Saturday, July 17, 2010

Observations

This is the first of (hopefully) may posts consisting of my more random thoughts and observations that I would normally tell to the Co-op in the cube next to me. He will be leaving in August, so I am redirecting my random information outlet here. These are the things that make me chuckle during the week. I can only hope they do the same for you.



Manipulating the premise will never lead to successful scrutiny if in the end, your assertions fail.



"Could, would, should, but didn't." I've been reading Linchpin by Seth Godin, and he has a graph depicting this problem. The problem goes much much deeper: these words are terribly spelled. They ought to be spelled kud, wud, and shud.



Some programs have layers, one class has a function initialize() that calls another class's doInitialize() that calls another class's no_reallyDoInitiallize() that calls another class's actuallyGoingToInitialize() function. This may seem extreme at first glance--that's because it is.



I was walking down the hall when I caught some conversation as I passed between two engineers. The short woman said, "..so she literally walked down to the office, I mean literally went down there and talk to them about..." I suppose she figuratively walks down there most of the time.



"What does vested interest really mean?"
"It means it's important. A vest is decorative suit-like garment worn to important or prestegious events. You have clothed your interests with the intent of importance."
"Really?"
"No."