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20221209a

Work thought for the day: Excessive govenance focus on the known process is like the drunk looking for their car keys under a street lamp. "But you lost them over here" / "Yeah, but I can see over here!"

architecture process comedy

20221207a

Arguing over process changes without a process goal is like throwing darts at a blank wall and arguing over which is a bullseye

comedy process

20221125a

Is it too old/ unknown for a Man in the Mirror / Man in the Middle cybersecurity parody?

comedy

20221115a

Video killed the Radio Star / Internet killed the Video Star / Elon Musk killed the Internet Star.

comedy

Seven Seals of Software Review

I watched as the change representative opened the first of the seven seals. Then I saw one of the four living approvers mail in a text like thunder "System Architecture!" I looked, and there before me was a blank page! Its author held a red pen, and he was given a stamp, and he rode out like an...

code comedy

The Patriarchy: Keeping the 'Guy' in Zeitgeist.

sjw comedy

Projémon: The Project

The Project. Like the may fly, its lifespan is predefined on its inception (although some have seemingly endless extensions). Like the bowerbird it creates an item of attraction and wonder in order to appear more enticing than its fellow Projects. And like the dodo, the sheer number of predators (colloq:...

code comedy projemon

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Reanimated

There was a call for submissions to a Steampunk Shakespeare anthology in 2010, I made a comment on Twitter about "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Reanimated". There was enough amused responses that I wrote something up. I spoke to one of the editors of the anthology and they said they were only...

comedy Fiction shakespeare steampunk

The Australian Internet Filter as explained via Beer

It has occurred to me that the Australian Internet Filter is being debated at such a high level that the average person will not understand what the fuss is about. After all, child pornography is bad and the filter will stop that badness (so they've been told), which means people are either pro-filter or...

comedy PseudoScientific Paper

ROSEA vs. Baseball

Pushing their way through the thronging masses, Professor von Explaino and young Christoph force their way as politely as possible to the wings of the auditorium. The general hubbub shows no sign of abating but, as Christoph well knows, it takes an act of extreme interruption to silence a group of scientists...

comedy Fiction professor von explaino steampunk