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I Must Be An Expert In My Field

There’s my attempt at writing a passionate and ridiculous statement in order to get comments. Seriously though, I don’t pretend to be an expert. So why do so many of my posts go by with no comments? I was thinking about this today before I read junger’s post about this very topic. He asks, “What…Continue Reading…

Practical Jokes

I read Harmless Computer Practical Jokes which I read about on the Langalist. Here are my favorites: I’ve also bought one of those fart machines and put it behind people’s CPUs. Off and on I’d click the remote to have it make noise. They were so certain that either they had a virus or someone…Continue Reading…

Source Code as Structured Data

This was cool enough that I want to keep it here to think about later. Imagine having an accountant as a client who insisted on maintaining his general ledgers using a word processor. You would do you best to persuade him that his data should be structured. He needs validation with cross field checks. You…Continue Reading…

South Park Elliot

Darren Delaye did it, so I went ahead and threw together my idea of me. I made several variations; namely, this version with hat and lightsabre / lightsaber. Try your own.

101010

The ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is not 42, but rather, 101010b. At least, I like it better: 101010. It can’t be a coincidence. some more info on 42 From Wikipedia Douglas Adams was asked many times during his career why he chose the number forty-two. Many theories were proposed, but he…Continue Reading…

Chuck Norris Jokes, Again

I wanted to throw in a couple more funny Chuck Norris lines. “Once a grizzly bear threatened to eat Chuck Norris. Chuck showed the bear his fist and the bear proceeded to eat himself, because it would be the less painful way to die.” “Chuck Norris does not know about this site. Otherwise he would…Continue Reading…