My wife coined this phrase. I think it’s pretty self-explanatory.
May 19
Bathtub Cheese
Mexican-style soft cheese, often made in bathtubs, galvanized tubs, PVC pipes and sold door-to-door or at street stands and small markets. It is frequently made from unpasteurized milk, and because of the questionable manufacturing process may contain a number of bacteria, including e.coli, salmonella, and tuberculosis. You can read more about it here, where you will find this awesome quote:
“Despite legal and health implications, consumers still eat this cheese.”
May 17
Overheard: 32 yr old male
“I can’t speak for the entire country, but here at [employer name] we are on Internet Explorer 7.”
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.
That made me kind of nervous for some reason.
“How so?” I asked.
“I heard that you were able to help an employee recently because you spoke Chinese.”
I saw way too many sitcoms growing up to know what happens when you let this kind of thing go:
“Mr. CEO–the Prime Minister of China is here to donate several billion dollars, but we can’t find any of our Chinese-speaking users! What should we do?”
“I heard there’s this guy in I.T. who speaks perfect Mandarin. I’ll go get him!”
I’d rather they find out now that I only know how to say ‘hello,’ ‘beer,’ and ‘where is the bathroom?’ than wait until I’m in that meeting.
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 seriously until they lose a bunch of data, or lose a bunch of money by almost losing a bunch of data.
It might seem that I’m acting against my own best interest as an IT guy by exhorting you to ensure that your data is backed up, but it’s not true. You don’t see oncologists encouraging people to get cancer, do you? No. Our purposes are much alike in that we want things to be perfect, we don’t want to see people lose data or get cancer, but since it is inevitable, we try to minimize the pain, treat the symptoms, and hopefully cure the problem.
You don’t need to back up all of your data–just the data you want to keep.
