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Power Saving?

Keith Constable — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:47:10 +0000

According to the corporate offices that oversee the retail copy center I work at, it is cheaper for us to leave our copiers in power save mode all night than it is to shut them off when we close the store.

Go figure.

Sorrow Eats Us All

Keith Constable — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:43:37 +0000

My mother, Elaine Gendron Constable, died unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 55.

Back

Keith Constable — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:11:29 +0000

I am back home.

AFK

Keith Constable — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:50:02 +0000

I am out of town.

Moving Bits

Keith Constable — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:52:26 +0000

PostBits development is moving along. My initial goal is to release the plugin with at least the same functionality as Cricket Moods. I’m not too far from that goal, but I need to take a break for college work.

POTD: Corn!

Keith Constable — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:27:40 +0000

This cartridge once dispensed corn, apparently.

Cricket Moods and WP 2.2

Keith Constable — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:51:16 +0000

First of all, I’m sorry if you posted a comment and it hasn’t shown up on the site yet. I had to turn on moderation because Akismet is absolutely craptastic. Until I move back to SpamKarma, posting comments is probably not the best way to get a hold of me.

If you’re having trouble when using Cricket Moods with WP 2.2, keep in mind I have not tested at all with 2.2. It specifically says in the readme that it’s only been tested up to version 2.1.2. I simply don’t have the time to take care of this right now. If anyone wants to submit a patch that fixes the issue, I’ll be more than happy to incorporate the patch, give them credit, and release a new version.

Until then, I apologize.

An economic role for which a person is paid

Keith Constable — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:09:23 +0000

After four months of unemployed bliss and non-stop coding, gaming, and loving on my fiancée, I am once again employed at a retail printed document reproduction center. That is, I’m working at a copy shop… again. However, it is at a different national office supply store chain¹.

This time, however, I’m not working at the regional hub. No more 50,000 click² jobs with binding and collating due in a week for me. I get to send that crap³ to the hub!

For those of you playing at home, the title of today’s entry is the Wiktionary’s definition of the word “job.”

I am being intentionally vague to protect myself and my employer from any litigation that may result from my ramblings posted on The Cricket Log.
A click is industry terminology for a printed side of a page.
Well paying crap, but crap nonetheless.

Why are they so wise?

Keith Constable — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:50:08 +0000

Wisdom teeth suck… Stupid vestigial relics from a time when humans didn’t protect their teeth.

Yeah, I had all four of mine extracted. Oh the pain… the pain…

Thank you, doctor, for prescribing hydrocodone.

I’ll Spank You… I Will!

Keith Constable — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:53:27 +0000

“Billy Jean, I’m going to count to ten… no twelve. If you’re not sitting down by then… One… Two… Three… Four… Billy Jean, sweetie, sit down please.” Meanwhile, the child in question is running around screaming “No!” repeatedly at what sounds to be the full force of her lungs.

The preceding re-enactment occurred today in the copy center at which I work and is reproduced here nearly verbatim. Why the mother decides to give her child ten seconds to comply—never mind twelve seconds—boggles my brain. I never received a grace period of more than three seconds from my mother. I generally never misbehaved past one and a half seconds when facing a ruler or fly-swatter poised to strike on the count of “three.” I behaved because I knew that she would follow through with her threat, be it a stinging whack from an implement or a simple privilege reduction. I knew she would do it, because she had never backed down before.

I assume little Billy Jean never listens to her mother because her mother very rarely, if ever, follows through.