Yeah, this is a bit like driving your car off of a mile high cliff and saying that the restraint system is the reason you died... yeah... you know... that or the impact and the ensuing fireball.

Re: your sig - for the same sad reason you never see "sneaked" rather than "snuck".

Keep in mind that there are different Blu-Ray formats and those newer, cheaper players don't support all Blu-Ray features like the PS3 does. I looked into it myself before I got a PS3 on craigslist to play Blu-Rays and my old PS2 games.

As an aside, I actually prefer my PS3 to my Xbox. I think the menu on the XBox sucks, it's slower at loading up the media on my home server, and I've never liked the controllers much. XBox Live is ok but I've never seen it as being super-amazing like everyone says it is. Maybe I'm spoiled by PC gaming in that respect.

rofl, I read the daily wtf all the time but I had somehow never seen that one. Classic.

Story 1

We once had a sales woman rush in and tell us that someone had "stolen her network cable and replaced it with a short one". She was furious and absolutely certain that someone was messing with her stuff. This was confusing because she had a docking station... why is she even messing with her network cable?

Naturally we walked down to her office to find that rather than leaving her docking station plugged-in and stationary at her desk she had been unplugging it and taking it with her. The network cable was just long enough to reach from the desk hole to the back of the docking station and she was trying to plug the thing into the ethernet jack on the side of the laptop itself. We plugged the network cable into the docking station, walked away snickering, and created a new award for stupid users in her honor.

Story 2

I'll never forget the day I came in and saw an e-mail from someone else in IT ranting about how their supply of food stuffs had been raided. He insisted that everyone else should check to make sure nothing else had been stolen by those shifty people that clean the offices at night. Despite joking speculation that it was just one of our co-workers he refused to relent. Of course... a few hours later our boss rolls in and sees the e-mail. He then sends out a reply explaining that he'd pulled an all nighter and that he was the dirty food thief.

I had a problem with someone that decided a keyboard wasn't just for typing - it was also a convenient place to store uneaten food bits. This + time = a keyboard that was just a little grass seed away from being a Chia Pet. I foolishly tried replacing the board with a shiny new one... we all know what happened.

The number of times I saw grant money go toward machines that faculty were barely even capable of using let alone fully utilizing in college is depressing. Where's my grant money for a small server farm for my rendering and compilation projects? Leaving my machine to churn for 13 hours sucks. (OC'd Core 2 Duo w/ 4 GB of RAM isn't exactly slow)

What're you making, an artistic collage? Just paste the freaking things into Outlook along with an explanation of your problem and be done with it. That's like typing something up in Word and then taking a screenshot of it and opening it in paint so that you can print it. You're doing it wrong.

Screenshots in Word are infuriating because if they have Word then they have Outlook. If you have Outlook you can just paste the freaking screenshot into the message inline and save your admin some time. It drives us crazy at my work as well.

The only thing worse than using AOL has gotta be supporting the kind of people that use it.

I remember in school when were just starting to be allowed to cite online sources in our papers. I got in an argument with the librarian about how exactly the citations should work. She swore up and down that we had to include a "last updated" date as part of the citation. I laughed myself silly and tried to explain to her that 99% of pages at that time didn't provide that sort of information. She refused to back down or admit that I knew more about it than she did... I bet she was an AOL user. (As an aside, I was vindicated years later when the Little Brown Handbook including information for citing websites. It required that you include the date you visited it, not the "last update" date.)

What good is a window in a basement anyway? Watch the worms?

Seriously. I've known plenty of people that have stepped out of high paid positions to go work someplace where they'll have more fun. If you're making 6 figures but you spend 10 hours a day hating everything, what's the point? There's no reason not to just make less doing something you actually enjoy.

-FPS Doug

I still don't understand all the whining about that... Personally I played the game no differently than I would have if there had been no chambers and I'd had to have started an entire level all over again if I died. If you want to mindlessly run around and blow through the game then why bother playing at all? If you think it's too easy then just switch to the hardest setting which removed the chambers.

Oh I just love that comic. Of course I also have a fondness for finding any excuse to link people to that particular one. It's just so random and awesome. You'd never see anything like that in the Sunday morning paper.