February 2011
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January 2011
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,...”
– Richard Feynman, from Appendix F “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle” of the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (via scifitwin)
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My name is James and I'm addicted to Starbucks
I know this because I was sitting here building up Internet rage over a tumblr post containing an inaccurate Starbucks infographic.
True story.
There are at least seven cup sizes, not four as stated in the post.
The Grande cup is not 24 oz. It is 16 oz. The Venti iced cup is 24 oz.
Totally ignored the 20 oz. Venti hot cup for which the size is named.
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You know when you write test scripts with comments referring to the specific requirement number in the baselined BRD, and then a year and a half later someone asks you what a particular test script is supposed to do, so you pull the BRD only to find out that all of those handy requirement numbers now say “see BR-8” where BR-8 is a massive matrix with no hint to what former individual...
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Guy: i'm thinking about applying for a job at MySpace
James: Director of Irrelevant Social Networking?
Guy: yeah
James: Good benefits?
Guy: i'm sure
Guy: free myspace account
Guy: lots of room
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6:30 PM Jan 08 (Sat) [PST] →
Pacific Time - because I was turned off at the idea of doing trivial mental math to make Sound of the Beep relevant.
Related: Mountain Standard Time, Central Time, Sound of the Beep [Eastern], Sound of the Beep [UTC]. See also: Tumblr Timestamps.
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January 1, 2005 8:01 AM
Grandma Lansie...