office chat, encore une fois

<aimee>	waider: are you waiting on anything else from anyone for the [redacted] release tonight?
<waider>	aimee: I don't think so, no.
<waider>	wait, "tonight"?
<aimee>	well EOD, it just means "you take all the time you need prior to midnight" which of course you won't need
<aimee>	I'm not helping myself out of this, am I?
<waider>	oh, I thought the demo was this afternoon
<waider>	that's cool. I'm slacking off for the rest of the day.
<aimee>	i could pretend to be cool with that if you want
<aimee>	let's just say this, i trust you'll create a situation that makes me want to cry
<waider>	!
<aimee>	forgot to say WON'T

Tannenbaum on Brown

Andrew T. discusses that book

murphy's law in action

Of COURSE when I'm trying to burn a copy of the installer to test so I can go home and eat the nice steak sitting in the fridge I find that the one CDRW I have to hand is flaky. And I just know if I use one of my two remaining CDRs it'll turn out that there's a showstopper bug that renders it coasterful.