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Quote for the day
"When you've got your head in the freezer and your feet in the oven, on average you are doing OK"
--Willard Wirtz
I really wish some executives would remember that and realize you can't do really crappy things and offset them with brilliant things.
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Quote of the day...
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the inginuity of complete fools."
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A Sad Day Today (more)
Here is the new release on my cousin Paul for those interrested:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/aug/10/army-medic-killed-afghanistan-known-compassion-mus/news-breaking/
No idea how long it will remain up.
State department only told us he was killed in a military action. I found out from this news release he was killed by an IED himself, ironically ( Read more... ) -
A sad day today.
My cousin, Paul, was killed in action in Afghanistan today...just a few days after being awarded the ARCOM award for trying to save the life of a child that had been critically injured by an IED.
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BP = Beyond Parody
I know I don't post much, but this was too good not to share:
This showed up today in the Tampa Bay Tribune's online edition: Apparently British Petrolium, the makers of the disaster oil well blow out int he Gulf of Mexico endorsed a baord game in the 1970s called "Off Shore Oil Strike" in which you played one of four big-oil companies in a ( Read more... ) -
Aw hell!
The Ziggy cloud just got me.
I powered off our server to do a regular cleaning (vacuum dust out etc) and when I turned it back on three of the four hard drives in the Raid array failed to spin up. Of course all three that failed are Western Digital. The only one that worked was a Hitachi.
I built this server so that two drives at any one time could ( Read more... ) -
I am not Atlas
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To all Fallout 3 fans
Has anyone noticed that the new Diet Mountain Dew "Ultra Violet" looks an awful lot like Nuka Cola Quantum?
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Pondering others at work....
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.