I'll let you know tomorrow what I do first in a hotel room!

Where are you going, Jesse?

Should we maybe be having this discussion about images in the talky meat thread? It feels like a big enough change to board culture that it needs to be broader than Natter.

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Hamlet's tragic flaw is he's an antisocial geek

My favorite bit is when Hamlet is talking to ghost!dad:

Wait... you were murdered by the person who profited by your death? But... why?

Heh. "You need to leave your room more, son."

Where are you going, Jesse?

Puerto Rico! Assuming it stops snowing here in time, which it is supposed to.

I think most of the time I change my clothes first -- either I'm traveling to different weather, or I'm in for the night, or going to a meeting, or something that calls for different clothes.

I think I do what I do pretty much everywhere -- take my shoes off and sit down to get the essentials out of my bag (phone, cigarettes, etc.).

I think the first thing I do in a hotel room is sit down and think that I should do one of the things y'all have mentioned, but which one?

The first thing I do in a hotel room is open the drapes if it's daytime. If it's nighttime, the first thing I do is probably fiddle with the thermostat.

I don't have strong feelings on the inclusion of image threads, but my impression of ita's suggestion was that we might start a NEW thread that had images, and I gathered it was in part to share stuff like drawings or gifs that buffistae had made.

I just got in trouble for rolling up the shades outside my office, but fuck that -- they've been broken and down for a month!

Well, if anyone wants to include images in threads, that's their idea. I'm narrowing the focus of my request to an image thread, and I'm getting a bit confused by which objections belong to what.

I do think there are existing threads that could be even more fun with pictures, but the community bar that would have to passed in order to associate pictures with, say, arts and crafts or comics is a campaign I don't have energy to wager.

Of course, I'm not saying don't talk about your feelings about images in other threads--I'm not nannying topics. But I am also confused about whether my suggestion of a picture thread is the invoker of such agitas that there's no point checking out the technical requirement or not.

Natter was probably a bad place to bring it up. Lesson learnt.

My manager managed to embarrass me in front of the director I'm on loan to--he asked me to arrange something that my department should have been able to provide in ten minutes, but it got stretched out to days, and escalated and people didn't read emails, etc...

So the director went to another group, and had the stuff done himself in half an hour. Our IT mandate is to make people fans of our service. If everything gets pushed back and made into a meeting and takes forever, and the most officially hesitant department in the company turns things around faster, how are we achieving our objectives?

Never mind the incompetent developer has ignored everything I said about what we needed to know to propose a solution, and is refusing to do it because she "has zero knowledge". I pointed out that everyone here has zero knowledge--the question is who's going to learn. I hope the use of the word "officially" has my intended impact.