Category Archives: Comedy

Steve Yegge hits a homer: Your requirements are stupid.

Lately, I’ve been ruminating on requirements and requirements management (also known as disaster control). I was actually typing something up on this, but Steve Yegge hit the nail on the head – then he rammed it through the board and into the house next door:
Anyway, there you have it: the slightly expanded version of the [...]

The Abstract Cheetos Attack.

I need to write a CERT paper for this –

Name of Attack:The Abstract Cheetos Attack
Type of Attack: Password Vulnerability / Local Exploit / Brute Force
Known fix: Lack of Cheetos
Attack Vector: Food[1]/Social Engineering
Exploit Details: It is possible to determine the most-frequently used letters on a given keyboard on the target’s [...]

Sausage on the brain.

Mandelbraut: Rendering Sausages.
These are the ideas I get when I’m coding and thinking about food.

Pep Turds

I’ve finally been given the “gift of time” to work on the processing module PEP – when I was reviewing the text template, I ran across this:

– Leave the little Emacs turd at the end of this file alone,
including the formfeed character (“^L”, or \f).

I [...]

The T in IT: Mr. T endorses Hitachi Gear

Before I give the links to the videos, I want to give the typical disclaimer:
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions, views, discussions, etc. Content published here is not read or approved in advance by HDS, my wife or anyone else for that matter and does not – in any way – reflect [...]

10 Great Tips on How Not to Be the Obnoxious Newcomer in Your Workplace

10 Great Tips on How Not to Be the Obnoxious Newcomer in Your New Workplace: “You’ve just joined a new company and are all fired up to change things—stat. While your enthusiasm is commendable, you might want to proceed slowly at first. It’s too easy for your helpful (and very possibly dead-on) observations and suggestions [...]

On the Hobo Visitor Pattern.

Speaking of the Hobo:Visitor Design Pattern.

Zing of the Day

(IronPython presentation, displaying accessing the CLR features in Python making windows and things in the UI)
Presenter (Microsoft Employee): “What’s you’re favorite color?”
People: “Blue Blue Purple Blue… etc”
Presenter: I’ll use green
Person in back (paraphrased): “Typical Microsoft response to Customer requirements!”
Another Quote
Presenter (Microsoft employee): The reason we called this CLR is because we… Oh, I’m being taped [...]

Apple Inside, best switch Video – Ever.

I won’t go into all of apple’s new offerings that came out yesterday – if you missed them, then you have to have been in solitary confinement.
I am really excited about the intel laptop (macbook pro) – I’m underwhelmed by the name, but I am excited about the specs, and most of all, that if [...]

Google KAI is the name of our SON

These people named a newborn Google. Google-Kai. wtf, over.