blech:
posted on 2003/07/29 12:51
'Felix Baumgartner plans to leap from a plane 30,000 feet above Dover and glide over the 21 miles of water to France'
'The flight has been given the codename "Icarus Two", after the Greek mythological figure who fell to his death when he flew too close to the sun.'
Yes, wouldn't Daedalus Two have been a less worrying name?
Also in news.bbc.co.uk's "It's silly season: we need press releases!" section, loss of email worse than divorce. Apparently.
Trelane:
for techies who have to support email, and will probably get the sack if it's down for a week.
so spending a week thinking that you could get fired in the next 30 seconds for something that is crippling the company that you're trying your hardest to fix but are unable to do so considered stressful? Wow! I'm glad the bbc thought to inform me of that.
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ext:circ / Sigh: BoingBoing says: A survey has concluded that techies are more traumatized by being cut off from the net than by...
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE