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RIP, @blakeyrat....
TIL I should be charging $520 for house visits...
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Nice article, in a dreadful sort of way.
It could have been better on Friday the 13th of November though.
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You mean the dreadful atmosphere, or the dreadful writing?
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I wouldn't have paired it with "Nice article" if I wanted to talk about the writing itself — I meant that it captures that damp and dark atmosphere of unknown cellars and all without descending into some cheap Lovecraftian horror drama.
Filed under: That's enough compliments for the day, back to work
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Great atmosphere in this one!
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Oh god, this articles reminds me of those stories I read about gross things found in people's computers.
Roaches, the dust to end all dust, cigarette smoke residue, a frog. Also a laptop ruined by cat piss.
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Even better Friday the 31st of November ;)
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Well I have a certain family member who hides her valuable belongings in the litterbox. But first she wraps them very very well.
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Paula seems to be MIA...
cc @PJH
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http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Oh%2c-so-THATs-whats-wrong!
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A:\> TYPE usher.txt
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Oh, it was this site. My memory goes
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Did someone bury her very very well in the litterbox?
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At least the disk wasn't so worn down that it was unreadable (for those that understand German: http://www.daujones.com/detail.php?usrid=5769).
Sometimes human stuff too. (Cf. number 5 from the 2013 Top Ten from Kroll Ontrack - I hope it is somewhere in English too)
Wrapping doesn't always help (see Kroll Ontrack #1 of 2010)
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Well done, sir. I tip my hat to you.
Hang on... how the hell did the rat get in?
THIS STORY IS THE WORST OF THE WORST!
Filed under: Seriously though, highly enjoyable, top marks :+1:
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http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/data-disasters/ This one?
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Who said it did? By itself, at least...
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[quote="the story] Derry [/quote]
:fa_thumbs_up:
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Remember, remember, the
5th13th of November!Admin
Yup. For some reason cats like to sit on laptop computers and also piss there.
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Yes, thanks.
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The cat.
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I don't get the business at the end with the red floppy disk. Something that actually happened, or nonsensical embellishment?
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shirley not on a frontpage article by the bearded-one ...
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Oi, I resemble that remark!
And the disk? I don't know the details, but apparently it had a really peculiar Sonic game on it...
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about the beard?
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What else?
Though, come to think of it, that statement applies to about half the writers...
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The Machine has marked him.
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And about half of the active forum members, given the limited data set I currently have access to, at least.
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Half of @boomzilla has a beard?
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Ladies and Gentleman, the Embellish tag:
I put that into a browser and got this article.
I FOUND HIS SECRET TECHNIQUE.
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Great, now I have to feed you to the Machine. And it was going so well...
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My browser must be broken, I keep getting stories about German ninjas and The Art of War.
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It's no secret the articles are "dramatized retellings"
http://www.thedailywtf.com/submit-wtf/story-guidelines
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...wait, we're geting taxed for our writing now? I didn't sign up for this!
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Whoever updates the contact form isn't doing their work, is it @boomzilla?
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Are you implying the women have half a beard?
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This guy's a wimp. I restore old (pre-digital electronics) pinball machines. Us pinfans find all sorts of stuff in the back box and under the main relay board. Simple things like extra score cards, small tools, spare change, or more unusual items like price list for porn films on VHS tape, small dope stash, and yes dead mice and/or their rampant droppings.
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The circular plastic sheet remained where it was, the magnetic layer had been ground to dust by the read/write head.
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And sometimes it's just melted butter - See the last support call on
http://www.bikepaths.com/humor/comp-support.html
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Ok, I found the biggest embellishment.
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Mr. King, Mr. Stephen King, to the white courtesy telephone.
Nice work, Maciej.
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Great writing.
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It's because it's a flat, warm surface.
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Male cats that haven't been fixed like to "mark" everything this way. It's their way of claiming it as personal territory.