I think that it’s an excellent idea to unilaterally declare that a day is a special day. Some sysadmin somewhere in the world apparently agrees with this, and thus today is Sysadmin Day.
Based on some of the sysadmins that I know, I think that today will be spent randomly unplugging network cables and drinking heavily1. Also, don’t forget to turn it off and on again.
(That’s from The IT Crowd, which I highly recommend. The first season DVDs have geek subtitles (l33t, rot13, Klingon, etc) which are extremely well-done.)
- I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader as to how, or if, this is different than any other given day of the week. ↩