Thursday, October 27, 2005

Some people don’t live in reality

I’m cold.  It’s a cold morning in Seattle.  Br.  To combat the chill, I went to the kitchen for some tea.  Yummy Chai tea.  I walked into the middle of a conversation between 3 guys.  They were discussing computer problems.  One guy was saying that his computer was slowly purging all of his data.  Um, okay.  Then they started talking about retrieval and how the information never really goes away.  Okay.  Then one guy says, “wouldn’t you love to be in IT working on machines that come back in?  I bet those guys just love looking at all the stuff that comes in.”
And that’s when it hit me.  These guys were no longer living in reality.  They think there is an office of guys who sit around and, when you bring in your old machine, actually have time to surf through your old hard drive to see what you were up to.  Ha!
It was a good laugh.