has the worst job ever or the best job ever. I can't decide. He could be incredibly bored all day, or he could be gleefully blocking things at random and laughing maniacally as you all try to go to websites you aren't supposed to be on....
I was in a meeting today and someone had a software problem report they needed to sign. He hadn't ever done one of these before, and said he was reluctant to sign.
Naturally, the words that popped into my head (but which remained unspoken because of the near certainty that nobody would have understood) were "I'm reluctant to sign anything that has to do with my music."
That's the subject line of a bit of spam in my inbox today. I presumed it to be German for "your PayPal account is locked", but babelfish.altavista.com didn't understand the last word. (Perhaps that's because there should be an ümlaut somewhere.)
And look! Babelfish.altavista.com is now babelfish.yahoo.com! It's just as well, because I never used Alta Vista for anything besides the translator. I think I used to have an Alta Vista free email account, but if I still had it, it would now be Yahoo! (I'm not excited about that last sentence — it's just that the Yahoo! company has an exclamation point as part of their name. I think it's a conspiracy.)
I just went downstairs to get a soft drink. The machine is in the basement.
There was an unusual amount of traffic in the stairwell, because the elevator isn't working. (I guess a lot of people are taking breaks around 10:00.) Some of these people were struggling! Some just seemed to be inconvenienced.
That's why I don't use the elevator. I do not -- do not -- ever want to reach the point where climbing from the ground floor to the fourth floor -- that's only three floors -- is a struggle.
Of course, for people with heart problems or knee problems, I'm sure it really is a struggle. For some people who don't even appear to be very overweight, though, this shouldn't be that hard.
Of course, I used to use the elevator all of the time. It was when I discovered how hard climbing stairs was that I decided I should start using the stairs exclusively. Seeing these people have such a tough time with it just reaffirms my decision.
At my old job we had a man who was afraid of the elevator so he never ever took it. The only problem was we worked on the 7th floor and you have to walk two flights of stairs per floor. So he had 14 flights up and 14 down everyday. Needless to say he was in really good shape :-)
I hate it when the elevators quit working on the production units. Nothing like climbing 20 flights of stairs to get to the top of those things. Last week I had to go to the top of one of the silos. By the time I got to the top I was sucking wind. 18 years ago I made 8 trips up that thing in one day and didn't break a sweat. Boy how age creeps up on you.
I used to work on the 9th floor of a building on Auburn's campus. I would go up and down the stairs a couple of times each break I took, just for exercise. While other people paid good money for stair masters I was getting it for free.
