By the numbers

Co-worker in training class to pilot fish: "Why, when the instructor wants us to see something better, does he change the number in that box on the top of the screen from 10096 to 15096?" Fish: "It took the rest of us in the room several minutes to figure out that the instructor was increasing the page size from 100 percent to 150 percent. On the screen projection, it sure looked like 10096 and 15096."

Switcheroo

Pilot fish is in network manager's office when the phone rings: It's a technician asking if the network team removed any switches from one of this hospital's buildings. "The users had frantically come up to the technician reporting switches missing," fish says. "The answer was no -- no network hardware had been removed from the area." A little more digging, and the problem becomes clear. "It was light switches that were missing," says fish. "I guess that's a network issue."

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