December 2009
47 posts
Working from home...
Working from home means listening to conference call muzak in one ear while trying to mix it with the right techno beat in the other ear.
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“I think GTFO means “ta-ta”
– Molly, 6 years old
Pimm's and Ginger Ale
Meagan: mayube
Meagan: i just reblogged a photo of a black pug
Meagan: there should be more black pugs in the world
Meagan: there is wone sleeping beside me wright now
Me: wblack pugs are wcute
Meagan: do not judge me by my typing
Me: You know I do not
Meagan: I am not as intoxicated as it would have you bleieve
Meagan: I am waiting to watfch elf
Me: To do what?
Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
Please do not press this button again.
Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real... →
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“I wear a three-piece suit when I’m working from home. Socks, underwear,...”
– Overheard at work
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Overheard at work
December 21st, 2009.
This was the day I head the phrase “smell your nipple” at my office. I do not know the context. It was spoken and received without snicker or giggle. I can only hope I misheard.
Scientists capture deepest underwater volcanic... →
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Think of someone famous and the internet will read... →
oldfamiliarway:
labeledbones:
piercedfornothing:
contrasts:
LOL, first try it correctly guessed Joshua Jackson. Shit’s creepy.
edit: OKAY IT JUST GUESSED NEIL GAIMAN, WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT.
oh god, it guessed jesse lacey, i thought for sure that would stump it
Well, it guess Jim Halpert when I was thinking of John Krasinski but they’re kind of the same person in regards to the...
YTMND - jeffrey will you jeffrey what jeffrey you... →
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popquizkid:
oldfamiliarway:
popquizkid
5) I want to start a huge band like this where everyone sings all epically. I love epic group sing-a-longs so much….
HEATHER. I WILL BE IN THIS BAND SO HARD.
THANK YOU. Meagan will join too, right? She can tambourine. I know she has one because I bought it for her. And I can only assume at least lip sync so as to look epic along with us.
WHO...
Super Strength Substance (Myostatin) One Step... →
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Two very important things
popquizkid:
andgoodbye:
Number one: they’re making a sequel to Troll 2. I can only imagine that the purpose is to create another stupendously terrible movie, but wouldn’t doing that intentionally ruin the point? And would it actually be related, or just as much of a sequel as Troll 2 was to Troll? (Troll, by the way, is really overunderrated. So much worse than it’s given credit for.)
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Today at work I was doing a little research in Wikipedia. After improving a few articles on data mining and search algorithms, I was curious to see what other articles my employer’s IP address had touched. Buried among relevant articles on my company and its technologies, I see “List of Naruto characters”. I weeped.
Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging... →
These are all pretty awesome. Sadly, I’m not sure how to link to the videos, so just click on the link and bring up #36 on the list. I quantify it with a high order of coolness units.
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At work
Me: "Have you ever seen anything like this before?"
BAPI guy: "No! I'm just explaining what I see in the trace. It is not logical to me at all!"
SAP guy: "If it was logical, we wouldn't be getting paid, guys."
You know it's a bad day when
$ ls ksh: cannot fork: no swap space
