The Name I Gave Her
When your love turns out to be a black hole, perhaps the scariest part is the information you will never see.
Tag humangen-fic
The Ghost in the SharePoint Farm
Somewhere inside the International Monetary Fund, a SharePoint farm began behaving as though it were haunted. Servers failed, error messages offered little explanation, and the evidence stubbornly refused to agree with the documentation.
In this true story from the trenches of enterprise IT, Doc Tomiko and her colleagues follow a trail of increasingly improbable clues through the peculiar architecture of SharePoint 2007. Part technical detective story, part workplace comedy, and part homage to the great supernatural investigators of television, The Ghost in the SharePoint Farm demonstrates why troubleshooting is less about knowing all the answers than knowing which questions to ask.
Sometimes the call really is coming from inside the house.
On Separation Anxiety
Separation Anxiety (from Last Man Standing)
A lone survivor wakes in a world emptied overnight of every other human voice. Pets still need feeding, coffee still goes stale, and the Internet hums with nothing new to say. Through small rituals—feeding the animals, raiding a gas-station for fried chicken, worrying about the morality of burglary—he builds a fragile code of civility to hold off the madness of absolute solitude. When the lights finally go out, he must decide whether survival itself is worth the effort.
Separation Anxiety is the opening movement of a planned cycle, Last Man Standing, in which different isolated souls confront the same inexplicable silence from their own corners of the world. Each chapter tests a different version of hope: endurance, denial, faith, and the temptation to give up entirely.