Preventer of information services (3) Nov 16, 2007
This guy works where I work. 
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He just changed around our whole email system and broke our voicemail. 

I understand the purpose of IT people and know several of them personally.  However, this has been my official stance for quite some time now:  The reason IT people have jobs and get paychecks is because of the work done by people like me.  The work I do is the thing that actually earns money.  The work IT people do is to help me work better and more efficiently.  With that in mind, get out of my way and let me do my job, you bunch of geeks.  (This should bring angry comments from at least three people I know.  Bring it on, geeks.) #entertainment
Platypus (2) Nov 16, 2007
Not only does the platypus "have feet like a duck but it's furry," (remember that commercial from the 80s?) it also has venomous spurs on it's hind feet that inject predators (and possibly other male platypuses competing for the same mate) with poison strong enough to kill small animals and cause extreme pain to humans.  So the next time you're in Australia and come across one of these egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammals, don't pick it up. 

That's the most interesting new thing I've learned in quite some time. #nature
Road work time Nov 16, 2007
I have a simple suggestion for road work crews:  Don't start working until after 9am, and stop before 4pm.  I don't know if you're aware of this, but other people have jobs too.  And it turns out that these jobs are usually a non-zero distance from each person's home.  Hence the invention of the word "commute".  What might also come as a surprise is the fact that a lot of people work during the day, and more specifically sometime between the hours of 8am and 5pm.  So by digging up roads and closing others down, you're totally screwing up my entire life, you bunch of orange-clothed, asphalt-scented idiots. #travel