--- Log opened Mon Aug 02 00:00:03 2021
02:32 <@jb7od> Dagmar; I've felt some of that vibe- we're supposedly in this "phase III" but that's all pre-delta projection-speek, ignoring Godzilla stomping around outside the window. 
02:34 <@aestetix> well
02:34 <@aestetix> I can say that in Europe we're about six months behind the US in terms of vaccination.
02:34 <@aestetix> I have family that is trying to visit me, and they seem to be immune to logic when I am telling them that things are worse in Germany than the US. Because Biden wouldn't give the EU any of the vaccines they had
02:36 <@aestetix> I have one performer friend who, after like 18 months in quarantine, decided to say fuck it and did a show where she was on stage for about an hour.
02:36 <@aestetix> She promptly contracted COVID, and is now in the hospital waiting for a kidney transplant
02:44 <@jb7od> There's been some pressure to put on shows. Some people are doing it, but not me- I wouldn't be able to deal with even remotely being responsible for anybody getting sidk. I understand people want to do stuff, or even be reminded of how things were, but just, nope. 
02:45 <@jb7od> s/sidk/sick
05:18 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
05:18  * aestetix hugs Dolemite 
05:55 <@Dolemite> Oh, wow, they're finally replacing Carmichael Towers on VU Campus?
05:55 <@Dolemite> https://boingboing.net/2021/08/01/implosion-of-tower-dorms-at-vanderbilt-university.html
05:55 < PigBot> Implosion of tower dorms at Vanderbilt University | Boing Boing (at boingboing.net) https://tinyurl.com/yzsf2gtm
05:56 <@Dolemite> I remember delivering chinese food to students in those dorms back in the 1980s
06:03 <@aestetix> I gotta ask
06:03 <@aestetix> Do americans just think COVID doesn't exist anymore?
06:03 <@Dolemite> Some don't
06:04 <@Dolemite> And some are finally getting scared straight
06:04 <@Dolemite> Apparently this past week has seen the largest increase in the number of first-dose vaccinations since the vaccine first came out
06:04 <@aestetix> well plus the fact that the vaccine does not make you immune
06:04 <@aestetix> It helps, but not enough
06:05 <@Dolemite> It severely reduces the risk of hospitalization
06:05 <@aestetix> If youre healthy
06:05 <@Dolemite> However my wife has a friend who is currently dealing with moderate symptoms (was vaccinated in the Spring) and just lost her mother to Covid, who was vaccinated in February
06:06 <@aestetix> damn
06:06 <@Dolemite> So Delta variant ain't no joke
06:06 <@aestetix> Yeah, a colleague.... his in-laws contracted Delta while flying, and were both in the hospital this weekend
06:06 <@aestetix> The dad was in the ICU
06:06 <@aestetix> I should say, they are both vaccinated
06:06 <@Dolemite> But the statistics still show that it's rare for the fully vaccinated to die from it
06:07 <@aestetix> Yeah, but there are long-term effects
06:07 <@Dolemite> But there's so much new about this variant
06:07 <@aestetix> yep
06:07 <@Dolemite> Yep, I have a friend whose whole family ended up with Covid - she and her daughter are both long haulers
06:08 <@Dolemite> She used to run marathons.   Now she can't run more than about 3-4 minutes at a time and is getting all frustrated trying to get restarted using the Couch-to-5K method
06:09 <@aestetix> We're gonna see more cases like that :/
06:22 <@Dolemite> So on a lighter note
06:22 <@Dolemite> I loved the new Jungle Cruise movie.   Then again, I loved Pirates of the Caribbean until they made like 10 of them.
06:22 <@Dolemite> But I thought they did a good job of taking a simple boat ride from Disney and turning it into a movie with an actual plot
06:56 <@aestetix> ok so
06:57 <@aestetix> did glenn greenwald turn right wing, or did the left go so far left they think he's right wing?
06:57 <@aestetix> I haven't kept up with him beyond the snowden stuff
06:58 < Evilpig> Dolemite: admit it, you liked the constant stream of bad dad jokes
06:59 < Evilpig> as long as they leave it as a one and done it was pretty good
07:02 <@Dolemite> Evilpig: The dad jokes were the best part, just like on the ride at Disney
07:03 < Evilpig> I chuckled hard at them getting the 8th wonder of the world joke in there
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07:20 <@Mirage_> Dolemite: Gentry's parents both have it right now.  His dad got the shots, he's not sure about his mom..but probably not because they took her to the hospital Sat morning.  Gentry didn't get the shots, but got tested and was negative for the virus but positive for antibodies, so he's had it at some point.
07:22 <@Mirage_> His parents are big Trumpers and his dad keeps posting/sharing wackjob political conspiracy crap about covid, the vaccine, stolen election, etc.  I 'snooze' him pretty regularly on facebook.
