Post #141,928
2/16/04 11:53:53 AM
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LRPD: '"Your server tonight will be: Jim." DAMMIT! '. ???
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Post #141,934
2/16/04 12:01:19 PM
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I take that as a reference to an ad
Remember the penguin saying, "I will be your server tonight, Mr. Gates."?
Cheers, Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #141,936
2/16/04 12:18:48 PM
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Re: I take that as a reference to an ad
Sure do. When my wife got assimilated (any port etc) and I was looking for houses in/around Redmond, I saw 4 of these in the 80 or so houses we looked at.
Guess it resonates in this town.
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Post #141,939
2/16/04 12:31:54 PM
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"This town"?
You up here still?
"I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
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Post #141,943
2/16/04 12:56:57 PM
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Re: "This town"?
Here now/still. Bit north of Redmond Town Center. Hope to be here for a bit, this is my 2nd relo and I don't enjoy the process. Especially with a kid. I haven't been here as long as you...so I could ask, "You still here?"
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Post #141,946
2/16/04 1:01:27 PM
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A-yup.
Working in downtown Seattle, living SE of Renton.
We should meet up sometime.
"I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
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Post #141,950
2/16/04 1:13:27 PM
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Re: A-yup.
Was thinking same.
My ORGanization is m-e-a-r-t-h without the punctuation. My name is rick.
(hah, regexp THAT harvesters!)
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Post #141,938
2/16/04 12:31:27 PM
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I have that T-Shirt
It has a monster Tux, holding a platter, stomping on the Redmond campus.
I have about 10 variations of those ads since I bought about 15 Penguin Computing servers, and everyone came with a T-shirt.
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Post #141,996
2/16/04 5:23:25 PM
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Miser.
I wear an L.
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Post #142,004
2/16/04 7:56:35 PM
2/16/04 8:05:48 PM
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Not happening
I have no dupes. I always gave them away when I got them. The last system was bought about 3 years ago, so all the shirts are well worn.
I'd say almost EVERY T-Shirt I wear is a Linux, Unix, or hardware product. Years of going to PC-Expo, Unix Expo, etc.
My favorites were the Digital Alpha Cheetah shirts and the Veritas shirt:
"The Server is down and the boss wants to see you" {{ Picture of Jason hockey mask }} "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
That shirt saved my job. Really.
I was at a company picnic. Had been an employee about 1.5 years. I was at the snack table, standing next to an owner who I had never met, but I knew by reputation. Major hard-ass, fire people in a blink.
He was the #2 owner, and in charge of mainframe technology, which means my very existance annoyed him since he considered anything I bought a duplicate of something he already spent money on.
Me (to the food person): Ooooh oooooh. Cotton Candy! I love cotton candy, Gimme some!!
Him: What have so done do DESERVE cotton candy?!
Me (note, obviously my anticipated sugar rush destroyed my ability to think) : Put up with your company!
I had just wandered into the "you are about to get your ass fired zone".
He did a doubletake. NOBODY speaks to him like that. Especially not some expensive yet low end geek. He stared at me and noticed my T-shirt, and read it out loud.
"The Server is down and the boss wants to see you" {{ Picture of Jason hockey mask }} "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
And then looked back at my face. I said something along the lines that the systems were not ALLOWED to go down and I lived by the T-shirts philosophy.
He smiled (a strange and dangerous smile) and let me have my cotton candy.
Edited by broomberg
Feb. 16, 2004, 08:05:48 PM EST
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Post #142,005
2/16/04 9:06:20 PM
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Ah the sublime joy of escaping
after Twisting the Dragon's Tail *
this of course leads to - Know what that refers to?
..and name of the person who {unlike your unworthy Self} didn't get away with it?
OK, it's before your time but, we are still living with the results. And jargon. Like puzzles, right?
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Post #142,026
2/16/04 11:18:05 PM
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Clueless. Sorry.
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Post #142,135
2/18/04 4:11:28 AM
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Manhattan
Project: small blocks of enriched U gently prodded about with screwdrivers, to measure neutron cross-sections; "twisting the Dragon's tail".
(One Louis Slotin slipped; before dying, calculated the likely dose given those around the 'assembly'. He knew his was fatal; air turned blue from ionization.)
Oh well.
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Post #142,018
2/16/04 10:21:10 PM
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reminds me of a t-shirt a friend gave me once
donkeys fornicating with elephants both wearing US flags, every other panel had the donkey on top interchanged with the elephant. The Governor employed 2 true blue dems all the rest were hard core repo's as himself. Showed the T-shirt to the Dem VP. He goes lets show bob Bob is the head of a Major Bank among other things and a true pirate as well as a son of the governor. He laughs like hell and sez "The Old Man ought to see this" they look at each other a little afeered because the gov was an old school gent. didnt like profanity etc. I walked it into his office and displayed it. He laughs gently and said that was really funny while the other 2 wait with bated breathe, I walked out and they resumed breathing. Of course if his wife had been in the room and I had dared display it I prolly would have been horsewhipped out of the building. Good man the Gov. thanx, bill
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Post #141,940
2/16/04 12:35:10 PM
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Nope.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #141,945
2/16/04 12:58:33 PM
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20 questions perhaps? Is it a movie reference?
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Post #141,956
2/16/04 1:25:57 PM
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Nope!
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"Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
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Post #141,957
2/16/04 1:33:53 PM
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19 questions? Sounds like a ST reference...
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Post #141,962
2/16/04 1:46:14 PM
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Re: 19 questions? Sounds like a ST reference...
Yeah, I thought about that too. Shatner should have retired into complete media invisibility, except for when he appeared on SNL. Those priceline commercials slightly frighten me.
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Post #141,966
2/16/04 1:52:06 PM
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Slightly!?!?!
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Post #141,973
2/16/04 2:13:46 PM
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Nope! One HInt.
I was involved.
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"Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
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Post #141,975
2/16/04 2:19:55 PM
2/16/04 2:33:36 PM
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Incident at a Beep party?
Where [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/user?userid=21|Jim] was making a show of fetching something (beer IIRC)?
Cheers, Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Edited by ben_tilly
Feb. 16, 2004, 02:33:36 PM EST
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Post #141,979
2/16/04 2:27:13 PM
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Nope.
It also involved admin.
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Post #142,163
2/18/04 11:10:15 AM
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Well, since nobody's getting it ...
Walk into a restaurant. See the hottie leading you to your tabale. See the hottie waiting on the next table. See the hottie carrying a tray to the table across the room. See the guy walk up to your table and say ...
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Post #142,164
2/18/04 11:14:17 AM
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huh, I thought it was a shatner ref of some kind.
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Post #141,982
2/16/04 2:34:42 PM
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Ah...Bowing out now.
WWJD? JWRTFM.
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Post #141,963
2/16/04 1:46:57 PM
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TV ref?
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Post #141,974
2/16/04 2:14:03 PM
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Nosir.
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"Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
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Post #141,986
2/16/04 3:03:56 PM
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But it involved me
Okay, last of that particular hint.
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Post #141,989
2/16/04 4:20:58 PM
2/16/04 4:21:29 PM
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Yes, I was gonna add you too...
Frowny boy...
DAMMINT!
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"Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
Edited by folkert
Feb. 16, 2004, 04:21:29 PM EST
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