| The first email was sent in 1971. But there is no record of the first instance of someone saying "this meeting could have been an email" |
3 days, 1 hour ago |
| Dev Club tomorrow April 17 10:00AM |
4 days, 10 hours ago |
| the german word for "Jello" translates literally as "wiggle pudding" |
1 month ago |
| ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️ |
1 month, 1 week ago |
| Bitswe B-Team |
1 month, 2 weeks ago |
| CITx on Thursday https://cit.illinoisstate.edu/citx/ Followed by Lunch at Hacienda Leon Uptown |
1 month, 3 weeks ago |
| CITx on Thursday |
1 month, 3 weeks ago |
| Don't forget your booties because it's cold out there - Groundhog Day |
2 months ago |
| ISU - CLOSING FOR WEATHER AT 4:30 PM WED, FEB 5th. BE SAFE GOING HOME! // Libby and Hoopla are great, and our local libraries have even more things like that https://www.bloomingtonlibrary.org/download-stream |
2 months, 2 weeks ago |
| Libby and Hoopla are great, and our local libraries have even more things like that https://www.bloomingtonlibrary.org/download-stream |
2 months, 2 weeks ago |
| Friday was added to our calendar by the McDonalds corporation to remind us to eat french fries |
2 months, 3 weeks ago |
| brontobot is brontoback, brontobaby |
3 months, 1 week ago |
| ultra-monday |
3 months, 2 weeks ago |
| FRIDAY: named after the germanic goddess of fried food |
3 months, 2 weeks ago |
| ⚜️·.·°•✧ ISU WINTER BREAK ✧•°·.·⚜️ |
3 months, 4 weeks ago |
| LAST DAY OF ISU WORK 2024 |
4 months ago |
| last workweek 2024 || Pam Walden retirement open house on Thurs || Krista Gaff's last day at ISU is Friday |
4 months ago |
| READ ONLY FRIDAY (except update your unraid) || Pam Walden Retirement Open House Dec 19th || Krista Gaff's Last day at ISU Dec 20th |
4 months, 1 week ago |
| THROUGHPUT THURSDAY || Pam Walden Retirement Open House Dec 19th || Krista Gaff's Last day at ISU Dec 20th |
4 months, 2 weeks ago |
| WYSIWYG WEDNESDAY || Pam Walden Retirement Open House Dec 19th |
4 months, 2 weeks ago |
| TURING-COMPLETE TUESDAY || Pam Walden Retirement Open House Dec 19th |
4 months, 2 weeks ago |
| WRITE ONLY MONDAY || Pam Walden Retirement Open House De 19th |
4 months, 2 weeks ago |
| READ ONLY FRIDAY || Pam Walden Retirement Open House Dec 19th |
4 months, 4 weeks ago |
| ISU Dev Club, baby || Pam Walden Retirement Open House Dec 19th |
4 months, 4 weeks ago |
| Pam Walden Retirement open house Dec 19th |
5 months ago |
| TBrook requests wrist rest recs || bitsbot personality of the day: Cave Johnson || more bitsbot personality ideas please |
6 months, 2 weeks ago |
| TBrook requests wrist rest recs || bitsbot personality of the day: Homer Simpson || more bitsbot personality ideas please |
6 months, 2 weeks ago |
| TBrook requests wrist rest recs || bitsbot personality of the day: Bond villain || more bitsbot personality ideas please |
6 months, 2 weeks ago |
| TBrook requests wrist rest recs || bitsbot personality of the day: 1980s valley girl || more bitsbot personality ideas please |
6 months, 3 weeks ago |
| TBrook requests wrist rest recs || nathanic wants ideas for future bitsbot daily personalities |
6 months, 3 weeks ago |
| Congrats GValo on his new job at Splunk! || TBrook is looking for a new keyboard wrist rest, please toss suggestions his way! |
6 months, 3 weeks ago |
| Congrats GValo on his new job at Splunk! || bitsbot is celebrating International Talk Like A Pirate Day one day late |
6 months, 4 weeks ago |
| RIP Josh 'Kthulhu99' Durst, OG #bitswebteam denizen and general kickass dude |
8 months, 3 weeks ago |
| Read Only Friday (unlike Crowdstrike) |
8 months, 3 weeks ago |
| 2024 - The year where a week feels like a month and a day feels like 10 years. Happy Monday! :) |
8 months, 4 weeks ago |
| you've been struck by a smooth crowdinal |
9 months ago |
| dev club was fun, we learned about CI |
9 months ago |
| bitsbot offline due to storm; parking passes remain a thing you should buy |
9 months ago |
| you got your parking pass right |
9 months, 1 week ago |
| don't forget to buy your parking pass today |
9 months, 1 week ago |
| celebrate the 4th by rewatching Independence Day on loop |
9 months, 2 weeks ago |
| Happy New [Fiscal] Year |
9 months, 2 weeks ago |
| One day on Venus lasts 5,832 hours. Be glad it's not Monday on Venus. |
9 months, 3 weeks ago |
| philip j fry's day |
9 months, 4 weeks ago |
| thor's day |
9 months, 4 weeks ago |
| ISU Dev Club Today at 10 |
10 months ago |
| CSTEST Down Monday/Tuesday for Tools Upgrade |MONDay (the day of the week where we celebrate Modified Newtonian Dynamics, an alternative hypothesis to dark matter) |
10 months ago |
| Fried, eh? |
10 months ago |
| never quite got the hang of thursdays |
10 months, 1 week ago |
| it's the freakin' week baby, i'm about to have me some productivity |
10 months, 1 week ago |
| it's the freakin' weekend baby, i'm about to have me some not-work |
10 months, 1 week ago |
| Laurie Dale has presumably retired now (?) |
10 months, 2 weeks ago |
| Laurie Dale retires at the end of the week |
10 months, 3 weeks ago |
| Laurie Dale retires next week | crush RSA key has been removed | gitlab is upgraded | OCP PROD upgrading 4.12->4.14 |
10 months, 4 weeks ago |
| Laurie Dale is retiring at the end of the month! Congrats to her, sad for TS and ISU |
11 months ago |
| If you RSVP'ed for the Canvas Appreciation thing, it's today from 11:30-1 at the football stadium |
1 year ago |
| look directly at the sun it's fine |
1 year ago |
| Do not look directly at the sun or point your phone directly at the sun without protection! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/bloomington?iso=20240408 |
1 year ago |
| CPAP Club |
1 year ago |
| The discussion thread on the ISU Dev Club Report has been interestin' https://tinyurl.com/3v4zkd3t |
1 year ago |
| RIP Vernor Vinge, influential sci fi author and inventor of the concept of the "singularity" |
1 year ago |
| midpoint-dev is in some kind of crash loop, breaking account-dev.illinoisstate.edu dev identity integrations |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| ISU President Dr. Tarhule’s name is pronounced as ON-doh-vey Tar-HOO-lay |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| NOTE: Dr. Tarhule’s name is pronounced as ON-doh-vey Tar-HOO-lay. |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| Regular non-leap day. Thankfully, all days are now non-LEAP days. |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| leap day (no, not LEAP day. LEAP can't hurt you anymore) |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| Gitlab Workshop 3/20 (see TBrook) |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| CITx on Friday; TBrook's Gitlab Workshop 3/20; jerpidy server getting updated, back soon |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| CITx on Friday; TBrook's Gitlab Workshop 3/20 |
1 year, 1 month ago |
| TBrook Gitlab Workshop 3/20 |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| TBrook Gitlab Workshop 3/20 || fac staff appreciation lunch thing 11:30-13:00 Brown Ballroom || ISU Dev Club 10:00-11:00 (better content than fac staff but i'm not feeding you) |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| the metronet trouble seems to be clearing? // TBrook's Gitlab Workshop March 20th |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| ɹǝʌo ʃǝuuɐɥɔ ↃᴚI ǝɥʇ dıʃɟ ,sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ uoʎ ɟı // GitLab hybrid in-person workshop March 20th, any takers message TBrook |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| SSO Fixed, nothing to see here |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| ILSTU SSO is busted(ish) |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| Read Only Friday |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| GitLab Maintenance currently in progress |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| https://downdetector.com/status/teams/ |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| TS Xmas Party 11:00 Hancock Stadium Aaron Leetch Club (enter Gate 8, elevator to 3rd floor) |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| phealy has once again saved @jerpidy || University closing at Noon today! |
1 year, 2 months ago |
| ISU Tolkien Scholars |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| 1st day of classes |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| wintry 3-day weekend |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| moar winter coming Friday |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| winter storm came and wasn't so bad |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| winter storm's a-comin' on monday https://www.weather.gov/ilx/weatherstory |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| Will TBrook remember how to work? Tune in to the continuing adventures of Technology Solutions! |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| merry christmas, ya filthy animals |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| last workday 2023 |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| Team Ma-jedd has 2 days left this year |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| ~2.5 days || phealy saved @trebek |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| 4 work days remain for ISU in 2023! || jerpidy is back courtesy phealy |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| ~5 days left this year || jerpidy service still down |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| 6.5 days remaining || jerpidy still busted |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| Jerpidy is temporarily busted || 8 Days Left For ISUers This Year |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| there are more hydrogen atoms in a single water molecule than there are stars in the entire solar system (~9.5 days remaining) |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| 10 days |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| Remaining 2023 Work Days: 11 |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| Work Days Left This Year: 12 || TBrook highly recommends not getting sick. :( |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| Work Days Left This Year: 13 |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| 2023 ISU Business Days Remaining: 14 |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| lunch at NOM NOM NOODLE was a delight, you should come next time. yes, you, specifically |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| Friday Group Lunch Signup Sheet: phealy, TBrook, nathanic, zugabo, and you |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| anyone up for a group lunch on Friday? In so far: phealy tbrook (who needs to socialize more) |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| ISU is on, so trivia must be shared between phealy and others |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| ISU is off, so I have trivia to myself today! mwahahaha |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| bitsbot is on GPT-4 now || Happy Friday (Observed) for ISU Peeps |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| bitsbot has been experimentally updated to target `gpt-4-1106-preview` instead of `gpt-3.5-turbo` |
1 year, 4 months ago |
| Yay short work weeks! || Boo catching up on emails and updates to your PC! |
1 year, 5 months ago |
| bromofo93 has taken down the original ISU OpenShift cluster paas.ilstu.edu (2019-2023) |
1 year, 5 months ago |
| Condolences to the Brook family for the loss of Tony's Dad |
1 year, 5 months ago |
| Tony's dad passed away this morning. :( |
1 year, 5 months ago |
| "somehow, bitsbot returned" - poe dameron probably |
1 year, 5 months ago |
| Q: when is a pun ready to share with others? A: When it's fully groan. |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| paas02-t is now running OCP 4.11. enjoy the new Dark Mode |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| bromofo93 et al are upgrading paas02-t from OCP 4.10 to 4.11 this afternoon |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| next eclipse is in like april i think |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| Partial Solar Eclipse visible Saturday 10:30-13:30 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/illinois?iso=20231014 |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| [ 50% Eclipse on Saturday ] [ Red Raccoon is having a grand opening ribbon cutting today after a considerable period of standard-quality opening ] |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| almost 50% eclipse on the 14th - get your safety glasses now if you haven't already! || Yesterday's Confluence issues brought to you by someone trying to compromise our environment. YAY to the admins pre-emptively blocking it! |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| almost 50% eclipse on the 14th - get your safety glasses now if you haven't already! |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| ceci n'est pas un canal de discussion par relais internet |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| ceci n'est pas une topic |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| good luck to rtdwye1, Kristen G, and Geethani at their HEUG presentation today |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| The official Home of the Bitswe B-Team |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| Tech Solutions Cookout is NOW at the Warehouse |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| Tech Solutions Annual Cookout at the Warehouse on Wednesday. Beloved retiree Dudley Roach will be grillin' || The university cannot survive without Excel, it seems. |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| the state of this university is: illinois |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| State Of University at 2 today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3UR3U3wvc |
1 year, 6 months ago |
| nathanic is disturbing ION today |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| Today, ION has asked to be 100% Do Not Disturb. Hopefully they achieve that. |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| happy birthday to phealy |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| a fine sandwich to the man/woman/AI who figures out why all my CIFS mounts in openshift are breaking lately |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| everyone badger the app admins to join the cookout |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| Happy Seven of Nine Day to old nerds who watched Voyager |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| this topic is false |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| Live from Normal, it's WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| what's our jobs again |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| Windows 11 will arrive by cover of night. Leave your laptop running tonight! |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| windows 11 will hit your ISU workstation by Friday, unless you install linux first ^^ |
