Are you sick of reading rants about work crap yet?
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, me too.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Pet Peeves
In no particular order...
- People who are too polite to be efficient
- 'Recipes' which are pretty much just grocery lists, with the ridiculously intutive instruction 'now put it all together' detailed in five flowing paragraphs.
- Rhetorical questions posted online to satisfy one's need for public favor ('Should I write a book?' I'd like to see someone answer, 'Nah.')
- People popping up out of the blue after years of being incommunicado tosheepishly ask for outright demand a 'favor.'
- 'Grammar Nazis' who make grammatical errors. On a related note, editors who let 'your' get printed in place of 'you're.' I've read too many good books lately, which are punctuated (haha, pun) with silly errors.
- People who are too polite to be efficient
- 'Recipes' which are pretty much just grocery lists, with the ridiculously intutive instruction 'now put it all together' detailed in five flowing paragraphs.
- Rhetorical questions posted online to satisfy one's need for public favor ('Should I write a book?' I'd like to see someone answer, 'Nah.')
- People popping up out of the blue after years of being incommunicado to
- 'Grammar Nazis' who make grammatical errors. On a related note, editors who let 'your' get printed in place of 'you're.' I've read too many good books lately, which are punctuated (haha, pun) with silly errors.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Quotable Quotes
Bugzilla has a bunch of quips to while away the time while you wait for the universe to restore itself. Here are some of my favorites from pages 1-3 (I had an annoying bug that took a while to fix. Also, these are addictive).
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
Hindsight is an exact science.
To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.
Smile........ Tomorrow will be worse
The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
"Time's fun when you're having flies." - Kermit the Frog
" I drank what?" -Socrates
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they are not.
"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
It's sad that a family can be torn apart by such a simple thing as a pack of wild dogs.
A lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part
The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
God is real, until declared integer.
If you must reinvent a wheel, use a round one.
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them!
2nd place is like being the tallest midget ... nobody cares.
... Bit hard to tell if I'm an optimist or a pessimist, eh? I'll take either perspective, as long as it's wrapped up in a funny line.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
Hindsight is an exact science.
To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.
Smile........ Tomorrow will be worse
The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
"Time's fun when you're having flies." - Kermit the Frog
" I drank what?" -Socrates
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they are not.
"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
It's sad that a family can be torn apart by such a simple thing as a pack of wild dogs.
A lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on my part
The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
God is real, until declared integer.
If you must reinvent a wheel, use a round one.
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them!
2nd place is like being the tallest midget ... nobody cares.
... Bit hard to tell if I'm an optimist or a pessimist, eh? I'll take either perspective, as long as it's wrapped up in a funny line.
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