Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Quotable Quotations, Part Three

Fabulous Adventures In Coding — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:23:00 GMT

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Michael Giagnocavo — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:17:00 GMT

A real DnD movie should be in 8 bits:

http://www.cliveblackledge.com/8bit/8bitDandD.html

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Peter Torr — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:33:00 GMT

"Liquid crack," my good friend calls it.

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

bryan — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:25:00 GMT

"That's why you buy your own coffee machine and keep it in your office :-) "

it's that kind of giving in to proprietary coffee brewing mechanisms that have kept the industry in a state of retarded development, if dedicated coffee hackers were allowed to delve into the inner workings of the machines they have access to then coffee makers would be better for everyone, as the saying goes - a rising brew foams all lattes. That this process may regrettably lead to some destroyed coffee makers here and there, and the condition of not having coffee for people who really (if they weren't such wimps) should be doing industrial quality crank anyway, is umm part of my run-on sentence.

anyway buddy, it may be why YOU buy YOUR own coffee maker and keep it in YOUR office but it is exactly the reason why I do not buy MY own coffee maker and keep it in MY office. yeah that was my point!!

damn I need some coffee. wish the coffee maker worked.

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Brian R. James — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:13:00 GMT

I'm soooooo glad that Peter Jackson was able to show the world what a true fantasy movie could be. I shudder to think of another D&D movie being developed.

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Eric Lippert — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:25:00 GMT

That brings back memories of a true story about building 16.

One day about seven years ago, the facilities guys were going from office to office, testing everyone's electrical outlets because they were getting really weird power conditions on one of the circuits.

Finally, they knock on one door, open it up and immediately say "Well, there's the problem..."

One of the Office devs had six -- six! -- 300 Watt halogen torchiere lamps. Apparently he liked it warm and dry when he was coding. You'd open that door and a sirocco would waft down the hall.

Nowadays, halogen lamps are verboten due to the fire risk, but back then, if a hot dry wind was what kept you productive, they'd rewire your office to support the extra load.

Fortunately the guy's manager managed to talk him into getting rid of four of them and they never did end up beefing up the wiring.

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

PaulCam — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:13:00 GMT

Peter:

I have one, but we're packed in so tight over here in 9 that if I try to brew a cup, I trip the circuit. :(

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Peter Ibbotson — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:28:00 GMT

I managed to keep a copy of the sinclair quotes file when I worked for one of the spin off companies. A friend posted it online a few years back google has the archive at:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=7v3mp3%245u2%241%40uranium.btinternet.com&rnum=1
Some of the jokes in there only make sense if you're:
a) British OR
b) Knew the participants
but so many of them still ring true even today.

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

Peter Torr — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:52:00 GMT

That's why you buy your own coffee machine and keep it in your office :-)

re: Quotable Quotations, Part Two

bryan — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:13:00 GMT

obviously the dev guy took the lever off to figure out how it worked (probably thought he could build his own free version and keep it at his desk), and in the process broke it.