I thing Dr Seuss has been doing some consulting work:
I got an email at work regarding backup strategies and hardware. I have to say, these guys are getting to know who their market is:
And on Halloween, too. Brilliant.
I was just insulted by a web form:
I received a strange email the other day. I get lots of email, but this one stood way, way out from the rest, as you'll notice. Cutting out some of the extraneous information, here is what it looked like:
This will be one of the stranger E-mails you will ever receive...
When I first saw this, I was hesitant to believe. Fortunately I read on and discovered just how right he was.
Two years ago, I realized that I was being bi-annually abducted by aliens – yes, real aliens. I requested to be flown off of Earth, but failed to get a ride off of Earth due to political, legal, treaty, and war-related reasons.
Ooooooooooookay.
I am currently employed by Saurians. I also do freelance work for some Greys. As well as some mammaloids (the inspiration for Earth-based “furries”).
Everything is weirder when furries are involved.
You haven’t the faintest clue what dinosaurs look like. I have attached a photograph of a Saurian that I found on the internet on a UFO web-site. I illustrated a corrected image with feathers.
Finally, I can sleep better at night knowing what dinosaurs really looked like.
cranially-injected 3G mobile-phones with REM-sleep video
That must suck when the 4G comes out and you need brain surgery to get an upgrade
If you want to read the whole thing (these were the best parts) and see the picture attachments, you can get a PDF of the message here
I was composing an email to a colleague on my iMac at work when it underlined serious:
Yeah, I meant to type Serrions. That's not even English! Seriously, WTF?
I got these weird spam comments in my moderation queue recently:
Since I got two of these, I can't say they're terribly original, but at least it's honest spam…
One of my servers went down today. It runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. I don't know what happened, none of the partitions filled up or anything, it just "freaked out." Perhaps something went bad somewhere, and in its defense, it'd been running for 352 straight days.
In any case, after triage I was doing some system checks and I found I'm missing the /var/log/messages file. Weird. So I send a SIGHUP to the syslog daemon and it does nothing.
So I check the /sbin directory and the klogd binary was there, but the syslogd binary wasn't! I had to reinstall syslog-ng. It's hard to track down a problem like this when your logfiles aren't there…
Once in a while I browse things like the Kindle reviews. I'm puzzled by this one:
I have no idea to which nipples the reviewer is referring. Too much personal information?
Er, book. The Lego Bible. Man the Internet is weird…
Plus, it's snarky!
For Coeur d'Alene via National Weather Service:
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect until 515 PM PDT
for northeastern Spokane... northwestern Kootenai... southeastern Pend
Oreille and southwestern Bonner counties...At 423 PM PDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to
indicate a severe thunderstorm capable of producing quarter size
hail... and destructive winds in excess of 70 mph. This storm was
located near Oldtown... or near Newport... moving south at 15 mph.Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to
Blanchard and Spirit Lake.Precautionary/preparedness actions...
Doppler radar has indicated some weak rotation within this storm.
While not immediately likely... a tornado may still develop. If a
tornado is spotted... act quickly and move to a place of safety in a
sturdy structure... such as a basement or small interior room.
And while I'm writing about odd news, here's a story about a witch position open in Wookey Hole in the U.K..
I don't know about you, but having grown up watching Star Wars the words Wookey Hole conjure up some very...interesting...imagery. Now if they only spelled it Wookiee…
Go read this story about a girl called Chicken Dung.
So her parents named her after the act of rubbing her down with chicken poo, which, according to their "doctor," cured her. I think they just wanted to call her chicken dung and were looking for an excuse. Heck, that's what I'd do.
Go read this short article about robbers caught on Google Street View.
Now think real hard about the second-to-last paragraph:
The company complied, and a robbery squad detective immediately recognised one of the twins.
I'm a bit surprised that only one of the twins was recognized…
In the spirit of Naturally Occurring Torgo, I'd like to start a Naturally Occurring Mr. T thread.
I spotted this one last summer in Amsterdam:
Addendum: I swear I had no knowledge of this beforehand, but the day I posted this was the real Mr. T's birthday!
Squeeze bacon, where have you been all my life???
Direct from Sweden to your midsection and thighs. Yummmm.
Plus it has a shelf life of twelve years. I'm pretty sure that's longer than Twinkies 