Posts under ‘Humor’

The broken window theory for geeks

The importance of fixing “broken windows” in your code — also known as “a justification for being anal?”

Better than the train

This looks interesting, but I don’t think there is a frame strong enough to sustain bumps at that speed.

My new income stream

Wow. I may become solvent again.

I hate it when that happens

A guy is out at a local bar having a drinks. Since it was getting late, he decides that it time to pay the check and head home.
He gets off the bar stool and immediately falls flat on his face. “What the heck? I didn’t have that many drinks,” he asks.
A couple of his [...]

Blind golfers

A regular foursome sits down at the bar after their round of golf. the bartender has already started pouring their drinks…
Bartender: Hey guys, how was your round of golf today?
Player #1: It was awful — it took 3 times longer than normal. There was this group in front of us that was slower [...]

Staffing the Whitehouse

In a recent issue of the New Yorker, there was an article on humorous political speechwriters.
Someone said that writing funny speeches for Jimmy Carter was analogous to being a tapdance instructor for FDR.

James Carville has a way with words

Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched.
You know what?
I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I’ll be damned if all those [...]