If you are working on a massive web project and the lead developer has no clue what Peter Blum controls are … pick up your ergonomic keyboard, mouse, and the spare monitor from home and get the heck out of Dodge!

Are you sick of the 3 letter acronyms that are used to define every aspect of the software industry? Then you should check out this well written satirical list by the Secret Geek ;)

My personal favorite:

HDD - Heisenberg driven development - cannot be defined without altering the meaning

Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

... and there always will be!

My wife and I had a wonderful week in Chicago we took the opportunity to visit the Field Museum and spent a wonderful couple of hours looking at stuffed animals (sounds bad but was actually very interesting).

Just before we leave we decide to get a bite to eat at the over priced cafeteria. We here shouts from the front of the line. "You want soup ... does anyone want soup?!"

At first we were not sure who was aggressively shout out this petition for potential customers, but knowing my wife's personal love of soup on cold days I knew we were heading toward a confrontation. We get a little closer to the front and we see the source of the voice himself as he jabs a finger in our direction and says "Soup, do YOU want soup!?".

My wife nods an affirmative towards the guy behind the counter and he quickly turns to me "You, what about you?". The place was deathly quiet, I shook my head scared that I may have somehow ruined it for my wife. I was just waiting to hear him shout "NO SOUP FOR YOU!".

What an excellent weekend!!

"When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a real fan of Ricky Gervais and the original version of The Office from the BBC. I happened upon these two faux training Microsoft videos in Google and could not stop laughing.

Training Video 1

Training Video 2

A real dose of British humor! Enjoy!

I am in a review period at work right now and I happened upon the Humor archives, and it included information on what people have apparently said during job reviews. Enjoy!

1. "Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig."
2. "His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity."
3. "This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won't be."
4. "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap."
5. "He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle."
6. "This young lady has delusions of adequacy."
7. "He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them."
8. "This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot."
9. "This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better."
10. "Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together."
11. "A gross ignoramus - - - 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus."
12. "He certainly takes a long time to make his pointless."
13. "He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier."
14. "He's been working with glue too much."
15. "He would argue with a signpost."
16. "He has a knack for making strangers immediately."
17. "He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room."
18. "When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell."
19. "A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on."
20. "A prime candidate for natural deselection."
21. "Donated his brain to science before he was done using it."
22. "Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled."
23. "Takes him 1 hour to watch 60 minutes."
24. "The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead."