Who is ringing in the New Year with you? Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?
Which breed of dog is your favorite? Post a picture of it.
Submitted by Melissa.
The German Shepherd, no doubt about it, although good old mutts come in a close second.
It's just the kind of thing that appeals to me. I'm nerdy enough that I like to KNOW where people come from, what they're viewing, how often. I like statistics. I like syslogs, apache logs, tools like tcpdump and sites like Netcraft's "What's that site running?" I love KNOWING. Thanks to Flickr's new feature I discovered this gem - arguably the best use of my Harris fire photo. Come live in El Cajon, baby, it's on fire!
What is your daily commute like? What is the weirdest thing you've seen on that commute?
Submitted by E.
My daily commute is a 26 mile drive that takes me, on average, an hour. I take two freeways and cut through the barrio, basically, to get from one to the other. Good thing I do, since that's where I found Brock's jaguar. My commute home along the same route is always worse, because everyone else is getting on the freeway when I am, so I spend at least 20 minutes waiting my turn on the road between my office and the on ramp and then another hour getting home.
The weirdest thing I ever saw... Hm. That would likely be when the sign fell on the freeway. That was during a different commute, when I worked the graveyard shift at Qualcomm doing network monitoring, VPN setup and support for our overseas customers. I was kicking myself because I'd left my camera at home. When I got on the freeway and looked over and saw that in the lane going the other direction, I was more than annoyed. Nearly furious. It was one of those prime deals - all of the traffic on my side of the freeway was at a slow crawl, and the people ahead of me were going so slowly I could have easily snapped twenty photos without blocking traffic. Needless to say (but I will anyway), I don't forget my camera anymore.
Every few years I end up back at The Chronicles of George, and they never fail to make me laugh. I love sharing it with new people and listening as they laugh. I love helping people discover the wonder that is George.
"For your edification and amusement, I have captured screenshots of some of the helpdesk tickets produced by George (the observant reader will immediately notice that we use Remedy at my place of employment). Words cannot describe some of the things he wrote down. Complacent, ignorant, unwilling to learn--all these and more apply to George. He worked Helpdesk for over a year, and he learned nothing. No amount of explaining or tutoring or training helped him. He had no concept of anything. He was a rock."
These are funny even if you don't work at a helpdesk, or even in IT at all. You will be havening a good time with the hole site.
Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?
John Denver's Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk on Christmas.
Kidding! Really! It's my least favorite. But it's on the John Denver Christmas album my mom seems to be unable to part with, for some reason. Bleah.
The holiday song I have taught my kids is Randolph, the Bow-legged Cowboy. It's one my dad has handed down to us kids.
RANDOLPH, THE BOW-LEGGED COWBOY:
(to the tune of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and you have to pronounce legged with two syllables, or it doesn't work.)
Randolph, the bow-legged cowboy,
had a very shiny gun.
And if you ever saw it,
you would drop your pants and run!
All of the other cowboys
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Randolph
join in any cowboy games.
Then, one dusty Christmas Eve,
the Sheriff came to say,
"Randolph, with your gun so bright,
won't you shoot my wife tonight?"
Then how the cowboys loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
"Randolph, the bow-legged cowboy,
you'll go down in history!"
Show us a letter.
Show us something good about Mondays.
I used to love this show.
