I went to dragon con one year, people were dressed in all sorts of costumes even though it’s not a furry con. And I know the hotels where the con is are incredibly hard to book. That said just once I want some senior executive to accidently book a room in one because he has some meeting with a potential client of something and just so happen to click it at the right time.

He shows up and is completely bewildered by all the people in costumes. “you’ll never believe it mark. I rode down the elevator with a robot and I swear to God… Tiny from Bob’s burgers”

I do this alot but I alway follow up with “Do you know what blah is?” and depending on age/experience/acronym or term I ask them to explain it.

Sometimes I get assigned work with a senior engineer(where I learn) and sometimes I get asked to help a new person. For example right now I’m in a project being driven by a senior engineer but was asked to assist a professional development program employee(or pdp) to actually execute the project. As a result this is the habit I developed to 1. Make sure I don’t confuse people with random acronyms or terms 2. Ensure we are on the same regarding definition(and they are not just saying yes I know when they don’t).

Cops were called to a kindergarten class. A young student was arrested for “resisting a rest”.

The next day cops were back due to a “kid napping”

Not to mention the amount of analog clocks that are just wrong. I work at a fortune 500 company, most clocks are digital and synced to a time server. Every analog clock is wrong. Just yesterday I walked through the cafeteria and glanced at the clock and it read 5:20… For a second I panicked and was like it can’t be that late. I checked my phone, it was 3:06. The clock was just not set properly.

If I confess to what I did on a dare is that a truth or dare?

True but they are so rare, it’s basically a “rounding” error …

The earth is flat…

Do you agree the earth is about 2/3 lakes, rivers, oceans etc?

Are they carbonated?

No, the world is flat … Give me money…

The theory about Hitler was he was alive in Brazil.

There were several isps that did this years ago… A banner at bottom is of your screen showing ads, free internet. They all went bankrupt I think.

Actually cutting the sandwich cause some amount of crumbs and some amount of sandwich ends up on the knife. It’s a minuscule amount but a uncut sandwich gives you the most sandwich.

Put another way “having money isn’t everything, not having it is”

I hired a exorcist but then my credit card got declined… I got reposessed.

I’ve done some gcode but moved onto other programming(mostly c# so completely different. One thing I HATED about gcode, I don’t know if it was just my machines or gcode in general(most of mine were based on fanuc cnc controllers typically seen as top of the line) , we were not able to name variables.

I create a variable and assign it #315. What does #315 do? What does it mean? Who knows… Better have notes or comments to explain or your fucked. I can’t say variable x_offset_tool_15 nope…just #315.

Did you look at the source code? If not open the source and zoom out…

Wonder of we feed this into an Ai what would happen… https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

My favorite example of this is is Hitachi. They are basically only known for vibrators and large construction equipment… How those got combined in one conpany I have no idea.

I hear he likes to *****!

Yeah… Which is 100x more complicated cause Microsoft has no idea how to name consoles

Am I old if I remember xoom?

I didn’t even consider incorporating toy distribution… At what levels should kids get a small gift(a toy or game) vs a large gift(bike, game system etc).

In a real world scenario I would probably spilt this between 2 databases… One for kids (“with a nice score of 2 you get a toy of value 4 or less”) and one for toys (“the toys available with a value less than 4 are…”)