At least the faces of some drivers will ( Read more... )

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I love the emails that I get at work, sometimes. I love the opportunity to be a smartass in response even more. For example, I just received this...

From: [DBA]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:23 PM
To: [Project Manager 1]; Feren; [Feren's Boss]
Subject: Pipe sizing for transfers to new delta production
We were under the impression that ( Read more... )

Got a ticket in my helpdesk queue from 6/11 that I just got around to looking at today. The summary was chosen from a pull-down menu of available options, and is fairly succinct: Network - VPN Connectivity Problem. I think to myself, Okay, so it's some sort of problem. Let's see what their issue is! I open the detail description pane in Remedy ( Read more... )

Dear Lazyweb,

It's that time of the season again, just two short years after the last time! Yep, the cell phone contract has expired, and lady-curmudgeon and I are looking at new phones and carriers. It's going to be a mix of plan cost and finding phones we like. Curmudgeon wants a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and a camera. I don't care about a camera, ( Read more... )

Feren nnnrhg how can he build things when people give him the wrong host name and record the host names in three places on IP tracker...

Rissani says, "They expect you to pull miracles out of your ass, per usual!"

Feren's going to prolapse his anus at this rate.

And of course, as I read this out to markvd he has to interject, "You can make your own goatse

Halfway through the drive (205 miles) and I'm pulled over by an Indiana trooper for going 11 mph over the speed limit ( Read more... )

Last week I bought a new headlight & fog light switch for my Expedition. I installed factory fog lights on the truck two years ago but the headlight switch that was in the truck didn't support fog lights, it was missing a necessary connection to the wiring harness. On a whim I checked eBay last week and found somebody selling the exact part I ( Read more... )

Dear IE,

You may now officially blow me. I have your homepage set to about:blank, yet whenever I hit CTRL-N to open a new window you piss me off. How? By immediately taking that new window and loading the URL of the old window in it. Thanks for that.

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Sometime between 2100 hours last night and about 1400 hours today I managed to lose misplace my primary debit card. lady_curmudgeon is pretty convinced that it's not actually lost and in the nefarious clutches of somebody who will spend my money wildly. I agree with her and am pretty convinced it's actually somewhere here in roho & genet's house, but damned if I can ( Read more... )