Writing this at 2:30am on Saturday while waiting for other people to get their stuff together during the disaster recovery test. Of course, not everything is working properly. In fact, as far as I can tell, a bunch of stuff is behaving about as stably as a stegosaurus on rocket-powered roller skates. DNS, networking, various Windows machines. . . all either not working or working sporadically. I do not know how long it’ll take to fix the stupid domain controller problem, and until they fix this, everyone is essentially incapable of doing anything (3:30am.).
The stuff that I’m responsible for is actually working fine as far as I can tell. This is always a good thing.
Finished Moby-Dick. The ending is sad but inevitable. Ahab’s given multiple chances to turn back, and rejects them all. Starbuck knows Ahab and the crew are headed for a bad end, yet he is incapable of either persuading Ahab or shooting Ahab. Many are the Starbucks, and many are the Ahabs, my friends.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAh, I remember how much trouble the domain controller caused us when we had Mac and Windows machines! Working at 3:30 doesn’t seem fun to me but I guess you enjoy these challenges awaiting you on the battlefield… Happy hacking.
Which role do I play in Moby-Dick? “Call me Ishmael”?
It wasn’t really that fun. Working off-schedule never is. Since something was broken, and I couldn’t fix it, I spent far too much time twiddling my thumbs. That was really annoying—you know how much I like to fix stuff that’s broken.
There aren’t any women in Moby-Dick, which is one of the book’s main flaws. Ishmael is presented more or less as an Everyman and is the narrator of the book, so every reader identifies with him to some extent. Nobody ever identifies with Ahab.