Since I am playing in a ‘Beer Band’ tomorrow night to help raise funds for the band, yes!! I’ll be wearing shorts and braces and a funny Bavarian style hat….score!@! I thought it would be rather topical to share this link with you!

Got sent to me in the mail today, and is probably quite accurate! >>

Beer Goggles

Although in all seriousness, the work of all the scientists at CERN involved with the LHC are potentially going to pull of the greatest experiment since the creation of the humble sandwich; it never ceases to amaze me the amount of humour that be gleaned from such as this! I thought my last link in the previous post was the ticket, but then that is before I found these secret LIVE web-cam feeds of the LHC itself….has to be seen to be believed!

Hadron Collider Live Web-Cam Feed

Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

In other news - YES MUM!! I am still alive and well and living in New Zealand ;p

(1) It Has To Work.

(2) No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority,
you can’t increase the speed of light.

(2a) (corollary). No matter how hard you try, you can’t make a
baby in much less than 9 months. Trying to speed this up
*might* make it slower, but it won’t make it happen any
quicker.

(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is
not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they
are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them
as they fly overhead.

(4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor
understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in
networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither
builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational
network.

(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems
into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases
this is a bad idea.

(6) It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving
the problem to a different part of the overall network
architecture) than it is to solve it.

(6a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of
indirection.

(7) It is always something

(7a) (corollary). Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can’t
have all three).

(8) It is more complicated than you think.

(9) For all resources, whatever it is, you need more.

(9a) (corollary) Every networking problem always takes longer to
solve than it seems like it should.

(10) One size never fits all.

(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and
a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.

(11a) (corollary). See rule 6a.

(12) In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there
is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take
away.

Acknowledgement:-

Ross Callon
Internet Order of Old Farts
c/o Bay Networks
3 Federal Street
Billerica, MA 01821

1st April 1996…

still cracks me up when I see this!

‘She grew on him like she was a colony of E.coli and he was room temperature prime beef…’