Sitting there on the wall of our server room is a big red button. It has no label indicating what it does, only when it is to be used. Above it, in big yellow letters, reads: "In case of emergency, push button" One day, I pushed the button.

The mirrored ball popped out of the ceiling in the same way that the oxygen masks purportedly pop out of the ceiling in an airplane emergency. A fraction of a second later, the light turned on. A small click, and then in an instant, The BeeGees were jammin at such volume that I thought my head would explode. Lit up on the server screen was the syslog entry: "discotron started" I just stood there, dumbfounded. And then I started to boogie.

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