Category: work
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Failover Fail
So you’ve got the high-tech velociraptor enclosure, but those velociraptors are pretty crafty and keep finding weaknesses. So you build a fence around the enclosure – no expense spared – and the fence immediately falls down, knocking out an enclosure wall, and now there are velociraptors in the kitchen.
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Don’t Look Now
There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.
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Wait, Wait, How Many?
It’s easy to get the number of unread emails under 10, the real trick is keeping it there …and not just by deleting everything as it comes in.
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How To Make Partner
It would be nice to take credit for coming up with this joke, but I really didn’t add anything.
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Never Speak of This
In retrospect having take-your-kid-to-work-day scheduled during the school year only makes it that much cooler: you also get to skip school!
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Less Terrible
Inspired by an exchange that happened some years back. Surely we’ve percent-by-percented our way to better meetings by now, right?
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Stand Up Guy
But then, as I was reminded last week: the shorter you are the more places you can hide in for hide-and-seek.
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Niche Issues
Hopefully it’s not too much of a commentary on my ability to call the right person. I at least feel a bit better when it is not something obvious and other people also don’t have any idea what’s going on.
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As Soon As I Close My Eyes
I often find myself having trouble sleeping while on-call expecting that alert to happen at any moment. How annoying to be the one responsible for messing up my own sleep when nothing happens.
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LAMP Shade
This was based on a conversation overheard soooo many years ago