Category: Fun, Funny or Weird

A Couple Of Office Space Quotes

Last night, I popped in one of my favourite comedy movies “Office Space” into the DVD player and laid back to enjoy.

I just thought I’d share with you a couple of quotes from the movie that I think a lot of people in the IT field will relate to.

Peter Gibbons: Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

and…

Joanna: So, where do you work, Peter?
Peter Gibbons: Initech.
Joanna: In… yeah, what do you do there?
Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
Joanna: What’s that?
Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh… it doesn’t really matter. I uh, I don’t like my job, and, uh, I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore.
Joanna: You’re just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won’t you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don’t know, but I really don’t like it, and, uh, I’m not gonna go.
Joanna: So you’re gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh… I’m just gonna stop going.
Joanna: When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
Joanna: Oh, really? About an hour ago… so you’re gonna get another job?
Peter Gibbons: I don’t think I’d like another job.
Joanna: Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and…
Peter Gibbons: You know, I’ve never really liked paying bills. I don’t think I’m gonna do that, either.

If you haven’t already seen this movie, you just have to, it’s so so funny…

Check it out: “Office Space”

The Axis Of Evil Comedy

A couple of weeks ago while flipping around news channels, I came across an interview on Al-Jazeera with 3 Middle-Eastern American stand-up comedians from a group called “The Axis Of Evil”.
They showed some clips from their comedy tour performances and I was hooked; I ordered the DVD from Amazon the day after.

The Axis Of Evil is made up of: Ahmed Ahmed (Egyptian), Maz Jobrani (Iranian) and Aron Kader (Palestinian), with special guests depending on the show; on the DVD the special guest is Dean Obeidallah (Palestinian).
Other occasional special guests are: Sam Tripoli and Maysoon Zayid.

I got the hour-long DVD on Saturday, and up to now I’ve watched it over 3 times and my wife and I are already quoting bits and pieces of it; these guys are just so talented and hilarious. Their goal is to bridge the gap between the US and the middle east through comedy; they make fun of both sides and the relationship between them in a really cool and funny way.

I think their show is a great idea and I wish them all the best of luck; Comedy is one of the best ways to bring people together, making them able to look at themselves, laugh and realize how much alike they are and how stupid and small the differences that seperate them are.

I wish them all the best of luck with these shows; I personally can’t wait to get my hands on more of their material.

I couldn’t recommend this DVD enough for you; you have to buy it, you truly won’t regret it; it’s so much fun, you’ll just wish, like I did, that it was a bit longer.

For more information on them and tour dates, check out the official website: The Axis Of Evil Comedy.

if you’re interested, you can buy the DVD here: The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour DVD.

Problems: In The Software Or The User?

It's not what software does

Tech problems don't exist

I just loved these two cartoons on Gaping Void, they totally reflect the relationship between the user and the software developers, a reality I’ve lived in the development environment ever since I started my professional career.

On one side, you have the users who do everything wrong and then blame the software for their mistakes; and on the other hand you have the developers who blame everything on the user in order to defend their code and software even if it’s full of problems.

The everlasting cycle… Very amusing at times, and very annoying at others…

If I Were A Woman…

– I wouldn’t nag and nag and then nag some more…
– I wouldn’t talk simply for the sake of talking…
– I wouldn’t spend over two hours getting ready to go out for only half an hour…
– I wouldn’t go into panic mode at the slightest hint of a wrinkle starting to form on my face…
– I would always be on time…
– I wouldn’t be a bimbo…
– I wouldn’t be insanely addicted to shoes…
– I would only go shopping when I needed to…
– I wouldn’t obsess on how big or small a certain body part of mine is…
– I wouldn’t be a tease…
– I wouldn’t talk about things I have no idea about…
– I wouldn’t give a shit about this or that celebrity’s new look…

I think you get the idea…

But above all: I wouldn’t complain and nag about how much I want to be treated as an equal to man, and then ask to be treated specially, as a woman, when it suits me better.

These points are inspired from the different annoying things I have seen in a lot of girls and women at work, at the mall, at school, …etc throughout my life.

Obviously not one person can have all these things together, that’d be a disaster, although I’ve seen some people come pretty close, and it’s really rare to find a girl/woman who doesn’t have at least one of them; I believe my dear wife is one of the closest there is to that side of the spectrum; lucky me.

Update: I’ve obviously upset some people with this post, who think that it’s a sexist post. I just wanted to apologize if it came across as such, it wasn’t meant in that way at all. The idea of the post is that we, from both sexes, find a number of annoying things in the opposite sex, and this post just summed some of these things in women. It doesn’t imply in any way that we men are perfect or superior, in fact I know that we’re even worse in our own ways, and I’ll even be posting about that soon.

Prison vs. Work

IN PRISON: You spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell.
AT WORK: You spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.

IN PRISON: You get three meals a day.
AT WORK: You get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.

IN PRISON: You get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK: You get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON: The guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK: You must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself.

IN PRISON: You can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK: You could get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON: You get your own toilet.
AT WORK: You have to share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat.

IN PRISON: They allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK: You aren

Things It Takes Most Of Us 50 Years To Learn

I just came across a list of 16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn; the ones I liked the most are the following:

– There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11.

– There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”

– People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

– If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

– No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Making A Living From World of Warcraft Gold Trade

Wow…
This is incredible…

“… an astounding half million Chinese now make a living – about $100 a month – from the acquisition and sale of WoW (World of Warcraft) gold to US and EU gamers. Why is this is the future of work online? Consider the numbers, youth, and low wages of the gold farmers, and the growing interest in outsourcing tasks online.

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… these gold farms indicate that the game platform has the potential to engage more people in Internet-driven economy. The gaming workers in China don