Rocket Surgeon

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Cake day: March 10th, 2025

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  • I definitely do not care about dicing an onion uniformly, but I read and enjoyed the entire analysis.

    All of the diagrams are of a cross-section of the middle of an onion. You know, it being round and all, it naively makes a lot of sense to assume that’s going to be ok as a model for the entire onion.

    But … I find myself curious … if the solution is to cut to an angle below the onion, and the article did point out that a few pieces along the bottom would be mismatched … It seems that we are overlooking the top and bottom of the onion where sections are going to get some really weird looking cuts.

    They say, “This is an onion. (Well, a simplified cross-section of one.)”
    … No. No that is not an onion. Its not that they’ve chosen an easy problem, but the approximation used here is not an onion.







  • I hate it when my boss says that. Or he will call it “D-RAC”. Annoys the hell out of me.
    It’s iDRAC.
    Yes, there are components that are called RAC, but the Dell out of band management system is called iDRAC.
    … but that’s not as dumb as when he calls the SuperMicro system “iLO”. That’s IPMI. We don’t even own any HPE. I’ve no idea why he’s stuck on iLO.




  • This is the NetAdmin’s problem. And he’s got 3 ways to get into the datacenter, so he goddamn well better have an answer that doesn’t involve airfare. Worst case, he’s gotta use remote hands, but that would be embarrassing, and I’d not let him forget it. Nobody forgives me when I screw up a server cluster, so he gets no latitude when he takes a datacenter offline.










  • I love you people.
    I thought that would be a funny pic, but I don’t think I expected so many fun terms from around the world.

    TLDR … Spatchula and its variants wins by far.
    Got some good entries in the Creative category.
    But, I’m going to go with Pan Licker from now on!

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    The summary, as best I’m able. (Updated a couple times.)

    Things I expected …
    yes - xx
    spatchula - xxxxx
    spoon - xx
    silicone spatula - xx
    rubber spatchula - x
    rubber scraper - x
    dough scraper - x

    Creative …
    spoonula - xxxxxx (This is a real thing!?!?!)
    spatuloon - xx
    spoontula, cousin of the spork - x
    microwaved ice cream spoon - x
    Softspoon - x

    Around the World …
    maryse - x
    slickepot/lick-bowl - xx
    Pannenlikker/Pan-Licker - xx
    Gummihund/rubber-dog - x
    Portugal dictator - ?

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    And then we got some surprise entries on the actual spatchulas behind the red thing.
    These terms totally make sense, but they sound weird as hell to me!

    turners
    fish slices
    egg slice or fish slice
    fish lifters

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    Weird Al had a thing to say about spatchulas.
    He says I spell it wrong …
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BUDwj_mXKE