What have you had to read at work today?

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I don't mean things you've read to ease the tedium, like ILX, but things you've *had* to read, coz it's yr job.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...'

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.

Psychologically astute, and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful story-teller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers. This new selection includes 'An Essay on Novels', Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art.

― ENRG, Friday, 6 August 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm currently ploughing my way through the financial reports for 2003 for all the world's major oil companies. I need to find out how many people they all employ. Whilst it might look nice to have your glossy brochure scanned and put on your website as a pdf, in practice it's pretty lame as

they take an age to download

they are hell to navigate

Argh!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

ENRG is winning already!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The stories variously depict the desperate lengths to which people are driven by passion, and feature embezzlement, abduction, murder and incest

― ENRG, Friday, 6 August 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

A letter to a woman who has lost our books.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

mysqladmin and mysqldump man pages

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

An e-mail or two. Otherwise it's been listening to Adam Ant and the Sisterhood.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't really had to read anything (per my usual blase don't-wanna-do-anything-hate-this-job mood) but I did read some emails, and a couple of analyst reports (one on M0ns@nt0, another on the global chemical industry outlook). Boring.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm writing test questions based on a 4th grade social-studies book.

Here's the question I wrote a few minutes ago:

31. Fill in the missing words.
A consumer __________ goods; a producer __________ goods.

A. makes, sells
B. sells, uses
C. grows, buys
D. buys, makes

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I read a a really good resume--Dartmouth grad, Kellogg MBA--until the last line. The candidate's first interest was listed as "magic".

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I read a bunch of emails from dumbasses.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

nothing, because i didn't have to go in today. when i go back on monday it'll be more of the same: reports, conference call notes, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I read a bunch of emails from dumbasses.

I feel that.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I amused myself for an hour this morning after getting the "O'Hare [sic] 'Touched by an Angel'" hoax letter from my aunt. After I replied to everyone telling them it was a hoax and not to forward it (woman who's been dead for a decade tries to cancel show that's already been cancelled SHOCKAH!), I spent some time reading about Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her successful lawsuit in 1963 that banned Bible reading in public schools, and her mysterious disappearance in 1995, along with $50,000 in gold coins. Juicy stuff.

― Harold Media (kenan), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Subversion repository dump format is a human-readable representation of the changes that you've made to your versioned data over time. You use the svnadmin dump command to generate the dump data, and svnadmin load to populate a new repository with it (see the section called “Migrating a Repository”). The great thing about the human-readibility aspect of the dump format is that, if you aren't careless about it, you can manually inspect and modify it. Of course, the downside is that if you have two years' worth of repository activity encapsulated in what is likely to be a very large dumpfile, it could take you a long, long time to manually inspect and modify it.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

DUMP FORMAT

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I read about a screenplay a day, on average - they're usually sent to us by American producers and agents for our directing clients. I read them on the train to work, by and large - although it IS work and I could do it at my desk, it's sort of frowned upon in some unwritten way.

The last couple of scripts I read were sent by United Talent Agency in LA, and were about diamond smuggling in West Africa, and the story of a Spartan helot and his master in a battle against the Persians.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

A memo about stolen gift certificates, product guides for 2002, 2003, and 2004, and price change spreadsheets.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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