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 metadata [...]

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 [...]

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 had a [...]