http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1329

This disgusts me, thanks to Jack for the URL.

My day in hell.
I think that's a good name for it so far.

I start out and get up 10 minutes before my shift. This is cool, because I was going to be working remotely for most of the morning anyway.

So 3am rolls around, and my introductory page summarizing the status of the system doesn't arrive.
Weird.
So I look into it, and I guess our paging provider's SMTP gateway was down. I know the rest of the network worked, because a test SNPP page worked fine.
I switch the paging system over to my cell phone.
-this is important for later-

So I'm on my way to work,and my car starts overheating. Yea, so I'm overheating in the middle of fucking winter, because my anti-freeze is frozen up in my dash. My car is overheating, and the vents are spewing FREEZING cold air.
It overheats, and I manage to pull into a parking lot before it dies.

I let it cool off, and the battery is dead. Why? The spraying antifreeze shorted my alternator while I was doing the last stint of driving. So now I'm left stranded with a dead battery (well, not dead, but not enough to turn the engine over fast enough to start).
I try getting ahold of , and I find out the hard way that he's set his phone to reject direct-connect, and everything else was on vibrate (and his phone was in the bathroom).
So now I'm stranded. I start getting weird "system down" notifications on my phone, several at at time. I dial up, and find my laptop is almost dead. I bring up AIM, and try and see what the problem is. There appears to be no problem.
I continue to try to get ahold of zer0 on aim, and at one point I jacked up the volume on my desktop computer at home and switched on the TV card to MTV Espanol. My friend Dan (not or ) messages me and I mention my plight. He comes and gets me. While I'm waiting, my phone starts getting a bunch of calls from various internal company groups dealing with "reachability to the datacenter from anywhere on the internet". Yes, so Cable and Wireless decided to take a shit on me today, and we were having intermittent connectivity issues to the datacenter. I don't yet know this for sure, so the whole way home I'm getting phone calls and alerts from machines on our corporate network alerting me to reachability problems,and internal groups asking me questions.
Anyway, I get home, confirm the problem with Cable and Wireless, and talk to my boss, who gives me an understanding chuckle and says everything's cool and to "thaw out". Rock on.

Anyway, things are looking up.
I got a keyboard for my Sun from Dan (YAY! Type 5 keyboard represent!)
Zero's deep frying some zesty twirls
I'm sipping a root beer enjoying the warmth.
My pager's back working, so I don't have to deal with a flood of alerts on my 2 way SMS messaging.
I'm not dead yet. Rock on!

Yea, so our public access channel here must have been bored, or run out of things to show on TV. For those who are lucky enough to have Waterford's public access channel, turn to Comcast channel 10.

For those of you that are lame, and don't have it. Don't worry. I've captured a 30MB avi that shows you exactly what I was seeing.
http://mainframe.timmins.net/~noweb4u/backyard_wresling.avi

Yes, that's right. Homemade backyard wresling. Completely uncensored. You can hear them saying the F word constantly. It's very funny.
You just -HAVE- to laugh at the part when he beats the kid on the head with the chair.

And this was on the cable here.

haha.
Oh, and it looks like Isiah is getting himself in a bit of trouble. It's funny seeing him held back by another basketball player. Remember I used to see him like every day for a year when I worked for his company. hehe.

Oh, and , This song is pretty cool. Not as cool as The Red by Chevelle, but pretty decent otherwise. If you want my copy, you know how to get ahold of me for the URL.

A somewhat upsetting news article…

Two neighbors have been fighting over the American flag of all things, because one of them says it is disturbing the peace.

The giant symbol of freedom is a bit noisy when it whips around in the wind outside of Ray Saelen's house.

One neighbor complained that in high winds the symbol of freedom becomes a disturbence of the peace. Ray Saelens likes to watch his flag wave in the wind and he also likes the sound.

"The flag is a voice of all the people who have given their lives for our country in the past, and every time that flag makes a noise, that reminds me of all the people who have given their lives," he said.

What is patriotic to Ray's ears is apparently a problematic noise for one of his neighbors, whose complaint to Chesterfield Township Police led to a ticket.

http://www.detnow.com/news/0302061203.html