Instant Message Excerpts: On Being a Network Engineer, 15

| June 22, 2012

After dealing with an exceedingly demanding and finicky customer: Russ(4:19:05 PM): I dunno about you – I always log that crap on those tickets JSmith(4:22:30 PM): thanks. i’m sorta waiting for the day someone tells me i caused an SLA miss on one of these. i might be behind bars after that. Russ(4:23:07 PM): what’ll […]

Sympathies Reserved

| June 21, 2012

[Much of what follows is taken directly from an email conversation I had with someone of very long acquaintance who just happens to be liberal.] It was recently recommended to me that I might want to read a book called Mornings in Jenin. I demurred; I was not and am not interested in Palestinian propaganda, […]