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Who Works During the Holidays?
While sitting here at my computer, plugging away at tending the bin,
I started wondering who else might be hard at work, instead of
enjoying what most in the world (especially in America) would consider
"the Holidays". I've stumbled into working this season for the second
year in a row, and I find myself not bothered much by it at all. If
you had asked me even 5 years ago if I would give up my Christmas
vacation for work, I would have laughed and answered with a resounding
"No!". Have any of you fallen into similar behavior? As an aside, what
Holidays do many of you find yourselves working, whether it be
Christmas, Thanksgiving, or some other Holiday, what drives you to work
when others are enjoying their time off?
As I sit here opening presents I can't resist the distant hum of a couple nice Ultra 5's:-)
Solaris is my one true weakness..
Jeremy
Yea,
You all may be at work rebooting Windoze servers and what-not. But I get the distinct pleasure of sitting at home dialing in (not broadband, mind you) to tend the systems over the lovely 28.8 connection while my realtives are running around talking about medical conditions and "How much spice should I add to this dish of brussel sprouts"?
So, to hell with you people at work who can escape the inevitable questions "What are you doing? shopping at that amazon.com?" and "Can you pay attention to us instead of surfing?" Surfing? Bah! I am running "mission critical" systems while you open your presents and eat your stuffing!
Can this be true, surely you're joking. Only an
Al-Qaeda sympathizer wouldn't celebrate christmas.
Looking for the funny...no funny found. Fagot.
You know how your dad says he's "self-employed"? It's time you grew up and realized that "self-employed" is a euphemism for "unemployed".
When do the welfare checks come out next month? I hope daddy didn't blow all the last's cheque on scotch and you ended up with a pair of socks for Christmas.
>>student and i need $ to help pay off my dually XP box
Dude, I really hope you mean
"...my dually Palomino..."
cause if your talking about an SMP machine that
you are running MicroSoft XP experience on then you must be an Al-qaeda sympathizer to run an OS
that has a security hole thats larger than goatsex's gaping anus.
Slashdot is for lamers and trolls, dont you know that? You are at the wrong place if you want to findsomething that doesnt suck ass.
Might I recommend heading on over to:
kerneltrap.org
comp.lang.fortran
If you hang out here the only thing you will see is that damn ascii picture of goatsex's gaping anus.
Was it absolutely necessary to say that he is your 'best' friend?
A sociopath acts completely without empathy for the feelings of his fellow man, which is the exact opposite of how I feel about this issue. The horror inflicted on thousands of innocent victims and their tens of thousands of orphans and widows cuts me to the bone, and I want to prevent it from happening again by any means necessary.
This is no more than a sensible public-health measure. The Al-Qaeda are in fact sociopaths, clearly dangerous to every non-Muslim and most Muslims in the world, and they should be hunted down and slaughtered with no more moral concern or regret than we would feel in killing a rabid dog.
Regards,
-ccm
PS. why are you an anonymous coward? I am stating my own controversial opinions under my own name without any apology or bush-beating. Your failure to do likewise suggests that you know I am right and you are wrong.
Too much Law; not enough Order.