My parent’s golden had a nickname at the vet’s office. They called him Hoover even though he would ingest things the vacuum couldn’t even dream of. Off the top of my head I remember him eating a couple of tennis balls, a keychain, several USB thumb drives, cat poop, paper towels (he was obsessed with paper towels),…

Great write-up. I was in Las Vegas for Interop at the MGM while this was going on. I walked through the Bellagio one night and saw the signs and name badges for SALT and was wondering what it was. Really fascinating.

There are days I think I’m still subscribed to Netflix JUST for Futurama...

I live in Utah and am “represented” by Chaffetz. Our current governor is an idiot who takes his marching orders from the Mormon church - they basically own the executive and legislative branches in this state. If Chaffetz gets elected I’m moving.

Recently visited Ireland and it was the easiest thing ever. Flew into Dublin and got the usual “How long are you here?” and “Business or pleasure?” and that was about it. The customs agent was quick and really pleasant.

I’ve got a ‘92 Accord as my daily driver to get to work (15 mile round-trip commute - bus service is non-existent). I’ve had it since 2002 and put over 100,000 miles on it myself. It’s had basically no major work and I just keep up the routine stuff. It’s got a few eccentricities (one window doesn’t roll down and I’m…

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My wife loves the leggings but it’s a totally losing proposition for the people that get stuck doing the sales. They have to buy inventory from LuLaRoe and then resell it. LuLaRoe makes their money from the sales “consultants” who have to hope they’re able to sell the inventory that’s taken over a whole room of…

My wife buys LuLaRoe clothes from a few of her friends - she really likes the clothes and they look pretty good on her. Then she brought up becoming a distributor mainly so she could buy the clothes at cost. I looked into the startup costs - $5,000 buy-in. That was when I just straight up said no. But friend 1 is…

We’ve got some in my office setup to notify the custodians when we’re out of TP in the men’s room. There’s a dash button by the door - one push = out of TP, 2 pushes = out of soap, 3 pushes = out of paper towels, 4+ pushes = clean the bathroom, something really bad happened in here. There’s a service running on a…

We’ve got some in my office setup to notify the custodians when we’re out of TP in the men’s room. There’s a dash…

I live in Utah and one of the oddest things happened with that Jason Chaffetz town hall. I have several friends that are hard core extreme conservatives and they kept parroting over and over that most of the protestors there were from out of state and were paid. No proof of course, but someone on the internet said…

One of my mom’s favorite stories is about how I did this to her on the freeway in Los Angeles when I was 4 or 5 (it was the 80s - that’s why I was in the front seat).

My daily driver that gets me to work is a ‘92 Honda Accord. Just rolled over 225k and drives like a dream. Has oil leaks and a few eccentricities but it gets me to work everyday.

I’m like you, Eric. I grew up with this stuff and gradually fell into IT work. I now work as part of the network engineering team at a large university (32k students). I’m actually kind of appalled at the lack of computer literacy in students. It’s actually kind of an interesting skills gap.