Month: December 2004
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Bring chips
A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey.When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the…
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Irene Lord’s Candied Fruit Cakes
This is my paternal grandmother’s fruit cake recipe. In contract with other fruit cakes which so many deign to be doorstops, this recipe is in a class by itself since it has none of the nasty doorstop fruitcake items like citron, citrus peels and the like. The doctor always makes 3 or 4 batches to…
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Relationships
Relationships are hard. It’s like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks’ notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.Bob Ettinger
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250 (More) Ways to Annoy Your Roommate
Make brown-bag lunches for your roommate every morning. Give them to him/her before s/he goes to class. Every time you enter the room, sit in a chair, lean back too far, and fall over backwards. Laugh hysterically for about ten minutes. Then, one day, repeat the falling-over exercise, but instead of laughing, get up, look…
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Communicating
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.Joel Barish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Success
The [application] development isn’t successful if the infrastructure team that builds the physical system isn’t successful. The infrastructure team isn’t successful if the operations team doesn’t know how to measure the system. They all are measured in their success based on the final impact to the business.Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman