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I took this partial screen cap just a few minutes ago. Let’s say 8:50 AM, December 30th, 2008.

Amazon must really think their shipping service is hardcore if they are able to get this product to you six days ago. Either that or they are so pessimistic about their odds of getting it to you in a timely manner that they mean next Christmas.

If it’s the first option I want a time machine too.

Some bad dog was recently caught on tape shoplifting a bone from the pet store:

The link in the last post was supposed to read:
Mice suspected in killing nearly 100 cats.

Mice suspected in killing nearly 100 mice.

This is why the Sage and I use Velcro.

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!!!!!:

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I have hidden the secret moose. See if you can find it.

I’ve been answering the phone with “This is ” for years. It’s nice for a few reasons:

1. People calling the wrong number immediately know this. There is no uncomfortable conversations with people who have no idea who they are talking to.
2. I don’t ever accidentally answer my cell phone like it’s my work phone (elf I’m looking at you).
3. It generally causes people to skip the first 30 seconds of the conversation that establishes that both parties are doing well and that nothing is up.

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?