Jokes

Epic Toast Incident

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Kristen Gates’ pick for this mornings You Choose The News has to be the best report since sliced bread:

TWITTER HEADQUARTERS EVACUATED OVER BURNED TOAST

Twitter’s main office in San Francisco had to be evacuated when an employee’s burned toast set off the fire alarm. As expected, some employees talked about the toast incident on Twitter. One employee wrote, “Quick math: 30 min fire alarm, 400 employees ~ $2500 for burnt toast. ooops,” while another lamented, “Nothing like a Friday building evacuation in the rain. Damn toast.”

Wow, you really can spend $2500 on one piece of toast!

How to tell if your phone is female, or if Linux is smarter than Windows XP

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O.K. so my phone has been giving me a message every time I plug it in, asking whether I want to turn on USB mass storage for mounting or charge her off the USB. So today I plugged it into my desktop, and I’m scratching my head trying to figure out where I turn it on because it just starts charging.

You know that your phone is female, if you plug her in and she starts to CHARGE instead of asking you to MOUNT her >_>.

Conversely you know that Linux must be smarter than XP, when the phone does ask about mounting if plugged into a Linux laptop instead of a Windows XP machine <_<.

Yeah, lol.

Stupid Warning Sign for Programmer

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Important! The term “protected” does not imply any security checking or caller validation. Protected members can be accessed simply by defining a derived class of the declaring type.

I do think that is the Object Oriented Programming version of a stupid warning sign . That quote above about protected members comes from Microsoft’s design guideline for developing .NET class libraries. Which obviously means common language object oriented principals apply…. you would hope.

That has also got to be the stupidest cautionary message that I have ever seen in a document intended for programmers. What next, writing “May irritate eyes” on a can of pepper spray!?