get over it already

"But this country takes exposed breasts very, very seriously. We get very exercised about such things."

This Jackson Boob thing is getting WAY out of hand: Laws to ban "indecency" from the airwaves, "Live" Grammy show to be run with "prolonged" broadcast delay. The latter makes it apparently ok for people to witness "indecency" first-hand, presumably because they'll not be subject to Television's Magical Powers Of Infiltration Into The Minds Of Young Children And Hysterical Adults. Oh, won't someone PLEASE think of the children?

That's NOT an argument

I turned up an article a while back called Recursive Make Considered Harmful. Today I printed out a copy, and before I left the office I offered it to one of my cow orkers and asked him what he thought. He skimmed through it - not more than a minute of skimming, at that - and then proceeded, more or less, to give me a rather condescending lecture on How Things Are Done and Use Of Tools In Unusual Ways and such rubbish. What bothered me most was the condescension and the fact that he was failing to address anything in the paper itself - hardly surprising given the length of time he'd spent skimming it. I'm not for an instant suggesting that we go through our own codebase and change any recursive Makefiles to the format suggested in the paper; I was merely hoping for an experienced developer's opinion on the guy's paper. GAAAAAH. I've just sent cow orker a somewhat curt mail explaining this, since he didn't seem to get it.

Besides, he's probably still narked about the time I told him his C sucked. It did, though.