Tag Archives: fun

Twitter fun

Sometimes tweets come in an order, where you somehow think that they are related. Should of course be read bottom up. The next one is funny in Danish. It is one of those where a nick means something unintended, but funny in another language.

When your task count reaches the number of the beast

My favorite filters in Jira today showed me that Everything is 666 I wonder what this means… should I stop working or should I work more?

Staden

I was filling in a form on a website yesterday and when I picked Denmark as my country I was presented with a list of cities/regions in Denmark. The one I have marked ‘Staden Kobenhavn’ is a bit funny in that sense that, staden is what we normally call Freetown Christiania… how would have imagined [...]

Changes in the Matrix

Looking at Twitter – You KNOW they are making changes when: obra Today’s events: I quote Master & Margarita in a release notice; I put Sympathy for the Devil on the stereo; A black cat jumps on my desk. 11:50 PM Oct 2nd from web jzdziarski Hey 50 midgets just ran in and kicked me [...]

Evil Spam Count

Yes I tweeted about this one, but I just need to mention it here as well. While on the phone my eyes fell on my mail client and the spam folder and in particular the count – evil!

Route Planners

Starting a gig with a client outside Copenhagen, I had to check out a local route planner to see how I would get there. It does say that the route is just instructive rules (cross-posted on livejournal.com)

ISS crew flees flying space junk

This headline from the register almost had me spurting out my coffee this morning. I find it quite amusing since ISS probably the largest cleaning company and they seem to be everywhere. But the article had nothing to do with that particular ISS.

monkey on a crossing bridge

Yesterday somebody asked for a particular CPAN module on the #cph.pm IRC channel. A module that could return from one level up. Somebody recommended Acme::Goto, I deconstructed the question and recommended Sub::Uplevel, without knowing what it actually does. Somebody suggested that it was written by a Japanese, but could not recall the name. So I [...]

2600, latest issue

I am somewhat a regular listener to Off the wall and Off the hook I mentioned this to a Perl monger at some point and he recommended me to buy all of the back-issues of 2600 magazine. So late 2007 I did. The actual reception of the box with the issues is quite a story [...]

Betty Forth?

Is there such a thing as the Betty Forth Clinic for burned out coders?