Archive for the ‘humor’ Category

Having Fun Writing Software

Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by aaron
Filed under humor, programming | 2 Comments

I was exploring symstore.exe with Depends just now and came across a function in dbghelp that’s clearly not in the documentation. I got a nice chuckle out of it.

What sort of “fun” (not nasty!) function names do you tend to create? Or do you keep them all boring plain Jane? (Boooo!!) The way [...]

Your Code is Suboptimal!

Posted on September 11th, 2007 by aaron
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I just can’t pass up a free t-shirt, even when “free” is relative. It didn’t cost me any money–that’s free in my book. I’ve been known to head to Kohl’s and stock up on $3 t-shirts around the 4th of July.
So, here’s to Eric Sink for giving me a cheap-as-free shirt, thanks!

(Click to see my [...]

Take a 30-minute break…

Posted on June 18th, 2007 by aaron
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Absolutely hilarious! It’s long, but so worth it. (via Bad Astronomy)
Update: apparently it’s popular enough they moved it to a more ad-centric location

Office Pranks

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by aaron
Filed under humor, interactive intelligence | 2 Comments

My boss was on vacation all last week. So when the email arrived with the subject line “I’ve got 800 post-it notes and some spider webbing, who’s in?”, I knew what was up. Names will not be named, of course, since my boss reads this blog, but never-the-less, whoever did this *cough*, must’ve [...]