Snow zoomie video

OK, I only caught the tail end of the zoomie, then Caliban stopped to
try and pick up a message from the Mothership (see his ears swivel):

http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o...t=MVI_0617.flv

or

http://tinyurl.com/yq2c5l

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:

OK, I only caught the tail end of the zoomie, then Caliban stopped to
try and pick up a message from the Mothership (see his ears swivel):

http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o...t=MVI_0617.flv

or

http://tinyurl.com/yq2c5l

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! Swivelling ears, my favorite kitty thing!

But I'll have to wait until tomorrow to watch this - for some reason,
my computer just can't deal with that site. It's definitely my PC, it's
old and slow, and can't deal with sites that have a heavy load. So I'll
save the link and watching this tomorrow at work. (Jobs can be very
useful that way. )

Joyce
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Marina wrote:
OK, I only caught the tail end of the zoomie, then Caliban
stopped to
try and pick up a message from the Mothership (see his ears
swivel):

http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o...t=MVI_0617.flv

or

http://tinyurl.com/yq2c5l


"Photobucket Site Maintenance

Images and videos will continue to serve during this short
maintenance."

08:30 UTC.

--
MatSav

MatSav wrote:

"Photobucket Site Maintenance

Images and videos will continue to serve during this short
maintenance."

08:30 UTC.


Yes, wasn't that annoying. It looks like it's working again now.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:
MatSav wrote:

"Photobucket Site Maintenance

Images and videos will continue to serve during this short maintenance."

08:30 UTC.


Yes, wasn't that annoying. It looks like it's working again now.

OK. Annoying it may be, but give us network geeks a break. Sometimes
stuff just happens. A card may fail, wiring may be crinkled, server may
have "issues". It's not our fault and we're trying to get it going
again as quickly as we can.

Had one of those at work today. It didn't help to have the executive
staff standing just outside the switch room demanding updates every 5
minutes (What went wrong; what are you doing to fix it; how are you
going to keep it from ever happening again)!

Sorry to vent here.

Sam, supervised by Mistletoe

sam wrote:
Marina wrote:

Yes, wasn't that annoying. It looks like it's working again now.

OK. Annoying it may be, but give us network geeks a break. Sometimes
stuff just happens. A card may fail, wiring may be crinkled, server may
have "issues". It's not our fault and we're trying to get it going
again as quickly as we can.

Had one of those at work today. It didn't help to have the executive
staff standing just outside the switch room demanding updates every 5
minutes (What went wrong; what are you doing to fix it; how are you
going to keep it from ever happening again)!

Sorry to vent here.

Sam, supervised by Mistletoe

I'm sorry you had such a stressful day, Sam. I didn't mean anything
against network geeks or anyone else who helps keep the systems up and
running. It's just that I spent two days trying to upload the video
*some*where - anywhere - and it wouldn't load. Then I finally got it
loaded to Photobucket, and moments after I posted the link, they shut
down for maintenance. Just venting my own little frustration there.
Friends?

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:

Friends?

Of course! Guess my stress just ran into yours. No biggie!

Sam, supervised by Mistletoe

Had one of those at work today. It didn't help to have the executive
staff standing just outside the switch room demanding updates every 5
minutes (What went wrong; what are you doing to fix it; how are you
going to keep it from ever happening again)!

That seems to be a pretty universal problem in the IT industry. When
something goes belly-up here at the phone company ISP group, we can count
on at least one, sometimes up to 4, upper-level managers standing
around our floor looking over our shoulders, interrupting constantly to
ask what we're doing, why we *allowed* it to happen in the first place,
etc.

Don't you just love it?

Dan

Daniel Mahoney wrote:

Had one of those at work today. It didn't help to have the executive
staff standing just outside the switch room demanding updates every 5
minutes (What went wrong; what are you doing to fix it; how are you
going to keep it from ever happening again)!

That seems to be a pretty universal problem in the IT industry. When
something goes belly-up here at the phone company ISP group, we can count
on at least one, sometimes up to 4, upper-level managers standing
around our floor looking over our shoulders, interrupting constantly to
ask what we're doing, why we *allowed* it to happen in the first place,
etc.

Don't you just love it?

IT: When you fix something, you're God. But if you have trouble or take
"too" long to fix it, you become the punching bag. That is *not* a job I
would want...

Joyce

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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:09:06 -0600, Daniel Mahoney
wrote:

That seems to be a pretty universal problem in the IT industry. When
something goes belly-up here at the phone company ISP group, we can count
on at least one, sometimes up to 4, upper-level managers standing
around our floor looking over our shoulders, interrupting constantly to
ask what we're doing, why we *allowed* it to happen in the first place,
etc.

Yep. I know what you mean. The best example that I have seen is when I
was working in a control center (phone company). A fellow tech was
working on trouble where the entire switch was down, town was isolated.
He had the tech in central office and Tier 2 support on the line trying
to get it back up. The third level manager was standing over his
shoulder firing off questions and suggestions. My co-worker finally
laid down the phone and politely said, "I can listen to them, or I can
listen to you. Which do your prefer?" The manager backed off. A
smattering of applause came from across the room, but it abruptly
stopped when the manager turned around. Who me?? g

And back on the original subject, Caliban sure can work those ears. I
don't think I've ever saw any of ours do it quite like that.

L.