Why don't they get it?

Coworker: Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could have something show up in the monitoring software to show the current weather?
Me: Give me 10 minutes.
Coworker: Seriously?
Me: Yes, seriously. I keep telling you this, but if it's on a computer, I can write a probe for it, and we can monitor it.
Coworker: What about, like, the local traffic?
Me: Dude. If it's on a computer... We can monitor it.
Coworker: Huh. Cool.

8 minutes later

Me: Done!

I bitch about it, but Nimsoft's NimBUS API is pretty cool. (once you figure out all the undocumented features)