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Interesting question. Unfortunately, I have no idea

So, all this Olympic stuff going on these days got me thinking... What would Sherlock make of it all? Would he even notice it was going on, if it didn't directly relate to a case? What would John think of it all, for that matter? What do you all think?

Yep...

That would be me, forgetting things as usual..

As I said, I'm not sure exactly what it filters, so if you come across any words you think it should have filtered and hasn't please point it out!

Anything quick and painless, I would say...

Yeah. I got to a point the other day where the best thing I could say about the company was "thank goodness we don't do flight control software or something like that"...

Yeah, that's exactly what I've heard as well. I was referring mostly to the fact that when the company that made the rockets examined the ones recovered from a launch almost a year before Challenger, someone had a massive "Oh damn, we were really lucky this time" and suggested that something had to be done. Yet everybody higher up decided that yeah, it'd be safe enough for now. Never mind, it'll be okay. What do you mean Challenger exploded? No, no, we were told it was safe. I can only imagine the "Excuse me? We bloody told you this would happen!!!!!" faces some of the engineers must have had that day...

Dear work, 1.- Complex projects require a project manager to make sure things are going as expected and can be delivered on time. 2.- Complex projects with a high impact on the business require a project manager even more. 3.- Project managers are supposed to manage the project, not to keep demanding pointless meetings when the project is already late. Not that this happened in this project, since we didn't have one. 4.- Nasa did consider the O-ring in the secondary rockets "safe enough to keep flying". A year later Challenger happened. Just because right now nothing has gone as horribly wrong as I predicted, it does not mean that things won't go wrong later on. And, when it happens, it won't be my fault - I wasn't the one that fast-tracked everything! No love, Me

Indeed! I dislike the term a lot. I'm not a table! I'm not interchangeable with any other resource of the same category! Sounds... yeah. :eyeroll: Yeah. Being paranoid is part of the job. I think the only time I've worked somewhere where we managed realistic estimates, it involved a) a massive list of "things we always forget to plan for" that everybody had to triple-check when providing estimates, an additional 10% of "unknown, unexpected stuff that will happen but we don't know about yet" being added to just about every estimate by developers, c) an additional 15% of "unknown, unexpected stuff that will happen but we don't know about yet" being added by the project manager, and d) massive lessons learned exercises at the end of every release cycle. Everywhere else, it's just "finger up in the air without even thinking about it", and then we wonder why we don't hit it... Well, at least he was fine with the "things have gone wrong" moment!

LOL Yeah, it is one of those American English vs British English differences that can lead to interesting (or embarrassing) moments I'm pretty sure it was intentional... Moffat is very good at doing things like that!

Indeed. Because, if we did it right the first time around, and didn't have to redo it thirty times, it would take less time. But never minds, who would care about things like using time efficiently, particularly when we are severely understaffed The problem with that one, according to my boss, is that permanent employees are a constant expense, so they tend to take "cheap" out of the equation, so they expect "good" and "fast" to magically happen... I might have to get that one in my office. Might have to add a "and I told you it would all go wrong" to it "Your window shades are not all at the same level"? Seriously? I mean, it might be a fair comment to make after class (I used to have a teacher who insisted in us clearing and organising the class before she started!), but, interrupting a class for that? Yeah! I am kind of pessimistic at work, so I'm very good at listing everything that could go wrong, often in order or how likely they are to happen. And people still act surprise when things in my list happen... *sigh* I do pre-emptive "I told you so". Not that it gets me anywhere. But...

I think we might need to come up with a better definition than that for what is considered "adult language"... Proximity to churches doesn't exactly limit my choice of swearwords! I believe we do have a swearword filter in place, anyway, which will replace some swearwords with *****, but I'm not sure what exactly it is set to filter

Same applies to Harry Potter and Ron's favourite line of "Merlin's pants!" I think I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I think the whole "Sherlock in a sheet" is a reference to the way Sherlock would hang around the house in his robe all day, rather than get dressed. In Victorian times, that was, well, shocking and unthinkable. Now, not so much... but we get a similar effect from the "not even bothering to get dressed" attitude.

Must be something to do with IT-related lines of work. It's like, because it is only someone's time, and it doesn't waste materials if things have to be redone thirty times, nobody cared that people have to redo the same work thirty times. Not to mention how frustrating it is when you manage to get something done, having had to work through more problems and hurdles than is healthy, only to hear "ahm, no, that's not exactly what I wanted". I still think IT personnel should be issued a big wooden spoon when starting a new job. And allowed to used said wooden spoon on people who make a habit of not getting specs right from the start, or not wanting to spend the time thinking specs through. The world would be a much better place! Yesterday I had my boss fast-track a highly risky (read: if I messed up, 2/3 of our service becomes unusable) change to our test environment (which is customer facing test environment, not internal!). On a Friday afternoon (I don't usually release any changes on a Friday, period). Without having gone through proper testing before (a change this risky should have been given two days to bed in and be tested). I did my preemptive I-told-you-sos, and made it very clear that if the shit hits the fan over the weekend, I don't want to know about it, and I won't be fixing it magically in five minutes on Monday morning. GAH! Seriously, one day all this flying by the seat of our pants will backfire, and we'll be in deep trouble... Nonetheless, I suspect someone will be making puppy eyes on Monday morning and expecting me to fix it. Maybe I should take a wooden spoon with me on Monday?

It all looks fine to me... It might just have been your browser having a funny moment, they do that (unfortunately...)

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Why is it not finished yet? Come on, write faster! LOL

If you let us know which one, and where it should be, any of the mods/admins can move it for you

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I can't wait for the movie!

Dear people at work, Pulling me into a meeting that begins with "when's this going to be available?" just as I am about to check that something in and make it available is not conducive to me finishing things in time. Spending half an hour discussing what needs to be done once I check it in doesn't help either. Ending the meeting with "shall we have another quick catch-up tomorrow morning" will only make me take you out of my Christmas list and never want to do you a favour and give your work priority ever again. No love, Me.

I'm not sure I can see Sherlock crossing with anything else. Doctor Who, maybe, yeah, cos DW seems to cross with just about everything, one way or another. But I'm not sure about anything else *ponders*