A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, “I’ll have a C monkey please.”
The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed to the customer,saying, “That’ll be $5,000.”
The customer paid and walked out with his monkey. Startled,the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said,”That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred pounds. Why did it cost so much? “
The shopkeeper answered, “Ah,that monkey can program in C – very fast,tight code,no bugs,well worth the money.”
The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. “Hey,that one’s even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?”
“Oh,that one’s a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming,Visual C++, even some Java All the really useful stuff,” said the shopkeeper. The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000.The tourist gasped to the shopkeeper, “That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?”
The shopkeeper replied, “Well, I haven’t actually seen it do anything, but it says it’s a project manager”.
- From “Clean, Funny Jokes” ( mariosalexandrou.com)
The view from the cottage
“Norah Jones is fantastic! Way better than John Mayer if you ask me.”
— Dylan Tweney, during the Fall 2009 Apple Event liveblog
M$ and Cisco patch TCP flaw 1 year later -
Important bits to take away from this
a) Windows 2000 is affected but is not being patched
b) All Cisco IOS devices are affected…
Act accordingly!
Sometimes 'good enough' is good enough -
My dad has a small number of themes he likes to dwell on, and his pontification on these items is at times epic. One of these themes, the concept of ‘good enough’, has always seemed a bit disengenuine to me, as the term itself has a wide margin for interpretation - What’s good enough to me may not be good enough for you. This article from wired.com does a good job of explaining the current trend in ‘good enough’ thinking and mirrors alot of what my dad has had to say over the last many years. My favorite part of the article however, is that, even as the RIAA continues to huff and puff in all directions, the writer refers to the problem of MP3s and declining CD sales as though it were merely a matter of history…
Mushroom power hits Kart racing IRL! -
Quick, hit the turbo!
