In the Moment

Whenever I'm sure I've seen it all...

Had a user get all snarky with support staff because we emptied her Trash in the course of tossing some troublesome preferences. Turns out she saves all her important documents in the Trash. Want to guess if she’d backed up her Trash?

Another reason to be a White Sox fan

“I hope I die on the field..I hope when I walk to change the pitcher, I drop dead and that’s it. I know my family would be so happy that it happened on the field. They wouldn’t feel bad because that’s what I’ve always wanted to do…..You die on the field — good luck, get him out of here, next man.”

— Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen

This is why they hate us

A toilet that can flush a bucket of golf balls—http://www.americanstandard-us.com/Tools/BestFlush/

Sign of the Apocalypse

OK, this is some of the most exquisite and disturbing prose I think I’ve ever read. I saw it on an IT consulting firm’s web site and now I can’t find the link. It is like some Satanic marriage of IT and Risk Management.

“Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain of the statements in the preceding paragraphs may contain projections and other forward-looking statements. While these statements are related to future events and represent our best current judgment, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary. These risks and other factors include but are not limited to: existing market and competitive conditions, including the overall demand for IT products and services; the loss of other key personnel and the ability to retain the senior management team; changes in customer demands or industry standards; existing market and competitive conditions, including the overall demand for IT products and services; adverse or uncertain economic conditions; litigation; the nature and volume of products and services anticipated to be delivered; the mix of the products and services businesses; the type of services delivered; personnel utilization rates; the ability to successfully attract and retain customers and to sell additional products and service to existing customers; the ability to timely bill and collect receivables; the ability to identify and successfully negotiate new acquisition opportunities; the ability to avoid non-profitable service contracts; the ability to maintain a broad customer base to avoid dependence on any single customer; the need to successfully attract and retain outside consulting services; terms of vendor agreements and certification programs and the assumptions regarding the ability to perform there under; the ability to implement the Company’s best practices strategies; the ability to manage risks associated with customer projects; and the ability to attract and retain technical and other highly skilled personnel.

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “may”, “should”, “expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “estimates”, “predicts”, “potential”, “continue”, “projects”, “intends”, or words of similar meaning. These statements are only predictions. Actual events or results may differ materially.”

One of the best records ever...it pretty much is...

“Snake Farm,” Ray Wylie Hubbard, see title track at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jNWPUFNA2U