And They Call it a Mine... A Mine!
I have previously mentioned that my colleague J-Man has an occasional penchant for seemingly implausible or melodramatic sounding claims. For instance, today he felt compelled to alert me to the follwing via MSN:
J-Man says:
I just f*cked the balrog up the ass
J-Man says:
with a brontosaurus
J-Man says:
woot!
J-Man says:
go me ^_^
The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that client J-Man might have finally lost his session with server Reality. However, this missive was in fact highly technical developer parlance. I translate for the benefit of anyone who doesn't speak this particular creole of J-Man and Java:
J-Man says:
I believe that I have finally solved the rate-export on threshold-crossing code bug
that has been troubling me all morning and preventing me from surfing the web and
chatting online with five people at the same time when I should be working
J-Man says:
by using a number of clever work-arounds and leveraging existing methods that I
hadn't noticed before because I was whining so much about being the one to be given the problem in the first place.
J-Man says:
Now I can park off for a while before someone makes me do something else.
J-Man says:
I am a very clever developer.
As penance, he is now brooding unhappily in a 2.5 hour design meeting.
J-Man says:
I just f*cked the balrog up the ass
J-Man says:
with a brontosaurus
J-Man says:
woot!
J-Man says:
go me ^_^
The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that client J-Man might have finally lost his session with server Reality. However, this missive was in fact highly technical developer parlance. I translate for the benefit of anyone who doesn't speak this particular creole of J-Man and Java:
J-Man says:
I believe that I have finally solved the rate-export on threshold-crossing code bug
that has been troubling me all morning and preventing me from surfing the web and
chatting online with five people at the same time when I should be working
J-Man says:
by using a number of clever work-arounds and leveraging existing methods that I
hadn't noticed before because I was whining so much about being the one to be given the problem in the first place.
J-Man says:
Now I can park off for a while before someone makes me do something else.
J-Man says:
I am a very clever developer.
As penance, he is now brooding unhappily in a 2.5 hour design meeting.
posted by Thor Harley at 4:25 pm
2 Comments:
You mess with the Balrog, you get the horns baby
>You mess with the Balrog, you get the horns baby
Yeah. Some kind of Brontosaurus. And while we're dropping such obscure references to 80s teen movies: "You'd look good wearing my Brontosaurus" does it for me too.
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