Rocket Science

Created by Oatmeal

Source: The Oatmeal

It’s interesting in light of the recent reports on kids and hearing loss.

You’ve heard of butt dialing (slightl NSFW)…but how about pocket photos?

I was in the office working with Peter earlier this week when his cell phone took a “pocket photo”. That is, his cell phone, in his pocket, decided to take a photo, all by itself.

This one’s for my friend Trent…

A university network brought to its knees when someone inadvertently plugged two network cables into the wrong hub. An employee injured after an ill-timed entry into a data center. Overheated systems shut down after a worker changes a data center thermostat setting from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

Garretson, C. (2010, August 12). Stupid data center tricks. Retreived on August 15, 2010 from Computerworld web site: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180479/Stupid_data_center_tricks

…reminds me of the time we were baby-sitting our servers overnight because someone decided to turn off the cold-water supply to the air conditioner. Mind you, we had specifically installed the system through facilities, and had made a clear point of asking them to be notified of planned or unplanned downtime. The only reason our servers didn’t melt down, I happened to be in the office late and stopped by the server room.

The other funny thing about this story, it came out on Thursday the 12th. It really shoulda been a Friday the 13th feature.

A couple weeks ago, I completed one of the items on my bucket list to complete before Cataclysm ships. I got the Loremaster achievement on my Druid (this means I completed a crazy number of quests across all of Azeroth). Along the way, I also got the Seeker title (for completing 3,000 quests).

Along the way, I managed to collect a harem.

Source: Brandon/World of Warcraft

Mavdyn's Harem

Well, I also had a bear I tamed following me around, but I thought that might be a bit strange to mix types in the screenshot.