Carnival of Wank

If you can’t show un-bias political segments, split from Canwest Media and shack up with Fox. You’ll enjoy each other’s company.

Bah.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother watching. I guess I’m just a bit of a sadist.

Today at Wendy’s:

Customer: What’s that awful beeping?
Manager: Well, either the deepfrier is reversing or we’re all going to die.
Customer: *Runs screaming from the restaurant*
Manager: …

I used to train call center agents how to troubleshoot technical issues with a specific piece of software (a tale for another time), and one class a particularly outspoken agent (who had a tendency to ask rather personal questions) asked me “Do you like grilled-cheese sandwiches?” Please keep in mind that the subject of the moment had nothing to do with grills, cheese, or eating.

I stood in front of the class, slightly perplexed, and pondered for only a moment before answering, “Yes….”

Undeterred by the skeptical look on my face, she asked another question: “If I made you a grilled-cheese sandwich, would you eat it?”

This time I didn’t hesitate before answering with a firm, blunt, “No.”

Everyone laughed. The girl didn’t seem at all surprised, and dropped the subject. I honestly have no idea why she asked (I never did ask her), but based on some of her other questions (again, a story for another time) I can only assume she had a mild crush on me.

I did, however, explain to the girl, and class why I wouldn’t eat the offered sandwich, and why I no longer take my shoes off if someone else me not to.

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While looking through Event Viewer logs on a few servers today, I came across this gem:

The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer COMPUTERNAME that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{AF4FC9E2-13C7-E47B-A. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.

It seems the server was trying to keep in line with Canadian Politics, however it got the outcome a little wrong.