I was disappointed that the wakemate posts got killed because they touch upon this question, so yes, that is what inspired this post. It turns out that the wak

I was disappointed that the wakemate posts got killed because they touch upon this question, so yes, that is what inspired this post. It turns out that the wakemate thread is the least interesting one here. I'm overall very pleased with the comments. You're very right about the fail whale. Although not 100% successful in changing the emotion associated with downtime from frustration to amusement, it went an amazingly long way.