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I don't remember which but I heard a rumor that they wanted to "simulcast" either the E3 or CES keynotes in cyberspace for the VR/AR crowd.  Didn't happen, but I'm sure it is only a matter of time.  The possibilities for mischief are.. significant. 

if you work from home, there are no more weekends 

Very true. 

I could probably work from home.  All our monitor and control tools are unix-based, and I'm running Linux at home.  It Is a simple matter to log in and redirect the display(s) to my desktop's display server.  I've done it before, even over my glacial (1.2Mbps) DSL.  The voice nets might be a bit tricky, but everything is VOIP these days.  There's probably a software solution out there somewhere for that as well.

However, just because you /can/ do something doesn't mean you should.   

Even to me it wasn't at all difficult.  (And I am by no means the smartest person in the building.)  The whole process of clearing the jam and re-placing the paper literally takes only a few seconds, including waiting for the gizmo to automatically re-thread the paper when you close it up.  Definitely not rocket science.  People are just being lazy.

If you want to cheat there's even instructions embossed into the plastic on the inside of the case... not that anyone reads instructions anymore.   

Nope.. you lost me at automatic threading.

Id probably put it in completely upside down and threading would be impossible 

And if it were my brother, he’d use brute force to break it into submission

I'm not sure it is actually possible to do it wrong.  I may (or not) do some after-hours experimentation to check it out, but the way it is set up it looks like the roll of paper can go either "under" or "over".  Either way the end of the paper goes down to the bottom and under that white plastic guide thing that you can see in front there in the pic.  Under the white plastic bit and behind the paper are a couple rubber rollers that actually feed the paper and hold it securely so you can tear off a piece.  To clear a jam all you have to do is jiggle those rollers about a quarter turn or so (using the thumb-wheels provided for that purpose) and the jam will likely drop out on its own.  Then to get the paper going you just tear off enough of the paper from the end of the roll - if necessary - to make it roughly squared-off, lift the white plastic bit, lay the paper against the roller under it, and lower the plastic bit back down so it holds the paper between it and the roller(s).  Then close the case up.  The gizmo inside takes care of finishing the job, threading the paper the rest of the way between the rollers and dispensing the first length of paper to be torn off. 

They should make one of those GEICO "so easy a caveman could do it" commercials out of the process. 

We would have enough time if we had immortality and eternal youth though. 

Sadly, we have not found the key to either.

I love Kakegurui, one of my fave manga series! 

If I knew where that was in the first place... enjoy!

This is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's open house in Pasadena, California that we do every year.  It is a local thing for the most part, though we do get a few people coming in from out of state as well.  It is extremely popular, especially with the kids, so crowd control is an issue.  A few years ago attendance got up to over 40,000 for the weekend.  It was hot that year too, with temperatures over 100F.  We had to start issuing tickets to the event to limit the number of visitors as a safety measure.  (Tickets are free, but limited in number.)

I have put my name on a flag that went up before in 2010. It was really cool. Never saw it again though.

Only a ~70hr workweek no biggie just assuming. Dang at least you get the holiday 

No, that's for the month.  There's 4x40=160 hours in a work-month so 28 extra hours in a month is like 47 hrs per week.  Basically working 6 days per week instead of 5.

A lot of the days are 12hr shifts tho, so I actually wind up with about the same number of days off.  IOW I get to keep my "weekends".  Yay.  OTOH my weekends will be th and fri instead of sat and sun so I'll be a bit out of sync with the regular workweek world.

I gotta stop clickin..

Welcome to the cult lol

I started taking sword fighting classes. We do medieval LAPs. 

Did you back up the data that is on the NAS? I need to check plex myself, though that always seems to be screaming that an update is needed.

The data is backed up. 3 drives.. 2 online mirroring each other and one off-line that's periodically plugged in and synced to the online volume.  I'm just being paranoid.  Never had a problem with Synology.