Rihards Unplugged

Thanks goes out to Benjamin for pointing this one out to me. Some of you might already know User Friendly, but I imagine that most of you won’t since it’s a very geeky comic. And by very geeky, I really do mean it, some jokes might just go past you without noticing them if you don’t know technical stuff.

But today’s strip is just pure brilliance, and really mirrors what my day was like today. Lots of web work (the boring kind, where you resize images and add text to webpages) and quite a bit of boring print work as well. But wahey for the comic!

I’m finally home and it’s already 22:00 (that’s 10pm for people without a proper clock ;)), and why am I so late home? Well because certain train network collapsed because of heavy winds. And it was really my luck that the first train that got stopped just as it was to leave Vienna was the train that I was on.

It has happened before of course, so no big deal I think to myself and get of the train as I’m told and decide to wait for them to fix things and for the trains to resume. Big mistake. Two hours later, still no news, and all that ÖBB(the train company) tells us is that all trains going in my direction are suspended.

Luckily for me, a family friend came to pick me up. As we arrived at the train station where I usually got off, I noticed that the parking lot was still filled with cars, and that there were still lots of bikes at the station. Which could mean only that a lot of people were still stuck in Vienna. Poor people, it’s already 22:30 and they are probably still standing there and waiting, hopefully they’ll be able to get home soon.

I really wonder what they built that rail infrastructure in Austria with. Pretty much 99% of the time it’s very reliable, but when crap does hit the fan, it’s not a fan but a turbine and it’s not just any crap, but dinosaur crap.