Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

As a part of our new internet filter at work, all .edu sites are being blocked because “the university environment, by its open nature, is a haven for hackers and malicious code abuse.”

Yep, that is some awesome logic.

When the rationale for one of your system requirements ends with “(Idea dreamed up at a workshop.)”, you know that it’s got to be a good one.

Occasionally I will start a post because I have an awesome title–and then never get around to finishing it. (Like the series I started on m upgrade to Mac OSX 10.4, Tiger. Would have been useful a while back, but not as much anymore as I just upgraded to Max OSX 10.5, Leopard, and never looked at any of my notes.)

So, here are the best titles that will never see the light of day (because I’m going though and canning the original entries):

• ¡Ay, ay, ay, mi telefono es de el diablo! — On why my Samsung phone sucks. [I upgraded to a RAZR2 V9 this weekend.]
• It Started With a Night of Drinking — How I started buying CDs again after visiting music sharing sites. [Started April 22, 2004]
• The Song Remembers When — How songs I hear on the radio can still take me back many years. [Started March 21 , 2005]
• “Trash IN” — A Fast Food Loyalty Program whereby you save (some) money by bringing in the trash from the last time that you were are at that restaurant. [Presumably to help stop littering.]

“There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokeable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.” — Mark Twain

Opinions are like @ssholes, everyone’s stinks but mine.

From the card for the [bouquet of 48 petite roses][1] I sent my wife on our fourth anniversary:

It started with just one.
Now there’s one for each month
Forty-eight of them
Four years on our way to forever

[1]: http://products.proflowers.com/roses/48AssortedPetiteRoses-6431?viewpos=46&trackingpgroup=ros&ref=SplitAHomeNoRef&pagesplit=SplitA&catid=ros

Five beautiful years
seeming to last forever
are gone in the blink of an eye.

They are just the beginning.
Love, Me

In regards to a question I asked today, my (interim) task lead said:

If this question continues to percolate, our position is that the engineers are not malicious malcontents.

On the whole it was like a $30 e-mail (owing to all of the five dollar words her used).

In response to an inane question, my boss, who couldn’t hurt a fly if he tried, said

Of course I know that, I’m not completely brain dead.

I think it is the most negative thing I’ve ever heard him say.

One of my coworkers today was complaining about the spam she got today for a FREE VIAGRA ALTERNATIVE.

I was thinking, yeah, there is a free Viagra alternative, its called abstinence.

The best ASCII art i’ve seen in years, as posted on slashdot:

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      O
     /|\ <--- you
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     / \