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I guess shepherds get bored with the daily life of whistling at their dogs and pushing those sheep around. So what do they do? Before you head is hit with a deluge of colorful anecdotes about nervous sheep, why don't you watch this video of what some very clever shepherds from the UK did with their herd at night and a truck load of LEDs.

In a 'raw hide sort of way, there is something sort of Phillip K Dick about this.

I spent my fair share around metal shops when I was in school. A lot can be learned when you are surrounded by high voltage, explosive gases, molten metal and tools powerful enough to cut and deform steel plates

Every semester we had projects we are graded on. Every semester I submitted designs for a compressed gas cannon or a trebuchet and every semester I was told to build something practical instead - like a barbecue pits or a tool boxes. I graduated high school with a pile of tool boxes, barbecue pits and storage shelves.

The man in the video clip above obviously had instructors who were happy to encourage his desire to tinker and experiment with controlled explosive forces and physics.

Looking back on it now, I should have submitted designs for a oxy-acetylene powered speakers?

I don't care how long you have been using Linux. You can be a complete neophyte or one who refers to themselves as a guru seasoned from years of experience. One day, it's going to happen. You are going to inadvertently start running a bunch of processes or multiple instances of the same application and before you know it - all the resources of your box are consumed, your hard drive is thrashing madly in desperate attempts to cache and your desktops response is getting slower than molasses in January.

You will be faced with a choice: A hard reboot or hunt down those processes and kill them.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I got away from MS Windows because I hate the idea of hard rebooting everytime the OS goes nuts. So, I learned how to mass murder those run away apps that I let suck up all my system resources from the command line.

You know how serious we are about that first cup of coffee in the morning is. Now, everybody else will know it too.

Respect the 'joe' or face the fist full of caffeine. Few would be willing to mess with a geek who openly packs a aggregate of brass knuckles and 100% arabica beans.

I think most sys-admins would love to have the fisticup on their desk at the office filled to the brim with a fresh morning brew. Then let's see how many of your co-workers want to approach them whining because they forgot their email password again.

If they only made this in the stainless steel travel mug variety!