Rocket Surgeon

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Cake day: March 10th, 2025

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  • 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