• Jay (unregistered)

    Was the secretary named Sydney, or did she live in Sydney?

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to someone
    someone:
    Synch, really? Do you say sinch-ronize? I didn't think so. It's synchronize, and it's sync.

    Synch works in synchronize because it's chr, like chron. Synch is like lynch--you should never do it. Chrome even auto-corrects synch to sync!

    I know it's an old article, but the repost brought it to my attention. I can't help but read synch as sinch, and it distracts me from the article.

    Capcha: acsi--poor man's ASCII.

    Captcha, Muphry

  • Freddy (unregistered)

    Australians actually eat those things? The picture alone was enough to make me gag.

  • Herby (unregistered)

    Look... In today's environment using computer heat for reheating food is the ideal GREEN solution. We need more of these things. Reduce carbon footprint and all that. Given that it works, soon it will be mandated by the government (SIGH).

  • joe (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Was the secretary named Sydney, or did she live in Sydney?

    I know ... that's TRWTF!

    Captcha: luctus

  • Krenn (unregistered) in reply to enfiskutensykkel
    enfiskutensykkel:
    Hey, calling your colleagues 'tools' isn't really nice you know...

    The heck it isn't. A tool is generally useful for at least ONE purpose.... ;)

  • AA (unregistered)

    TRWTF is destroying a perfectly good pie by slathering it in tomato sauce.

  • Lyle Fanboy (unregistered)

    That's nothing... Lyle could heat 2 pies AND screw the server in less than a week.

    captcha: eros... not now, I'm working

  • James (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Was the secretary named Sydney, or did she live in Sydney?
    No silly, the office manager, Mel Bourne, was from Sydney.
  • Kiwi (unregistered) in reply to Freddy

    ...American's actually eat McDonald's?!? ;-)

    Pie's are yummmmmmyy!!! (and in a good pie, it's really only the pastry that's unhealthy because it is typically reasonably high in satured fat).

    Anyway, what kind of "simple solution" is that to heat up a pie in the microwave?! It makes the pastry soggy. The only decent way to reheat a pie is in a normal oven or in a warmer cabinet!

  • Kiwi (unregistered) in reply to Kiwi

    Oh, and for the uninitiated: The one pictured appears to be a mince pie, the most simple/cheap variety. Standard pies come with "mince", "mince & cheese", "steak" (which is typically diced meat), "steak & cheese", "steak & kidney".

    Gourmet pies can have e.g. "lamb & kumara", "chicken & camembert", pies with mushrooms, bacon, etc., the list is long...

    (At least) in NZ, there is even a well-known yearly pie award - see http://www.nzbakels.co.nz/pie_awards.cfm

  • nitehawk (unregistered)

    They're made of meat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE

  • (cs) in reply to Dave the Aussie
    Dave the Aussie:
    You've gotta be joking mate. Any true-blue Aussie wouldn't warm a pie in a microwave. Too bloody soggy.

    Convection microwave is what you need! Mmm Mrs Macs where have you been all my life?

  • Rolly Paulie (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    So ... I'm NOT supposed to wash my dishes in the heat sink? But it's still okay to use a string buffer to polish my shoes, isn't it?
    No, no, no! You use a string buffer on a string bikini. Just make sure it doesn't overflow!
  • sol (unregistered)

    as a pie lover, I can tell you I'd rather heat on a hot server any day. Microwaving totally ruins the crust.

    captcha: ludus: an american luddite contractionist.

  • Adelaide (unregistered) in reply to joe
    joe:
    Jay:
    Was the secretary named Sydney, or did she live in Sydney?

    I know ... that's TRWTF!

    Captcha: luctus

    I had the same thought as I read it. Either someone got their wires crossed or the story smells of horse shit. Sydney ain't a very common name in the land of Aus, so I suspect the office was in Sydney.

    if the pies weren't Mrs Mac's I hope they took them back.

  • Jimbo (unregistered) in reply to sol
    sol:
    as a pie lover, I can tell you I'd rather heat on a hot server any day. Microwaving totally ruins the crust.

    captcha: ludus: an american luddite contractionist.

    I used to microwave, then put in the oven, until someone taught me a little trick.

    1. Remove any packaging (if you have an individually wrapped pie)
    2. Wrap lightly in Paper towel
    3. Microwave for 3 minutes (or however long the packet says)
    4. allow to stand in the paper towel for a couple of minutes

    It still won't be quite as crispy as one that's been in the pie-warmer all day, but it won't be as soggy as a normal Microwaved (see that, I made a verb out of a noun - just as 'sol' did) one....

    I hope 'Sol' didn't used to run Telstra.....Although that might explain the hot servers....

  • Freddy (unregistered) in reply to Kiwi
    Kiwi:
    ...American's actually *eat* McDonald's?!? ;-)

    Pie's are yummmmmmyy!!! (and in a good pie, it's really only the pastry that's unhealthy because it is typically reasonably high in satured fat).

