If I would spend the time I spend on meetings and office politics on something constructive, I'd be done by now. I could spend my days rejecting stupid change requests and drinking coffee.

I just happened to look up at a remarkably clear sky at the constellation Orion, which was very clearly visible, and I saw a shooting star.

The concept car was so pretty! And now someone has found an actual brochure and... well... I hope it's the funny angle that the photographs were taken from or the ugly colour of the model on the page. If not, I suppose it's between the Insight and the Prius again.

Tags: luxury problems

RHCT components score:                             100.0
RHCE components score:                             100.0

RHCE Certification:                                PASS

Tags: w00t

apachectl grateful instead of apachectl graceful.

Why does everyone pronounce at (as in the Unix command) as two separate letters? It means... well, at.

Why does everyone want to whitelist their own email address in their spam filter? Surely you've noticed a lot of spam come from that address, and how often do you email yourself? (The latest example was a group address that Outlook won't even allow us to send mail from.)

Walter: So, do you always talk in this conspiratorial whisper because you try to seem more interesting?

Colleague: No, it's because I'm deaf in one ear, so my own voice sounds very loud to me.

Walter: What?

Colleague: You see if your senses are damaged what's left becomes more sensitive in order to compensate. When I'm at home I'm usually the only to hear it if someone is moving around upstairs.

Walter: So... you are deaf in one ear, but you think your hearing is better than other people's?

Colleague: ... yes.

A little context: it's well known around here that he often has trouble understanding what everyone else is saying; it's just that he compensates by making something up. So we occasionally have conversations in this vein: "J., did you reboot that server yet?" "A suffusion of yellow." "What?" "Sorry, what did you say exactly?"

Tässa ohjelmassa:	On this episode of Mythbusters:
lämmityskattilaraketi	water heater rocket
150 metrin	500 feet
Täydellinen paikka	This place is great
Mukana oli hienoa tekniikkaa	There was also some fancy hardware
Pitäisi olla kompressori	I should have brought the compressor
Täältä tulee superaura	Here comes the superplow
Odotus on sietämätöntä	The suspense is killing me

I hope that makes things clear.

Seriously, this language has a certain something; it's totally incomprehensible, and you get to use words like "jotkut", which I just like saying for some reason.

Hee hee.

Fuck the critics, they don't know anything.

Subject: [SPAM] If your old watch is killing you, get a new one.

Fair enough.

Tags: spam