Category: General

I just picked up the September issue of Sys Admin (the journal for UNIX and Linux system administrators), and right there on the cover is an article titled, “Using LSD to Sync a Solaris Environment.”  I’m old enough to remember when that acronym (LSD) didn’t mean LDAP Software Distribution, it meant lysergic acid diethylamide (AKA…

I went to talk to the payables lady this morning, and she keeps candy on her desk.  I took a dark chocolate Dove from her stash.  Each of the Dove pieces has a little saying on the inside of the wrapper.  The one I got said, “Life without chocolate is too terrible to contemplate.”Isn’t that…

In his memoirs, A World Transformed, written five years ago, George H.W. Bush wrote the following to explain why he didn’t go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War:“Trying to eliminate Saddam…would have incurred incalculable human and political costs.  We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq….There…

Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004 as age 76 , which is odd, because he always looked to be 76.  (DOB: 6/27/27.)  It reminded me of the following story.Some people have been a bit offended that the actor, Lee Marvin, is buried in a grave alongside 3 and 4 star generals at Arlington…

My friend Tommy was talking with his son about the final T-ball game of the season.  This is the game where the kids play the parents.Grady said, “We’re gonna beat you guys.”“Why is that?” Tommy asked.To which Grady replied, “Because you haven’t practiced.”Why can’t life continue to be that simple?  We always try to complicate…

I got the following ASCII Art in an email.  Nice tack, sending porn as ASCII so the porn filter at MessageLabs didn’t see it.

“Technology has become so important; you can’t just not be alive without it, you can’t be dead without it.” – Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher at Intel, addressing journalists about the findings of a three-year study of how cultural practices in Asia shape people’s relationships with technology, on the fact that in some Asian countries,…