We are back for now. I’m investigating exactly what was going on and why. I mean, I know what, but I don’t know why…yet.
The rest of the day should be as previously scheduled.
Technical Difficulties
About The Author
SP
I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.
ATTICA! ATTICA! ATT… oh.
I assumed it was impeachment.
No, it was peach mint ice cream in the server – two scoops of it.
*applause*
It was the two scoops coda that really sold it.
Myself I blame the… never mind
I kept expecting some sort of FBI notification screen to appear urging me to surrender peaceably at my nearest federal courthouse.
^This. [offers roll of tinfoil around]
Nah, the FBI still thinks handing out “prizes” is effective. They’re too lazy to change the method for the audience.
It was the Russians hacking us.
Someone gave Preet a copy of Low Orbit Ion Cannon.
Why would they do that? I’ve been
trolling for them for the last 2 yearsassured they love libertarians.Or the Iranians
Aliens, sunspots, or the NSA?
We’re approaching a maunder minimum, so sunspots are rare, so Aliens at the NSA.
They’re takeing are jerbs!!!
Yes.
Sporty ride
Just be careful backing up. I hear the taillights are kind of pricey.
I was expecting Ass Thursday.
It was interesting. It felt Kinda like I lost my cell phone this morning. A little bit of anxiety mixed with loss.
If you like your Glibs, you can keep your Glibs.
one of my favorite Remy songs
Heh, heh. He is the last best thing about the old place. He has too many great ones, but I loved his Post Malone remake on Venezuela.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=violABv826U
People will die or GTFO
::finally stops hugging knees and rocking::
Thanks, SP! I’m sorry if this interrupted your visit with your European friend, but grateful that you’ve restored our virtual “safe space.”
I think GT is onto something!
Pretty suspicious that some Euroweenie comes visiting and all of a sudden the site goes down.
The Friend and OMWC have spent hours and hours geeking out already. I mostly just smile indulgently and sometimes roll my eyes so far back I can see China.
Have they been playing around with OMWC’s noisy toys?
The SCIENCING that they have been up to.
OMWC wasn’t concerned about our pain? He should have been posting here until the site was back up.
So, yeah, that big red button in the server room… The one that you have to snap off a plastic cover to get to. The one with all the warning signs “DO NOT TOUCH THE RED BUTTON EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. THIS MEANS YOU, TONIO.”
I guess I shouldn’t have pushed it.
Good help is so hard to find.
YOU FOOL! That is the History Eraser Button!
It’s a jolly, candy-like button!
We had an Emergency Power Off button near the doors to the datacenter. (In case of fire, etc, push the button and kill the electrical to the room)
One of the vendors mistook it for an “Open Door” button.
My favorite was a large data center that had all the operators on one side and (separated by rows and rows of racked servers) on the other side was all the emergency oxygen masks that would save the ops if the halon fire suppression system ever went off.
Since they were annoying operators, no one felt bad for the set up.
LOL (for real). Those kinds of stories make me laugh so hard.
There are three general EMO buttons on site, which will shut down THE ENTIRE FAB in the case of a meteor strike, nuclear explosion or the like. I call them the “I quit” buttons.
I’m sure that restarting after that will be quick and inexpensive!
During ERT training they were very explicit about how we were to only hit those if we could actually see the fireball approaching.
Ours was getting installed in our new data center, right inside the door. It was exactly where you would stand, walk, lean, bump pretty much every time you entered or exited the center – right along the ramp up to the raised floor on a support pole that jutted out. I couldn’t convince our IT director to move it. But after he bumped into it a couple of times the first day after it was installed, he had one of those big plastic covers installed over it. So it went from “you will bump into this from time to time because it is shoulder height at a narrowing of the passage” to “you are definitely going to whack this thing every single time you enter the room, because it has a gigantic plastic cover on it and you can’t avoid it without turning your shoulder. But at least he didn’t have to admit that I was right and move it two feet to where it would be shielded by the column and raise it a foot so it wouldn’t be accidentally leaned against.
Once upon a time, I was in Nashville testing emissions from a web-flex printer. They didnt seem to be doing so well, so my boss walked out to their control device (a catalytic oxidizer) and said, “I wonder if its this thermocouple?” which he then proceeded to unplug. Being a state-of-the-art facility, all their presses were interlocked to the emissions control system.
The moment he unplugged it, the entire plant went down.
The owner quickly arrived to where we were, and hilarity failed to ensue.
Shockingly, we werent escorted off site.
The art wasn’t in a very good state back then. Sorta like today.
It’s more the golden rule of stack testing- never, never, ever, touch a client’s equipment unless directed to.
That rule does not apply to Winston’s mom.
Given her “career” it would be almost self-defeating.
Good advice
Damn it, I just got done creating a mock links page to pimp on the Twitters, and of course right before publishing Glibs is back up.
