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Cake day: September 13th, 2026

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  • A fat chance means the odds are so wide it would be impossible. Like, you have so many slim chances at once on different factors for it to remotely work.

    A slim chance means the odds are tight but there is an actual chance on a single factor.

    One slim chance is better than 40 slim chances focused on a single goal, so fat chance.

    When I use slim chance, I actually will try it if it isn’t going to work and it wouldn’t hurt to try.

    Fat chance means you shouldn’t bother to try it. The stars would have to perfectly align.












  • Been in IT for 25 years. This is the greatest perk.

    I worked for a hospitality company, fortune 500, who had acquired us and had never had an IT department before.

    I still have boxes of Cat5e from the wifi installations, who said to pitch the cable into the trash.

    I also harvested a switch with just one bad port (48 port cisco catalyst) and when they decided to upgrade the call center with new PCs and were throwing away the old pizza boxes, we were all stuff our cars. I built a cluster, just because, but then started reinstalling Winders XP on them and giving them to friends, family, or selling them dirt cheap to acquaintances.






  • There is a mexican food truck that will give me two meals worth of food for $10. I haven’t eaten “fast” food in a long time, but I live in the city. There is an indian grocery store that sells samosas, as well as other items, hot and ready.

    I would rather hit a Quick Trip or Circle K before I would touch McDonald’s or any YUM! brand, basically any fast food or chain. And I am still not keen on gas station food. I eat from locally owned if I eat out, usually. (grabbing food while going on site at work will cause me to make exceptions: still won’t do McDonald’s. I have done Arby’s if they have a good deal, or Subway has a good meal of the day).