Fun/Games

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    New IT Policy -Humor

    I can’t take credit for this, but this afternoon I got the following email from our Helpdesk Manager: 1.  Before you go to a desk, send the attached file with instructions for the user not to open it until a helpdesk technician is at their desk. 2.  Go to the user’s desk, put your hands…

  • Local High School Football Game Prank

    This may have been one of the greatest pranks ever pulled between high school rivals. Unfortunately, the kid who masterminded the whole thing, while a folk hero to his classmates at Hilliard Davidson, has been suspended for it by school administrators. Still, I think the organizational skills and pure creativity of the plan speak well for…

  • Get your brackets on

    Who else is filling out NCAA brackets tonight? Who do you have winning the whole thing? Who’s your darkhorse? I’m entered in three pools this year, so far, and I’ve got three different national champs picked. Given my recent history in this regard I figure I should cover my bases. Of course, given that recent…

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    Missed opportunity

    So Angela and I scored some passes to the premiere of Zodiac earlier this week. It was a pretty good, intense, dramatic kind of movie. But I felt like something was missing. See, towards the end of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal’s character becomes completely obsessed with finding out who the Zodiac Killer is, and “solving…

  • I could spend hours

    After seeing this post at USA Today about retro commercials on YouTube, and following all the comments and checking out the commercials, I can only come to one conclusion. I need to spend more time hanging around YouTube. Yeah, I totally grew up seeing that Mount Airy Lodge commercial all the time too, it’s awesome!…