Anyone familiar with the trustworthiness of beards will also appreciate this helpful scale about bears.
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Anyone familiar with the trustworthiness of beards will also appreciate this helpful scale about bears.
So now we can add "doing weird crap with flashlights" to the long list of Canadian behaviors that baffle us. It's not quite as disturbing as their adherence to the metric system, but it ranks right up there with their insistence on shoving U's into words that were doing just fine without them. Just remember, when you see something Canadian, say something.
Canada Day cards for the suspicious northerners in your life >>
A few minutes ago I posted this picture of Mack on Facebook because he looks throughly bored with watching me work, yet insists on being as close as possible to my desk when I work from home.
It reminded me of this picture that I sent Mike when I was in Colorado for Mother's Day of a notebook I found at Staples.
Mike told me the thing he likes the most about Mack is that he has stayed so down to earth.
In this long-forgotten video from the 90s, a cheap Barney knock-off named Yellow Dyno warns kids to watch out for "tricky people," which apparently is code for "terrible actors forced to star in low-budget pedophilia PSAs." We're not sure how effective (or legal) the pedophile-busting dinosaur's strong-armed tactics are, but we'd definitely watch "To Catch a Predator" if it starred this prehistoric predator instead of Chris Hansen. (Via Everything is Terrible, The Daily What)
While digging myself out of e-mail hell today I came across this gem ComicSansCriminal.com. The only person I know that uses it on a regular basis is our work travel agent. If it wasn't for the fact that she makes sure I don't get stranded in strange cities, I'd probably just delete her e-mails. Maybe I am just not appreciating the fun that work travel brings to my life.
I'm kinda crazy about North Korea. And crazy about Kim Jong-Il's rockin' sunglasses. That's why I am now crazy about this blog KIM JONG-IL LOOKING AT THINGS.
I'm not sure why Paul Tiseo's blog post Top 13 Funny Software Development Quotes got circulated around the office today because it is a bit dated, but it got some chuckles. I think everyone, developer or not, can appreciate #4.
Over the years, I’ve collected some of the smartest-yet-funny software development quotes I have read. Here’s the current short list in no particular order. Oddly enough, there are thirteen of them and they all address the woes of programming.
Feel free to add any like quotes in the comment section!
- “The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.” – Tom Cargill
- “In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.” – Author Unknown
- “I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” – Bjarne Stroustrup
- “A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.” – Mitch Ratcliffe
- “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” -C.A.R. Hoare
- “The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice.” – Author Unknown
- “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” – Gerald Weinberg
- “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” – Edsger Dijkstra
- “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates
- “Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.” – Fred Brooks
- “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” – Rich Cook
- “There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” – Jeremy S. Anderson
- “Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” – Ralph Johnson
I am currently a Product Strategist at iCrossing in charge of Business Intelligence. Formerly, I was the Manager of Advanced Analytics. I'm a marketer, mathematician, sociologist, student of the web, crafter of my own social network, amateur knitter and potter, people watcher, Red Cross disaster volunteer, and warrior against clutter.
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