Observed: Gordon Lightfoot Edition

Friends,

I’ve been walking around to each workstation at the Great Big Charity to undo some automatically-installed Windows Update desktop search bloatware (thanks Redmond!) over the last couple days. This is a good thing though, since I get a better idea of people’s computer problems, work problems, and even personal problems. I won’t bore you with that stuff since it’s typical of any workplace. What I will bore you with is the desktop wallpaper on one machine. A glory photo of, you guessed it, The Edmund Fitzgerald. Prior to November 1975, one would presume.

Why that picture? “I’ve always loved those big freighters,” she said. “You know that’s the Edmund Fitzgerald, right?” “Yeah, what about it?”

Oh, this…

Geez, people.

– bob