Podscape

I kid sys admins in this one, but it is only out of love and admiration that I do so. Having spent some time being a sys admin, you could almost call it a tour of duty; I’ll always feel a certain bond with them. Not out of shared experience, no, this bond is based more on how I always marvel at the kind of dedication a person who was born to admin has. If you have spent any amount of time in IT, you know exactly what I’m talking about here. The really good ones, the ones that being a system administrator is something they would do at home even if their “real” job was to being a CPA or a teacher during the day, they have this uncanny parental relationship with their hardware. A relationship that goes beyond maintaining ordinary server health or I/O statistics, the good ones have an almost telepathic relationship with their children. They are not content to just install software on their brood, no they raise servers to be able to speak and breathe the tasks they need to perform in ways that are extraordinary.

So this strip is really about acknowledging the great ones, and god forbid if you piss them off. =)