I'm a web administrator in St. George, UT and run a number of Linux web servers so I am somewhat familiar with the reliabilty of Linux. I would like to think that I know what's going on in the local computer industry here since it's so small, but this story blew me away! To see this kind of support for Linux in my community is just wonderful. Go SGPD! You guys rock.
Why don't you fight back? You think I never got harrassed at school? You think I never had to deal with jerks who wanted to verbally and physically hurt me? You think I put up with it? I have two words for you:
Haell no! (That is Hoosier for Hell no)
Jr. High, and after gym I find someone urinating on my locker. Think I put up with it? Haell no! Someone ended up with their face in the urinal and it sure wasn't me.
Freshman year in High School and I was in Mrs. Burrell's drawing class. Conversation around the table got a little bit off topic and into making fun of me. How I dressed, acted, who my friends were, and why I was such a loser. Think I put up with it? Haell no! Someone ended up with their ass on the floor and it sure wasn't me.
Sophomore year and I was just closing my locker door getting ready to run out to catch my bus when a couple of Juniors wanting to throw their weight around marched down the Sophomore hall throwing kids into their lockers - including myself. Think I am going to put up with it? Haell no! I had been taking some Karate classes (Kempo and Kung Fu mix - thank god for The Karate Kid movies) and I retaliated. I ran after them, yelling like a madman jumped into the air and executed a perfect flying side kick into the middle of the chest of the kid who threw me into the locker - and he went down hard. I landed, turned to face his buddy when lights out. He hit me in my mouth, and the only reason I still have all the teeth in my mouth is because I had braces. Afterwards, I found my braces sticking out of the wrong side of my lips, and he had a cut up hand. But that took the fight out of both of us. The second Junior helped his friend up, and they limped out of the hall while I went and got some stiches in my lip.
So why do you put up with that kind of crap? Why don't you take things into your own hands? Sure, I spent quite a bit of time waiting to see the Vice Principal, and even more time in detention and taking a day off of school, but you know what? I consider myself lucky since those were the only three incidents when things escalated to a point where I had to get violent. I don't know if word spread about me, or if I started walking down the halls with a strut born of a confidence that I wasn't going to take crap from anybody or anything -- especailly from that damned Pascal program that was due in 3rd period!
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I'm a web administrator in St. George, UT and run a number of Linux web servers so I am somewhat familiar with the reliabilty of Linux. I would like to think that I know what's going on in the local computer industry here since it's so small, but this story blew me away! To see this kind of support for Linux in my community is just wonderful. Go SGPD! You guys rock.
Why don't you fight back? You think I never got harrassed at school? You think I never had to deal with jerks who wanted to verbally and physically hurt me? You think I put up with it? I have two words for you:
Haell no!
(That is Hoosier for Hell no)
Jr. High, and after gym I find someone urinating on my locker. Think I put up with it? Haell no! Someone ended up with their face in the urinal and it sure wasn't me.
Freshman year in High School and I was in Mrs. Burrell's drawing class. Conversation around the table got a little bit off topic and into making fun of me. How I dressed, acted, who my friends were, and why I was such a loser. Think I put up with it? Haell no! Someone ended up with their ass on the floor and it sure wasn't me.
Sophomore year and I was just closing my locker door getting ready to run out to catch my bus when a couple of Juniors wanting to throw their weight around marched down the Sophomore hall throwing kids into their lockers - including myself. Think I am going to put up with it? Haell no! I had been taking some Karate classes (Kempo and Kung Fu mix - thank god for The Karate Kid movies) and I retaliated. I ran after them, yelling like a madman jumped into the air and executed a perfect flying side kick into the middle of the chest of the kid who threw me into the locker - and he went down hard. I landed, turned to face his buddy when lights out. He hit me in my mouth, and the only reason I still have all the teeth in my mouth is because I had braces. Afterwards, I found my braces sticking out of the wrong side of my lips, and he had a cut up hand. But that took the fight out of both of us. The second Junior helped his friend up, and they limped out of the hall while I went and got some stiches in my lip.
So why do you put up with that kind of crap? Why don't you take things into your own hands? Sure, I spent quite a bit of time waiting to see the Vice Principal, and even more time in detention and taking a day off of school, but you know what? I consider myself lucky since those were the only three incidents when things escalated to a point where I had to get violent. I don't know if word spread about me, or if I started walking down the halls with a strut born of a confidence that I wasn't going to take crap from anybody or anything -- especailly from that damned Pascal program that was due in 3rd period!