What Are You Doing Right Now

scottalanmiller

I just completed my first ticket!!

scottalanmiller

Just about to head out to my first happy hour at the new office.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

Just about to head out to my first happy hour at the new office.
Have fun

scottalanmiller

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Just about to head out to my first happy hour at the new office.
Have fun

Had a great time. Had two beers and then walked to Custom Burger. Got a salmon burger and onion rings and just got back to my hotel room where I am about to eat them.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Just about to head out to my first happy hour at the new office.
Have fun

Had a great time. Had two beers and then walked to Custom Burger. Got a salmon burger and onion rings and just got back to my hotel room where I am about to eat them.

Awesome..

scottalanmiller

Just finished dinner.

Dashrender

lol Has this thread become the twitter of ML? oh wait, it already is

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

lol Has this thread become the twitter of ML? oh wait, it already is

Yup, that's really what it is. I've been calling it that for months.

Joy

Good night to all!
ML is Twitter....

coliver

Watching the offices next door to ours move out in preparation of us expanding into them. We are at more then capacity now this expansion will add 10-15 offices. It must be slow at our other neighbors... two of their sales guys are now outside shoveling the sidewalks.

gjacobse

@MattSpeller Find it interesting that it is a 17 port Hub... I've seen 8 and 16s... not a 17.

@thanksaj - Yea,.. sleep would be good...

@scottalanmiller CloudAtCost looks interesting.. Since I don't develop anything... not sure if it's useful for me.
Completed you first ticket - Awesome.

Just about to get the truck.. general maintenance and such. Trying to take all the notes and such I have and form them into a structured document for the office. Passwords, IP address, UserIDs and such. Just in case I get hit by a bus... Oh - We have 30 or so buses (max passenger 28 persons).

Review the close down procedure since I got called at 9pm EST last night on an alarm trip. Turns out to be just as I expected - the basement door didn't get properly latched. It's an old steel door, when the wind velocity is high enough it creates higher pressure inside the building pushing the door open.. ever so slightly. The fix was a $2.00 slide toggle, which wasn't engaged last night.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

I got a CloudAtCost server, a pretty big one (quad core, 4GB) that I get to play with. That should be cool.

$280 one time fee for it? Really not a bad price.

Dashrender

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I got a CloudAtCost server, a pretty big one (quad core, 4GB) that I get to play with. That should be cool.

$280 one time fee for it? Really not a bad price.

This seems to good to be true.. how do they pay for long term bandwidth?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I got a CloudAtCost server, a pretty big one (quad core, 4GB) that I get to play with. That should be cool.

$280 one time fee for it? Really not a bad price.

Not at all. I am really intrigued. I will be playing with my first one probably over the weekend. I am pretty excited.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

This seems to good to be true.. how do they pay for long term bandwidth?

Investing. If you put enough money into an investment account up front, you can pay your bills long term. For example, if you have enough money to buy a house, let's say $100K and you want a house of exactly that amount, you could put that same money into a good index fund and pay your mortgage, month over month, just from the interest. That's the model that they are using. Pay up front and the cost of bandwidth, hosting, CPU, storage, etc. decreases over time. Between new customers and investment dollars, they, in theory, can pay for the old systems that have been paid for in perpetuity pretty easily. They eventually become almost free to maintain.

scottalanmiller

This thread is on the final push.... half a million views should get hit today, which is amazing. We have done 480,000 views in the time that it has taken NodeBB's own most popular thread to get just 7,000 views!! (Both threads hit 20K views at almost exactly the same time.)

thanksajdotcom

Today was a good day. I was able to stay up for 64 straight hours before I went to bed, still wired before I fell asleep, and today I put an engagement ring on layaway! :d

scottalanmiller

More than two thousand views in three hours. Hardly a record pace BUT we broke the half million barrier easily and long before I was expecting it. Woot! That's serious traffic.

scottalanmiller

@thanksaj said:

Today was a good day. I was able to stay up for 64 straight hours before I went to bed, still wired before I fell asleep, and today I put an engagement ring on layaway! :d

Welcome back to the land of the living.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

Today was a good day. I was able to stay up for 64 straight hours before I went to bed, still wired before I fell asleep, and today I put an engagement ring on layaway! :d

Welcome back to the land of the living.

Thanks. I only slept straight through for 4-5 hours. First time I remember waking up was just before 7...I actually feel pretty good today, despite how uncomfortable the bed here is...