facebook posts from 2008 / 09 / 12

1. When I am explaining something technical and I use the word ‘basically’, pretend I said “here is the part I don’t know anything about”

2. The guitar solo from Tap’s ‘Christmas With The Devil’ is today’s theme music. One note + tremolo-vibrato for 8 measures! \m/.

3. Favorite excuse overheard in class for having IT Professional as a career goal: “I was a CS major but I wasn’t doing very well so here I am”

4. Overheard at work: “If you could insert meaningless task, that would be great, thanks” with no sense of irony or shame

5. Christopher Buckley on XMPR with Bob Edwards this morning - great stuff, tune in if you can