IT Insights Blog — TestOut Continuing Education

The IT Inights blog is on the road until Aug. 20. Because we know how much you love us, however, we didn't just slip out the back door and leave you with nothing for an entire week. We're posting photos of some of the landscapes we'll be visiting, along with a link to a classic IT Insights blog post.

So we know how much you all love the IT Insights Blog, and we did just take Friday off at the end of last week. Unfortunately, however, there's more vacation in store for the blog team. Normal operations will resume on Aug. 20. We didn't want to leave you with nothing while we're away, however, so each day this week we'll post a photo of some of the sights we're enjoying, along with a link to a classic IT Insights blog post. Relive the hits, people!

Because TestOut is a super cool place to work, once a year in the waning days of summer, the entire company, including family members of all employees, goes to Utah's biggest amusement park for a day of family fun and prizes. Company leadership is so generous that they even give employees the day after Lagoon Day off from work. Let's face it, a day at the amusement park takes it out of you, you know? It takes time to recover from such hard use.

So British actor Patrick Stewart — who's either best known for being Captain Picard or Professor X, depending on how old you are — disclosed some Legitimately Big News while attending a Star Trek convention earlier this week. Who knew that Patrick Stewart still goes to Star Trek conventions, by the way? Isn't he legitimately the only former cast member who's cool enough to not have to put up with that nonsense?

The numbers are in and moviegoers have spoken. For the second weekend in a row, the No. 1 moving playing at U.S. theaters was Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the long-running series that features Tom Cruise as superspy Ethan Hunt. Ethan Hunt does all kinds of crazy things in Fallout, and since Tom Cruise like to do his own stunts, that means that Cruise himself did a lot of those crazy things, too.