We were still on Sun Microsystems hardware for the heavy hitters, but for everything else we went to RHEL.

Probably 1996? The small university department I worked for has a few DEC Alphas and I think a SPARC Classic or two. When we learned we could be running something nixy on commodity hardware we immediately started exploring that.

I have this argument with people about songs all the time.

White Winter Hymnal is not a Christmas song, dammit.

Bro I thought we was cool

…although, now that I’ve thought about it, I might replace The Eleventh Hour with Dalek.

Blink is always my first choice here because you need to know absolutely nothing about Doctor Who for it to make sense, even though it only kinda peripherally fits the standard formula. I think this is probably perfect selection, honestly.

Yesterday I was trying to explain Biz’s Beat of the Day to my daughter and she looked at me like I was insane.

“Dinner is ready!”

“Stop showing off you little jerk”

Also Tie Fighter. Come on now.

There’s gotta be a law for this already, but:

As reach increases, the probability of any given moment being one where some random 58 year old dude says “fuck it, gonna shoot my shot” approaches certainty.

Wait, so… the confrontation was planned, but did he plan on taking the cheese away too? Because that would be AMAZING.

Another time, I volunteered to make dessert, and for some reason everyone assumed I’d f it up. My pies were great, as were the other EIGHT the rest of the family brought. We didn’t quite make it to one pie per person, but it was damn close.