Funny: April Fools’ Tech joke
Funnier: Sharing the joke 11 months after the joke was posted
Funnier still: The resulting Microsoft v. Linux flame war
Tag: Cubeland
Angry lizard
This could have been sent as a followup to a theoretical conversation one could imagine overhearing in CubeLand on a day like today:
Geneva Convention
I have a deep, unsettling feeling that the lunch I ate is on the verge of making me a bad neighbor in Cubeland.
Masochists
Dudes in the next set of cubes over are discussing how lame owning a Prius is, mostly by bagging on the higher-than-most MPG a Prius gets.
Because it’s so much fun to pay for gas as frequently as possible?
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.
A two-fer
A banner day for overhearing in the cube farm:
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[That guy] must get offended at the very idea of a functioning system
- In re the Winter Classic
Next year they need to go the next step and play that on an actual pond
I think watching two NHL teams battle it out that way would probably be transcendent. No boards and no bleachers. Just two teams, an open pond, and about a billion television cameras.