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So after navigating some entangled work bureaucracy*, I wound up in a refreshing discussion about (of all things) shoes.
It started out at size 12 or 13 ruby slippers, went into crafting, detoured through where one might come by premade glitter slippers (shops in the Mission or the Castro that cater to all things fabulous are reasonably likely to have large sized glittery shoes when they might not have more sedate styles), and then conducted a leisurely exploration of the trials and tribulations involved in non-recreational shoe shopping.
It was nice to be able to explain my shoe requirements in Boolean logic: the intersection of the various factors, and then how I was able to more than double my selection by treating the requirement of a "women's size 10" as a union with the equivalent size in men's shoes. I think I sort of accidentally came out as genderqueer (also, as a girl), but it felt comfortable. My people.
One of the guys was confused at the doubling, as he'd observed that the distribution is generally 90% women's shoes to 10% men's shoes. I made the counter-point that 80% of that is devoted to sizes 5-9, which wasn't something he'd considered.
It was just nice. Not #dreamwidth by any means, but a nice crowd of geeks.
* Bureaucracy.
So I noticed a small problem on ... let's call it http://randominternal.example.com. Just a tiny detail that maybe only someone like me would notice.
So I hit up the bug tracker (the place to go for any of the other 99 problems) at http://pleh.example.com and say "y0, I noticed a problem. Somebody fix it."
My ticket bounces around between like 5 different departments before some dude finally told me, "Yeah, you're going to need to go to http://hostydudes.example.com/suits/http/ties/productiontickets.html for that."
So I hit up the hostydudes site, log in, read the instructions before hitting the big button to file a ticket there, and (sigh) get bounced to http://productiontickets.example.com, and log in *there* (oh god why).
http://productiontickets.example.com/fail.php informs me that I exist but I can't do anything.
http://hostydudes.example.com/suits/http/ties/productiontickets.html tells me that if I can't log in at the productiontickets link, I need to go to http://pleh.example.com RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD, not next week, not tomorrow, not two hours from now, but RIGHT NOW and demand myself an account that works WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR SLACKER THIS IS URGENT.
I have gone eight months without needing to touch http://productiontickets.example.com, and I suspect that it might take one of the pleh folks five minutes to file a ticket there on my behalf, and it will probably be another eight months before I need to touch or look into http://productiontickets.example.com again. But what the hell.
Back I go to http://pleh.example.com. "I am filing a ticket so that I may file a ticket, so the issue I raised in the first ticket I filed may be resolved."
It was just that kind of afternoon. And this was the light and amusing apertif to some other paperwork headaches, which are essentially impossible to explain in a coherent fashion, but which will be brought up at ensuing meetings, see if they don't.
I'd consumed 96oz of coffee by lunchtime, at which point I was carolling my enjoyment of wiki-updating and transclusion in the ladies' room to a slightly alarmed teammate, who greeted my "Transclusion's just such an elegant word!" with a "No one likes wikis that much! ... Are you on *crack*?!", which was the best compliment I'd received all day.
It started out at size 12 or 13 ruby slippers, went into crafting, detoured through where one might come by premade glitter slippers (shops in the Mission or the Castro that cater to all things fabulous are reasonably likely to have large sized glittery shoes when they might not have more sedate styles), and then conducted a leisurely exploration of the trials and tribulations involved in non-recreational shoe shopping.
It was nice to be able to explain my shoe requirements in Boolean logic: the intersection of the various factors, and then how I was able to more than double my selection by treating the requirement of a "women's size 10" as a union with the equivalent size in men's shoes. I think I sort of accidentally came out as genderqueer (also, as a girl), but it felt comfortable. My people.
One of the guys was confused at the doubling, as he'd observed that the distribution is generally 90% women's shoes to 10% men's shoes. I made the counter-point that 80% of that is devoted to sizes 5-9, which wasn't something he'd considered.
It was just nice. Not #dreamwidth by any means, but a nice crowd of geeks.
* Bureaucracy.
So I noticed a small problem on ... let's call it http://randominternal.example.com. Just a tiny detail that maybe only someone like me would notice.
So I hit up the bug tracker (the place to go for any of the other 99 problems) at http://pleh.example.com and say "y0, I noticed a problem. Somebody fix it."
My ticket bounces around between like 5 different departments before some dude finally told me, "Yeah, you're going to need to go to http://hostydudes.example.com/suits/http/ties/productiontickets.html for that."
So I hit up the hostydudes site, log in, read the instructions before hitting the big button to file a ticket there, and (sigh) get bounced to http://productiontickets.example.com, and log in *there* (oh god why).
http://productiontickets.example.com/fail.php informs me that I exist but I can't do anything.
http://hostydudes.example.com/suits/http/ties/productiontickets.html tells me that if I can't log in at the productiontickets link, I need to go to http://pleh.example.com RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD, not next week, not tomorrow, not two hours from now, but RIGHT NOW and demand myself an account that works WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR SLACKER THIS IS URGENT.
I have gone eight months without needing to touch http://productiontickets.example.com, and I suspect that it might take one of the pleh folks five minutes to file a ticket there on my behalf, and it will probably be another eight months before I need to touch or look into http://productiontickets.example.com again. But what the hell.
Back I go to http://pleh.example.com. "I am filing a ticket so that I may file a ticket, so the issue I raised in the first ticket I filed may be resolved."
It was just that kind of afternoon. And this was the light and amusing apertif to some other paperwork headaches, which are essentially impossible to explain in a coherent fashion, but which will be brought up at ensuing meetings, see if they don't.
I'd consumed 96oz of coffee by lunchtime, at which point I was carolling my enjoyment of wiki-updating and transclusion in the ladies' room to a slightly alarmed teammate, who greeted my "Transclusion's just such an elegant word!" with a "No one likes wikis that much! ... Are you on *crack*?!", which was the best compliment I'd received all day.
