Here’s a too-close-and-out-of-focus shot of our cockatoo. His name is Angel, and he’s a spoiled shithead. He’ll scream (screech, squawk, or whatever cockatoos do when they’re throwing a tantrum) when he doesn’t get his way. His way is someone staring at him and making a fuss over him 24 hours a day. He’s a really cool bird, but some days I wish I could de-squawk him. It’s either that, or cook him up for a light Thanksgiving come November.
Sometimes items that pass through groupchat are fucking funny. Here’s a copy and paste out of our technical support conference at work that I found hysterical…
<Dustin> god damned windows button names. For the question "Your password will expire soon. Do you want to change it now?", the buttons ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ are not appropriate.
<ellis> OK may be mildly appropriate, but Cancel is not.
<Dustin> OK is even pushing it. It’s a Yes or No question. OK/Cancel would work in "I’m going to fuck your mom."
Nice to know I’m not the only one who thinks Microsoft’s dialogs are a little fucked up.
Today I had a little fun with a voicemail that’s been passed around the office. One of our support technicians called in sick early in the morning one day a while back, leaving voicemail on our phone system.
Now, I run a private ICEcast music server in our office from my Linux workstation. Employees connected to our company’s intranet in both our Oak Harbor and Redmond offices can connect and listen to the stream of mp3 and ogg files.
One of our other support technicians recorded the “sick tech’s” voicemail into an mp3 for me to play on the stream. I was more than happy to oblige. I even announced over our internal jabber server that there was a special song request queued up on the music stream. That of course brought requests for the stream address. More listeners. Yes!
When the mp3 started playing, the “sick tech” yells across the office, “Very funny, Jim!” That started an uproar of laughter from everyone else in the office. It was followed up by a comment in our jabber groupchat, “JIM IS A BASTARD RIGHT NOW!” It was hilarious! Victory is mine!
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