    I may be American, but I never said I eat McDonald's. I think most fast food restaurants are disgusting.

    BTW - that picture looks like something you'd get if McDonald's and Taco Bell decided to partner up.

  • Veldan (unregistered) in reply to Dave the Aussie

    Any true-blue outback Aussie would be heating it on the roof of his car, easily hot enough and it avoids the sogginess of a microwave.

  • John Muller (unregistered)

    Any suggestions on where/how to keep a small server (WHS) in the home, allowing ventilation, but without the cat sitting on it?

  • me (unregistered)

    oh come on, nobody would be warming their food on a server when there is a microwave oven there. This story is BS.

  • (cs)

    reminds me of this... (not entirely relevant, but good anyway if you know the song it's parodying)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE

  • (cs)

    reminds me of this... (not entirely relevant, but good anyway if you know the song it's parodying)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE

  • Edward Royce (unregistered) in reply to J
    J:
    I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

    Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs.

    iMac. iPod. iPhone. iPad. ... iCoffee!

  • (username *)me (unregistered) in reply to Freddy
    Freddy:
    Australians actually eat those things? The picture alone was enough to make me gag.

    That particular pie looks a bit grubby, like supermarket generics tend to. The gravy is normally darker and the mince chunkier; really bad meat pies are filled with questionable ingredients and ground extra fine so it's harder to tell.

    A good quality meat pie is actually quite tasty, it's just a matter finding a good place or brand. IMO proper bakeries(i.e made in house) and the smaller brands tend to be best.

    Kiwi:
    ...American's actually *eat* McDonald's?!? ;-)

    Pie's are yummmmmmyy!!! (and in a good pie, it's really only the pastry that's unhealthy because it is typically reasonably high in satured fat).

    Anyway, what kind of "simple solution" is that to heat up a pie in the microwave?! It makes the pastry soggy. The only decent way to reheat a pie is in a normal oven or in a warmer cabinet!

    Good thing they don't have McDonald's franchises where you live.

    Also: Microwave + Bagel Toaster(only for thin pies though).

  • db (unregistered) in reply to AA
    AA:
    TRWTF is destroying a perfectly good pie by slathering it in tomato sauce.
    That's right, instead you rip the lid off, pour in as much sauce as will fit and then put the lid back on. If you have a plactic refillable sauce bottle you can poke the tip through the lid and inject the sauce instead.
  • omnomsteakncheese (unregistered)

    Meat pies don't drip fat.

  • db (unregistered)

    Some time ago I worked for an electricity utility with a bunch of technicians, engineers and scientists at a collection of portable buildings in the ruins of an abandoned power station. It was some distance to the shops so the social club kept a good supply of meat pies in the freezer, paid for by leaving money in a tin.

    All went well for a few years and then the money in the tin didn't match the number of pies eaten. Nobody confessed, and the pie supply kept diminishing.

    As a technology section this called for a technological solution. A video cassette recorder, mercury switch, medical endoscope converted for industrial use and an old dartboard were pressed into service.

    A hole was knocked out of the middle of the dartboard large enough for the tip of the endoscope, and that was pointed at the freezer. The mercury switch was located on the lid of the freezer so that everything would turn on and record at the time of the crime. From the kitchen the dartboard was visable but not the recording equipment.

    Video footage showed a security guard removing the pie and heating it in the microwave - including a "ping" when ready which we didn't expect but the medical endoscope included a microphone.

    We contracted to a new security company after that and had no more stolen pies.

  • Mr. T (unregistered) in reply to J
    J:
    I know it's a rough economy, but replacing ovens with servers is just too much.

    Next thing you know, the heating element in the coffee pots will be replaced by CPUs.

    Now, that's what I call multi-tasking!

  • mo (unregistered) in reply to Jimbo

    I think you'll find the past tense of microwave is microwoven...

  • confused (unregistered)

    what? not a pie warmer, but its got a drink holder...

  • pflock (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    That picture is making me hungry.

    This looks disgustful to every german. You americans have indeed no eating culture apart from McDonalds + Co.

  • Anonymised (unregistered) in reply to Adelaide
    Adelaide:
    joe:
    Jay:
    Was the secretary named Sydney, or did she live in Sydney?

    I know ... that's TRWTF!

    Captcha: luctus

    I had the same thought as I read it. Either someone got their wires crossed or the story smells of horse shit. Sydney ain't a very common name in the land of Aus, so I suspect the office was in Sydney.

    if the pies weren't Mrs Mac's I hope they took them back.

    The stories are anonymised you simpering fools. She wasn't called Sydney and she didn't come from Sydney, it's just a highly appropriate fake name given the Australian setting. Real names are never used on this site, do you think you can figure out why all by yourselves?
  • pflick (unregistered) in reply to pflock
    pflock:
    frits:
    That picture is making me hungry.

