Scrimshander

[andygates]

Lock a whaler up below decks for a week and he'd take out his knife, find a wonky walrus tusk or a sperm whale tooth, and carve a highly detailed, fiddly, intricate little scene in the ivory.

Lock a techie up in a bubble of loud music for a week and he manually recreates an entire regional print cluster, all four-hundred-and-fifty devices, each individually configured and checked.  Why?  Because the old, wheezy server's instances and drivers were so crufty that we didn't trust the migration tools.  Not only is it painstaking, fiddly work, but there's a degree of black magic included too when it comes to drivers. 

Four hundred and fifty little men and fishes and seabirds and whales and clouds and flags and rigging and waves.  I need a drink.  And an Easter egg: the cluster will respond to "Scrimshaw" as well as its proper name. 

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for it to start growing on me, I confess. Not massively impressed so far. They've lost their depth.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Most of that was lost to me except "lost their spiky", which sums it up.