I am not asking what your definition of propaganda is. I am saying I am missing your frame of reference.

She doesn’t do propaganda. We would have never, ever dated. She ended up working at a hospital.

So I guess raising awareness for women to check themselves and how to for breast cancer (literally what she did) is somehow now propaganda.

You don’t like boobs and human lives? Are you one of those anti-breast-checkers? Breast cancer denier?

Well, I am drinking the kool-aid, Alex Jones. /simply being facetious, not mocking you, so please take no offense.

So I do computers/networks/programming, and I have a big white board in my living room.

She was finishing her bachelors and I came home one day to find she wrote “I am so sick of talking about talking!”

I didn’t erase it. Just worked around it. And I would point at it anytime I had to repeat myself. I am obviously a charmer.

But we aren’t together now, actually, because she didn’t want children and I did. So it goes.

MMA predates Fight Club, in case you weren’t aware. In fact, if UFC predates Fight Club, I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest.

What?

Use gray water, and cycle it through an external fan system to cool it down.

You know how a water cooling system works on a PC? Like even an AIO? Like that, but just much bigger.

There are assholes that are throwing money at a bubble and they don’t know shit about computing. Fuck, wasn’t there a data center that got caught for running gas generators?

I went on a date with a girl who said she was going to school for communication.

We were at a bar and grill, so I misheard her and started deep diving into networks, fiber, PTP and OTA, my favorite switches and routers, why I hate and love Cisco, but why I prefer Brocade and Ruckus, was even starting to get into AM and FM when she finally stopped me:

not communications, communication. Like, you know, talking.

Oooooh. That’s cool.

And somehow I saved the date and we were together for a good five years.

Didn’t even get to satellites. She did really appreciate that she didn’t have to pay to have her macbook repaired, or any other IT shit.

The Planet, in the Sol system.

Earth. You might have heard about it.

It is a popular topic if you are on Earth. Also known as Terra or Gaia.

Look down. You probably see Earth.

There are no jokes here.

Now, we have about 50 datacenters, we are launching another 13 right now. And all of them can be found, right here, on the blue and brown ball called Earth.

Likely where you are standing.

Do you really expect me to give personal details?! That is brazen, but I came from my mother, and I was born without a husband.

Thrusted into this world, uneducated, I was forced into a school at the age of five. All I had to eat in the morning was breakfast. Around noon, I was forced to eat lunch. When the sun went down, all I had to eat was dinner.

When I went to sleep, everything became dark. But one day, my eyes were opened! And the same process started again. I saw a pattern!

I hope we all see this pattern, one day.

Dude, I am not going to doxxed myself. Do you think I am such a genius like Elon Musk? No. I don’t remember five minutes ago.

How exactly is data centered. Can data be sideways, cock-eyed, askew? I think I saw Brent Spiner once, and he seemed rather upright.

Hold up: where are you? Joking aside.

Earth.

It depends on the company. Some of these data centers are frankly ran by assholes, which draw a lot of power and water.

It is because they are narcissistic idiots.

Our centers use solar and we actually give to the grid, we use grey water (meaning we reuse water by cooling it) and dielectric oil systems.

But there are fuckfaces using gas generators. So there is a bit of a spread. Like, we have bee hives. We just thought things out differently.

Of course I have seen Red Dwarf. Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting?

Hilariously, I am wearing a Monty Python shirt at this moment,

“I fart in your general direction.”

Did I find a soul twin?

I use Voyager and it is buggy as shit. So yeah, this was a misthread response. Annoying. Pay no mind. Have a great week!

This was intended for a programmerhumor post.

I worked in all those areas as well as networking. And it only put me in management, which I fucking hate.

Plus side: only have to deal with the CEO. Downside: anytime I try to do what I enjoy doing, I have to delegate the task or at least be training.

So much bullshit of checking on what my team is doing, acting as a liaison and paralegal to work with various vendors, etc.

But hey: I am no longer customer facing and I choose my hours. As long as the projects stay on track, cool.

And I am a pretty good boss to work for. I keep us way ahead of schedule, and when my team says they have nothing to do, I cause a network issue that kills the cameras and tell them to watch a movie.

When the CEO bitches about the network issue, I remind him of how he wouldn’t buy the equipment I recommended and that we should have ran fiber to my team’s building.

Sounds like I am shitty to the company from an HR standard, but if I need something in a pinch, my team will pop in with 200% energy and focus. They like coming to work and don’t dread when I come around.

It was funny when new hires come on and I find they are doomscrolling tiktok on their phones. Man, are we reaching the projected goal date? Then I give no fucks.

As for metrics, because I used to work for a fortune 500 company, I just did what I did then: learn the API, write a script system that opens tickets with plenty of randomized jargon, and close them after a few hours. Dude is just looking at big picture shit anyhow.

I always wanted to work for me, but I think I am a unicorn.

No, not wrong. But I usually give a silly name, like Glutomis Maximus! Yes, there is an exclamation point in the name.

Had a server who laughed at this and retorted, “oh, so it is an ironic name, like they called the bald stooge Curly.”

Yes, I have no ass. Bitch. I am going to tip you so hard now. 30%.

I study linguistics, and ironically, I have no idea what you mean.

The hilarious part was I was recently dating a linguistics TA working towards her masters. The entire draw between us was linguistics.

This is so hilarious to me.

Icing on the cake, my ex-fiancé had her masters in communication.

Objects are found. We define objects. Then we make words. This seems so simple and people seem to want to make it complex.

I am pretty sure we came up with DEFINITIONS. Now what does that word mean?

I having been fighting a tide of idiocy my entire life, but it doesn’t mean I will drown in it.

Your phone lines were cat3.

You can technically get 10mbps, or in short runs, 100 mbps. Most NICs don’t even negotiate 10baseT.

And hence, why it wasn’t working.

Irregardless isn’t even setting off spell checkers. “Without having lack of regard”, fucking what?

Our language is evolving into useless shit, and I despise people who do not respect language and definitions. “Oh, language is evolving!”

Yeah, velociraptors evolved into chickens: how did that shit work out? /being facetious, before someone with poor language skills happens to be a paleontologist snaps back

Um…

You had me until the end. If Cat5e has been ran, then you just need to reterminate both ends with proper keystones.

The annoying thing I find with electrians is that they will use style A, so fucking annoying. Use B. Sun Sky Grass Dirt, then swap the green and white with blue and white. Boom.

Look at keystone: the rule above is for a male end.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.

Happiness is an inside joke. Not everyone is going to get it.

There are more casualties in this world from indecision than bad decisions.

Don’t envy old age. The newspaper will still come out long after you are no longer mentioned. Invest your youth.

The ignorant search for something. The discover demands all he sees makes sense.

We come into this world full of love and fear of losing love. All other emotion is a distraction. This is the base emotion. If you can die without fear and still full of love, you’ve won the game of life.