Alright now let's see some sexy.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Indeed. There was a guy at work who died and his job was his entire life. He had no relationship with his family and had no hobbies. In short, he was a total failure in life.

@Tsylord: That's funny because grocery store bread is usually full of preservatives to keep it shelf stable for weeks.

I get mine from the bakery. I wish I had the time to bake my own. It would be cheaper and healthier that way.

Sounds like the Jimmy Carter/Obama oil policy "Who cares what price oil is? Put on a damn sweater and take the government run train, you peon!"

Yeah, we're not going to Linux. Sorry. I work in a highly regulated industry and we're part of a much larger company. I don't write the code, I'm just the hardware guy. I don't make any of these decisions so saying "Switch everyone to Linux" doesn't help. I appreciate you trying, though it's just not what I'm looking…

I like how the only correct answer was one I had to approve. :-)

My boss expects that I be available to work the second I get in the door. When I show up early I rest or read in my car.

I would assuming anyone who passed the third grade should know how to write.

if I was their teacher I'd deduct points or make them do it again.

why is it disgusting?

As I stated before we cannot run in XP mode or do ANYTHING regarding Windows 8. It may work 100% but if we run it on 7 then the company who made the program tells us we are on our own. It's not as if we're running a minor app, this is a complex program that essentially manages all of our company's data.

I use Linux at home. we use UNIX for many of our servers. There is absolutely no friggen way that the company will leave their highly customized and proprietary system to go to Linux.

I bring my Moleskin and a good pen with me, though I suppose if I travel by plane I'll bring a pencil instead.

the problem with writing too fast is that your spelling will be off and that your handwriting becomes almost illegible. So I'd say to learn to write in cursive legibly as you can save lots of time over printing like a second grader.

@leaderbuilder: It may work but the company has said we will lose support. I.E if it breaks; we're up a creek without a paddle. That's not a risk the company is willing to take and even as an IT professional I wouldn't stake my job on a workaround.

I'm not quite sure how getting a novelty calculator qualifies as douchey. It's not as cool as this but still ...

@relic1980: Those old calculators had class too. I remember in the early 90s using an old hand me down that was 20 years old at the time.

So this coming month I'm going to be replacing 30 or so PCs at my employment. One big issue is that the main program that runs our business will not support Vista or 7 (at least not in our current version.) Plans are to test the new version this year and then move to 7 next year but keep the PCs on XP for another…