07:31 <@Dolemite> Yeah, I had to finally unfriend a relative that is a hyper evangelical that fell into the Trump con big time
07:33 <@Dolemite> Welp, now that I've got both parts, I think I'll watch the Batman: Long Halloween
07:51 <@aestetix> Dolemite: Trump does seem a lot like that preacher guy you linked the other day
07:51 <@Dolemite> they're both extreme con men
07:58 <@Dolemite> I have to wonder how much of Gotham City's buildings are crumbling because of all the impacts from Batman's harpoon gun
08:59 <@Mirage_> Dolemite: seems logical
09:13 <@Mirage_> With the ongoing and increasing surge the hospital is reinstating the higher "hazard" pay that nurses get like was active last year.   They are also again offering bonus contracts for working 1-2 extra shifts per pay period over x number of weeks and then paying a bonus at the end if you fulfill it.
09:15 <@Mirage_> Wife did the contract thing twice last year.  Hazard pay (like +$25/hr) + OT for the extra shifts, then at the end the bonus she got was esentially an extra paycheck.
09:16 <@Dolemite> So you guys are about ready to open your Scrooge McDuck vault for swimming in gold coins soon, eh?
09:16 <@Dolemite> We've managed to pay down a good bit of accrued debt and flip our mortgage from 30 year to 15 year with all of the staying home and not spending money.
09:17 <@Dolemite> But kids are still 'spensive.   Going back to school this week has caused us to have to loosen the purse strings a bit.
09:17 <@Mirage_> I tried to get her to meet up with an investment guy so that what we have in the bank isn't just sitting there essentially doing nothing..but she wasn't overly interested in doing so.
09:18 <@Dolemite> Yeah, some folks are just weary of the volatility of investment
09:18 <@Dolemite> I remember talking to ladymerlin years ago...  she would rather keep her money under a mattress than even contribute to her 401K.
09:18 <@Dolemite> I was like, "At least max out the matched contribution because it's FREE MONEY"
09:22 <@Mirage_> Wife and I are both putting in 10%.  I dunno if the hospital matches (probably not), but Dell-EMC matches 6% now I think...might be lower.   They dropped the match rate from what it was before they stopped matching last year during all the COVID shutdowns and corporate belt-tightening.
09:24 <@Dolemite> I have a mandatory contribution to my pension as well as 401K, so I only contribute to the maxed amount on 401k
09:24 <@Dolemite> I am one of the last of the dinosaurs that still has a pension coming
09:24 <@Dolemite> But between the two - if I live long enough to retire - I'll be in pretty good shape
09:24 <@Mirage_> <sarcasm>Completely understandable and justified on their part IMO given the shift to everyone WFH and a ton of companies scrambling to buy laptops for their remote workers given that Dell, of course, sells the shit out of laptops normally anyway</sarcasm>
09:34 <@Mirage_> Oh, I noticed something quite saddening yesterday after I got home from OK.  They started clearing for the second apartment complex that's going in on the secondary road just south of my house.   Street view pics are actually fairly recent because the first one is shown.  shorturl.at/nEJ18
09:35 <@Mirage_> If you pan left and "follow" the street...all but one of the trees along the south side of the road got bulldozed on Sat.
09:38 <@Mirage_> Weird..the secondary street pics were updated probably late Mar or early Apr...but not the ones in the neighborhood
09:53 <@Dolemite> Muahahaha.   I'm getting nearly to the Evilpig level of evil in this script I'm working on.
09:53 <@Dolemite> If you have a cert coming up for renewal/expiration, it will email you...  pretty standard stuff
09:53 <@Dolemite> But now I'm adding in a check against the corporate directory to see if you're even still with us
09:54 <@Dolemite> If not, again, fairly standard stuff - send an email to management...
09:54 <@Dolemite> but in the case, I look up the contacts in the device registry.   If they haven't been updated since the user left (which would be a BIG no-no) then that gets added to the ticket.
09:54 <@Dolemite> If they have been updated, email the new contacts instead of management.
10:11 < Evilpig> heh
10:11 < Evilpig> I do like picking at scabs
10:12 <@Dolemite> Well it's the responsibility of the middle managers to transfer devices to someone else when a person leaves
10:12 <@Dolemite> So this picks at the scabs on the middle managers
10:12 <@Dolemite> LOL
10:21 <@Mirage_> Nice.  This jem popped up on my Amazon Prime "watch next" list.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323605/
10:21 < PigBot> Suck (2009) - IMDb (at www.imdb.com) https://tinyurl.com/yjcjzcxz
10:59 <@Dolemite> Dammit.   Just spat Coke out my nose watching Last Week Tonight.
