BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 25/09/2026Me: Well there’s no accounting for imagined technical ability. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 17/09/2026It’s official. Below printers for me is any BYOD on WiFi, and then point of sale devices. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 17/09/2026I have a couple of sorted folders of inbox email that I mark read and move to an archive every day (equipment generated). Occasionally I accidentally hit “Empty Folder”, and the voices in my head start egging me on … Crossposted with @openvibe.socialmedia0.giphy.comhttps://media0.giphy.com/media/qDPg6HNz2NfAk/200.gif 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 17/09/2026Erika rang the bell today to celebrate the last round of radiation. It’s back to the new normal of immunotherapy (infusion every 3 weeks and a daily pill with no fun side effects). But, she hit a milestone. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 030
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 11/09/2026youtu.be/dCqsFa2u5WA... Crossposted with @openvibe.socialyoutu.beI traded my impostor syndrome 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 31/08/2026Me: So this is what 56 is like. Erika: Welcome. Me: Thanks for prepping the way. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 120
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 29/08/2026Arguably the proof that people’s brains no longer work is that they believe AI generated stuff without question. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 29/08/2026JFC I just lived this. “we want a meeting to make sure we have all this figured out for a server move.” Me: Why? Put a ticket in for the SSL cert, and then a ticket for the DNS change. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 11/08/2026Note to self: While the phone can usually last a couple of days on a charge, you should probably charge it up before any ophthalmologist visit, since for multiple reasons you’ll spend several hours in a waiting room. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 07/08/2026You know where AI could do some good? Elevators. A lot of us could save ourselves a significant chunk of time if the thing looked at the clock and figured out that the next person to use it was likely going to be at one end rather than the other. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 020
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 04/08/2026Have you ever looked at a longtime coworker and wanted to ask: Why are you such a fucknut? Crossposted with @openvibe.social 001
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 23/07/2026Saw what looked like two airliners flying close together. Turns out they were Air Force tankers. Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 16/07/2026So I am on Repatha now for cholesterol. Not something I’d want to do every day, but pretty sure I can handle injecting myself every two weeks… Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 02/07/2026It would appear that, at least for my hospital (and the one Erika needs to get her infusion at) MyChar/Epic is down. Don’t have Twitter (refuse to call it the other thing) on my phone any more so I can’t search there … Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 02/07/2026@sudox.bsky.social “Power outages are just an opportunity to emergency prioritize equipment upgrades when the old gear doesn’t come back up properly.” 100
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 21/06/2026Is it just me or has the service industry quietly decided that 15% is too low for tips? Seems like 18% or 20% is the minimum suggested these days. Am I just old now? Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 14/06/2026Congratulations Lewis Hamilton on your first Ferrari win at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix! #F1 Crossposted with @openvibe.social 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 08/06/2026@faithhope17.bsky.social dunno; in my googling I think I saw a Reddit article from last year that they got one then too. 010
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 08/06/2026About 25 minutes ago Cuba had a 6.1 magnitude earthquake. We felt it in Tampa. 120
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 30/05/2026Those of you at Cisco Live - miss you guys; first miss since I started in 2013. Hope to be there next year. Erika is doing well, just dealing with side effects from a med she’s on. 020
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 26/05/2026Irony: While preparing my food in the kitchen, if I grab a dog treat, it makes the dog disappear. He runs into the crate in the living room. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 22/05/2026No debate; though you could have several heated discussions about if it’s the ones who don’t know any better or the ones doing it on purpose that are more of a threat. 010
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 21/05/2026Me: Yes, because I didn’t read all the error messages the first time. Also, I think you’re wrong. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 18/05/2026Work is having its own little local conference. I just realized what’s missing. Alcohol. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 22/04/2026Property: What rooms are these 50 APs in? Me: Well, I have 51 deployed in that building and while you’ve sent 50 property numbers, you’ve only sent 49 serial numbers - one twice. So, here’s where the 49 are along with two extra. Up to you to go out and look at the APs to resolve your error. 020
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 22/04/2026Piece of advice: If you ever put a moderate (or large) amount of data in a table and send it to someone else, before you do, sort it by each column and look for dupes where there shouldn’t be any. Otherwise you will be called on it. 100
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 26/03/2026Apparently the .2 PSA was enough for my doctor to say “Let’s monitor every four months to see where it goes.” So, still no need to treat but making sure it doesn’t go up. 50/50 at this point. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 20/03/2026The @alerts.fuelrats.com have some rescues farther than 65K Lightyears from Sol in Elite:Dangerous, so my personal best of 23K isn’t really that far - especially with the Caspian Explorer and the Neutron Highway making it take just over 50 jumps. First Limpets: 188 (172 PS, 16 PC). 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 19/03/2026Dr Office: Hi - Me: I got the test yesterday. DrO: Oh that’s why I was calling. We’ll look for the results. *click* Phone: You have a new test result! PSA still 0. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 16/03/2026What was missing from that “fun activities”: It’s all part of our Scrum/Agile framework … 001
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 11/03/2026Doctor at 940a: You can go home today! Me at 340p: For various definitions of “today”. Waiting on meds and transport, but otherwise ready to go. 010
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 11/03/2026There were some complications and she’s going to need a foley for a few weeks, but Erika is feeling much better and will be able to come home today. We’re just waiting for the nurse/doctor to come in and kick us out. 010
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 09/03/2026I swear to $Diety that I sat through a TechFieldDay presentation from a company (one we’d all heard from multiple times before) that multiple delegates thought that someone in management said this to the engineers. It was not a good presentation. 000
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 06/03/2026Update: They took a tumor out of Erika (along with a kidney, some shavings from her rib cage) Wednesday. She’s very sore but will probably be home by Monday. They were going to do HIPEC but decided against it to protect the remaining kidney. Probably more chemo/immunotherapy in her future. 020
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 04/03/2026ICU nurse taking care of Erika messes with a bunch of tubes coming out of my wife- Me: As a network engineer, it looks like you have one too many cables. Nurse: -peers- I DO have one too many cables! 020
Reposted by BotFodder/EricChain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Anyway where was I...? youtu.be/LnG8nJO_WQIyoutu.beNew for 2026! Straight Line Mode and Overtake ModeYouTube video by Chain Bear 5630138
BotFodder/Eric @botfodder.com · 02/03/2026Steve: That sounds like a job for the FNG. Me: I can’t remember who that is. You’re all the FNG to me. 000
