I used to make a living in the early 80s wrenching on these things. Like being an undertaker, no matter how bad the economy was, you’ll always have customers.

Former desktop computer tech in a large school district. Too many stories to list here, but a couple of my favorite:

I work for a government entity that has a policy allowing access to personal email on our (government’s) computers. How/why this exists predates my tenure, but it is by far the vector for nearly every incursion we’ve had since I started working there. I do the onboarding pitch to all new employees for our department,…

As one of those corporate IT security people who are enlisted to scrutinize such matters, I can assure you that we have neither the time nor inclination to do so unless requested by the HR department.

Not a bad price for a relatively low mileage R129 with a pano top. The panoramic top alone is worth $3,000 or more by itself. I say pay the $10k and sell the top to drop your actual cost to $7k. $3k is a slam dunk retail for a pano top, if you’re living right you might get $4k for it.

California’s Yellowstone? Don’t you mean Yellowstone in Wyoming?

Amazing how bad the visibility is due to the smog. In nearly every shot in the modern film we can see things in the distance, such as City Hall.Not so in the vintage footage.

As a former employee of a major industrial equipment manufacturer for life safety systems (standby generators), we had similar concerns about proprietary code that ran on our microprocessor based controls.

I have done it in both directions numerous times as a business traveler. The really long haul flights, such as Detroit to Seoul (14 hours) or from Singapore to Chicago via Narita (19 hours) can be hell on your body.

I used to live about a mile as the crow flies from Indianapolis Raceway Park, where the Nationals are held every Labor Day weekend. When the top fuelers ran, I could be sitting inside my house, double pane windows solidly closed, and hear them run like I was within direct sight of the track. An unbelievable amount of…

“nobody could bare to beat up”

I believe you mean “Sulzer”, as they are the Swiss diesel manufacturer that’s been around for several centuries.

The key here is credit union versus bank. As a credit union, the depositors are the owners, and essentially the ones who set policy. So in effect, you’re lending yourself money. It has been my experience that credit unions are far more lenient on things like this than a bank, who has to satisfy its owners/stockholders…

No worse than them using a domain they don’t even own for their HR department email:

Grew up as the younger of three in the proverbial “big Catholic family” of the 1950s/60s. Maternal grandmother was the head of the family and went to Mass daily, etc., etc., the only way you could dodge Sunday Mass was to be on your deathbed, blah, blah, blah.

Worked for one the largest public school districts in the nation managing their physical servers and esxi (VMware) environment. Pay was marginal but job security was high. Like oversight, good boss, far too much work for the position, but hey, you get done what you can and the rest will be waiting for you when you…

Really? The Cimmaron wasn’t worse? Hell, it made it into the Shitbox Market Letter.