    This looks disgustful to every german. You americans have indeed no eating culture apart from McDonalds + Co.

    What did you expect by someone of a nation where people seriously nosh an inane combination of meat and cake for breakfast instead of real bread. There's not bread at all in the US right? Likewise with beer and weapons, yes, weapons. The germans have a culture of guns and shooting, whereas the american hillbillies only have wild ramboesque shooting events where children learn to kill. I hope the BP leakage kills you all!

  • (cs)

    Always blow on the server. Safer communities together.

  • NotThatGuy (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Anyway... Have you ever heard of a pasty?

    pasty? yep....

    [image]
  • James (unregistered) in reply to NotThatGuy
    NotThatGuy:
    frits:
    Anyway... Have you ever heard of a pasty?

    pasty? yep....

    [image]

    mmmmmmm...pastys... I had them all the time as a kid. My great grandparents were copper miners in the UP in Michigan where pastys were a staple.

  • rupee (unregistered) in reply to SR

    Some years ago when I was an software intern at an electronics company, we had these huge servers racks that emulated satellites. There was this gap between 2 of them that was just the right size for a cornish pasty. I used to whack my lunch in there when I got to work in the morning and by noon it was ready for eating - nom nom nom!

    Don't think I ever tripped out a server tho - smelled great while it was cooking - better than the usual server room sterility!

  • kill-9 (unregistered) in reply to pflick

    This needs to stop. It's probably even the same 15-year-old boy-troll pathetically trying to start a dumb nationalism war.

    pflick:
    pflock:
    frits:
    That picture is making me hungry.

    This looks disgustful to every german. You americans have indeed no eating culture apart from McDonalds + Co.

    What did you expect by someone of a nation where people seriously nosh an inane combination of meat and cake for breakfast instead of real bread. There's not bread at all in the US right? Likewise with beer and weapons, yes, weapons. The germans have a culture of guns and shooting, whereas the american hillbillies only have wild ramboesque shooting events where children learn to kill. I hope the BP leakage kills you all!

  • (cs) in reply to Auction_God
    Auction_God:
    Just a second or two in the accelerator should have solved your heat problem (and you may have discovered a new elementary particle).

    Would that be the Pion?

  • air max 90 (unregistered)

    This good, I want to tell him my friend, thank you very much

  • legal weasel (unregistered) in reply to pflick
    pflick:
    pflock:
    frits:
    That picture is making me hungry.

    This looks disgustful to every german. You americans have indeed no eating culture apart from McDonalds + Co.

    What did you expect by someone of a nation where people seriously nosh an inane combination of meat and cake for breakfast instead of real bread. There's not bread at all in the US right? Likewise with beer and weapons, yes, weapons. The germans have a culture of guns and shooting, whereas the american hillbillies only have wild ramboesque shooting events where children learn to kill. I hope the BP leakage kills you all!

    But we can share credit for Hans Reiser, right?

  • acgrillet (unregistered) in reply to Jay

    When I was at college, our computer (Elliott 803) was powered by a a 3-cylinder marine steam engine which was fed from the heating boilers.

    Pay for the heat, get the computing for free - and a demo for the steam engineering dept.

    And it was uphill both ways!

  • ac (unregistered)

    Sydney isn't in the outback.

  • nimis (unregistered) in reply to legal weasel
    legal weasel:
    pflick:
    pflock:
    frits:
    That picture is making me hungry.

    This looks disgustful to every german. You americans have indeed no eating culture apart from McDonalds + Co.

    What did you expect by someone of a nation where people seriously nosh an inane combination of meat and cake for breakfast instead of real bread. There's not bread at all in the US right? Likewise with beer and weapons, yes, weapons. The germans have a culture of guns and shooting, whereas the american hillbillies only have wild ramboesque shooting events where children learn to kill. I hope the BP leakage kills you all!

    But we can share credit for Hans Reiser, right?

    Afaik it was only possible for him to reach a gun because he lives in your non gun-controlled america. God praise your strange weapon laws.

  • Dr. Pizzio (not a real doctor) (unregistered) in reply to Auction_God

    Pizzium? I wonder what it's half-life would be. As I recall, an unguarded pizza in the Student Hall would last about 2 minutes...

  • Gav (unregistered)

    I used to work on a little island supporting it for the government. One day a user called to complained that their computer smelled like bacon. It still worked, but it smelled like bacon, I was busy so I promised to send a tech but a few hours passed and they called again, the bacon smell was by now very strong... I really thought it was too much kava at play so I didn't send a tech till the NEXT call by which time bacon flavoured smoke was pouring out of the power supply. Turns out there was a gecko shorting out the caps... Who knew frying gecko smells like bacon?

  • MichaelCooper (unregistered)

    Looks really delicious! www.northernbeachesair.com.au

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