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                              “It's not my fault!”
                                        
> Hey guys. It's me. The guy who put the exhaust ports on the Death Star.
> 
> I know, I know—
> 
> “What a stupid design flaw!”
> 
> “You are singlehandedly responsible for the destruction of our ultimate
> weapon and battlestation!”
> 
> “How could **anyone** have made such a huge mistake?!”
> 
> Over the past week, I've gotten **a lot** of guff from people I considered
> to be friends and colleagues about how my “shoddy” design would be the
> downfall of our entire government. Not only that, but I've been forced-
> choked (and regular-choked) by more superiors than I can count (and Human
> Resources have been **very** relunctant to respond to my complaints about
> being invisibly strangled by a cyborg space wizard). But I have one
> response to all of you who blame for the destruction of the Death Star:
> 

Via Flutterby [1], “An Open Letter From a Death Star Architect - Dorkly
Article [2]”

And yes, you'll have to read it to find out what the Death Star architect's
response was. And yes, the architect has a point—it's not like anyone could
have forseen such events.

I mean, what are the chances?

[1] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/19168.html
[2] http://www.dorkly.com/article/59234/an-open-

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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