Posts by scoldog1 15 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
Saw something not as dramatic at one of my offices a few years back.
A car had driving into the transformer out on the street, knocking it out of action for a few hours. The electrical company guys came out and fixed it, but something wasn't quite right as it blew up a week later. It blew the panel clean across four lanes of road and a grass divider in one go.
when users thought that it was only items that ran on electricity that were under the purview of IT. Monitors, phones, fridges, water coolers etc
Now we're getting requests for chairs, desks, cushions, pretty much anything and everything else under the sun. Just the other day I was asked for tissues.
The park is called Woomera Missile Park and has a bunch of missiles and a Gloster Meteor in it.
https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attraction_Review-g612489-d11721454-Reviews-Woomera_Missile_Park-Woomera_South_Australia.html
Have a look at the street view
https://www.google.com/maps/@-31.1982003,136.8248904,3a,43y,57.43h,84.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE17ni_IN1B82UTT8IAx7gA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
with my family, including my brother who is in the Air Force.
Halfway through the trip, he turned to me and said "I"m afraid of flying!". I asked him how the heck he could be afraid of flying if he joined the Air Force.
He pointed to the roof of the plane and said "I've seen the guys that work on these planes to keep them flying."
Tony Martin, well known Aussie comedian, once had a job in kerning. He told the story of a company who was producing copies of "My Friend Flicka" and didn't pay enough attention to the kerning.
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F236x%2F60%2F5c%2Fce%2F605cce1c93746dde1b61febb4bbaf984--flicka-a-tv.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
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