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Shower Thoughts

When people talk about time-traveling into the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but rarely does anyone in the present think that they can radically change the future in the same way.

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Shower Thoughts

Small dogs who aren’t big enough to look out of the car windows must think that it’s a magic teleportation device. You go in, it shakes and then you’re at a new place.

I was thinking this the other day while driving the doggies to and from their spa day…

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Quote of the Day

There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” ~ Zayn Malik

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Shower Thoughts

Attending church is like going to one big book club meeting where everyone listens to someone try and interpret what the author really meant.

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I’ve Been Thrown Out Of Classier Joints Than This!

I’ve been a very naughty boy…apparently for telling a snowflake gun nut to shove his penis-extender up his ass.

If it weren’t for the fact that so many things are tied to my Twitter login (not an insurmountable impediment, but a pain in the ass to untangle) this might be the impetus I need to close my account—especially since these days I can only stand to be there for two to three minutes at a time at most before I’m overwhelmed by the tide of stupidity.

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Be Careful What You Ask For

Because you may get it…

In addition to the other project I’m involved in at work, and because I’m 95% of the way to solving their issues, I have now been tasked with upgrading our video department’s Macs to High Sierra and getting them to play nice on our Windows domain. Apparently I am the only person in this entire organization who has any real knowledge of MacOS. The level of apathy—if not outright disgust—I have received from the Enterprise Networking and Infrastructure Protection departments is astounding. I don’t care if you personally don’t like Macs or that they’re “too much trouble.” We’ve been directed to add them to our network by people way above your pay grade so fucking get over yourselves and assist me! (I have the complete backing of my supervisor, my supervisor’s supervisor, and his supervisor—who is in charge of those assholes as well—so don’t be giving me any crap or I will cut a bitch by proxy!)

Since before I worked at DISH and was there only tangentially exposed to Macs in the Enterprise, I had fantasized about working for a shop that was all or mostly Apple—if for no other reason I was suffering profound burnout with Windows and it would be a great opportunity to do something different. Never mind it would look great on a resume.

It’s been a struggle getting these machines to behave, and it has definitely been a learning experience, but not an unpleasant one. One important fact I learned was that most problems can simply be solved by upgrading the OS. These Mac Pros were on an early iteration of Sierra and network drive aliases were constantly disappearing and refusing to reconnect after rebooting. I upgraded to the latest version of High Sierra after binding them to our domain and the problem completely disappeared.

I’m certainly no expert at any of this, but at least I know the right questions to ask and know how to use the Google.

There are a lot of things that automatically work and you take for granted in the Windows world, but when you throw Apple into the mix it seems everything has to be specifically spelled out. It’s not that difficult; it’s just a lot of moving parts to keep track of, especially when you have multiple users logging into the same machine.

It’s still not completely sorted out, but I’m almost to the point where I can cut one of the machines loose for testing and let the users tell me what breaks.

(But yeah, I’d still like to work in a Mac shop…)