Racer Ex 

Them: "What name can I put on the cup?"
Me: "I dunno, you pick one."

I don't get why they have to name a cardboard cup. I really don't. But I'm not playing along.

botto 

i feel the same way when asked for my zip code at a cashier. i always give the zip code of my first apartment in NYC.

hammy56

I stopped this morning to get some of their instant coffee (I keep it at work) and I got-
"is that all for you?"
yep.
"wanna try this? wanna try that?"
no. Im good.
"how about some of these?"

she got a facepalm.

maybe I do need a nap.

botto 

you're clearly too grumpy to wield a needle.

Hida Yanra

or maybe just grumpy enough...

hammy56

dont tell my customers.

youve got perfect timing though...I just got one of my favorite phone calls:

me- "hello"

idiot- "hey, are you open?"

facepalm.

hammy56

big john

You're such an Anglophile.

Hermes

A female barista brought a Latte to me at a table. Yes it was at Starbucks and she had her clothes on.

substructure

No sleeping. Too much chatter in the hallways.
Plus I have bad gas. I drank a chocolate milk after the trainer session without my pills.

pffft. squeak. plbplbplb. phooze.

caloso

Sweet. Looks like Stage 2 of the ToC is going to go right through my hometown and right past my parents' house. (I know, I know: 217)

hammy56

not sure if either of you saw the piece I posted on fb yesterday (b probably has me hidden) but its fun things like that, that make it worth dealing with the stupid sh it.

patentcad

I have two words for you lunatics today.

Google Analytics.

That is all.

ridethecliche

Hey Kensuf,

What do you think about backing up servers?

Guess where they don't do it? Guess who almost shat their pants because of that?

/facepalm

Sigh.

mollusk

I just googled "google". Over 3 billion "results".

Crash716

been there, done that...

thankfully don't have any reminders either

botto 

and to think, they're all there thanks to uncle sam.

Crash716

putting young ladies thru college since October 13th 1776

caloso

Ecch. Judging by the volume and color, I think my head cold just morphed into a sinus infection.

substructure

I accidentally tried to squat down to pick something up. It felt like someone dropped an anvil on my foot.
It's getting better quicker than I thought but still hurts like helvetica

kensuf

That's dumb.

We only backup one subset here, which is our core stuff (email, web-space, home directories, that stuff). It's impractical for us to backup research data centrally -- we can't afford the tape for our footprint, which was at ~75tb an hour ago, but I literally just plugged in a 32tb array for a research group about 15 minutes ago. So we have a policy explicitly stating that we don't back up research data sets and that:

1. The researchers should mirror in case of hardware failure.
2. The researchers are responsible for backing up the data in case of fumbling fingers ('rm -rf /*', oops).

Still, core services, well not backing that stuff up is dumb. And I imagine most office environments don't come close to my storage needs/uses.

shovelhd

75TB an hour. I would have no backup concerns with that kind of bandwidth.

I have two levels of backups, business critical and disaster recovery. We can't afford anything in between, it's just too much data.

TMonk

"If you google google, you will break the internet"

Hida Yanra

I never wish to be a restaurant reviewer...

but I just went to scope out a place for future reference, and it was completely amazing.
WOW - great food, great price, great service, great atmosphere.

It'll make for a great night out with the lady at some point.

mollusk

I bet Bertrand Russell would approve.

Actually I was thinking about him (actually his famous paradox) when I googled Google.