I submitted a requisition form for 3 49-inch curved ultrawide monitors.
The total cost was $4K.
Procurement rejected the request within 10 minutes.
They sent a note saying standard protocol limits IT staff to 2 24-inch flat panels.
I immediately drafted a 6-page manifesto on the dangers of peripheral tunnel vision.
I emailed it to the entire C-suite.
I explained that monitoring a dynamic cyber-threat landscape on flat screens causes severe visual fragmentation.
I said when a hacker attempts a brute-force entry, the malicious code moves horizontally across the network topography.
I told them that a 24-inch monitor physically clips the ends of the payload, making it invisible to the naked eye.
I invented a term called "lateral data leakage."
I claimed that without the parabolic curvature of an ultrawide display, our localized firewalls were essentially blind on the flanks.
I included a heavily doctored heat map that showed our headquarters completely engulfed in red warning zones.
The CFO walked into my office 10 minutes later looking terrified.
He asked if we were currently experiencing lateral data leakage.
I squinted at my tiny, inadequate flat screens and sighed.
I told him I couldn't be sure because my field of vision was artificially constrained by legacy hardware limitations.
I said I felt like a fighter pilot trying to fly through a thunderstorm while looking through a paper towel tube.
He immediately bypassed procurement and authorized the purchase on the corporate card.
The monitors arrived yesterday.
I mounted them in a seamless 180-degree arc on my desk.
It looks like the command deck of a spaceship.
I'm not using them to monitor network topography.
I'm using them to play Microsoft Flight Simulator in ultra-panoramic 4K resolution.
I currently have the autopilot engaged somewhere over the Swiss Alps.
I keep a spreadsheet open on the far-left edge just in case someone walks in.
When people ask why the screens show a highly detailed 3D rendering of a mountain range, I tell them it's a topographical representation of our cloud storage density.
They always nod in awe and slowly back out of the room.
Never let corporate policy stand in the way of your immersive gaming experience.
@danielarribas96 Come on up to the US and ride the Horribly Hilly Hundreds in Wisconsin! Shorter climbs, but super steep and you can get up to these speeds! https://t.co/daLbmIpigG
You hire Poch, give him a year and a half to unfuck Berhalter Sr washed culture of a squad, ask him to waste everyone's time calling up My Little Soccer frauds for marketing time in Gold Cup and 2025 friendlies (Walker Zimmerman playing 90 min vs Switzerland in Nashville then promptly discarded and never relevant ever again), then ask him to do the impossible and go into quarterfinals/semifinals with a group of players that have been fucked by weak mentalities for YEARS; and now all of a sudden Poch is the fraud, the 4-1 loss to Belgium was all on him.
Never mind the fact that we got the most wins in our WC campaign, most points in group stage, most goals scored ever at a WC.
Twitter this past week had show me how racist people are, how unhinged people are, and how much people overshare in the pursuit of going viral. Itโs frankly insane.
All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump. https://t.co/WOnbjjxJtu
Over 3 years have passed, and weโre still awaiting the verdict on Manchester Cityโs pending 115 financial breaches.
Signing Elliot Anderson for ยฃ130m will now take their spending to roughly ยฃ823m during that period.
Yep. Nothing to see here at all. Completely normal behaviour.
Newcastle had to sell him to comply with FFP while he is currently signing for a football club who have been charged with 115 breaches of premier leagues financial rules. An independent panel was convened to hear these charges which was concluded in 2024. For reasons unknown to everyone we still donโt have a verdict on this. There is something deeply wrong about that