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Apr 27
Victory, pt. 2
As mentioned in a previous post, I assisted someone at work in getting their laptop connected to our wireless network. The user was Chinese, and I greeted her with a friendly nihau. A few weeks later I was assisting a user in Personnel. “I heard you are a valuable asset to our company,” she said. …
Apr 25
Overheard: 50 yr old male
Guy: “What’s that cops show where they’re always busting people?” Everyone else in room: “COPS?”
Apr 21
Irish Prayer
“May those who love us, love us. And for those who don’t love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he can not turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we may know them by their limping.”
Apr 02
Walmart Product Replacement Plan, Pt.1
I don’t know how it’s going to all to work out at this point, but I’ve got to say–at least from my initial experience this afternoon trying to get a defective digital camera replaced–that Walmart’s product replacement plans have not been of any benefit.
Mar 31
World Backup Day
Today is World Backup Day, when we celebrate by backing up the data on our computers. In reality, you should be doing this regularly, but you probably aren’t. You probably have all kinds of lame excuses, like the cost of hard drives, you don’t have time, it’s too hard, whatever. Most people don’t take backups …
Mar 09
Yiddish curse
“May you inherit a hotel of a hundred rooms, and may you be found dead in every one of them.”
