March 2011
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February 2011
21 posts
My inner responsible adult is still a 10-year old...
At my desk reading through the prerequisite materials for some management training course they’ve signed me up for. I turn to a page on effective feedback and something called “one minute praising.” There’s a bunch of bullet point guidelines with the final bullet ending:
…or touch them in a way that makes clear you support them.
and I start giggling. I keep on...
“Attendance challenges are challenges related to attendance. These include...”
– Some WBT course they’ve got me taking
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Trying to explain /b/ to someone who only knows of Anonymous as a thing on the news.
Failing. Horribly.
Though, it does make for an interesting IM conversation…
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“It’s just basic math. You combine the damn numbers until everything...”
– Overheard advice on accounting.
“Hey Joe, you remember that project we started a while back where we hired people...”
– Some Google engineer in search of a hobby
(regarding)
“Facebook has www.v6.facebook.com—with address 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3. Ah,...”
– And so begins my IPv6 DNS blackhole list of websites that tried to be clever with their IP assignments.
James: Did you know that crash test dummies recorded more than 1 song?
Guy: no way
Guy: lies
James: yeah, for real
Guy: lies
Guy: half truths
James: I didn't believe it until it came on the ipod
Guy: misinfo
Guy: HITLER
James: Godwin's law, you lose
Guy: damn