Sometimes I wonder

[hrj]

So I really do like being the office's "walking reference book for grammatical information, trivia, and odd facts". It's a fun little game and it gives people a non-threatening pigeonhole to stick some of my otherwise-potentially-annoying quirks in. But there are days when I have to ask, "What have these people done with their lives that they don't know these things?" Is it really that esoteric and arcane a bit of knowlege who and what the Faust is behind "Faustian bargain"? It's not a litmus test -- it's just an example. But a lot of them are like that. My sanity is currently being saved by the admin who's been temporarily stuck in our bullpen due to some office-moving limbo. She and I are on similarly off-kilter wavelengths a lot of the time and half the time we're the only ones who laugh at each others' jokes. Don't get me wrong, I get along just fine with my co-workers. Couldn't ask for better. But I crave people whose minds are stuffed with something other than basketball, shoes, and American Idol.

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[madfilkentist]

The original Kerberos? Or is this a new piece of security software with the same name?

(The userpic this time is of a cat I named "Haydn," because that was what he did all the time.)

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

No, a new piece of software for a in-house production. (I did meet one of the designers for the original once....)

One of our cats is named "Archer," from the movie "Small Soldiers" (I think, the one with the toys who come to life?), because Archer was "good at hiding."