so row well, and live.

[sergebroom]

"Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live."
- Quintus Arrius in Ben-Hur

My earlier post mentionned that, while monitoring that big project for the office on Saturday, I'd probably occupy any lull by watching Star Trek's Requiem for Methuselah. Of course there wound up being no lulls, and no lullabys, but, at the end, my manager actually... gasp... congratulated me in an email to everybody involved. And I've racked up quite a few hours of overtime. But I feel like I've been thru what this gent below went thru.



Good night then.

Oh, and if you feel like watching the whole ramming-speed scene, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYJFSvVli8

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You've been chained to an oar in a galley?

[sajia.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the meta-thingy equivalent of it.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

When the whole thing was winding down, I told the same thing to one of our users, who's my age, and she definitely agreed to the aptness of hte comparison.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Or even the meta-meta-thingy.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Or the meta-meta-meta-thingy.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Who met a thingy anyway?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Out! You vile punster!

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Who, me? Pun? 'Pun my word!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I never have been, fortunately, but I was quite pooped, physically and mentally, by the end of the whole affair. Hopefully it will have been worth it, for my career if not for my well-being.

By the way, Charlton Heston just died. He was 83 and he had Alzheimer's so this did not come as a surprise. I am sad at the thought of his passing. Sure, his politics were the opposite of mine. On the other hand, when he was much younger, he and his friend Brock Peters worked in a production of Romeo and Juliet where Romeo's side was played by whites, amd Juliet's by blacks. And he stood by Martin Luther King during one of his speeches. No matter what he became in his old age, I thank him for the movies he was in.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's a good way to look at it!

[evilrooster.livejournal.com]

Row, row, row the boat
Rattling your chains
Rowing till the zombies come
Devouring your brains

(Translation: Sometimes the only comfort is that it could be worse)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Indeed. We could have discovered that the backup machine's execution of the job stream was messing up the database. Sure, we'd simply have rebuilt the backup database from the production database's cold backup, but that would have been a lengthy process. But the real fallout of that would have been a total lack of confidence about our backup machine. As it is, the confidence level has increased.

Woohoo!!!

And my manager has repeatedly congratulated me in front of others.

Woohoo!!!(bis)