EMS quote of the day competition

[Fred]

ROFL!!

[Fred]

Anon, yesterday: They have a table setup at the library today asking people to tell them why you came to the library today. So I wrote "Impregnating exchange students so that they can gain citizenship"

mk_e, when asked to post a docx as a pdf: "I'll have to print it and scan it, that ti the only way I can make a pdf..and my scanner died a few months back"

ROFL @ both.

[Dan]

ROFL at mk_e comment. Hilarious!

[Fred]

Linus Torvalds: "C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it"

[Fred]

Paraphrasing here, something jaw-dropping that I read/heard/had said to me recentlyish:

"Abstracting code to a sufficiently un-spaghetti level to be reliable and maintainable is frowned upon by the X and Y community"

Staggered, again. Such communities should be discarded as rapidly as possible, or educated. Or perhaps genocide? It wouldn't be a bad thing.

I feel the need to paraphrase some more:

"The best approach for writing a quality application is to make each module as big and black-box-like as you can"

Sorry about any toes that got in the way.

:-/

[Fred]

We have a new winner!!! :-)

Edit, original here: http://www.delorie.com/users/dj/dj.jpg

Cached hot link hilarity here:



Cached facial hair hilarity here:



D.J. Delorie: "I, personally, do not like git, and if src switches to git, someone else will have to do these mirrors instead of me."

He prefers DJ, or DJ., certainly not DeeJay, or DJay, or DeeJ, however he has a moustache, likes DOS, and dislikes Git(!!!???), so I don't care.

Fred.

[Fred]

02:33 < DeuceEFI> your decoder makes my Jaguar act like a M$ ;(

ROFL

[Fred]

1996 "The inner net must be something between your ears, I believe you mean to say Internet" lomax

+1, good man!

[ToxicGumbo]

This chunk of IRC comedy gold deserves to be quoted in full:

(09:54:21 AM) hena: hehe, i hate the style-32's
(09:55:33 AM) hena: and nope, don't like those rims either, they're too bling
(10:30:15 AM) BenFenner: *wheels
(10:49:19 AM) gufi_werk_: hahaha ben an i get annoyed by the same thing
(10:49:23 AM) gufi_werk_: i HATE when people say rims
(10:49:37 AM) gufi_werk_: htf you gonna put rims on a car... rims don't have spokes or a body =)
(10:51:27 AM) MerpCore: lolsemantics
(10:52:21 AM) BenFenner: It's not semantics.
(10:52:41 AM) hena: umm? they're rims
(10:52:44 AM) BenFenner: There are three parts to a trditional wheel. The Hub, the spokes, and the rim.
(10:52:44 AM) hena: i don't like the rim
(10:52:45 AM) hena: s
(10:52:52 AM) hena: i don't mind the rubber part, i like rubber
(10:52:55 AM) hena: hate the rims
(10:52:56 AM) BenFenner: So you like the hub and the spokes. Got it.
(10:53:07 AM) BenFenner: Just not the polished rim.
(10:53:10 AM) BenFenner: Understood.
(10:53:38 AM) BenFenner: Not sure what rubber has to do with any of this.
(10:54:11 AM) hena: aluminium doesn't provide enough tracktion on it's own
(10:54:26 AM) hena: so they but a softer outer layer on it
(10:54:41 AM) BenFenner: We're talking about wheels and rims. Not sure why we're talking about tires/tyres now?
(10:55:15 AM) MerpCore: <BenFenner> It's not semantics.
(10:55:23 AM) MerpCore: LOL
(10:55:38 AM) BenFenner: Everything in the world is semantics!
(10:55:49 AM) BenFenner: If that's your definition.
(10:55:58 AM) MerpCore: Are you high?
(10:56:01 AM) hena: wheel is the rotating part
(10:56:10 AM) hena: rim is just the ugly metal part keeping it together
(10:56:43 AM) BenFenner: Incorrect.
(10:56:47 AM) hena: correct
(10:56:50 AM) hena: .
(10:56:59 AM) MerpCore: I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
(10:57:57 AM) BenFenner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hub_%28PSF%29.png
(10:57:59 AM) diyefi-bot: File:Hub (PSF).png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(10:58:04 AM) BenFenner: "The classic spoked wheel with hub and iron rim, in use from about 500 BC (Iron Age Europe) until the 20th century AD"
(10:58:21 AM) BenFenner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apri ... _brake.jpg
(10:58:22 AM) diyefi-bot: File:Aprilia disc brake.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(10:58:27 AM) BenFenner: "Modern motorcycle alloy wheel with inflatable tire and disc brake"
(10:59:11 AM) hena: didn't your mom teach you not to use wikipedia as a reference?
(10:59:12 AM) BenFenner: "Rim Main article: Rim (wheel) An aluminum alloy wheel The rim is the "outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire."[18] It makes up the outer circular design of the wheel on which the inside edge of the tire is mounted on vehicles such as automobiles.[19]"
(11:01:00 AM) MerpCore: "A rim is the metal part of the wheel" -Some Guy -Michael Scott
(11:01:01 AM) BenFenner: If the metal part is a "rim" then what do you call the outer edge?
(11:01:13 AM) MerpCore: The outer edge of the rim
(11:01:24 AM) BenFenner: And do you know what the definition of "rim" is?
(11:01:51 AM) hena: but what is an outer edge of a rim then?
(11:01:55 AM) hena: rimmer?
(11:02:18 AM) BenFenner: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rim
(11:02:19 AM) diyefi-bot: rim - definition of rim by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
(11:02:54 AM) BenFenner: So you call the outer edge of the metal part "the outer edge of the rim" so you're saying "the outer edge of the outer edge".
(11:02:58 AM) BenFenner: Great thinking.
(11:03:03 AM) MerpCore: It's semantics, regardless of whether or not your own pedantry lets you see that.
(11:03:23 AM) BenFenner: Fine, it's semantics.
(11:03:32 AM) BenFenner: What isn't? =P
(11:03:39 AM) MerpCore: Lots of stuff, like calling it an apple
(11:04:16 AM) hena: or wheel
(11:05:27 AM) hena: or tire
(11:07:06 AM) BenFenner: What is this? http://cycleseven.org/wp-content/upload ... -wheel.jpg
(11:07:28 AM) hena: based on the picture name, a completed bicycle wheel
(11:07:38 AM) hena: are you gonna make me click it?
(11:07:45 AM) BenFenner: It's not a rim?
(11:07:59 AM) hena: does it say it's a rim?
(11:08:17 AM) BenFenner: I want to know what you'd call it.
(11:08:20 AM) hena: does it say http://cycleseven.org/wp-content/uploads2/rim.jpg ?
(11:08:39 AM) fredcooke: (18:01:13) MerpCore: The outer edge of the rim
(11:08:40 AM) fredcooke: ROFL
(11:08:43 AM) hena: is this some sort of social engineering?
(11:09:16 AM) fredcooke: (18:05:27) hena: or tire
(11:09:16 AM) fredcooke: I'm tired too
(11:18:14 AM) MerpCore: <fredcooke> (18:01:13) MerpCore: The outer edge of the rim
(11:18:24 AM) MerpCore: Seriously though, the folks that say 'rim' would call it a 'lip'
(11:19:54 AM) BenFenner: Yah, well they'd also call a front air dam a lip, or a front splitter a lip, or anything on the front of the car a lip.
(11:20:06 AM) BenFenner: Also anything on the rear, also a lip.
(11:20:54 AM) hena: or the flapping skin on their face
(11:21:09 AM) hena: seriously annoys the tar out of me

-Jeff

[Fred]

John Stuart Mill - "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig thinks otherwise, it is because they have no experience of the better part."