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roommates approach unloading the dishwasher with what i can only describe as a surrealist sensibility. putting dishes in places not even god himself would think to put them

swagophile

they led me to water once and i drank a bunch. i was thristy. it was easy for me. i think horses are just lame

dogpuppy

“hi welcome to gas station what can I get for you?”

“yeah can I get drinks?”

“absolutely, do you want honey bun or just drinks?”

“uuuuuh hold on”

*fishes something out of my pocket*

“mikey what do i do?”

“get the honey bun. youll need the energy in the coming days”

*stuffs it back in my pocket*

“uhh yes please the honey bun would be great”

everest-81

Come on

junglejim4322

A couple weeks ago my boyfriend (habitual sleeptalker) said in his sleep “thats crazyyyyyy” and I said “what’s crazy?” And he said “that you didn’t know that” and then turned over and did not elaborate. And I can’t stop thinking about it what didnt I know..

ms-demeanor

Okay so my actual assigned-by-my-boss potentially revenue generating job for today was supposed to be updating a simple quote and sending it to the client.

Reader, it was not simple.

ms-demeanor

The rest of this post needs a dramatis personae:

UPS - Uninterruptable Power Source

SR(1-6) - Server Rooms 1-6

LSF - Another server room but with a different name

PSA - Software that includes client management and hardware management tools, plus ticket tracking and history

RMM - Software that includes remote management tools

Documentation Platform (DP) - software that hosts documentation about client passwords and other information

IP address - location of a device on a network

Serial Number - Unique hardware ID, in this case it must be noted that the manufacturer serial number includes the device production date.

There are seven UPSs, SR1-UPS, SR2-UPS, SR3-UPS, SR4-UPS, SR5-UPS, SR6-UPS, and LSF-UPS. The names should, in theory, correspond to the Server Rooms they are placed in and the documentation in the PSA, RMM, and Documentation platform should match.

ms-demeanor

We need to quote replacement batteries for any devices that are reaching about three years of age.

We don't have a documented inventory of UPSs for this client (bad). SR6-UPS, SR2-UPS, and LSF-UPS are not visible in our RMM or on the network, but have records on the PSA and the DP.

We have been attempting to define a "source of truth" for our equipment (this has been a very big part of my job recently due to lifecycle management) and the way this is SUPPOSED to work is that the RMM gathers information from a device, which syncs with the PSA to create a Configuration Item (CI), which syncs with the DP to create a record. The PSA is supposed to be the source of truth, because it can be updated from muliple RMMs but we can manually create CIs if we have to.

The PSA can *only* be updated via the RMM if something called Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is enabled on the devices. It has, historically, not been standard for us to enable SNMP on most devices.

Because we weren't able to see everything about these devices via the RMM, I sent a tech to the site to find all of these a few months ago.

ms-demeanor

Immediate, instantaneous problem: the first UPS is showing an assigned name that doesn't match any of the other devices, and is displaying two serial numbers. One serial number indicates that the device was manufactured in 2017 and the other indicates that it was manufactured in 2022.

This is NOT the device I'd sent the tech to document - the device I'd sent the tech to document was not connected to the network.

ms-demeanor

The device that has two serial numbers is supposed to be LSF-UPS. Instead the device shows "NND-1" as its description.

The device not connected to the network is SR6-UPS, it appears to be functional and plugged in but does not have SNMP enabled. It is also nine years old at a minimum, and (according to the tickets in our PSA) had the battery replaced in 2020. This is, as far as I know, the only actual device that is in the network that was manufactured in 2017.

The next device is SR2-UPS, which is not showing as connected to the network in our RMM, but is visible from other management devices.

The tech takes photos of:

The serial number

The product number

The MAC address

The IP Address

He does not photograph each of these identifiers for each machine. It's sort of a grab bag of what he documented for each one.

ms-demeanor

The tech documents spotty information on SR1-6 and LSF-UPS.

I find this information unsatisfactory. I go to the manufacturer management portal and export the list of devices we've got registered on the portal. That list includes:

SR1-SR5 UPS.

It does not include LSF-UPS

It DOES include Stand-55 UPS. Which I do not have documented by the tech.

