Dr. Wingnut

What do you get if you take a hot dog and draw a smiley face on it, then take out the insides?  Yes you guessed it…  Happy Hollow weenie!

In addition to By the Yard recycled pop bottle lawn furniture made in Shakopee Minnesota, and the Sierra Club clothing made with EcoSpun recycled Fortrel polyester, you can get backpacks and other carrying bags from Earthpak.

Never hold your farts in.  They travel up your spine, into your brain, and that’s where you get shitty ideas from.via eMail from my wife.

I always thought that it was the cord that connected the eyes to the asshole; that was corrected by an optirectumy

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification.  He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching

Apropos for the events of the day when two employees got busted for an affair at work where they were having sex in the warehouse

I found these in the October 2003 issue of Computer Magazine from the IEEE Computer Society in an article on Design Review by Bob Colwell.

I wonder if the Marquis de Sade School of Scorched Earth Management has any other graduates besides this guy?Page 8

In most cases, you and your colleagues work together on a project, and all of you succeed or all of you fail. While some of them are your personal friends outside work, others personify the saying "it takes all kinds."Page 9

The reviewers are seeking flaws in your design—not in you.Page 9

… I only deserve limited credit, because my naivete in having set up a meeting with a matter/antimatter agenda was largely to blame in the first place.Page 10

This exchange of email occurred on the struts-user mailing list as an off-topic posting.  In America developers are increasingly the target of losing their jobs to offshore dev-farms in India and China

Ha! You Americans are funny.
Over here everything is very high tech. We even have a special gizmo that
gives us the power to control office temperature through a local interface.
Its this little knob thing mounted on the wall and if you rotate it
clockwise the office gets warmer, and if you rotate it the other way it
gets
colder (A little TOO cold if you ask me, but I digress...)
Ahhh the infinite bounds of human ingenuity...
Maybe one day your scientists will catch up and you too will no longer have
to work up a sweat just to write a struts app...

-----Original Message-----

>From: Andy Engle [mailto:andy at andyengle.com]
>Sent: Saturday, 18 October 2003 22:53
>To: Struts Users Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [FRIDAY] Free Dog..... (going further OT!)
>
>
>I hate to say it (well, I don't really), but the whole thing is
>ridiculous.  What's the matter with keeping our call centers in the
>United States?  And do we *really* need a call center to maintain the
>stinkin' temperature?!  I don't think so.  It just goes to show the
>stupidity of some of the things my employer does.
>
>
>On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 09:21  AM, Martin Gainty wrote:
>
>> Worse..the People maintaining the Call Center system are permanently
>> out to
>> lunch
>> They make US government workers look industrious!
>> -M
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Adam Hardy" <ahardy.struts at cyberspaceroad.com>
>> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <struts-user at jakarta.apache.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 5:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [FRIDAY] Free Dog..... (going further OT!)
>>
>>
>>> On 10/17/2003 10:10 PM Andy Engle wrote:
>>>> Sorry to diverge from the already off-topic topic, but this one
>>>> couldn't go without being shared: It's really hot in the room we work
>>>> in today.  We've been trying to cool it down in here, but I just
>>>> heard
>>>> from a co-worker of mine (who heard it from our boss) that the
>>>> heating
>>>> and air conditioning in our room (which is in a much larger building
>>>> here in northern IL) is actually managed/monitored by a group in
>>>> India,
>>>> where supposedly there is a call center that handles such matters.
>>>> It's hot and stuffy in the cave right now (we refer to the room we
>>>> work
>>>> in as the cave, since there are no windows or signs of the great
>>>> outdoors) -- everyone is hot and complaining about it.  Anyway, this
>>>> co-worker just told me that our boss apparently called the
>>>> maintenance
>>>> people to compliain about the excessive heat problem this morning,
>>>> but
>>>> his call was routed to a call center in *India*, where the person
>>>> there
>>>> logged a ticket for the heat to be turned down.  That ticket was
>>>> logged, but in the end the problem is due to the fact that the heat
>>>> was
>>>> left on, and the person who can turn it down is out today.  So, in
>>>> spite of our *international* effort to make sure we're all
>>>> comfortable
>>>> in our office buildings, the ticket logged in India is being
>>>> unanswered
>>>> by a vacationing maintenance worker who is simply not around to cut
>>>> the
>>>> heat back a little.
>>>
>>> Global warming?
>>>
>>> Adam

Tools I ran across at the Multi-Edit site which will be include in version 9.1 Scooter Software – Beyond Compare and Flashbulb Studios – Trita Code Formatter (Pretty Printer).  And, an unrelated item, a framework covered in Software Development magazine that seems very promising for Java development, the Keel Framework.

The Economists
From: Shane Mingins [mailto:shane.NOSPAMmingins@assurenospaminternational.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:21 PM

I especially like the way they wiggle when the numbers go below zero.