Month: April 2007
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Life without left turns
My father never drove a car.Well, that’s not quite right. I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.“In those days,” he told me when he was in his 90s, “to drive a…
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No entry without employee escort!
Apparently Woot! is moving to new office space and had a contest to create signage for those offices. My favorite was:Does that mean that Woot! has only code monkeys as employees? You can see the rest of the entries at the Woot! blog.
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Friend
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.Arthur Brisbane
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Aesop fable updated
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.He invited all his neighbors…
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Software complexity
He claimed a circuit board containing the logic found in a typical application would cover the same area as that of a single family home. This contrasts dramatically with that of a personal computer, where all of the complex logic is contained on the circuit board the size of a single floor tile.StorageTek’s James Willette…
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Poodles
A U. S. Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state.The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men. The squad leader…