the everyday adventures of sabrina

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i am not a snot

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today is, apparently, The Day of Blog Entries Regarding My IM Sessions With People While At Work.

niqui: quick poll: do you spell the shortened version of “perquisite” “perk,” or “perq”?
piratedan: perk
piratedan: I’ve never seen it “perq”
niqui: i’ve seen it both ways, and was dithering over whether or not it was worthwhile to use the q in order to subtly prove that i know the etymology of the word and don’t think it has to do with coffee
piratedan: I doubt it.
niqui: yeah, that’s sort of what i ended up deciding
piratedan: or just use perquisite
niqui: meh
niqui: that just sounds snotty
piratedan: like you’re not snotty.
niqui: ahahaha

never, never

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s.: [description of some asinine HP printer problem exacerbated by asinine HP support]
s.: thank god we’ve got beer
niqui: BEER.
niqui: curse the pub for being closed.
s.: that’s what office fridges are for
s.: and doors of course
niqui: hehe
niqui: office freezers are for vodka
s.: never let it be said that there aren’t clear lines of communication between PSD and NSIT tech support

fuckin oops

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i love the smell of FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND VACATION MESSAGES IN MY INBOX0 in the morning.

fuck! fix a problem, forget to change one email address setting, send notifications to everyone on campus who’s got got spam trapped in the quarantine, and SUFFER FOR YOUR SINS.

fuck!

fuck!

0: slight exaggeration. only maybe 500 or so, with DSNs included. feh.

do you know your music?

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John Cusack + Vinyl = Heaven
Good. You know your music. You should be able to work at Championship Vinyl with Rob, Dick and Barry.

Do You Know Your Music (Sorry MTV Generation I Doubt You Can Handle This One)
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i felt much better (read: “much more superior”) about this quiz before i got curious about what the other possible results were, and started going back and deliberately fucking up in various ways (know the old stuff, don’t know anything past 1980; know only new music; know only one genre; whatever) and kept on getting the championship vinyl result.

PIGFUCKERS! i aced your quiz, and i demand to be distinguished from the people who don’t know that nevermind wasn’t nirvana’s first album, or which goddamn bob dylan tune jimi hendrix covered. for pete’s sake! i claimed oliver stone made a groundbreaking film about the famous ’60s band oasis, the pixies were the first punks, aerosmith covered their own song “walk this way” with eminem, and that coldplay launched the so-called new rock revolution! for the love of god, people! i had to go back and mess up every single answer (the beatles’ double album was, for the record, definitely maybe, and that eponymous dylan tune that hendrix covered was “my generation,” among others) before i got a new response, which admonished me to stick to the billboard charts and MTV.

i’m going to make my own damn quiz one of these days. and it won’t suck. sulk.

you schizo!

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have i mentioned recently how very much i adore that sun named an io controller “schizo”?

Dec 28 06:07:02 sargon-sc0 Platform.SC: [ID 868835 local3.error] /N0/SB2 reported first ECC error
Dec 28 06:07:02 sargon-sc0 Platform.SC: [ID 322160 local3.error] Bad data read from a DIMM or cache controlled by /N0/SB2/P1
Dec 28 06:07:02 sargon-sc0 Platform.SC: [ID 743622 local3.error] Undiagnosed ECC error affecting /partition0/domain0/IB8/bbcGroup0/pci/schizo0:
Dec 28 06:07:02 sargon-sc0 Platform.SC: [ID 554509 local3.error] Undiagnosed ECC error affecting /N0/SB0/P3
Dec 28 06:07:02 sargon-sc0 Platform.SC: [ID 743110 local3.error] Undiagnosed ECC error affecting /partition0/domain0/IB6/bbcGroup0/pci/schizo0:

this amused me so much when i first learned about it when i first started working on the 6800, and it still amuses me a lot.