Category Archives: Empire

The Enormous Computer Corporation

I get to re-train

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Marchbanks

I’ve started feeling bored at the Empire—and when I start to feel bored is when I start to get dangerous, both to myself and to others. Continue reading →

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I have to re-evaluate the meaning of “personal best”

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Marchbanks

It would now appear that either I ran out of work or I just wasn’t trying on Friday. Continue reading →

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I can haz slo(er) week?

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Marchbanks

Really, I would like it if this week piled on a little less than last week did. Continue reading →

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O, le garbage!

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Marchbanks

We got stared at like Martians when I asked for a darning egg. Continue reading →

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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Marchbanks

Yesterday morning my dotted-line manager (P&L) came up, to ask whether I thought I could find a used-exchange match for one of our big-dog Roswell gaming portables, in a real hurry.  Turned out that he’d gotten an SOS from someone … Continue reading →

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Just when you thought it was safe

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Marchbanks

I like working where I am at the Empire, but at times like this, with limited backup and nobody else willing to cross-train, it gets overwhelming. Continue reading →

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Back in the exchange business

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Marchbanks

Dammit, I was enjoying not having to horse-trade with customers every day. Continue reading →

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All my joints HURT

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Marchbanks

I’ve shoveled two cubic yards of compost out of a six-by-three-by-four pen, one coal-scoop at a time. Continue reading →

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I haz a Goost (again)

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Marchbanks

I declared this to be Ghost Server Migration Day. Continue reading →

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In which Empirical corporate culture is introduced to Little Jimmy Dickens

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Marchbanks

They’ll look bad, and have puny ways. Continue reading →

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