IT@UT

“Sacrifice a goat”, suggested by Mark Long, when the initial version of Natural 2.0 was unstable. (The problem: some date functions only worked correctly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; they gave the wrong answer on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)

mainframe hardware failure, early 1980's, after midnight. IBM rep from Austin and rep from Dallas set out on I-35, met in Waco, and handed off the new part. System back up by opening of business.

“Work thru lunch”, Tom Well's regular advice on how to handle a small crisis.