Neat. It also says that SR2 and Stand-55 have lost connection, but provides IP addresses for all devices and also has location descriptions for most devices.

I decide I need more info. I go to the RMM.

ms-demeanor

The RMM has no serial numbers. It has only one MAC address. It has IP addresses that don't match the IPs from the photos or from the vendor.

It is showing two devices offline, they are not the same two devices that the vendor showed as offline. Some of the devices that show as last connected a year ago in the RMM show online from the vendor.

My ears start ringing.

The RMM shows one device created in 2015. The vendor serial number from that device indicates that it was manufactured in 2022.

I require documentation. I go to the documentation platform.

ms-demeanor

I have 8 UPSs (SR1-6, LSF, and Stand-55).

The documentation platform has twelve configuration items labeled as UPSs.

Each item has a linked server room and a unique identifier that is synced from our PSA.

The document for LSF has a note that it was edited in 2018. The serial number for LSF indicates that it was manufactured in 2022. The ticket I have for installing it is from 2023.

ms-demeanor

The document for another device has no name, in place of the name is an IP address that doesn't match any of the other IPs that I've collected thus far.

ms-demeanor

The documentation platform has three ID documents for S1-UPS, each of them has a different unique ID (which is supposed to correspond to the unique ID from our PSA). One of the unique IDs includes the vendor MAC address of the device with the same name as part of the unique ID. All three documents have different create dates, on of which is from 2017. The vendor serial number indicates this UPS was manufactured in 2023. The document from six years before the hardware was manufactured is the only one that lists a physical location.

I need to check the documentation platform against the PSA, so I have to search the unique IDs in the PSA.

ms-demeanor

Surprise! It's bad!

ms-demeanor

Okay so apparently the reason that the UPS had two serials in the photos that had two different create dates is because apparently from 2015 until 2023 we've been using hand-me-down NIC cards in new hardware (even when the cards are past support age).

But also: for some reason SR2-UPS and the UPS that has just an IP address for a name are the same device and the of the 6 IPs associated with these two records only one matches the IP that's the document name.

ms-demeanor

The documentation platform has a network diagram that I can search by IP address to see what switches the UPSs are connect to.

SR2-UPS/IP Address Name - since the name is SR2 that should be in Server Room 2 and on the Server Room 2 Switch.

But no, that would make sense. It's on the Server Room 1-2 Switch.

ms-demeanor

Documenting 8 UPSs.

ms-demeanor

Also sometimes Server Room 6 is known as SR6, and sometimes it's known as NPP6, and sometimes it's known as SR NPP, and sometimes it's known as the Loft.

So I'm specifically trying to find solid documentation on a piece of hardware that has a minimum of 4 different names and is cobbled together from hand me down hardware using CIs that are only distinguishable by 40-character IDs because we replace hardware with hardware that we name in exactly the same way and nobody prior to me seems to have understood what the fuck a serial number is.

Anyway that's 14 records for 8 devices.

ms-demeanor

I spent seven hours on this and it's for a quote that will generate less than $300 of profit. And I haven't even unfucked the documentation yet, I've just documented HOW it is fucked.

ms-demeanor

In case it's not clear, this also means that the PSA, which is supposed to be our "source of truth" that I've spent the last two months organizing my work around is fundamentally untrustworthy in a way that is unfixable without a lot of exceptionally tedious work.

dragon-in-a-fez

maybe the ice mummy is tired of having to be strong. did you ever think of that

20thcenturyb0y

i miss when summers were normal and not literal hell

sin-ophelia

Fangirls Through the Ages by Lid Thom

segamascott

eebie

the daniel that couldnt be damned

planefood

Sign I saw in the city

klappersacks

(via File Photo)

mudwerks

WTF are those obelisks on the right?…

pricklylegs-deactivated20250727

Tasty obelisk fries..

memewhore

“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.

gingerhaze

“It’s digestible”

rhea314

“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.” Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index. Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5] In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s. Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco. Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

The more you know! :D

nianeyna

I have learned a new thing today.

soupwife

Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated

nianeyna

I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.

dancinbutterfly

but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!

Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.

mr-elementle

Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food

papapastoral

And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes

elf7knight

This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.

It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post

retropopcult

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

foone

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

silencedrowns

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

meeedeee

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside