Key Attribute: Magic

When hiring a systems administrator, the most important attribute to look for is the natural ability to emit cluons.

Cluons are fundamental particles of the universe, with a net charge of +1 clue. (Their antiparticles, called bogons, carry -1 clue.) I used to have Feynmann diagrams in ASCII text showing the lifecycles of these particles. Cluons and bogons are time-symmetric -- you can consider the absorption of a bogon to be equivalent to the emission of a cluon backwards in time.

Computing machinery -- electronics, in fact -- tends to be based on strong bogon sinks. A bogon-emitter in the vicinity, or indeed the random bogon fields of the universe, will eventually cause malfunction.

I am healthy today, and have regained the ability to emit cluons. In this case, I walked into the machine room where my Chief Minion was bemoaning the insufferable tendency of HP to build custom incompatible parts (to promote vendor lock-in) and fixed his problem by staring at the machine in question.

Key Attribute: Magic

When hiring a systems administrator, the most important attribute to look for is the natural ability to emit cluons.

Cluons are fundamental particles of the universe, with a net charge of +1 clue. (Their antiparticles, called bogons, carry -1 clue.) I used to have Feynmann diagrams in ASCII text showing the lifecycles of these particles. Cluons and bogons are time-symmetric -- you can consider the absorption of a bogon to be equivalent to the emission of a cluon backwards in time.

Computing machinery -- electronics, in fact -- tends to be based on strong bogon sinks. A bogon-emitter in the vicinity, or indeed the random bogon fields of the universe, will eventually cause malfunction.

I am healthy today, and have regained the ability to emit cluons. In this case, I walked into the machine room where my Chief Minion was bemoaning the insufferable tendency of HP to build custom incompatible parts (to promote vendor lock-in) and fixed his problem by staring at the machine in question.