Instant Message Excerpts: On Being a Network Engineer, 14

Posted By on August 19, 2011 at 11:08 am

Discussing a configuration:

Kevin(11:21:18): they are connected with a y-cable, i think
Russ(11:21:48): a hardware solution..? how… how very quaint
Russ(11:22:14): so I guess no one has told them about those things… what are they called… we make our livings with them…?
Russ(11:22:43): oh yeah – protocols

I always prefer an elegant solution.

Apologist-in-Chief Finally Says ‘Enough’

Posted By on August 16, 2011 at 8:24 pm

When he hasn’t been bowing to foreign leaders, he’s been apologizing to them. At long last, though, from Hot Air, we learn there is a line across which he will not go:

Obama on bus tour: I’ll never apologize for being reasonable.

He cannot apologize for being reasonable for precisely the same reason that I cannot apologize for being a albino Congolese lesbian.