Well, apparently those boys at Google couldn’t resist a delicious joke in their IPO filing:
If you take a close look at the form Google filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the exact value of its planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars, which some would immediately recognize as the mathematical constant e. E, for those not blessed with a Ph.D. and a job at Google, is Euler’s number, which is used as the base for natural logarithms.
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Another great funny for all of you geeks out there. We’ve all read the hundreds of essays on how to write good code, engineer robust systems, etc. Well here is one from the opposite perspective: How To Write Unmaintainable Code
[Listening to: Phonograph Blues - Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (02:39)]
I know this is sick, but this quote has to be a classic. It comes from an Associated Press story this morning titled “Husband’s death called tragedy” and reads:
A northeastern Oklahoma woman who shot and killed her husband while the two were arguing about a television talk show said she was trying to warn him, not kill him.
Reason #4956 why I am still a bachelor. ;)
I received one of the best fortunes ever from a local Chinese takeout:
Money is the root of all evil and men need roots.
My colleague Peter and I have been swapping computer jokes/quotes this afternoon and here are the highpoints:
There are two types of programming languages; the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses. -Bjarne Stroustrup
If I were chained to a bench and ‘perl’ was the only thing that could open the lock, I’d probably cut my hand off. -Gerald Penn
In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.
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Here’s one of those sites you just have to sit back and wonder, is someone pulling my leg or should I be really scared because he actually believes it? Visit the official homepage for Alex Chiu’s Eternal Life Device.
[Listening to: Swingtime in the Rockies - Benny Goodman - (03:08)]
I was browsing around through my web logs this morning and I found a little bit of military humor. One of my vistors came from a machine called mulder2.chinalake.navy.mil. See, the X-Files never really will die. ;)