Let us curl, milady. Let us throw and sweep atwain until the heavens themselves drop their jaws in wonder and envy. And afterwards there'll be beer and cocoa with marshmallows floating in the foam. And if, from now till the end of time, someone should ask what we were doing on the eve of the seventeenth of November, we shall proclaim that we were curling!
... between two Perlers today:
chromatic:
Some days the jerks and bugs and workarounds and fame-chasing pundits make me want to leave technology as a profession.
Larry Wall:
If you do leave, you will find jerks and bugs and workarounds and fame-chasing pundits in most other professions too.
chromatic
At least real life hides its backwards compatibility misfeatures in DNA where I can't get at it.
Haha :-)
Sometimes pure comedy has some gems you can take away with you and use in real life.
Thanks go to David for this little exchange:
All I was asking for was a logo and a few pie charts which would have taken you a few fucking hours.
Actually, you were asking me to design a logotype which would have taken me a few hours and fifteen years experience.
I will now be translating this to my life as such:
It'll only take a few hours, yeah?
Yes, only a few hours and ten years' experience.
I like the escalator, man... because the escalator can never break - it can only become... stairs. There would never be an Escalator temporarily out of order sign... only an Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg was a cool stand-up comedian. Check him out on YouTube.
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