Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2010 10:39:52 am PDT #659 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

bring your findings to scrum

Screams and screams


Atropa - May 20, 2010 10:40:41 am PDT #660 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Screams and screams

I know, I know. I have the same reaction.


§ ita § - May 20, 2010 10:41:06 am PDT #661 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Great, bring your findings to scrum, and we can reprioritize the deliverables waterfall.

We should make sure we're doing this in an agile fashion, shouldn't we?


Gudanov - May 20, 2010 10:42:27 am PDT #662 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Okay, this is starting to hit a little too close to home. I'm getting scared.


meara - May 20, 2010 10:42:56 am PDT #663 of 30001

Wow, next review I totally need the buffistas to speak it for me. Damn. OR just maximize my resume.

Anyone wanna write some generic thank you notes for me? "Thanks for having me in to reinterview for the job I had two years ago that you laid me off from. If I didn't seem crazy enthusiastic it's because I'm still skeptical about the company's long term survival, and you still have some of the AWFUL people I didn't like working there, and I'd have to work with them. On the other hand, my direct boss would be someone I'd like, and I"m hoping you'd pay me more, and I'd travel less than I do in my current job. So, please offer me this job for lots of money and I'll probably take it!"

Anyone, anyone?


Jesse - May 20, 2010 10:45:17 am PDT #664 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Great, bring your findings to scrum, and we can reprioritize the deliverables waterfall.

OMG what?? I'm totally saying that at my next meeting.


Jessica - May 20, 2010 10:45:29 am PDT #665 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

God bless the internet - I've been thinking about this line from Bellwether all day:

1.Optimize potential. 2.Facilitate empowerment 3. Implement visioning 4.Strategize priorities 5. Augment core structures.


Atropa - May 20, 2010 10:46:14 am PDT #666 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

We should make sure we're doing this in an agile fashion, shouldn't we?

Have we made sure there are no blocking issues for localization?

Okay, this is starting to hit a little too close to home. I'm getting scared.

One of the best things about the team I'm working with right now is that I don't have to go to meetings where that sort of dialogue is happening. Nope, I just get to edit documents. It's kind of blissful.


Gudanov - May 20, 2010 10:47:24 am PDT #667 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Great, bring your findings to scrum, and we can reprioritize the deliverables waterfall.

That could come straight out of one my meetings and, worse, I'd understand it.


Atropa - May 20, 2010 10:50:50 am PDT #668 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

That could come straight out of one my meetings and, worse, I'd understand it.

It did come out of a meeting I attended, from a few teams ago. It was all I could do at the time not to burst out laughing.