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The Mighty Buzzard writes:
Yeah, so, failure to babysit the db node that was scheduled for a reboot on the 5th resulted in a bit of database FUBAR that left us temporarily losing everything from then to now. Fortunately we had a backup less than six hours old, restored from it, and appear to be copacetic now. Except for the missing five hours and change.
I'd usually make some sort of dumb joke here but it was already four hours past my bedtime when I found out about the problem. My brain is no work good anymore. Fill in whatever dad joke or snark about getting a do-over for a change strikes your fancy.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday August 10 2020, @01:28PM (2 children)
Johnny Cash DID have a double. I met him. Maybe??
April, 1982. Was driving through Colorado Springs. Stopped for gas. Had trouble with the pump. (This was back when self-serve was still somewhat newfangled and nothing like standardized.) Guy comes out of the shack to help. He's wearing coveralls, but no company logo. And he's the bloody spitting image of Johnny Cash.
So after a suitable period of baffled staring, I said to him, "You look just like Johnny Cash!"
And he replies, "Why, thank you," .... in Johnny Cash's voice.
Many moons later, when der interwebs made it possible, I looked up Cash's itinerary for the period. And... he was touring in Colorado that week.
Was it him, or a double? To this day, I just don't know.
[By further weird coincidence, I'm typing this on a PC (that doesn't normally have everyday duties, but is doing emergency service) named "Cash" -- because it was acquired "one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime..." and earlier I looked up a Cash tune on YT for Another Forum... I tell you, he's everywhere....]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by sjames on Monday August 24 2020, @07:22AM (1 child)
What is it about gas stations? I once had a good discussion about quantum physics' implications for philosophy with a gas station attendant who looked exactly like Roy Orbison.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday August 24 2020, @12:44PM
Maybe it's that gas stations have excellent taste in music? or it's their way of expressing resentment over the crud piped in to hapless users of self-serve pumps??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.