Comedy comes to you in strange ways. For example, look back in my archives at the timeout option ranges for the hdparm command. (That post also illustrates, should you be a potential employer, my facility with engineers and their aberrant logic.)
Or, read the following text message I just got from a friend:
DUDE I AM IN A STANDOFF WITH POLICE IN PROVIDENCE. I NEED YOU TO COME DOWN AND NEGOTIATE MY SURRENDER.
This is a joke. He is really in Cambridge.
Secretly Ironic 