azurelunatic | No. Just... no.

So I'm reading my networking book, and you know it's late at night, because suddenly I get this brilliant idea: a drink. Not just any drink. A seven-layer OSI model network drink.

azurelunatic (11:20:36 PM): I have just had a really bad idea.
sithjawa (11:20:39 PM): oh?
azurelunatic (11:21:18 PM): I need names of alcohol starting with the letters P, D, N, T, S, P, and A.
azurelunatic (11:21:33 PM): For a seven-layered OSI drink.
sithjawa (11:21:42 PM): Kill me now.
azurelunatic (11:30:13 PM): Peppermint schnapps, Dark creme de cacao, Nassau orange, Tequila, Strawberry schnapps, Peach schnapps, Almond amarretto
sithjawa(11:30:25 PM): NO DRINK
sithjawa (11:30:27 PM): is EVER
azurelunatic (11:30:40 PM): Never?
sithjawa (11:30:43 PM): allowed to contain peppermint, peach, and amaretto all together.
sithjawa (11:30:44 PM): EVER.
sithjawa (11:30:55 PM): ESPECIALLY not with tequila.
azurelunatic (11:30:59 PM): but... is OSI model drink!
sithjawa (11:31:39 PM): *gag*
sithjawa (11:31:45 PM): And *still* kill me now :D
azurelunatic (11:32:06 PM): Fine. *huff* YOU find alcohol that tastes good together starting with those letters.
sithjawa (11:32:10 PM): *ggl*

The eventual vote of the committee was thus: peach schnapps, dark creme de cacao, ninety-nine blackberries, tequila, strawberry schapps, plum wine, apple schnapps, to form the Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application layers of the drink.

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I bet your could make a fairly tasty base-pair drink!

*screams*
*runs*
*falls over because is laughing too hard*

That's... actually, a really good idea. I've been told of the pizza line for the OSI model (please do not throw sausage pizza away), but I like the drinky drinks better. :)

I can just see it: I come in for an exam with a hangover. Sandstrom sees, and says snidely, "Studying the OSI model, I see?"

Snicker... *that* would be classic.

You need to check their specific gravity, to see if they'll *stay* in that order if you pour them that way. Kind of important, if you're making a layered drink.

The only one listed by name on the gravity chart at Webtender is dark creme de cacao, which is 1.14. The only schnapps listed on the chart is peppermint, which is 1.04. Peach liquer is listed at 1.04, but apricot liquer at 1.09, and strawberry liquer is 1.12.

But things are supposed to flow down from the application layer and up from the physical layer!

So, ideally, by the end of drinking the OSI model drink, it would be all blended around anyway.

*snicker*

Physical to App or App to Physical doesn't matter. People assume you're using an application, but security needs to come in from Physical to Application.

And stuff does most definitely blend. There is no such thing as a pure Layer 2 or pure Layer 3 switch any more. Feature creep. Lurks all over, creeps all over, doesn't clean up when it's done...

Yep. What a creep. Learned about him in Systems Analysis class.

(Digressing on the "feature creep" thing a bit...)

My OO Analysis class had a final where we role-played a developer/client session (I think using Extreme Programming), and I got to growl, "Feature creep" under my breath at one of my ~~opponents~~classmates. We were drawing a picture rather than developing an application, but the clients were passing us written specs and we were giving them time estimates and drawing up prototypes. I discouraged the customers from asking that one particular feature be included by giving it a particularly off-putting name ("the 36-inch strap-on"). One of them complained to the teacher about my doing that; his comment was, "Welcome to the real world." Developers evidently intimidate customers all the time...

yes they do... and life is better with developers doing the domination role. When customers do it, you get shit like microsoft makes.

*insert evil laughter here*

This teacher is the one who told us the cheerful little story about what happened when he looked at some specs for a proposed project, and said, "You've got to be kidding. This is impossible!" and the higher-up said, "Can't be. It's in the contract."

ROFL so soooo soooo true... and so Dilbert...

Even worse is when senators want to make legislation. They required a piece of software that was insane. Not possible. But if they made it law...

It was supposed to be a new digital protocol to solve All Issues With Media and Copyright at the same time.

Yaaagh.

Y'know, maybe the government model in Cyteen isn't so bad after all.

didn't see it.... i'm working on a govt of my own

newatlantis

It's a book by C.J. Cherryh; the governing is split into technical fields, and you get a vote in your own technical field, weighted by experience.

I'm plotting something similar for discussion forums. One fundamental idea is to keep federal politics out of social affairs completely. Hopefully we can effectively extend this to technology and business as well for the citizen voter. Industry would have its own systems and its own branch of the government but would be effectively powerless against other branches (like the House of Commons).

An important part of this system would be privacy and anonymity, possible using public/private key cryptography.

I joined your community.

excellent :) and welcome

Pineapple juice
Dark rum
Napoleon Brandy
Triple Sec
Sprite
Peach Schnapps
Amaretto

(might be safer in flavor)

Perhaps indeed.

All (you) People Seem To Need Data Processing!

Insanity!

Damn straight.

How bout

Please Do Not Touch (my) Sister's Panties Again.

Drinks r good but crude is better!!!

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