Likewise, There are 10 kinds of people... t-shirts are funny, but not when worn by people that have no idea what it means (or googled for the explanation before buying) and RTFM doesn't make me laugh when I see it on a colleague who looked the acronym up from her 8-toolbars-browser.
Why don't you stick to the things you're good at? You never hear sysadmins say VAT or balance to sound cool. And when they say registry, it has a different meaning.
So, please, don't put "I'm a hacker" on your clothes when you can't even find out your own machine's IP unassisted.
If you insist on expressing your personality by having some text on your chest, at least don't steal from people you're secretly hating whenever you see "Access denied" instead of NSFW clips. Use your imagination for a change. Who knows, it may be funny or interesting. (Seriously now, we all know it won't...)
Go for "I know your salary", leave "I read your email" to guys that don't take 20 minutes to open their own mail. (And yes, they know your salary, too...)
As for me, I prefer blank t-shirts.
I have no personality and I'm cheap.
12 July, 2008
Something else
If I were to have an accident that would prevent me from reading for a year or more, I'd be completely left behind at work and most likely moved from the server room to the helldesk cage. There's so much new stuff that replaces the old and not-so-good-anymore stuff, that keeping up is a job itself.
I can survive my job most of the time, but sometimes it feels it's just too much.
Should I be preparing sausages, or milking cows, I wouldn't have to learn every day about new technologies. Milk production does not double every 18 months. If you want to secure the sausages you can simply put them in the fridge or kick the dog out. Consumers aren't interested in virtualized cows, and moving from 32 to 20nm casings won't impress anybody. Not even the dog.
Also, the cows are quieter, more gentle and way more intelligent than their counterparts in the Marketing department who call all me day about "important" emails they cannot print (yes, the printer had been unplugged to make room for the cellphone charger).
Back to the topic, if there's something else I'd like to do, it would be a short cartoon series about a crap-eating super-hero dog. I have enough scripts for at least 50-60 episodes, and the whole thing would be a smash. It's got suspense, action, drama, and at the end the good prevails (she dies).
If you're an animation studio and into my idea, drop me a few lines.
If I don't answer right away, I'm probably gone to plug back that printer.
I can survive my job most of the time, but sometimes it feels it's just too much.
Should I be preparing sausages, or milking cows, I wouldn't have to learn every day about new technologies. Milk production does not double every 18 months. If you want to secure the sausages you can simply put them in the fridge or kick the dog out. Consumers aren't interested in virtualized cows, and moving from 32 to 20nm casings won't impress anybody. Not even the dog.
Also, the cows are quieter, more gentle and way more intelligent than their counterparts in the Marketing department who call all me day about "important" emails they cannot print (yes, the printer had been unplugged to make room for the cellphone charger).
Back to the topic, if there's something else I'd like to do, it would be a short cartoon series about a crap-eating super-hero dog. I have enough scripts for at least 50-60 episodes, and the whole thing would be a smash. It's got suspense, action, drama, and at the end the good prevails (she dies).
If you're an animation studio and into my idea, drop me a few lines.
If I don't answer right away, I'm probably gone to plug back that printer.
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