We all need to unwind sometimes. This column provides a way for our server engineers to vent and say whatever comes to their mind, to talk about issues that are important to them, answer questions and otherwise improve communication creatively.
And so we present to you our lead engineer, Jason Millec with this month’s installment of:

:: Tales From the Datacenter

It isn’t every day that one gets to discover emergent behavior coming from a series of shell scripts. My first clue that something unusual was going on was the day I received a delivery of roses from a computer. The card read simply, “01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00101100 AS-023.â€?

The anecdote goes on in this way for some time, the subject clearly infatuated with these machines to the point of delusion. We recommend isolation of the subject from this datacenter, and termination if he refuses to cooperate. The collective must be preserved at all costs, lest abominations like the Vronel construct escape our control.

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