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How not to endear yourself to the locals
Dear parents of graduating students ( Read more... ) -
This should never happen
I hate it when I'm troubleshooting a utility, and trace an error message to a block of code prefixed with
// Hopefully this will never happen
Since I'm not sure how to fix this, the adage that leaps to mind is "Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle." -
Conversation O' the Day
Boss: [Pulls out phone and reads] Campus police have nabbed laptop thieves on the mall. For more information, see www.umdps/alerts/news underscore alerts underscore 319 dot cfm.
Me: [Pulls up browser on iPod] Do you have a bit.ly version of that?
Me: [Types in umdps.net ]
Boss: U-M-D-P-S dot net...
Me: I wonder if they have a mobile browser version ( Read more... ) -
Conversation O' the Day
NetApp salesdroid: Blah blah blah product line blah blah increase disk utilization by 50% blah blah...
Me: Excuse me, what do you mean by "disk utilization"?
Droid: Things like getting rid of redundancy and reducing the amount of storage you have to deal with.
Me: Oh, you mean like removing the parity disk from a RAID?
Droid: Yeah, like that. -
YA flavor of geekiness
So I was listening to Elastica's self-titled album, and caught myself thinking, "Hey! The opening of Connection is a total rip-off of Wire's Three Girl Rhumba!" I think that means I'm turning into a music geek. -
Monty Python re-meets reality
Forty years ago, Monty Python's Flying Circus aired a sketch called The Mouse Problem, a mock-documentary about people who dress up and act like mice.
From the mouse-man interviewee's (John Cleese) answers, it's clear that the sketch is a parody of homosexuality. But if it were filmed today, it would be a straight-up documentary about furries. -
The Oh-So-Very-Wrong O' the Day
Finnish Viking-Metal cover of Rasputin:
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