Since forever, "accurate weather forecast" has been considered a humorous oxymoron, perhaps even an archetype. But I must say that in recent years meteorology has become remarkably accurate ( Read more... )

Nancy Lee Hixson (1944-2009).
In addition to being a teetotaling mother and an indifferent housekeeper, she was a board certified naturopath specializing in poisonous and medicinal plants; but she would like to point out, posthumously, that although it did occur to her, she never spiked anyone’s tea.

Now go read the rest.

I've just had some weapons-grade fail inflicted upon me ( Read more... )

While shopping at Target, I couldn't help noticing the layout of the shoe department:

• 6 shelves of girls' shoes
• 3 shelves of boys' shoes
• 3 1/2 shelves of men's shoes
• 13 1/2 shelves of women's shoes

No comment on whether they're promoting a sexist stereotype, or merely giving customers what they want.

Around 5:00, a coworker called me up saying he had an extra ticket to see Robyn Hitchcock. I suppose it says something about how little I know about the artist that I had to ask whether Robyn was, in this case, a male or female name ( Read more... )

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The EULA for the MozyHome remote backup software reads, in part:
THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICE, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICE (INCLUDING SUCH ( Read more... )

At one point in the distant past, $OTHER_DEPT put a bunch of their machines in a row of racks in our machine room. These machines became the bane of ednoria's existence, then slightlymadmom's (yes, I'm talking about the B-S***** machines), then mine.

We finally managed to get $OTHER_DEPT's sysadmin to agree to let us get rid of them, and today he came down to point ( Read more... )

$BOSS: All of the data has been moved off of foo1.dom.ain, so it can be decommissioned. $PERSON says he's working on moving data off of foo2.dom.ain, so we'll be able to decommission it in a month.

$COWORKER: No, I need to wait until foo2.dom.ain is ready, then decommission both of them at the same time.

$BOSS: Oh? Why's that?

$COWORKER: The ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, caryabend!