Laws of life

Got this list through the mail the other day:

• Law of queue: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
• Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged tone.
• Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
• Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
• Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
• Bath THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
• LAW of the RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will!
• LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
• THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.
• LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

I !♥ corporate speak

I hate CEO and corporate speak especially if you’re not the CEO, but this book seems like a killer.

Vonnegut’s rules

Eight rules for writing fiction:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

[via troubling.info]

Nice speed

It really is at nice internet connection that I have at work. You can go place with a connection like that.

What are you doing Dave?

Why is it that iTunes need more than 400 MB RAM to run?

Compared to WinAmp:

Lazy man

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it

- Walter Chrysler

Chewie and R2 – Undercover agents

Keith Martin has written a fantastic account of the lives of R2D2 and Chewbacca.

Much of Obi-Wan’s behaviour in this film, and Yoda’s in the next, can best be understood if they are frankly scared to death of what Luke might become.

As the film ends, the three founders of the Rebellion are all gone. Bail Organa is dead, Yoda is out of contact and Obi-Wan’s ghost can only talk to other Jedi. (So that would be Yoda then.) Thus, the field leadership of the rebellion has just been turned over to the daughter of Darth Vader.

A really worthwhile read.

At least he has some humor

Talk like a Pirate Day

Multiplayer Desktop Tower of Defence

Postings have been very spares the last few weeks due to the highly addictive nature of The Casual Collective‘s new multiplayer version of the already mega-addictive Desktop Tower of Defence.

Actually I don’t have more time to talk I have to get back playing… and please if you have anything serious you have to do the next days or weeks, then DO NOT follow the link above. You have been warned.