Tag Archives: humor

Some Days, Google Makes Me Laugh

This is a great search results page, for more than one reason:

Happiness Metrics?

(I titled the post that way just to get my coworkers’ attention. It probably worked.)

My son wrote a “book” for me this morning with a story of his own creation. In the back of the book was an opinion poll:

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Death Star II As an Agile Project

Great and Small:

So, Vader takes an Agile approach.  He prioritizes the features list (“Look, we really need the big laser thing; our customers will just have to come to us at first.”), and he works in vertical slices.  At the end of the movie, it seems to have paid off.  There are still huge pieces missing and construction is nowhere near complete, but “Those weapon systems are operational!”

Funny. And somewhat true.

Point A to Point B (and points in-between)

This past Sunday I completed my second-ever journey to Europe, this time to the wonderful city of Vienna. I will tell you more about this trip and why I enjoyed it later. I will also post pictures for you later.

First, I will recount for you a transatlantic tale of woe. Though it has a happy ending, be assured that while it was happening I was very quickly reaching the end of my proverbial rope, and wasn’t sure whether I should collapse into a heap of pathetic crying or flip out and snap at the airport staff, security, or various others involved in my “experience” at Toronto Pearson.

At this point, I suppose I am fortunate that the TSA doesn’t exist in Canada.

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Is that English?

This is cheating a bit as this was declared the #1 clip of the year on The Soup, but it can’t not be shared. I’m not sure if I find this funny or scary.