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The morning music experiment

By sven (Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 05:07:24 PM EST) (all tags)

I Am Not A Morning Person. Most definitely not. And every time I hear a happy bouncy song on the radio in the morning it just makes me angrier. Today I tried listening to my own music on the way to work, namely Rage Against the Machine and Tool. After finishing with Tool's Sober and RATM's Pistol Grip Pump, I still arrived at work feeling angry, but at least now I'm pumped up about it.

Inside: Morning people, a design bug, tissues

Morning people

I don't understand them at all. Things I don't like about mornings:

Getting woken up by an alarm clock.
Having to get out of bed after being woken by alarm clock.
Having to rush to get ready for no good reason.
Driving to work. Stupid drivers and traffic lights.
Being at work.

On weekends it's different. I could almost imagine being a morning person on weekends. Almost.

I don't think we'll be telling them that

Our target hardware has a single keyboard and monitor shared between two servers. They are hardwired such that it would be difficult or impossible to switch to the second server (no KVM or anything). Someone asked today what happens when the second server has a fsck error on startup and goes into single user mode. Hmmm.

Tissues

In our office, tissues are a scarce commodity. They used to be freely available from the stationary cupboard, but after one or more people were found stealing tissues and toilet paper they have tightened the security. (Aside: One would think that there would be more worthwhile things to steal from an IT company than tissues and toilet paper.) So now they are kept in a locked cupboard. As a result, around 70% of employees don't have tissues on their desk so they take them from other people instead.

Update: I have "acquired" half a box of tissues from our secretary.

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RE: Above by LoppEar (6.00 / 2) #1 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 05:34:28 PM EST

Morning People: Yes, I feel much much better going to work later in the day, after I've gotten up at a more reasonable time and had a leisurely preparation.

Of course, this makes me think that if I could get up at 5am, starting at 8 or 9 would seem damn leisurely. It's not that we're not morning people - we just won't go to bed at the ungodly evening hours such a lifestyle would require. Here it is almost 1am now, and in fact I will be getting up at 5am to work, and that's going to be horrible.

Tissue: our company, only the secretary has tissue, I assume she brings it in herself. But we have no security on our paper towels and toilet paper, so I currently have a package of towels on my office shelf for blowing my nose.

Peace.

Music in the morning by Herring (5.00 / 4) #2 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 06:53:15 PM EST

I recommend listening to Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on tha theme by Thomas Tallis. Definitely a good piece of morning music.

RATM might mean that you end up lamping someone as soon as you arrive.

Driving in: I feel you pain. I had to pop into the garage to get cigarettes on the way in. HEY PEOPLE, WHICH PART OF "KEEP CLEAR" IS CONFUSING YOU? OH YOU CAN'T READ IT WHEN IT'S UNDER YOUR CAR.

Something about cheese

: "lamping someone" by ti dave (5.00 / 1) #3 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 09:07:58 PM EST

Is that, as in "to strike someone forcefully about the head and torso with a lamp, preferably a brass one"?
If so, then I'm going to see about acquiring that album.
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do.
The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. --W.S. Burroughs
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: What a truly horrible suggestion by sven (3.00 / 0) #6 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 09:52:05 PM EST

If I listened to Fantasia on the way to work I'm not sure what would happen, but I guarantee it would not be pretty.
The main problem I had this morning was trying not to repeat the lyrics of Pistol Grip Pump out loud once I was in the office.
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
They can be fucking with other niggas shit, but they can't be fucking with mine
Perhaps not suitable for work.

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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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I violently agree by steve h (5.00 / 1) #4 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 09:13:17 PM EST

with you regarding mornings and morning people.

Driving to work. Stupid drivers and traffic lights.

Yes. I'm like Yossarian from Catch-22 when it comes to morning traffic. I take it personally. These people aren't bad drivers. They are OUT to KILL ME.

: Please don't remind me of that book by sven (3.00 / 0) #5 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 09:44:29 PM EST

Catch-22 and I encountered each other in year 11 of high school. Either I have a psychological problem of liking things less after studying them, or alternatively that the book is a truly pointless piece of "literature" that should never have been written. I suspect the latter.
So let's not mention it again.

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harshbutfair // you know it makes sense
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Stealing by cam (3.00 / 0) #7 Wed Jun 30, 2004 at 11:36:48 PM EST

Someone stole polystyrene coffee cups from this office. I cannot think of anything less useful. May as well steal pollution.

cam
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