Tuesday, January 31 2006

11:05am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 87.9%, Average: 74.8%
11:05am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 14.7%, Average: 15.1%

QOTD:
FORTUNE'S FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL: #14

The Baby Ruth candy bar was not named after George Herman "The Babe" Ruth, but after the oldest daughter of President Grover Cleveland.

Monday, January 30 2006

11:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 87.3%, Average: 67.1%
11:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 21.7%, Average: 12.5%

QOTD:
Machine-Independent, adj.:

Does not run on any existing machine.

Friday, January 27 2006

14:55pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 87.1%, Average: 77.9%
14:55pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 19.5%, Average: 14.5%

QOTD:
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)

Thursday, January 26 2006

11:20am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 88.3%, Average: 78.3%
11:20am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 15.6%, Average: 15.2%

QOTD:
Would it help if I got out and pushed?

Wednesday, January 25 2006

1:15pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 88.0%, Average: 75.5%
1:15pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 23.2%, Average: 17.4%

QOTD:
One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

Tuesday, January 24 2006

10:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 92.6%, Average: 67.5%
10:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 13.6%, Average: 14.4%

QOTD:
diplomacy, n:

Lying in state.

Monday, January 23 2006

12:10pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 90.0%, Average: 59.0%
12:10pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 18.3%, Average: 11.6%

QOTD:
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

Friday, January 20 2006

10:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 67.2%, Average: 66.2%
10:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.1%, Average: 9.4%

QOTD:
Go away! Stop bothering me with all your "compute this ... compute that"! I'm taking a VAX-NAP.

Thursday, January 19 2006

4:15pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 83.2%, Average: 66.2%
4:15pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 11.8%, Average: 10.9%

QOTD:
It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.

ps: Sorry I was gone so long... for those who noticed...

Monday, January 9 2006

12:50pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 79.0%, Average: 48.8%
12:50pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 14.5%, Average: 7.4%

QOTD:
The sky is blue so we know where to stop mowing.

Wednesday, January 4 2006

10:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 79.3%, Average: 57.9%
10:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 10.8%, Average: 7.3%

QOTD:
Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal -- if you are all thumbs.

Tuesday, January 3 2006

5:00pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 83.6%, Average: 61.7%
5:00pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 9.2%, Average: 7.4%

QOTD:
"In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it's not equatorial enough. Equatorial!" He gave a hollow laugh. "What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

"And are you?"

"No. That's where it all falls down, of course."

"Pity," said Arthur with sympathy. "It sounded like quite a good life-style otherwise."

Monday, January 2 2006

12:50pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 52.3%, Average: 21.8%
12:50pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.1%, Average: 2.3%

QOTD:
The Least Successful Defrosting Device

The all-time record here is held by Mr. Peter Rowlands of Lancaster whose lips became frozen to his lock in 1979 while blowing warm air on it.

"I got down on my knees to breathe into the lock. Somehow my lips got stuck fast."

While he was in the posture, an old lady passed an inquired if he was all right. "Alra? Igmmlptk", he replied at which point she ran away.

"I tried to tell her what had happened, but it came out sort of... muffled," explained Mr. Rowlands, a pottery designer.

He was trapped for twenty minutes ("I felt a bit foolish") until constant hot breathing brought freedom. He was subsequently nicknamed "Hot Lips".