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Nougatocity \nu-gat-a-si-tE\ (noun). A heightened yet fleeting state of accomplishment that makes you realize how unbelievably unmotivated you normally are.

“So did it rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock at your house last night?”

Taken directly from despair.com

“Agony: Not all pain is gain.”
“Apathy: If we don’t take care of the customer, maybe they’ll stop bugging us.”
“Beauty: If you’re attractive enough on the outside, people will forgive you for being irritating to the core.”
“Burnout: Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you”
“Challenges: I expected times like this - but I never thought they’d be so bad, so long, and so frequent.”
“Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.”
“Consulting: If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”

“She’s gullible and I’m bored. We’re PERFECT for each other!” -How I met your mother

“Drinking alcoholic beverages can cause birth defects.” ‘You mean like drinking may cause you to have babies?’

“When the time comes and I am dead and gone, I want to be burried face down. That way, anybody who didn’t like me can KISS MY ASS!!!!”

So my friends and I had a very good time this past 4th of July. There are some pictures on my gallery here. I feel compelled to quickly post a couple stories that had us all in stitches.

Story1: So William had blown up the last car I bought him and needed John to pull it back home from the side of the highway. A day or two before John pulled the Jeep, William had jumped all over him for opening the screen door that faced his living quarters on the back porch because one of the cats had gotten into his room. So a few days later, John gets off work from the drilling rig and was pretty hammered drunk, so he came on over to get William and go get the Jeep. John, in his state, decided to barrel up the stairs, kick the dog door in the bottom of the screen door in, stick his head through and yell:

Holy shit, I haven’t seen anything this comical in a long time.

http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/rackspace-income-statement-full.png

While actually grossing 140m more in fiscal ‘07, they netted 2m less than the previous year. Way to go guys!

Here is a neat little exert from from their S-1 that Merrill Lynch made them put in:

• We may be unable to manage our growth effectively
• Our physical infrastructure is concentrated in very few facilities, and any failure in our physical infrastructure or services could lead to significant costs and disruptions
• We may be unable to hire and retain qualified employees to support our growth strategy
• Our business is affected by changes in the state of the general economy, and a slowdown or downturn in the general economy could disproportionately affect the demand for our services
• We may not be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors

Current and noncurrent debt: $62.9M

“Services we provide are subject to failure resulting from numerous factors, including: Improper building maintenance by the landlords of the buildings in which our facilities are located;” I.E.: we don’t own any of our facilities.

Failure by us or our vendors to provide adequate service to our equipment.

“We do not own the facilities occupied by our current data centers, but occupy them pursuant to commercial leasing arrangements. The initial terms of our existing data center leases expire over a period ranging from 2008 to 2015, with each having at least one renewal period of five years. Upon the expiration or termination of our data center facility leases, we may not be able to renew these leases on terms acceptable to us, if at all.“

Wow, so one of their leases is up this year…

For more fun and excitement, you can read the full S-1 here:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1107694/000119312508091225/ds1.htm

I like to amuse myself by scaring every hippie I see strutting down the street wearing their obnoxious hippie attire, too stoned to know what is going on and basking in their own horrid stench. I swerve my car as if to hit them, then swerve back just barely missing them.

One day I was driving along and saw a priest. I figured I was overdue for a good deed, so I pulled over and asked the priest “Where are you going, Father?” “I’m going to give Mass at St. Francis church, about two miles down the road here,” replied the priest. “Hop in and I’ll give you a ride Father” I chimed and the priest climbed into my car.

On we continue, when all of the sudden I see an especially dirty smelly hippie walking down the road. I couldn’t help myself, so I swerved as if to hit the hippie getting within inches of his nastiness before swerving back.

While I knew I had missed the hippie, I still heard a loud THUD. I looked everywhere and couldn’t see what I had hit in time (we were moving pretty fast). Then I realized, there was a priest in my car, so I started to apologize emphatically: “I’m so sorry Father, I can’t believe I almost hit that hippie!” to which he replied:

Customer Disservice Because we’re not satisfied until you’re not satisfied.

Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.