the servers

Okay, so, skimmy, I realize, but -- anybody else get very far into this discussion thinking it was a conversation about one's close personal relationship with one's tower of internet data storage and processing capacity?

Just me then.

I've never called a waiter a server, because my brain has to work double-hard when words have that many everyday meanings. Cleave, okay, it's a trivia thing and anyway I don't use that word very often. But server, like nose, needs to have only one meaning for me.

I keep complaining to my office-mates about the sounds that Weatherbug makes. They turn off the sound, but then a few weeks later, the sound is back on! Very annoying.

Doesn't Weatherbug install a whole bunch of adware?

I prefer waitron -- even more impersonal, almost machinelike.

Yeah, the Weatherbug sound is super annoying. This is some shit from the Weather Channel, so it just makes thunder noises in case of emergency -- or it did, before I turned the sound off.

I like the indeterminate gender-ness of waitron....

Weatherbug alerts are awful, I agree. Not just the chirping sound, but they alert you to everything, not just changes. So if it's raining, it will chirp every friggin' three minutes to tell you OMGSTILLRAINING!!

Another silly girl I learned about through Gawker: [link]

Nowhere in the ballpark of JMPP, but the writing is hilariously awful.

I prefer waitron -- even more impersonal, almost machinelike.

Too much so for me. I use "server" because that's what servers I know say.

Not just the chirping sound, but they alert you to everything, not just changes. So if it's raining, it will chirp every friggin' three minutes to tell you OMGSTILLRAINING!!

Totally. HEY! NOW IT'S NOT RAINING UPSTATE ANYMORE!! STILL RAINING IN THE CITY!!!!!