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  • Your word of the day: Megatofu

    An after-lunch chat…

    me: Lunch was very yummy, if you don’t count the evil nasty pseudo-salad.
    me: (Shriveled cranberries, sesame seeds and some wilted greens doused in vinegarette does not a salad make, folks.)
    friend: ew ew ew not what id call it either.
    me: Exactly. I took a few bites, then ate bread and waited for my megaburger to arrive. =)
    friend: megaburger, i assume that made you happy. two words that go well together…hmmm…mega and just about anything food related, now that i think about it.
    me: *chuckle* “Megatofu.”
    friend: well, although not that often, i eat tofu.
    friend: megabrussellsprout though, YUCK!
    me: Megatofu. *grin* It’s a fun word. Megatofu.
    me: Sounds like a Japanese corporation or something.
    friend: its the king of tofu production.
    friend: or it could have battled Godzilla in a B grade movie with terrible audio.
    friend: okay, I’ll stop

  • Probably not the key to a truly happy marriage.

    Wendi IM’d me this cute little link this morning. It’s clearly satirical, but cleverly done. Enjoy.
    Advice For The Young Bride

  • It’s Friday. It’s Five, somewhere in the world.

    I can see a time, far in the future, when I’m able to do several Friday Fives in a row. It will probably happen two days before the universe collapses in on itself, though.

    • Where were you born? – Ketchikan, Alaska. I don’t remember the place because our family left when I as only three months old. My earliest reliable memories are of New York City.
    • If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don’t live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not? – I don’t. I don’t. Er, I don’t. (Three questions? Does that make this the Friday Seven?)
    • Where in the world do you feel the safest? – At home, of course.
    • Do you feel you are well-traveled? – That’s an interesting question. Is the implication that I’ve been traveled, or that I have traveled? (Hmm, must get mind out of gutter.) No, I have never left the country, nor have I seen very much of These United States. I’d like to, though, on both counts.
    • Where is the most interesting place you’ve been? – I’ve been a few places of mild interest to myself, but I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere of wide, general interest. I apologize for being so boring. *grin*

  • Why I’m not in customer service, Exhibit A

    friend: I’m working on the overnight team at Target. Unload the truck, stock shelves, all that fun stuff.
    me: Well, it gets you away from Joe Average Customer, at least.
    me: (I hate dealing with The Public. Gah.)
    friend: Indeed. I would end up killing all the customers, or “guests” as Target likes to call them.
    me: “guests” har har… I love corporate euphemisms.
    friend: lol, yep
    friend: I can’t help but laugh when the dayside people come in and start saying, “We need to get ready for the guests!”
    me: “Lay out the mines, the mortars and the gun enclosures! Make sure to string the barbed wire across the entrances AND exits!”
    friend: lol
    me: Hmm, I don’t think I have the right attitude to work the dayside shift at Target, ya think?

  • Snap! goes the Snap! Server

    I woke up a bit earlier than usual today, got out the door earlier than usual, and as I was getting off the bus on the way to work my pager went off.

    The Quantum Snap! Server crashed, hard. This means no network storage for the entire building. As I write this, it’s still rebuilding its RAID array, after which I’ll let people back onto the system. A helpful technician at Quantum walked me through gathering a few reports that I then emailed for analysis; hopefully I’ll get back from them some sort of procedure by which I can prevent this from happening again.

    Not, mind you, that I’m holding my breath. Computers are evil. If you’ve been at this for as long as I have and don’t yet know this, you need to get into another line of work.

  • Another example of why I don’t trust Microsoft.

    And now we bring you an overview of what Microsoft’s “Palladium” nonsense is all about. Read on, follow the links, and learn to cast a jaundiced eye upon this so-called security initiative.
    Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

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