So our company sprung and purchased IT a copy of VMWare Infrastructure Foundation so we can get on the virtualization bandwagon. The VI Server software fairly rocks. Setting it up is a breeze, networking is all virtualized, and setting up virtual servers is a piece of cake.

The idea is to set up a new accounting timesheet server and Exchange test server on the VMWare boxes. The accounting timesheet server will be easy. However, Exchange might be a bear. So I look up the requirements: There must be a Windows 2003 SP1 domain contoller somewhere for Exchange to muck up with it's schema changes and such.

So today, for the first time, I heard the term "muffin top". I am turning into an old man, I guess. From Urban Dictionary:

muffin top
1013 up, 179 down

Muffin-Top is a word used to describe the strange and bizarre waist scrunching effect that results when females wear tight fitting, low-rise/hip-hugger pants along with small-sized, navel exposing, mid-riff tops.

is Iron Man really as far into fiction as we think it is?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080515/video/vwl-reuters-quickcut-flying-man-d7f4ae7.html
Boy, that looks like an awful lot of fun!

Came across a post on RationalResponders about How To Irritate An Atheist. Here are some of my favorites, that actually work really well on me if you'd like to drive me nuts:

I transferred registrars from Register.com -- whom I've been a customer of for 10 years -- to Godaddy.com. Still waiting on it to come through, so at some unknown time, my site will go down for at least a few hours until I bring up the new records.

So after watching tonight, my list of movies made much better by Rifftrax™ has increased by one! Star Trek V has been on the list for a year -- that movie is hilarious when you watch it with RiffTrax™ -- and now I must add Eragon to the list.

Favorite line: "Wait, wait, wait for it... pull my finger!"

Friday Morning, 9:30 AM. Our weekly interdepartmental meeting:

VANESSA THE ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR: All right, so that wraps up marketing, production, costuming, and the equine department. Before we close, let's open for Round Table. Does anyone have anything they'd like to bring up?

JOHN: Actually, I would like to announce that last night I actually rolled *three*, yes three, natural 20s *in a row.*

I... simply don't know what to say. How can he assume such vile things about the video-gaming community?

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/jack-thompson-p.html

The juicy quotes from this letter from Jack to Strauss Zelnick, the producer for Grand Theft Auto IV. Jack has been prohibited by the court from contacting Take Two directly, so sent it to Zelnick's lawyer...

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Added a Twitter block to the right-hand side of my page. I hop on a couple of days a week, do a half-dozen mad updates, and then do something else. I think maybe if it's on my blog, I'll remember to update it more regularly.

I dig the brief-social-networking aspect of Twitter. No more than 140 characters means you must be succinct.

Ring, Ring.

"This is Matthew."

"Hi, Honey, it's Christy."

"Hey, babe, how are you doing this morning?"

"Well, the Federal Express man just came and brought two shiny new boxes from Apple."

"Our iPhones came?"

"Our iPhones came."

"Will you please take them out and plug them in so they are fully-charged by the time I get home tonight? That way we can activate them right away."