Quixotic Evil

IT Manager taps in a query, browses the portion of table he's spent the last day and a half recalculating.
"Boss, what do you expect the name to be on this account?"
MD looks thoughtful for a moment, musing over the numbers he'd asked for.
"It's the wrong number, isn't it? This one is definitely right, that's the big account, I'm not sure what their second account number is." IT Manager has his face in his hands. "Does that mean you've just spent two hours recalculating the wrong account?"
"Not in so many words. It's more like two days."

This week will be over soon.

It has to be.

Via Matt, a meme of many random questions.

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Dan is hoping to turn this into a meme; he's got a couple of his own attempts here, and more may rack up in the comments. This one can be found in its original glory here, and it looks like anything else I do will appear nearby.

Anyway, go to Strip Creator and make your own attempt. Then work out whether you want to help with Dan's meme. At worst it's an amusing diversion for a few minutes ;-)

The Automatic's Monster was only on for a few seconds while Jo Whiley was playing a teaser of the songs that Lily Allen might play in the 'Live Lounge' at lunchtime, and yet it was at that moment I got far enough around a sweeping bend for the Angel of the North to loom into view.

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