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More geek terms

It’s no wonder I love reading The Register - their sense of humor is just down in the gutter enough for me.  This article has a couple more wanky terms

• ten-fingered fandango
• pickle ticklers (people who engage in said activity)

Geek terms for masturbation

I was just reading The Register’s article about a prisoner who had his jail sentence extended for wanking in his cell without covering himself up with a blanket, when it occurred to me how many terms for masturbation there are.

Just in the one article, we had:

• Cracking one off
• Five knuckle shuffle
• Beating the bishop

And my favorite (which you probably have to be a sysadmin to appreciate):

• Running in single user mode

Back in Sydney

Just popped into Sydney today to do some server maintenance and do my taxes.

All I can say is: wow! I’d wondered over the past month or so if the move to Brisbane was a good idea -  mainly owing to the fact that I’m still stuck working at home and now know even fewer people than in Sydney.

I can happily confirm that getting out of Sydney was the best decision we could have made. I have reached this conclusion after, in my first 6 hours here, I:

- Was delayed in the plane in a holding pattern over Sydney airport for 30 mins

- Watched the thick brown flu inducing smog haze that covers the entire city from the comfort of said plane at 10:30am
- Got stuck in traffic for another 30 minutes between the airport and the city (it’s a 6km journey), listening to my driver belittle me for moving to such a backwater as Brisbane.
- Upon hailing another cab from town, was told by a taxi driver that we would go his way to Mascot and not the way I want, meaning I’d have to lug my equipment across a 7 lane road to the datacentre, because it’s less convenient to him to go the way I wanted.
- Was rejected by two taxi drivers back from Mascot to the city, because the fare wasnt’ big enough for them, so having to walk to the train station, loaded up with computer equipment.

- Missed the train back to town because the ticket machine didn’t accept dollar coins, and the ticket office was so far behind the gates that the person there couldn’t see me to let me through until i jumped the gate and promptly got accused of trying to dodge my fare

- Was abused by a turning driver for daring to continue walking across the road after the little red light started blinking as I got half way across on my way back to the hotel

Ah, Sydney!  What a hole.  Back home with my babies tomorrow night!