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Light_Guy
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"IF WE TOOK THE BONES OUT, IT WOULDN'T BE CRUNCHY WOULD IT!?!?!"

Paul Hamor
"Always good ships!"
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Message 101 of 174
graemev
in reply to: Light_Guy

"... because a day without coffee is like something without something else."

Message 102 of 174


@Mistress0fTheDorkness wrote:

"Hello, IT... have you tried turning it off and back on again?"


The IT-crowd 😉

 

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Message 103 of 174


@AcadAdamLT wrote:

@Mistress0fTheDorkness wrote:

"Hello, IT... have you tried turning it off and back on again?"


The IT-crowd 😉

 


Hehehe... Yeah. I'd been told over and again to try that show and finally did recently. Oh, the awkwardness. 😄



Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
Message 104 of 174
troma
in reply to: Light_Guy

Beware the ides of March!


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 106 of 174
dniehaus
in reply to: Light_Guy

"Let's do it."

Message 107 of 174
hwalker
in reply to: Light_Guy

"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses."

"Hit it"

Howard Walker
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Message 108 of 174
CoreyDaun
in reply to: Light_Guy

"Hey, dId everything just taste purple for a second?"

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Message 109 of 174
CADiva
in reply to: Light_Guy

"I think I just blasted them."

Message 110 of 174
AllenJessup
in reply to: Light_Guy

From my fortune cookie at lunch "Fortune not found: Abort, Retry, Ignore?"



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 111 of 174
troma
in reply to: AllenJessup

Not very fortunate today?


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 112 of 174
AllenJessup
in reply to: troma

I view it as a program error. Not an operator error. Smiley Happy



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 113 of 174
CoreyDaun
in reply to: AllenJessup

Maybe you just opened the cookie incorrectly? Or maybe you should try deleting all previous cookies and re-opening?

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Message 114 of 174
troma
in reply to: CoreyDaun

I'm guessing he took the "Ignore" option.


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 115 of 174
AllenJessup
in reply to: troma

You're right. I had thought of signaling the waiter for a Retry, but I had to get back to the office.



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 116 of 174
graemev
in reply to: Light_Guy

"Snakes.  Why did it have to be snakes?"

Message 117 of 174

Cad upon a midnight dreary, bloodshot eyes welled up and teary
Revising a project that had changed a thousand times before–
There I sat, not even blinking; into slumber I was sinking
Pots of coffee I was drinking, drinking to stay off the floor
“How long will this last?” I wondered, gazing at my office door–
Had been there since the night before

Though fuzzy now, I still remember the hour of which my comembers
Abandoned me to alone dismember these drawings — What an awful chore!
Against all hope to hold back sorrow, vainly trying time to borrow
To finish that job before the morrow, tomorrow when I would sleep once more
Bed with pillow, couch, chair or floor–
Tomorrow I would sleep once more

 

Where was my undo command? I thought I had them all at hand
I looked again, and there it was, where it had not been before
Decided then to abdicate some recent work, I undid eight
Aghast, I realized my fate — I only meant to undo four
Stupid mistakes like this I invariably deplore
Forced again to redraw more

 

To make that wall a little longer for to make the shearwall stronger
I had to change the roof slope and eliminate a door.
Architect would not allow for that, there for the moment I just sat
Waiting for him to come back with a design he could adore.
Nary a sound I heard as he entered, returning through my office door
Red ink upon the paper more

 

Upon my check plots peering, as I stood there, knowing, fearing,
Before he even gestured I knew he had changed the plan some more
Finally the silence broken, as he started to betoken
The words from his mouth hardly spoken uttered changes I knew to abhor.
“Flip the plan and change the elevation of the second floor.”
Merely this and nothing more

 

“Can’t you just a button press to make more sense out of this mess?”
I said OK to appease him and send him from my space once more
Back to my workstation turning, anger towards him stronger burning,
Sure my next paycheck I’d be earning not only just a little more–
This shock to my system must be worth not only just a little more–
Started coffee pot number four

 

Music streaming from my speakers, helping me from growing weaker
Screaming songs to match the feeling of the hairdo that I wore
Nodding off and half awake, suddenly a double take
I pinched myself for dreaming’s sake; what now do my eyes absorb?
Everything was in its place, it appeared I had to do no more
I stood and breathed; a pallid countenance I no longer wore
I felt as though on sunny shore

 

And as I felt it, a glint of light shone in to aid me from my plight
Dawn’s radiant hues had lifted my soul — I could feel it in my core
But to chagrin my heart’s elation {Unhandled Access Violation}
“NO!” I screamed, “Not my creation!” I paced around my office floor
In desperation tried to get my drawing back to where it was before
Audit or recover, ultimately my file I could not restore
My drawing file was no more

 

Though the morn was shining brilliant, and I thought myself to be resilient
My keyboard could not withstand the shock of my mouse hitting it with force
It was over, I conceded; by the deadline it was not completed
And I sat there, felling defeated, rejected and forlorn
I looked at my computer, letting sink in the horror of that wretched morn
I turned my back, went home to sleep; trudged out my office door
And there I pledged it, “Nevermore”

- Anthony Mason - 2002


Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
Message 118 of 174

Abort, Retry, Ignore?

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.

Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother!  Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
>From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more,
You will be one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"


Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
Message 119 of 174
Charles_Shade
in reply to: Light_Guy
Message 120 of 174
AllenJessup
in reply to: Charles_Shade

Thank you so much for leaving me behind. Though I thoroughly understand.



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

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