The strangest thing about buying a rare car is the dealership knew nothing about it, the salespeople didn’t either — and the funniest part: I was talking to a person who actually works with all this makers’ cars and she’d also never heard of it.

To understand why, this car maker typically sells in six days one of their more popular models what the one I bought sells in an entire year. (Actually more like 5.75 days.)

It’s just a little weird dealing with the manufacturer of the car and they are like, “Never heard of it.”

And I’m like, “You made the damn car! How can you not have heard of it!”

But it’s never been advertised, was really manufactured to appease a very small market and to be able to run it in NASCAR, so it’s just not out there like most cars.

I have really broad experience in IT compared to most IT folks, and wider knowledge than most because of that and due to the certs I’ve pursued over the years.

Sometimes funny things happen related to that.

The other day at work someone was explaining to me how to configure a virtual networking device that allows for client-access VPNs (if you don’t know what that is, don’t worry about it).

They assumed since I was not on the networking team and have never been associated with that team that I had no idea about any of this.

But here’s the funny part.

“Yeah, I know, I wrote the installation guide for this appliance,” I say.

Because I did write the installation guide. A couple of years ago no one else knew enough about the very disparate things that need to be done to make this appliance work, so it fell to me to put it all in one place.

The person speaking to me meant no harm and just wasn’t aware, but I do think it’s amusing when someone explains to you how to do something you literally wrote the company-wide guide on how to make it work.

If I were Bill Gates rich, I’d pay Danielle Haim to come to my house every day and play guitar.

Every day. Believe it.

if you ever code something that "feels like a hack but it works," just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking

— daisyowl (@daisyowl) March 15, 2017

And if I were that rock, I’d hate us for it.

As far as I can determine, pants are verboten in her world.