Monday, April 30 2007

11:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 41.6%, Average: 25.4%
11:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.6%, Average: 3.6%

QOTD:
"Gort, klaatu nikto barada."

Friday, April 27 2007

11:45am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 36.0%, Average: 30.9%
11:45am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.7%, Average: 4.8%

QOTD:
This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's been called by others the fiddle factor..."

Thursday, April 26 2007

8:55am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 17.1%, Average: 30.7%
8:55am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.7%, Average: 4.3%

QOTD:
Keep in mind always the four constant Laws of Frisbee:

(1) The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just out of reach (this force is technically termed "car suck").

(2) Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than "Watch this!"

(3) The probability of a Frisbee hitting something is directly proportional to the cost of hitting it. For instance, a Frisbee will always head directly towards a policeman or a little old lady rather than the beat up Chevy.

(4) Your best throw happens when no one is watching; when the cute girl you've been trying to impress is watching, the Frisbee will invariably bounce out of your hand or hit you in the head and knock you silly.

Wednesday, April 25 2007

11:15am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 32.4%, Average: 30.6%
11:15am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.7%, Average: 4.0%

QOTD:
Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.

Monday, April 23 2007

12:05pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 36.1%, Average: 23.4%
12:05pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 7.2%, Average: 3.6%

QOTD:
Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach.

Friday, April 20 2007

9:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 19.3%, Average: 27.6%
9:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.4%, Average: 4.4%

QOTD:
As I was walking down the street one dark and dreary day,
I came upon a billboard and much to my dismay,
The words were torn and tattered,
From the storm the night before,
The wind and rain had done its work and this is how it goes,

Smoke Coca-Cola cigarettes, chew Wrigleys Spearmint beer,
Ken-L-Ration dog food makes your complexion clear,
Simonize your baby in a Hershey candy bar,
And Texaco's a beauty cream that's used by every star.

Take your next vacation in a brand new Frigedaire,
Learn to play the piano in your winter underwear,
Doctors say that babies should smoke until they're three,
And people over sixty-five should bathe in Lipton tea.

Thursday, April 19 2007

9:20am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 30.1%, Average: 29.3%
9:20am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.1%, Average: 4.5%

QOTD:
"That's right; the upper-case shift works fine on the screen, but they're not coming out on the damn printer... Hold? Sure, I'll hold."

Wednesday, April 18 2007

1:10pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 44.2%, Average: 33.8%
1:10pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 7.6%, Average: 3.9%

QOTD:
I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

Tuesday, April 17 2007

12:00n Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 34.9%, Average: 32.5%
12:00n Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.1%, Average: 3.9%

QOTD:
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Monday, April 16 2007

10:20am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 26.2%, Average: 25.7%
10:20am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.8%, Average: 4.7%

QOTD:
This "brain-damaged" epithet is getting sorely overworked. When we can speak of someone or something being flawed, impaired, marred, spoiled; batty, bedlamite, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, demented, deranged, loco, lunatic, mad, maniac, mindless, non compos mentis, nuts, Reaganite, screwy, teched, unbalanced, unsound, witless, wrong; senseless, spastic, spasmodic, convulsive; doped, spaced-out, stoned, zonked; {beef, beetle,block,dung,thick} headed, dense, doltish, dull, duncical, numskulled, pinhead; asinine, fatuous, foolish, silly, simple; brute, lumbering, oafish; half-assed, incompetent; backward, retarded, imbecilic, moronic; when we have a whole precisely nuanced vocabulary of intellectual abuse to draw upon, individually and in combination, isn't it a little -fill in the blank- to be limited to a single, now quite trite, adjective?

Friday, April 13 2007

12:40pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 32.7%, Average: 27.2%
12:40pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.9%, Average: 5.2%

QOTD:
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Thursday, April 12 2007

9:00am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 39.2%, Average: 27.6%
9:00am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.0%, Average: 4.7%

QOTD:
I'd love to go out with you, but I want to spend more time with my blender.

Wednesday, April 11 2007

11:00am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 51.2%, Average: 27.3%
11:00am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.3%, Average: 5.3%

QOTD:
Azh nazg durbataluk, azh nazg gimbatul,
Azh nazg thrakataluk agh burzum ishi krimpatul!

Tuesday, April 10 2007

11:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 24.4%, Average: 29.4%
11:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 7.4%, Average: 5.5%

QOTD:
Random, n.:

As in number, predictable. As in memory access, unpredictable.

Monday, April 9 2007

3:05pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 41.4%, Average: 22.8%
3:05pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.4%, Average: 3.8%

QOTD:
I can read your mind, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Friday, April 6 2007

9:55am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 46.0%, Average: 25.4%
9:55am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.0%, Average: 4.2%

QOTD:
As long as there are ill-defined goals, bizarre bugs, and unrealistic schedules, there will be Real Programmers willing to jump in and Solve The Problem, saving the documentation for later.

Thursday, April 5 2007

11:30am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 43.5%, Average: 25.5%
11:30am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.2%, Average: 4.1%

QOTD:
Meanehwael, baccat meaddehaele, monstaer lurccen;
Fulle few too many drincce, hie luccen for fyht.
[D]en Hreorfneorht[d]hwr, son of Hrwaerow[p]heororthwl,
AEsccen aewful jeork to steop outsyd.
[P]hud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! [D]e bigge gye
Eallum his bon brak, byt his nose offe;
Wicced Godsylla waeld on his asse.
Monstaer moppe fleor wy[p] eallum men in haelle.
Beowulf in bacceroome fonecall bemaccen waes;
Hearen sond of ruccus saed, "Hwaet [d]e helle?"
Graben sheold strang ond swich-blaed scharp
Sond feorth to fyht [d]e grimlic foe.
"Me," Godsylla saed, "mac [d]e minsemete."
Heoro cwyc geten heold wi[p] faemed half-nelson
Ond flyng him lic frisbe bac to fen.
Beowulf belly up to meaddehaele bar,
Saed, "Ne foe beaten mie faersom cung-fu."
Eorderen cocca-colha yce-coeld, [d]e reol [p]yng.

Wednesday, April 4 2007

10:15am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 25.5%, Average: 24.0%
10:15am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 2.8%, Average: 3.7%

QOTD:
Wharbat darbid yarbou sarbay?

Tuesday, April 3 2007

9:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 28.1%, Average: 23.5%
9:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 2.9%, Average: 3.4%

QOTD:
Some marriages are made in heaven -- but so are thunder and lightning.

Monday, April 2 2007

9:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 14.8%, Average: 19.3%
9:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 2.5%, Average: 3.2%

QOTD:
program, n.:

A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.