What could possibly go wrong with the the lineup the Beatniks are going to sport this weekend?
Sheesh.
Category: Deep Thoughts
Tapioca bitches
I’ve been hanging out with a new crop of the oldsters lately. I can’t imagine they’re representative of their generation at large. On the other hand, they’re very Teabaggy. At any rate, I’ve had to sit through several of these lately.
And it’s getting real old.
Spinning classics
Behold the Rek-O-Kut turntable, my father’s pride and joy. Special were the days we were allowed to play records on it. Many more were the days we played records without permission.
Finally hooked it up to an amp and speakers tonight. My god this is a great turntable. Rock solid performance and completely isolated from ambient vibration. The motor is strong enough to drive a tractor. The platter has more inertia than many solar systems. Unfortunately the stock tone arm went somewhere in the late 70s or early 80s. Still, this aftermarket Pioneer arm is the schnizit.
I have a hankering to dig up the Big Sounds of the Drag Boats LP and play a little Tricky Nicky.
Phew!
Completely and totally free of any actual context mind you…
Overheard in some cube farm on a release day: Our customers may be completely and totally pissed off right now, but at least they’re not pissed off at our team.
My phone comes out of the closet
So I’m sending a SMS text to a friend and I type the word ‘day’. The phone decides to auto-correct that to ‘gay’ for me.
And if that weren’t enough it then suggests my next word should be ‘porn’.
Is my phone coming on to me?
Developer mind
“OH HAI! The process to perform incremental testing is taking several minutes per iteration. This sucks! Automate this!”
“Automation totally rocks! The process to perform incremental testing is now only about a minute.”
[some period of time lapses]
“OH HAI! The process to perform incremental testing is taking a whole minute per iteration. This sucks! Tune the test harness!”
“Automation tuning totally rocks! The process to perform incremental testing is now a mere 30 seconds!”
[some period of time lapses]
“OH HAI! The process to perform incremental testing is taking a whole half a minute per iteration. This sucks!”
[…]
Lesson: If left to my own devices, I’ll spend more time tuning the testing process than developing the code being tested because it feels more wasteful to do otherwise.
This guy
What has two thumbs and just clobbered his much labored over and highly personalized bashrc file?
Oh no! Po po!
While commuting this morning at a higher than the published legal maximum velocity I was listening to this [1] and came across an actual member of the illustrious institution engaging in speed trap behavior. In a construction zone.
Thankfully, the song is not gospel as I was not pulled over.
Core conflict
This is the underlying theme from which the rest of my life derives. Currently faster internet is winning.
Interpretation
Overheard in cubeland: $NATIONALITY have forty-five legal holidays a year. That’s almost one a week.
The point this person was trying to make: $NATIONALITY are soft
The point I took away from that statement: Jealousy