Santa Claus as a System Administrator
-  Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
-  When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal.
-  Santa seldom answers your mail.
-  When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he's got, he says, "Elves make it for me."
-  Santa doesn't care about your deadlines.
-  Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa, but did all the work themselves.
-  Nobody knows who Santa has to answer to for his actions.
-  Santa laughs entirely too much.
-  Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your $HOME.
-  Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in his presence.