The Flock has Come.....

An interesting thing I've found occurs occassionally, like today, is that everything breaks at the same time. Today has been a schmorgus board of weird issues, like a laptop hard drive corrupting a few system files but checking out ok, and a computer's network card going bad with no indication whatsoever so that I get to spend 10 minutes checking cables before testing the machine on another port.

Several things cause these spurts in issues, like power surges and badgers getting in the ceiling(yes it has actually happened). When none of the normal reasons apply, I like to blame aliens or government conspiracies, but I've come up with a competing theory. In my new theory, called the Theory of Flock or Let's Flock Things Up, users are like pigeons just sitting around making annoying, unintelligible noises and shitting on everything. Then, for some reason beyond human reasoning, one of them decides to flutter away. The other users promptly follow, because they're dumb. So when a user has a problem, the others simply present the problems that they've had for some time because they think codependantly.