A long time ago I worked for Digital Equipment in Alpharetta. It was one of my favorite jobs of all-time; Digital was an "old school" computer company that appealed to my "old school" PC sensibilities. The geeks absolutely ran that place! You know who I'm talking about: those 350+lbs. pound white guys that had beards, thick glasses with schmutz all over them... guys that never wore anything other than jeans to work... guys that knew every single Unix command that ever was, yet didn't know how to format a floppy disk in Windows. Those guys.

Anyway, it was so much fun that I even started a newspaper - The Weekly Idiot - that was written, produced, printed and distributed all on DEC's dime. Now, at most companies your boss would get mad at you for wasting the company's time and resources on a newspaper dedicated to geek humor and "news of the weird" stories - but not my boss at DEC. He'd come to my desk every Friday and ask for a copy! I was looking for a document on my PC tonight and stumbled across these old issues and had completely forgotten how funny some of these stories were. I had also forgotten how bad my graphics design skills are - or, at least were, as all of these issues were made in Word 97. Even though I had my boss's implicit permission to write the Idiot, he probably wouldn't have appreciated me spending all day on it. That's the "official explanation" for the bad design stuff anyway...

Below is a complete archive of all nine wonderful issues. All of them have been converted to PDF format, so if you don't have Acrobat Reader, you'll need to download it to get the ball rolling. Simply click on the PDF icon to download each issue.  And so - without further ado - The Weekly Idiot: