As a youth, I studied the languages of the earth so I could better understand the people around me. Now I study the languages of math and it’s slang dialect physics so I can better understand the universe.
— Arienna Lee
Category: Quote
That was Fun
I had some rather deep red cayenne that I confused with paprika a few weeks ago. That was fun.
— tsingi, IRC
Universal Easter Eggs
“Studying Calculus and Physics makes me want to believe in god. I keep learning things that are so beautiful in their profound simplicity… it’s like someone left Easter Eggs all over the Universe just for me to discover and delight in.”
— Arienna Lee
Aren’t Reorgs Fun?
(after laying out a new table of organization on the whiteboard…)
Manager 1: “We’ll call this group the ‘Application Security Services Penetration Engineers’…”
*writes name on the whiteboard*
Manager 2: “ASS Penetration Engineers?”
*awkward silence*
Manager 1: “Uh, yeah. Forget I said that. I’d better go change the briefing note. Now.”
Tourette Syndrome
Is Tourette Syndrome an occupational hazard of programmers? Because I’m afraid this codebase is giving it to me. WTF?! FFS! FMH! (On that note, I’ll be starting a blog at http://www.onesharedlanguage.com/ for the sorts of things that made me consider this relationship.)
Discovery vs Creation
“Do you ever get the feeling that you’re discovering, rather than creating, Echelon?”
— Robin Leung, on game design
Cut that Out
“You have an annoying tendency to have implemented a fix by the time I realize there’s a problem. So cut that out.”
— Robin Leung, on game design
Choose two
“Efficient staff meetings. Choose two.”
— Chuck Charbeneau
What is in Beer?
“Do you know what is in beer? The strength to bear the things you cannot change, and wisdom to ignore them and fuck off for another beer.”
— Angstrom, discussing work
Rational Fears
“I think everyone in a 4e D&D world must have a huuuuuuge fear of heights.”
— Violist, #nethack-ot-dnd