{"id":253,"date":"2004-10-30T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-12-29T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:08:41","slug":"0x486f2c20-0x686f2c20-0x686f2e00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2004\/10\/30\/0x486f2c20-0x686f2c20-0x686f2e00\/","title":{"rendered":"0x486f2c20 0x686f2c20 0x686f2e00"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was musing on similarities between Santa Claus and system administrators. Consider:<\/p>\n

1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.<\/p>\n

2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal.<\/p>\n

3. Santa seldom answers your mail.<\/p>\n

4. When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he\u2019s got, he says, \u201cElves make it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. Santa doesn\u2019t care about your deadlines.<\/p>\n

6. Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa, but did all the work themselves.<\/p>\n

7. Nobody knows who Santa has to answer to for his actions.<\/p>\n

8. Santa laughs entirely too much.<\/p>\n

9. Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your $HOME.<\/p>\n

10. Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in his presence.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas, worms.<\/p>\n

Historic note: this was the first thing I recall writing that escaped into the wild. I sent out what I thought was a mildly amusing seasonal greeting to my users, and someone forwarded it to someone else\u2026 Of course, the following Christmas one of my users sent it to me. Shortly before suffering an inexplicable refusal of the \u201cls\u201d command to return anything but<\/em><\/p>\n

ls: .: permission denied<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was musing on similarities between Santa Claus and system administrators. Consider: 1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny. 2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal. 3. Santa seldom answers your mail. 4. When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he\u2019s got, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}