"Scientists explain why Uranus is tilted" in today's Insider
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
There was a QA guy who was, to put it mildly, a jerk.
Why do you need to repeat yourself? ;)
HEY! That was not called for. QA folks are people too, even if they are vampires... Disclaimer: I'm the QA guy here...
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The title brought back a memory from when I first started at my current job. The was a QA guy who was, to put it mildly, a jerk. At the time everyone on the project was using Sun workstations, of which we had 5 or 6. The machines were named after the planets. This guy insisted he had to have a machine of his own for testing purposes. Needless to say, we named his Uranus :-D.
Software Zen:
delete this;In order to prevent puns like that, the International Astronomical Union decided to rename Uranus into Urrectum.
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One leg is shorter than the other.
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]
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The title brought back a memory from when I first started at my current job. The was a QA guy who was, to put it mildly, a jerk. At the time everyone on the project was using Sun workstations, of which we had 5 or 6. The machines were named after the planets. This guy insisted he had to have a machine of his own for testing purposes. Needless to say, we named his Uranus :-D.
Software Zen:
delete this;I actually remember you telling this earlier (many years back). God, I need to get a life.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Yes, you are right. And I need to insert foot into mouth.... :~ Instead of blindly replying to your post, I should have read it instead. Then I would have seen that it was an anecdote, not a repost. My sincere apologies, mister Wheeler. Might this do as a token of such? :rose: (or would this be more appropriate? :beer: )
Nah... What's up, Doc? CCC's solved : 1
No problem. :rose: or :beer: works, either way :).
Software Zen:
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Uranus is tilted because it's where the dead souls of proctologists go, and they huddle together trying to avoid the selection of those who will colonoscopied every hour on the hour. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
You have the most bizarre view of the afterlife I've ever heard of.
Software Zen:
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
There was a QA guy who was, to put it mildly, a jerk.
Why do you need to repeat yourself? ;)
I guess that was somewhat redundantly repetitive of me, wasn't it?
Software Zen:
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I actually remember you telling this earlier (many years back). God, I need to get a life.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
That makes two of us. I'm afraid I've only got a few good stories. File the serial numbers off, change the names to protect the inept, and tell 'em again! :laugh:
Software Zen:
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You have the most bizarre view of the afterlife I've ever heard of.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
You have the most bizarre view of the afterlife I've ever heard of.
Thanks, Brother Gary ! My memories of the afterlife are sometimes not as vivid as they used to be, but, in this case, I am absoltely sure the proctologists form a huge mass in the same way that slime molds can form a fruiting body, which, of course, tilts Uranus, just like New York tilts Earth. Did you know that slime molds are sometimes classified as "protoclists" ? An obvious source for the cognate nomenclature "proctologists." I wish I could make things like that up, but I can't [^] I don't know if slime molds go to Uranus after death since they don't know good from evil. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844