Well I’m sure you’re correct. But it also stands for Police Department, Politely Discreet, and Plenipotent Dominion. T[wo days ago]IL that in the context of your mini-rant* it stands for Product Development.
*which was really more of a workplace gripe, but I didn’t want to come across as a Junior Mod…
My mini-rant is that, on a site dedicated to Fighting Ignorance, people continually use acronyms without defining them.
And that just SACIAWW’s my ESPLWW.
One place where I worked the boss’s boss was an EST-hole. We’d have an all-hands quarterly meeting that typically lasted about 90 minutes, thirty of which were as informative as such meetings can be (not much) and sixty on the joys of EST. One afternoon I along with the New Guy headed for the cafeteria where these were held, it being the only room large enough to hold everybody. Since we were early we pretty much had the pick of where we wanted to be. I chose a seat in front of a pillar, eyeballed it carefully and set it about eighteen inches out from said pillar, then leaned it back against the pillar after sitting on it. New Guy asked, “What are you doing?”
“What’s it look like?”
“Looks like you’re getting ready for a nap.”
(Thumb up) “Got it in one.”
As were were leaving ninety minutes later he said he got it.
I was under the impression that rather than EST, it was specifically “est.”
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My mini-rant of the day:
The nice people at the Mint decided to put on sale today, at noon, a nice spiffy silver dollar. They would let you get only one.
By 12:01, it was in the bag, and I started to check out.
At 12:18, I was on my 25th attempt of checking out, and was then informed they were out of stock.
Who knew that Congress was running the Mint’s IT department?
And I saw what you izz-wee-deeted there…
Have I just been encountering an unusually large number of dental horror stories lately (including my own), or are there a lot of really sketchy people practicing dentistry out there??
(My current dentist, by the way, is amazing.)
There seem to be a extremely large number of dentists that, while completing school, graduated at the bottom of their class, be it from a lack of ability, compassion or having a close Ferengi relative…
Or their parents made a considerable cash contribution to ensure their enrollment eligibility.
Workplace self-grading. B’s across the board. I can’t play this game anymore, find someone else.
Either that or they’re the dentist’s son-in-law.
Quick update on my mother-in-law: She’s recovering well and should be going home tomorrow. She went from not being able to stand up on her own a month ago to now standing for up to 10 minutes and walking up 4 steps!
Do you notice anyything wrong on the new seal for the CVN-79?
Damn! I spelled “anything” wrong. Oh, well.
Damn. Bummer.
A year or so ago at a long delayed dental cleaning at a new dentist (after my move) the dentist showed a intra-oral picture showing a large part of a lower molar had broken off. I didn’t hurt and I had no idea the tooth had broken. I deferred doing anything about it at the time
Fast forward to the present and I started having pain when chewing on that side. Time to suck it up and go back to the dentist and he was able to put in a large filling. Problem solved… except the pain didn’t go away.
As I was eating dinner a couple weeks ago, just days after the dental filling above, a large piece broke off a top molar on the same side… 15 minutes before my dentist’s office would close for the weekend. :smack: A brief phone conversation indicated that the piece of tooth would not be needed for a repair and there was no need for an emergency evaluation. Got a crown the following Monday morning. At four times the price of the filling.
Not exactly the dentist capping the wrong tooth, but apparently it was a cracked upper molar that was causing the pain and it went undetected on a panoramic x-ray taken at the filling appointment.
Sigh.
Nope, can’t spot it. What is it?
The new seal for the CVN-79 carrier shows outlines of the planes expected to be used on the ship. Among them is a pilotless drone plane.
i know ive posted some unintelligible. crap on here but does anyone understand anything 24KARAT is trying to say anywhere on the board ?
Check out the Roman numeral.