Uffda. I was complaining to the other Minnesoda Glibs (and tame NoDaks) that crack addicts have it better than us. If their dealer gets picked up, they can always get a rock from some other dealer. What are we supposed to do? Go back to TOS?
Sure, what could go wrong?
You can’t tame a NoDak. Sure, they may be cute and cuddly as pups, but when they grow up their wild nature asserts itself, and they’ll maul the first person to misuse an apostrophe.
You forgot the pain in the ass it is to give one of them a bath too.
NO.
Wait…we are libertarians….
I AM NOT YOUR SUPERVISOR! YOU CAN GO WHEREVER YOU WANT.
Are you not free to gambol?
You can’t gambol when you are jonesing for Glibs. I had the shakes because I hadn’t had my fix of bad puns, narrowed gases and Q’s tit posts.
Sure I could go back to the TOS, but I can tell they are all looking at me with judgmental eyes. The way the cross to another blog post when they see me commenting down the thread.
Here you go
The Fox link is ‘access denied.’
The real links always have at least one fuck up.
I hang out at TOS on odd days.
There is almost no good debate over there. Even with impeachment going live again, they couldn’t stir up a good discussion. There are only a handful of smart commenters, and they have a hard time getting any good discussions going because of the blizzard of trolls.
I blame society.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MKIaS0lh-uo
OK.
Time to bitch about New Frontier Armory
I bought a “complete” 9mm lower from them. I put in an aftermarket bolt catch to make it NY legal. After about 50 rounds, it broke. The LGS repaired it, reinstalled it, it lasted for 25 rounds. Second attempt at a repair didn’t even make it to the test firing state. The 9mm lower had a standard 5.56 carbine buffer/spring installed. I swapped it out with the heavier one (you know, the one you actually need for running a 9mm blowback?) bought a new bolt catch, and now everything is hunky-dory (so far).,
So I wrote to NFA and said “yo, the wrong buffer was in this thing. Will you send me the right one? I’ll exchange it for the bad one.” They said “yeah, that’s the buffer we always put in it. You really should be running this 8 oz one. We’ll sell it to you at a discounted cost.” Instead of counteroffering to jizz in their faces, I replied with “I was intending to buy the matching upper from you when you have it back in stock, would I need to put the 5.56 one back in if I do that?” Hopefully a clue will strike them.
instead of counteroffering to jizz in their faces
A crucial part of any negotiating strategy
I use the “I’m still a potential customer” gambit all the time. It fails more often than seems reasonable. But usually it works.
For big purchases I hold out my status as an influencer. “My sister in law is in the market too…”
So, I’ve been reading an article about Bloomberg’s campaign in the WSJ and this jumped on me.
The Democrat Party just cannot go negative on Trump.
That has to be the dumbest thing I have read today. Did Mr. Gifford burst into either laughter or flames after saying that?
They don’t call it Fire Retardant for no reason.
It’s still early in the day.
Have you taken a peek over here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/index.php
Eating a glock sandwich is better for your brain than visiting DU
I would like to meet some of these people. Just to see what sort of mind thinks like this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212875389
I, for one, am sick and tired of all this positive coverage of Trump.
I mean the Media pretty much was in the tank for him during the 2016 election, what with all the talk about Clintons Emails. Why do they care so much about the Emails and the Clinton foundation? Cause they are so rightwing that they would rather have a fascist dictator than a strong independent woman in the office.
I blame net neutrality.
It dun kilt all o’ us.
Something something THROTTLING! Something something CAPITALIST PIGS something something I MISS BARRY something…
You know who else was featured in Homes & Gardens?
Hitler was, and still is, a big industry.
“There’s a sense that Bloomberg is doing something that the party can’t do—going negative on Trump,” Mr. Gifford said. “It’s work that the party doesn’t have the money to do, and other candidates don’t have the ability to do.”
Other than bombarding him (Trump) with flaming bags of dog shit, what would it take for this guy to consider their response negative?
Bernie Bro shot scalise not trump….
I meant to bring this up yesterday during the He/She said kerfuffle.
Why is it controversial to say that a woman can’t become president in the United States? I am reliably informed hundreds of times every day by the woke mob that our society is 100% misogynistic. How can a gal win when the Patriarchy controls everything?
Look, you can acknowledge that the US is misogynistic, but it is the epitome of misogyny to tell a woman she can’t do anything, even if the thing you are telling her she can’t do is a conclusion from the premise that the US is misogynistic.
If only I had known this offer before the holidays. I could have used the extra cash.
Thanks , SP. Figure the site would dump when I had the morning off. Ah, well, I had chores anyway.
Anyhoo, I will be offline for the next few days. Try not to break anything, gang, and pick up the empty beer cans and cigarette butts before I get back.