(SILLY) SOCKS AND CABLES
I understand that dryer’s need to eat socks now and then. That’s just part of life. But, I mean, what is happening to old Firewire cables? Is it some sort of rare delicacy? I mean… I can’t find a single one anywhere. Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2013-06-30 14:18:00 UTC
https://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek-versus-nerd/(HUMOR) ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEEKS AND NERDS
Finally someone gets it right. 🙂
“Both Geeks and Nerds are dedicated to their subjects, and sometimes socially awkward. The distinction is that GEEKS ARE FANS of their subjects, and NERDS ARE PRACTITIONERS of them.
“A computer geek might read Wired and tap the Silicon Valley rumor-mill for leads on the next hot-new-thing, while a computer nerd might read CLRS and keep an eye out for clever new ways of applying Dijkstra’s algorithm. Note that, while not synonyms, they are not necessarily distinct either: many geeks are also nerds (and vice versa).”
Source date (UTC): 2013-06-28 17:27:00 UTC
Two economists walked past a Porsche showroom. One of them pointed at a shiny car in the window and said, “I want that.” …. “Obviously not,” the other replied. – Ransom @Marginal revolution (I’m guessing Greg Ransom?)
Source date (UTC): 2013-06-27 15:31:00 UTC
ELDERBERRIES?
I hate when some nonsense just sticks in your head and wont’ go away …. 🙂
(Pythons…) sigh
Source date (UTC): 2013-06-20 14:25:00 UTC
Nerd Humor
“Java is the COBOL of the 21st century. It’s verbose, heavyweight, it’s an industrial language … takes many lines of code where other languages require only five…Managers like it because they think they’re getting a lot of work when they see a lot of lines of code.” – Larry Wall
Source date (UTC): 2013-06-18 13:44:00 UTC
I’M A HOBBY? HOW DEGRADING.
I told Veronika that she needed a Job and a Hobby so that I could get more work done. (So she wasn’t such a drain on my attention.)
She said “Me?”. Pause. Contemplation. Scowl. “A hobby? I have you.”
I said “I’m a hobby?” “Nice.”
Women are crazy. But they’re soft and they smell good and you can’t find that in nature very easily. 🙂
There. Catharsis complete. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-06-16 04:17:00 UTC
JEALOUS?
Ok. So. Apparently I’ve been chosen to be one of the judges at the finals of the Ukrainian amateur stripping competition. I did not volunteer. I did not know such a thing existed. It just happened. (‘Cause I can work a room.)
Seriously. I’m not making this up. Who could?
My life. Is. Utterly. Insane.
Pinch me.
Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 19:10:00 UTC
RELATIONSHIPS:
HUMOR (STORY OF MY LIFE RIGHT HERE)
Source date (UTC): 2013-03-28 13:30:00 UTC
TRUE NERD HUMOR (SURVEY)
(from email today)
—–
Mr Doolittle. We are conducting a brief survey. …. What are the things that trouble you most during the work day?
Amir
—–
Mr Amir,
Two things trouble me.
1) The natural incentives held by human beings are self interest and the conservation of energy, so that energy is reserved for what gives them pleasure. And the effort required to focus their energies on the work at hand sufficiently that all members of the group are able to produce a competitive advantage in a product or service in the same time period using the same resources, as other groups at competitors, is counter to their nature and physically and mentally daunting. Therefore work, must be, as well as possible, constructed as a game, the process of which provides entertainment as the way to provide incentives to produce competitive results. However, constructing such a game, requires that we do not create even greater incentives to produce even less visible free-riding, rent seeking, and what we would call ‘corruption’ than whatever disciplinary and reward structure we use at present to facilitate their productivity. It is this primary problem that I try to solve during my day.
2) The primary purpose of any executive is to allocate scarce capital such that the productivity of people and resources, reduces the scarcity of capital, without at any moment, running entirely out of capital.
These are the two things that trouble me.
Curt Doolittle
LAUGHING.
NERD HUMOR.
{hit send}
Source date (UTC): 2013-03-27 16:41:00 UTC
CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : LANGUAGE HUMOR
You know, I massacre the Russian language daily. It’s a source of laughter for everyone in the company. And of course, the retail staff we’re friendly with in the neighborhood. The people at the bakery just laugh no matter what I say.
Reminds me of all the silly things small children pronounce as they learn to speak. Christian had a number of them. Avocado as ‘ah-do-DAH-do’ was priceless every time. Partly because he was pretty articulate and these things were rarities. I kept wanting to use his pronunciation myself. It seemed so appropriate for some reason.
Russian language is still full of animal metaphor. My favorite is the nonsense about crazy squirrels distracting the inebriated, which I’ve written about here on FB before. (and I am accused of all the time, because I’m so silly.)
And, to make matters worse, whenever Veronika says “squirrel”, or phonetically, “SKWER-el” she pronounces it “SKREW-el”.
Which, reminds me of ‘screws-loose’, which in turn forces me to recall the crazy squirrel story, besides the obvious sexual references at the same time – a jumble of humorously related symbolism in a martini shaker that I suggests a pattern but I can’t sort it out.
Makes me laugh every time. Every single time. And it doesn’t get old.
It’s the little things that make life joyous. That’s the heart of conservatism: joy in present goods over future perfections. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-03-13 15:11:00 UTC