7/27/08

Tragic, yet hilarious

Ok, I found a way to make Garfield hilarious. Take out Garfield.

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net

7/14/08

Office Prank

For some reason we got a doll in, and Matt was creeped out by it. So I decided to play a little prank on him for when he gets in tomorrow.


The second picture is now also his background. I haven't stopped laughing yet.

7/9/08

I can't even make a title for this...

I just hit an all time low in tech literacy. I see a lot of strange people, and people who can't use technology, and that's normal in society. I have no problems with that and am always glad to help. But wow. I just found a new low.

A guy came in and said he couldn't get his computer hooked up so he was getting rid of it. I should preface this by saying he looked like your stereotypical crazy person with Doc Brown hair and Mr. Magoo glasses with camo pants. I expected him to pull up and shout "The government is putting fluoride in the drinking water!" So I went to unload the computer and there was no computer in the van. After my description that shouldn't come as a surprise. So I asked where it was and he told me "Well it's right there!" as if I was blind. The only thing in the back was a VCR. I asked if that was it and he again acted like I was stupid. I had to stand there in shock for a moment, but I knew why he couldn't get his computer hooked up. To make things better, on the release form he asked us to physically destroy the hard drive to remove all data. That will be easy...

7/7/08

Fire in the hole

I set up a drive to wipe on my testbed system and walked out to throw a few things in the recycling bins in the warehouse. I came back and my office was filled with smoke, I shut off the computer and pulled the drive out to the warehouse. Here is what I found:

This is actually the second time I've seen this, in both cases it was a 40GB Seagate drive. It had gotten hot enough to melt through the metal.

Here's a closeup of the hole and the black goop oozing out the side.

I pulled off the metal backing and saw where it had burned the foam padding, which is what made the smoke and terrible smell.

If you ever wondered what a burnt circuit board looked like, here you go.

Melted chunks of circuit board and foam all over the aluminum housing of the drive. Yum.

So that was my excitement for the morning, I decided to post this for anyone who would never get to see this.

7/1/08