October 2007
7 posts
How not to feel good about your work
Colleague: I'm trying to pawn this project off on someone else...
Slack: I noticed.
Colleague: the client has been really easy to work with, but I just don't want to do it anymore
Colleague: as [Developer], a guy from [City] that I've been having help out on it, said: "after reading some of the articles, I had an ethical debate about whether or not I really wanted to work on this"
Slack: I suppose I'll refrain from reading the articles then
Colleague: yeah, you definitely don't want to
September 2007
11 posts
Dan tries to get T-Mobile Service for his iPhone,...
Dan: Can I get EDGE service with this plan?
T-Mobile: Huh?
Dan: Uh, it's like the fast internet service.
T-Mobile: Oh! Yeah. Wait, what kind of phone do you have?
Dan: An EDGE Phone.
T-Mobile: Cuz that's like for PDA phones...
Dan: It'll work. Really.
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I was just flipping through the latest Family Christian Stores catalog which the previous owner of my house signed up for. Wow is it full of crap. I don’t mind the books, or the clothes so much. I mean, I mind, I’m sure they’re vapid and ill-informed, but I love books and you need clothes in general, so they could be OK. It’s all the other crap that gets to me. Look...
“We enter this world naked, screaming and covered in blood. It...”
– Dana Gould
“My plan is to enable the largest possible number of people in Russia to hear and...”
– Trent Reznor, being awesome. http://www.nin.com/russia [English Translation]