Roller Skating or Warrior Spirit Unleashed!

I have been roller skating/blading all of 3 times in my life, so you can imagine my "excitement" when the youth decided to go to the local rink on Wednesday night. It would have been no big deal not have attached those rolling macinations of death to my feet, I'm a leader, I could hang out supervising, watching the World Series thing that was apparently on at the time. No big deal, no expectations no pressure, right? HA! Are you kidding? Never was there more pressure! I have had more "firsts" trying to impress and/or encourage these guys then my fragile, IT-professional body can handle. So I strapped up and lighted upon the reinforced vinyl-covered-concrete-steel-reinforced surface that seemed to scream for my face to impact it. It was not as bad as I remembered, I am first and foremost an observer, so I observed. The shifting of weight as the back leg angled out to propel one forward, the fluid transition from toe to heel, and the graceful and effortless turn as we melded in with the flow of the group. It wasn't very long before I left the 5 year olds and was pretty much catching up with the teenagers. So I skated, fell a couple of times, but mostly skated. It was fun. I got up to pretty good speed, it felt good. Then it was time to go, time to return to the 7' gap that was the exit off the rink. It was an experiance I can only describe as re-entry. There are no breaks, there is a break, when applied, instantly stops the forward progression of ONE leg. Now I'm no physics major but even I could see what was coming. The doctors say I'll only have to wear the brace for 6 weeks. OK, that last part was a little embellished, but it does hurt.

Microsoft Releases Office 2010 Beta

www.storyofstuff.com

Gotta see this

Patching With Wake-on-lan

Cemetery IT director, Auburn Cemetery

Energy Starr site has many tips

Kbox can do this

Carmella Anderson
Myths about PM, does it waste energy and damage PC's? No.

Power Management
Auditing with Reporting Module
EPA recommends 30-60 min

Configure all points: Bios, Switches and NIC, port 9 is common
PSShutdown.exe is 3rd party tool for shutting down.

we need to Label Desktops and Laptops

Kace user Konference -2

Help Desk Best Practices


Parent/Child Tickets, closure rules need to be discussed
Auto Rules: Waiting on Response
we need to look at changing the phone message: "please visit helpdesk.gmcs.k12.nm.us"

Approval: cannot close unless they select approved status, i.e. equipment request, or HR report



upcoming feature: process ticket, ie, new hire ticket creates multiple tickets

Kace user Konference

Application Virtualization.

How things are today? is it a .msi, a .exe, windows7. 

Repackaging is an issue, usually manual process

Application Virtualization.

seperate dll's from system while allowing read access to read sysem

containers foe each app, or multiple apps per container, we have the bandwidth to support this.

From Fail Blog

Wondering where your package is?

idea for a show

Trauma: Afterlife

Premise: Death is mostly a traumatic experience, causing mental strain on those it happens to. Afterlife "EMTs" would be on hand as erratic and confused ghosts cross over. The mind is so powerful as to keep perceived wounds "bleeding" or dismembered body parts "detached."

Setting: Afterlife looks a lot like earth, in fact it exists parallel to earth, allowing for "visitations." Afterlife is really a holding place before you "crossover" depending on certain conditions? Being there is like watching TV, you can see the beach in crystal clear definition, but not really feel it. There is no real physical contact with other afterlifers, But all have the same addictions, feelings and needs they did when they had bodies. No one knows the duration one must stay in the afterlife.

Protagonist: Main character would be "new arrival" who gets thrust into EMT job, but knows it wasn't his time. was always adept at helping others, but not very good at helping himself or his relationships.

Antagonist? long time resident of the afterlife(amongst other many famous people) jaded afterlifer, hates being there, hasn't "crossed over"
Visitors: afterlifers who enjoy haunting

Comic relief: Convincing those that died in their sleep that they haven't been kidnapped or abducted by aliens

When checking in with the records keeper ask "So can I meet Elvis Prestly?" and he says "Who?"