Sheesh! I qualify for lots of these.
Thanks, Ursarodina
Tag: silly
The silliest and most common hiding places for passwords
When I was an IT admin, I had the pleasure of dealing often with people who would submit urgent service requests and then leave for the day, leaving their office empty and computer locked by the time I could get there to help. Fortunately, I was often able to fix their problem while they weren’t there. Why? Their password was somewhere on their desk in one of these easy-to-find locations.
Under the Keyboard. This is a pretty common one, and one of the first places to look if you need to find someone’s password (or one of the first places to avoid if you need to jot down an often-used but difficult to remember password.) The worst offenders leave them on a post-it on their keyboard tray, or under the spot where their keyboard lives. Others attach the post-it to the underside of the keyboard, thinking it’s better hidden there. In both cases, it’s a sure bet that anything under the keyboard will have a password on it…
Under the Mouse Pad. This is another common hiding place for people who don’t want to put their passwords under their keyboard. They’ll usually slide a couple of sheets of paper under the mousepad with their usernames and passwords on it and refer to them when they forget, or update them when their password expires…
Under the Desk. One of the most disturbingly common spots many officer workers hide their passwords is one of the easiest to find: right under their desk surface. Just sit down at their desk and put your hand directly under the desktop, and you’ll often find yet another post-it note attached there. Most people who do this operate under the assumption that no one’s ever under their desk to see or notice such a thing—except the IT admin or help desk tech they call when they’ve jostled the Ethernet cable loose from the back of their desktop…
I haven’t even posted half of the silly places people think are secure in the world of prairie-dog cubicles. If you’re guilty of any of these, go apologize in advance to your network administrator. You may have compromised everything that should be secure. And if your password is “1-2-3-4-5” – quit your job and go back to flipping burgers for a living.
So where should you store your passwords? RTFA for a couple of suggestions.
Top 10 silly summer events in the United States
Just the insanity you can get up to with stuff you find around the farm
If you enjoy the strange, unusual or downright wacky and you’re planning a summer of fun in the United States, online travel adviser TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com) may have a festival of foolishness that will appeal to you in its top 10 list of the wackiest summer events in the United States. Reuters has not endorsed this list:
1. Humungus Fungus Festival: August 5-7, Crystal Falls, Mich.
2. National Hollerin’: June 18, Spivey’s Corner, N.Carolina
3. Cream Cheese Festival: September 17, Lowville, New York
4. Watermelon Thump: June 23-26, Luling, Texas
5. Summer Redneck Games: July 9, East Dublin, Georgia
6. Gilroy Garlic Festival: July 29-31, Gilroy, Cal.
7. Barnesville Potato Days: August 26-27, Barnesville, Minn.
8. Cow Chip Throw: Sept 2-3, Prairie du Sac, Wis.
9. Baby Food Festival: July 20-23, Fremont, Mich.
10. Heritage Duct Tape Festival: June 17-19, Avon, Oh.
Actually, I’ve been to a couple of these. Only seriously considered entering competition in one. 🙂
Pic of the Day
Dumbest floor lamp ever.
A employee poses with the Black Horse Lamp displayed inside a hotel in Taipei. The piece was conceptualised by design house Moooi of the Netherlands and is made from PVC/cotton on a metal structure.
World’s ugliest buildings – Take 2
As many of you know, last year’s list of the “World’s Ugliest Buildings” not only made the front page of Yahoo.com, but caused quite the controversy in Boston where some took issue with our choice of Boston City Hall as the world’s ugliest building.
As comprehensive as the list was, there are still dozens of buildings out there that make us want to avert our eyes when we walk by, so with that in mind, we’ve compiled our 2nd Annual List of The World’s Ugliest Buildings! Enjoy!
From the merely unpleasant to the borderline criminal, ugly buildings somehow manage to pop up in even the prettiest cities. With this in mind, VirtualTourist.com has announced its 2nd Annual List of the “World’s Top 10 Ugly Buildings,” as decided by its members and editors. VirtualTourist.com general manager, Giampiero Ambrosi discusses the list’s significance: “Many of these buildings don’t have the warmth of an ice cube while others don’t even seem completed. Either way, they make for very interesting conversation.”
My personal best goes to #8, Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. I wish it would finish falling down.
What do you eat when certain no one will catch you at it?
The foods that we share, the meals that bind us together, have a code that we all implicitly understand. We know that the starter precedes the main course, followed by the dessert. We know that a wedding demands a cake-shaped centrepiece – whether crafted from dried fruit, butter and sugar, a heap of profiteroles, or layers of jellies. We know that a bowl of chicken soup, prepared for us when we are ill, is offered with a hope for better health.
But beyond these meals lies a secret realm of food, a universe of individual, often bizarre dishes, eaten by the light of the fridge, or tucked up in bed, or pacing back and forth across the kitchen. These are the meals that we eat when no one else is watching – meals that shrug off all convention and compromise. Now, in a new book by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin, What We Eat When We Eat Alone, these secret, often sensationally strange meals, are made public.
The book has its origins in some trips that Madison, a cookbook writer, and McFarlin, her painter husband, took with a group of food experts. The party had been brought together for a thinktank project and, as an icebreaker, McFarlin started asking what they ate in private. “Some answers were funny,” says Madison. “Some were strange…”
The couple continued the project together, and their discoveries were often outlandish. There was the person who enjoyed eating bread soaked in margarita mix; one who fried up leftover spaghetti with Swiss cheese; another who poured sardine juice over cottage cheese; another who took a slice of bread, flattened it, covered it with butter and sugar, then froze it briefly. Apparently this tastes a bit like a cookie. Which raises the question – why not just buy a cookie? And wouldn’t that margarita mix have tasted better as a drink..?
RTFA. A few bits good for a chuckle – especially when you recognize yourself.
I’ve had two distinct periods of this in my life. When I was first working fulltime – moved out from my parents and on my own – and I would do something like eating my favorite mozzarella or scamorze for lunch. Nothing else. Just a whole pound of cheese.
And, now, retired – at home with the dogs – the days schedule revolving around blogging [as ever], surfing the Web, watching proper football [finally the summer break and exhibition friendly season is over], some nature photography – I have one-and-a-half meals through the day.
That may include a fried egg and provolone sandwich with mayonnaise and strawberry jam.
10 worst ads of the political season
Politico asked campaign operatives on both sides to nominate their favorite commercials of the cycle — and by favorite, we mean the most memorably bad.
This was a bipartisan exercise. Offered anonymity, some Democrats nominated Democratic ads and some Republicans chose GOP ads.
Ineptitude, as we discovered, knows no party.
Politico rated this advert as #3 on the stinker scale. My #1 choice as characteristic of those who favor an “Imperial” Texas.
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