1 year, 7 months ago |
| home of the world champs of @jerpidy |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| ISU Dev Club today at 10:00 |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| ill stews |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| gitlab CI workshop WEDNESDAY 11:00 for those who sign up |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| glab-ly we learn and teach |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| 90s cartoon nostalgia channel |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| CIT was pretty good || GitLab Hardening https://is.gd/GbqU3z |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| CIT 2023 RIGHT NAO || GitLab Hardening https://is.gd/GbqU3z |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| CIT 2023 TOMORROW || GitLab Hardening https://is.gd/GbqU3z |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| Paul Reubens has gone to that big top adventure in the sky (passed away age 70) // GitLab Hardening Logic: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/08/01/gitlab-security-hardening-documentation/ |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| Paul Reubens has gone to that big top adventure in the sky (passed away age 70) |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| so that room temp superconductor was, unsurprisingly, too good to be true |
1 year, 8 months ago |
| hacker hero of ancient times, Kevin Mitnick, has died at age 59 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173 |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| new JWST-based estimates have revised the estimated age of the universe from 13.7 to 26.7 billion years |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| Gitlab.com is back for a couple days, business as usual for now |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| gilab.com is down; this impacts our CI builds |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| viva la midpoint |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| Alamo closed today | the road to midpoint is a li'l bumpy today |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| OIM is dead. Midpoint, its hour come at last, continues slouching towards production to be born |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| this is the end, my friend, of managing identities with OIM |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| OIM will self-distruct in T-minus 2 days |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| Colon Prompt: a feature of Colleague, or a high-fiber breakfast cereal? |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| AQI is back down to 118 and falling |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| AQI is back down to 138 and falling |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| air quality alert in effect until EOD wednesday - try not to breathe https://is.gd/3FxYIt |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| bloomington's finest local musician https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6-zs_hWO0 |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| "Make Music Normal" festival in Uptown this weekend, 5-10pm Friday, 12-10pm Saturday |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| dandiness |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| openshift pod restart happened |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| due to an openshift bug we're gonna have to kill every single pod in prod |
1 year, 9 months ago |
| #bitswebteam: a web team of people who enjoy large collections of screwdriver bits |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| ISU Peeps: Do not work on Monday. Juneteenth |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| Netscaler prod change this morning | Gitlab is still without its advanced search capabilities; a ticket is open with support. |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| Netscaler prod change this morning | Gitlab emergency maintenance, intermittent rebootery for a bit |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| the car show is messing up ilstu staff parking the rest of this week |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| CSTST is back to the usual level of "operational" |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| CSTST has not completed any QAS queries since 10:30 am today |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| POLL: "LMAO" is pronounced (1) luh-mow (2) luh-mayo (3) elmow (4) don't say that out loud you dork |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| red hat support don't fail me now |
1 year, 10 months ago |
| #bitswebteam lunch was successful, good times had by all (5) |
1 year, 11 months ago |
| #bitswebteam lunch today, Medici, 11:30 |
1 year, 11 months ago |
| Lunch tomorrow (Friday) with phealy, nathanic, and anyone else who wants to join! |
1 year, 11 months ago |