serinde

syringavulgaris: This looks like it might be interesting.
[time passes.]
elibalin: Yes, that does sound interesting.
syringavulgaris: I'm just not sure if the bar will be too, too hipster
syringavulgaris: afkdfjkdl
syringavulgaris: "Launched in part as a hangout for the members of Fall Out Boy..."
elibalin: Erm.
syringavulgaris: And their website is Dead On Arrival.
syringavulgaris: (you see what I did there)

elibalin forwarded me this for my morning insanity. (Work-safe, possibly not brain-safe.) It depicts the waterski show at the Ohio Sea World in the summer of 1977--they had one every year, but changed the "skin", as it were, periodically. (E.g., another one was a sort of hillbilly feud theme.)

It is almost a certainty that I saw this. Since Aurora is only about 40 minutes away, our family went to Sea World every summer without fail. BUT I DON'T REMEMBER IT, because at age 4, my attention extended to the kiddie playgrounds, the dolphin petting pool, and Shamu. A gloriously ridiculous memory and it is NOT MINE.

I came in this morning (late, due to NJT screwing the pooch again--these people want a fare increase? HA) to find the Chatelaine of the Business Stuff staring in horror at the iMac. It seems her cousins have made a video of their toddler & put it up on YouTube so the whole family...and everyone else in the known world, I guess...can see it.

Only it's a video of that poor child's potty training.

Congratulations, lamb; in sixteen years when your girlfriend Googles you, she will be able to see your first poopies.

Wherein I just took a call from a user who couldn't remember where to find the Oracle. Yes, I knew the answer, but.

If I had been quicker on the uptake, I would have *ZOT*ed him for not opening with a grovel. L'esprit d'escalier, again.

dariodevil, on phone to user who forgot a password:

"First I need to authenticate you with the question and answer you selected when your account was created...What's the name of your dead cat?"

*time passes*

"OK, your new password is [blah]. Also, you may want to change your challenge and response since you have more than one dead cat now."

It would seem that the Perils of the Nebulous Foe extend beyond peace slogans in Arabic and are insinuating their way into our own hallowed tongue.

Joe had to meet a colocation customer earlier this week at one of our variably annoying colo facilities so that said customer could perform some maintenance on his machine.

Joe signed in with his name and our company name on the appropriate fields on the sign-in log.

The customer signed in with his name, directly below Joe's entry, and put in ditto marks under the "company" field.

Quoth the reception jockey: "Oh, no, I can't accept a ditto mark there, you have to write it out in full. Terrorists, you know!"

Just got user email asking whether customers get gopher space. Gopher. GOPHER.

Prithee, wouldst thou care to travel in this miraculous horse-drawn wheel'd conveyance, fair sir?

New video card is here and installed, a thing which is happy-making.

BUT.

Two things are causing me a minor freak-out:

1) the ad for Doom 3 which is printed on the fan casing
2) the fact that the card needs its own connection to the power supply

I, for one, welcome our new robotic etc.

Bow before POPE SERPENTOR I!!

Eli: "When agitated, the pope extends a scaly frill and emits a harsh rattle."
8782: "He really is a frightening-looking reptile. Notice the bags under his eyes, which most likely expand to envelop his cheeks when he spews his venom."