11:24 < Evilpig> which part?
11:46 <@Dolemite> The visual of Goofy fucking Mickey Mouse over the side of the washing machine
12:02 <@aestetix> ugh john oliver just is not that funny
12:02 <@aestetix> "thats like" is every joke
12:03 <@Mirage_> Me in this meeting:  "Plug the laptop into the switch port labeled 'laptop' already configured for vlan 4002 and the switch should route to vlan 4001 once you set a static IP"
12:03 <@Mirage_> India 'Sr Architect':  "But that port shows 'down', so he can't use that one."
12:03 <@Mirage_> WTF!!!
12:03 <@aestetix> Dolemite: I stopped watching when he went on a rant about sex and the city
12:04 <@aestetix> He spends more time on the stupid digressions than on the actual story
12:04 <@Mirage_> "Um, no...it's 'down' because nothing is plugged into it.  Plug the laptop in and it'll show up"
12:06 <@Mirage_> Someone else in this meeting suggested that because vlan 4001 was 'tagged' on the interface that the ESXi host is on that it would also have to be 'tagged' on the port for the laptop to be able to talk to it."  
12:07 <@Mirage_> The meaning being that an access port on the same vlan wouldn't be able to communicate
12:07 <@Mirage_> These ppl are just fucking killing me today.  
12:08 <@Mirage_> 12:07...might be about time to start day drinking.
12:25 <@Mirage_> They finally got on the network, connected to the ESXi host, and opened a console for this VM that was down.  It's a SLES box and has stopped during boot w/ the "Enter root password for maintenance or Hit CTRL-D to continue" message.   They entered root password, typed "df -h", noted that /var/log wasn't mounted.  Checked listing in fstab, then declared that the appliance needed to be redeployed.
12:26 <@Mirage_> I pointed out that since it wasn't mounted and was an ext3 (yes I know) partition that they could always just run fsck against the LV to correct the issue with the "dirty" partition.
12:33 < Evilpig> lol
12:33 < Evilpig> did they just expect it to magically jump back online without trying to fix it?
12:36 <@Mirage_> No, they didn't know to fix it or HOW to fix it and wanted to just redeploy the appliance
12:42 < Evilpig> fuckin kid....  wtf
12:42 < Evilpig> she just grabbed me in the hall to say the batteries in her remote were dead
12:43 < Evilpig> she has the same remote as me, this will be the third set of batteries i've put in hers.  mine are still using the original ones I put in it over a year ago
12:43 < Evilpig> she apparently just ignored the warnings on the tv that the batteries were low and waited til they were just fuckin' dead to say something
12:43 <@Mirage_> Probbaly gets sat on a lot
12:50 < Evilpig> I have no clue.  this is why I have rechargable batteries, but all my AAA are MIA at the moment 
12:50 < Evilpig> amazon will have another 8 pack here by 6
12:58 < Evilpig> I bought three of these remotes.  mine... Jan 27, 2020 still using the original batteries.
12:59 < Evilpig> Hers I got July 30, 2020, this is the third set of batteries. :-/  which I get is kinda trivial.  I'm just annoyed
13:09 <@Mirage_> lol..watching "jungle Cruise".  The Rock after being introduced goes into a long string of REALLY bad puns.  I lost when a little girl asks her mother, "Can you make him stop?"
13:48 <@Dolemite> The dad jokes were the best part
13:49 <@aestetix> Dolemite: have you liked this season of Rick and Morty so far?
13:50 <@Dolemite> haven't watched
13:51 <@aestetix> Evilpig: what about you
13:57 <@Mirage_> hahah.. "Oh Frank, not now!"  "I can't turn it off"
14:31 < Evilpig> aestetix: yeah, i've been highly amused
16:24 <@Mirage_> Here's the hole-in-the-wall local short-order breakfast spot that we like hitting on weekends.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccp_ohbDWj4
16:24 < PigBot> Bill Smith's Cafe in McKinney searching for workers - YouTube (at www.youtube.com) https://tinyurl.com/yg87glak
19:01 <@_NSAKEY> aestetix: The only people who dislike this season of Rick and Morty are the ones who wish they had been involved in the creation of the incest baby.
21:27 < Evilpig> https://photos.app.goo.gl/GnvCr7cdgaTHfEPJ8
21:27 < PigBot> No Title (at photos.app.goo.gl) https://tinyurl.com/yftz7e4b
21:27 < Evilpig> new drive cage in my proxmox box.  now I just gotta find time to power it off, run the new sata cables, connect the power, etc
23:44 <@_NSAKEY> aestetix: Watching this John Oliver ep and I think your biggest complaint is that you're not getting bent over the washer by Goofy.
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