You Know You're a Geek When...
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
Well, see it this way: it helped you think of a new way of wrapping the message. :-p
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
you could have checked the "Trash" folder for the deleted e-mail. :) I have simular experiences when I see street signs. I was passing a church sign that read "VBS training starts in June." I thought to myself, why would anyone want to learn Visual Basic Scripting, but at the same time, I was thinking wow, these people are true geeks. Then it dawned on me that they were talking about Vacation Bible Study.
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I got an email on my iPhone that had the subject line "Soap Container". I deleted it before I realized I didn't know what it was about (was bulk deleting emails and that one got deleted by accident). Since I had just Friday modified some code that wrapped an XML message in a SOAP container so that it could be sent to a web service, I assumed that somebody noticed the newly committed code and decided to suggest an alternative way of wrapping the message. I thought "maybe they noticed I was concatenating a bunch of strings and are going to suggest that I use a single string and string.Format to combine all the parts of the strings". I thought to myself, "that's not a bad idea". Being curious if I was correct, I resolved to later RDP into my work computer to check my email (which had auto-forwarded to my iPhone earlier). I just now checked my work computer and I realized I had sent the email to myself (from my home email to my work email). By sending myself an email that said "soap container", I intended to remind myself to pick up a small container to put liquid soap into so that I could bring it to the gym to shower with. I did that because the store I planned on buying it from was closer to my work than to my home and I thought getting an email at work would remind me to pick up the container on the way home. It had nothing to do with SOAP. :-O
...when you buy your SOAP at Frys.
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you could have checked the "Trash" folder for the deleted e-mail. :) I have simular experiences when I see street signs. I was passing a church sign that read "VBS training starts in June." I thought to myself, why would anyone want to learn Visual Basic Scripting, but at the same time, I was thinking wow, these people are true geeks. Then it dawned on me that they were talking about Vacation Bible Study.
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
you could have checked the "Trash" folder for the deleted e-mail
Did that, but the iPhone doesn't allow me to read the message content of deleted emails (and, as far as I can tell, it doesn't allow me to restore them).
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
why would anyone want to learn
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
Visual Basic Scripting
ThomasVanderhoof wrote:
Vacation Bible Study
Don't know, some people are just religious about that sort of thing.
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...when you buy your SOAP at Frys.
Actually, I used to shop at this grocery store called "Fries Food and Drug Store". They sold soap. A prelude, I suppose. :rolleyes: