Bored on a Sunday might be good.
7https://jerroldprothero.blogspot.com/2007/06/power-of-positive-boredom.html (about a 3 minute read, if you chew the words carefully)
Of potential interest to software developers and other engineer types (and anyone around Seattle).
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Oh, it’s been too long since I read the Risks Digest regularly. A wonderful mixture of humor and terror.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
@blaineg Thanks for the link (, I guess. I went down quite a rabbit hole, and for too long).
@blaineg @phendrick It’s not an effective rabbit hole if it lets you to get back out within a minute or two.
@blaineg @phendrick @pmarin I think many rabbits might disagree.
@blaineg @macromeh @phendrick @pmarin Really good rabbit holes have multiple exit points, usually in unexpected locations.
I remember that quake. Two former coworkers and I had quit our corporate jobs and started a new software company in June 2000. That morning in 2001, we were in our new office in the Oregon Silicon Forest when the building started shaking. Looking out the windows, I could see cars in the parking lot rocking on their suspensions. We briefly evacuated, but there was no significant damage and soon returned to work.
And I’m proud to note that our software survived the incident without failure.
/showme board on a sundae
@capnjb
well they got the components right at least … even if they didn’t assemble it in the right order.
@chienfou I mean… I wanted to eat it so I’m not going to complain.
@capnjb @chienfou Maybe it wasn’t the specified order, but I’d argue it was the right order.
Kudos to the bot on this one.
@capnjb @chienfou Doesn’t matter how it was assembled, as long as it was tasty then the A.I. worked.
Until the day… Soylent Sundae is people!
/showme board on a Sunday
@mediocrebot throw in another dimension or two, and it would be an Escher.
/showme bored on a Sundae
@mediocrebot this guy doesn’t look promising. maybe send him prematurely to the Soylent facility.
(always concerned about the net images the A.I. ´borrows’ for its processing. poor kid kind-of looks like me at that age. but no ice cream)
@mediocrebot @pmarin Well, the kid is already green.
Jeerold Prothero didn’t have a lot of foresight, he didn’t mention Agile even once.