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This evening I got what seemed to be a random comment on one of the photos I had uploaded to flickr to provide some under-my-control material for me to write about for the flickr workshop. "Nicely composed", it says. Errr, uh, thanks? It was just one of a variety of random crap I had sitting around.
In the event, it turned out not to be random, but a comment from my immediate supervisor. I had requested the library staff to comment, tag, and make notes on the pictures in that account so I would see what notifications I got. So this didn't actually come out of nowhere, but still. He has a fancy Digital Rebel-type setup himself, and is generally a serious hobbyist rather than an idle one. So "nicely composed" means something, at least. :)
Good job I figured that out who it was before I replied to the comment with "this was some half-assed stuff for a project at work". Not that he would have been offended by the language, and I think he would have understood the meaning of "oh! this is all just fodder for the workshop instructions" and not mistaken it as "lol the project is stupid" (although I have put in pushing 60 hours on Round Two and my brain has melted multiple times). But yeah, still kinda not appropriate, even if you have known your boss for almost 13 years and he says things like "Do you drive a silver Toyota with an MST3K bumper sticker? Yeah? Bummer. I thought maybe there was someone else cool working here, but if it's you, we knew that."
When I said that the wedding was going to be "informal and probably in a park", he asked, "can I drive you up the aisle on my motorcycle?"
"Er...WHAT?"
"It's not informal if the bride's not on a motorcycle."
(I still declined, though. Actually, I think what I said was "Yeah, um. I think I'm gonna go with no.")
In the event, it turned out not to be random, but a comment from my immediate supervisor. I had requested the library staff to comment, tag, and make notes on the pictures in that account so I would see what notifications I got. So this didn't actually come out of nowhere, but still. He has a fancy Digital Rebel-type setup himself, and is generally a serious hobbyist rather than an idle one. So "nicely composed" means something, at least. :)
Good job I figured that out who it was before I replied to the comment with "this was some half-assed stuff for a project at work". Not that he would have been offended by the language, and I think he would have understood the meaning of "oh! this is all just fodder for the workshop instructions" and not mistaken it as "lol the project is stupid" (although I have put in pushing 60 hours on Round Two and my brain has melted multiple times). But yeah, still kinda not appropriate, even if you have known your boss for almost 13 years and he says things like "Do you drive a silver Toyota with an MST3K bumper sticker? Yeah? Bummer. I thought maybe there was someone else cool working here, but if it's you, we knew that."
When I said that the wedding was going to be "informal and probably in a park", he asked, "can I drive you up the aisle on my motorcycle?"
"Er...WHAT?"
"It's not informal if the bride's not on a motorcycle."
(I still declined, though. Actually, I think what I said was "Yeah, um. I think I'm gonna go with no.")
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Date: Apr. 6th, 2008 12:52 am (UTC)From:But that's just me and my thing about motorcycles. ;)