One of the disks in minbar's disk array is slowly dying, somewhat noisily. I don't have a replacement disk for it, and the array has no spares. And I don't have or haven't found my backup tapes, and we can't really afford to buy more right now. And now it sounds like one of the internal disks is going south, too.
I think I need to replace all of minbar's disks.
Mongo make tea now.
A gem of a story from Sheldon T. Hall, on a mailing list I'm on:
I used to spend some time in a bar that employed a bouncer of epic proportions. Larry was 6'8" tall and weighed 375 lbs. He was a weightlifter, but built more like a bodybuilder. Wore 38x38 pants and had biceps like Volkswagens. He wasn't merely huge, he was vast.
It was a very quiet bar.
So one day, this tiny woman, maybe 5'0" and 90 lbs, discovered that the wall she was standing next to was actually Larry. I suppose she had mistaken his beltbuckle for a wall sconce or something. Anyway, she looks up (and up, and up) and finally ...
"My God ... How tall are you, anyway?"
"M'am, ah'm five twenty."