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Re: Answering Phones
As someone whose job it is to talk on the phone all day, I have a few things to say about answering the damn things. The most important of these things is that Sloth is mistaken. Here’s why, illustrated with pretty pictures!!!!!: Read the rest of this entry »
I thought I was the “Only One”!
Mr. Dijkstra, you are my hero. CS people know him because of his Narcissistic tendencies, most notably naming an algorithm after himself. I mean, who names anything after themselves?
Well, to the point, Dijkstra had the EWD manuscripts, and in one, EWD 1036, he notes something I have been wondering about myself for years…
We are hardly less primitive: why do we persist here in answering the telephone with the most unhelpful “hello” instead of our name?
Pres-elect
All hail [almost] [vice] president-elect Palin. She’s the real winner here. He and the moozen she’s about the field dress.
Comments
If you post a comment and it doesn’t appear – it’s caught in moderation. However there’s about 700-zillion comments in moderation at any given time (all spam) so you might need to contact someone important enough to fix that if you want your comment to appear.
Yay for comment spammers?
New Obama/Biden campaign video
After watching Biden tell us that the rich should start being patriotic and pay more taxes, I came across this new Obama / Biden campaign video…
Daft bodies?
The tribute to the robot helmets was a nice touch. They are also lucky there aren’t more words to the song.
To emphasize further how few words there are in the song (although it has much awesomeness)
And then last but maybe least but still entertaining
Still here? You have too much free time. Read this post.
Shit Tons
sloth: 10^(220-10) is how many pieces of pizza I’m going to eat at lunch
sloth: roughly
sage: roughly… that’s a shit ton of pizza
sloth: a shit ton is 10^150
sloth: so it’s actually more than that
sage: that’s almost a shit-ton of shit-tons
sage: shitshit-ton?
sage: ohshit-ton?
sage: nawh, an ohshit-ton is anything that falls on you
sloth: ohshit-ton is a measurement of compressive force
sloth: shitshit-ton would be explosive force
sloth: holyshit-ton is a measurement of surprise
sage: in number of “oh shits”?
sloth: yeah