8/9/2006 #
Funny
I know, I should be writing Cluster if I have time for a blog post, but I can’t focus at work for stuff like that.
I just got a call from somebody “at” some company. They said to call back. When I did, they informed me that they were needing me to fill out a bunch of invoices and reports named with acronyms.
The jig was up, so I informed her I was an intern. I asked her what area she was in. She said “Nashville.” I said, “What area of business are you in?” She said, “Let me think. I’ve only worked here a week. I think they do supply work. Supply.”
Now, at this point I know that she’s at a call center.
She then asks me to refer her to another person. Now, I am in “Supply and Distribution,” but that’s stretching my three-card Rolodex a bit to ask for a referral with that information.
Ends up she was forwarded to the wrong extension. Should have started the debugging process there.
8/9/2006 #
Chipmunky
Vertical Horizon actually sounds pretty good sped up to sound like it’s a 33 set to 45.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I am shaking my cane at you and telling you to respect your elders.
8/8/2006 #
Yee. Ouch.
So, that great guitar callus on my ring finger turned out to be a wicked blister. And, let’s just say that due to the inspired idea to git ‘r done this morning with respect to the aforementioned Subject, I might now have a more corrective, detailed response to the banal “Your epidermis is showing” gag.
8/8/2006 #
Solved the Squeal!
Dang this feels good. No more mystery of the Squealing HuffalaPewter.
Question and Answer
I’m going to try to avoid typing the letters S, W, and X because (1) it necessitates (3) using (1) my achy finger.
Recursion (1) is (1) involved, as (1) the numbers (1) 1 (1) and 2 (1) require the use (1) of the finger.
Insanity (1) 101 (2).
8/8/2006 #
Only If...
If you’re really bored, you might want to give this one a look.
8/8/2006 #
Mem'ries, Mem'ries
So, looks like Borland is re-releasing the Turbo suite of programming tools. Most people are likely deciding they would be unable to provide an individual with a rodent’s hindquarters.
However, I took the chance to replay a fond [maybe] memory of high school computer science: when “Mon” [gawrsh, might as well work another inside joke in there somewhere!] said that we should use Borland for our linked list program because, I quote, “The CodeWarrior compiler has a bug.”
The implausibility of a compiler being shipped unable to handle the fundamental dynamic-length memory structure in C obviously did not occur to our Hero.
So, our other Hero, our True Hero, identified that a pointer was allocated at load and promptly dereferenced without initialization, causing the persnicketty little Windows environment to dump core.
Up to then, it had been a fortunate event for our [original] Hero’s ego that DOS (and, hence, Borland, which was a dinosaur even then) was not so kind as to check your memory accesses and dump core if something isn’t entirely copacetic.
It took our True Hero some time to reassure, cajole, and force our [original] Hero into believing that said issue was all that was going on. There was a scene.
It was embarassing, to say the least. Not as embarassing as the Yahtzee episode, which Steve occasionally mentions still to this day. But, pretty dang embarassing.
It’s really nice to think that it might have been possible to overwrite anything you wanted in DOS memory with a creatively-arranged negative array index.
I’ll avoid recounting Yahtzee at this moment, but I do remember the time Norwood was making all the innuendo about “Isn’t it funny when someone doesn’t notice the slip of her skirt is showing?”
That woman could say anything she wanted to say; those not supposed to understand thought she was nuts, and the other half of the class was cracking up. Nice skill to have, but it takes some serious reputation-building to work fully.
8/8/2006 #
A Little Drama
MVP Spreadsheet: No, Brandon! Don’t do it! Don’t finish me so fast!
Brandon: Silence!
8/7/2006 #
That Copyrighted 'Birthday' Song
You’ve officially signed over your soul to the Nerd Devil when you consider putting something like this on your birthday wishlist.