Comment On Diary of a Programmer Analyst

James Kirk - to boldly comment where no one else has commented before.

What, not Captain? Not Admiral?

Why not "ANAL EMPEROR"?


Captcha: "bathe". OK, OK, I get the hint.


PS. Frist!

FredSaw:

What, not Captain? Not Admiral?

Yes.
How the hell can you be named James Kirk, give yourself all kinds of titles -- but leave out Captain and Admiral?

If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

As the moths turned into quarters

I want to know how to make that happen! Then having a lot of bugs would be a *good* thing!

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
Or do we?

"As the moths turned into quarters"

You can turn small insects into time, or money?
Why was I not informed?!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

EDIT: damn, bkendig got there before me...

Regarding your career at that place...

It's dead, Jim.

Is James' middle initial: "T"?

Control_Alt_Kaboom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

See that link, right above the edit box, that says (BBCode Okay)?

How about reading and using that sucker?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

At least it didn't turn into a GIANT moth, like Mothra or something. That'd cause some problems with PR.

The starting job code at my previous employer was "ARCH ASS" (Architecture Associate).

If you were really good you got promoted to "ARCH ANAL" (Architecture Analyst).

DOA:

If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

Then you would have a handful of pennies

Gyske:

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
Or do we?

We come in peace.
Shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill.

Me and jeff atwood suck each others dicks
captcha: stinky, just like my finger when I'm with atwood

DOA:

If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

Then you'd have 13 cents.

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* VER  R012  04JAN94    CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK        1144408  * 

*          GREAT SHOT KID                                    * 

*          DON'T GET COCKY                                   *

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What's this I see about 31-Feb-1992? Was 1992 an extraleapyear?

13.5 cents!

DOA:

If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

If I had a penny, every time someone uses the words "The real WTF is" in his comment. ^^

bobday:

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* VER  R012  04JAN94    CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK        1144408  * 

*          GREAT SHOT KID                                    * 

*          DON'T GET COCKY                                   *

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Nah, nah, nah, that was Napoleon Solo.


(wait for it...)

Nico:

DOA:

If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

If I had a penny, every time someone uses the words "The real WTF is" in his comment. ^^

Well, The real WTF is that he was made a Programmer Analyst instead of a Systems Analyst, or even better a Business Systems Analyst. Also, if you're getting pennies for me using it, your quote would technically count again. Then if someone else quotes this and says it, you've got three more pennies. Sounds an awful lot like a pyramid scheme to me. And just for good measure, He's dead, Jim...

Nico:

DOA:

If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

If I had a penny, every time someone uses the words "The real WTF is" in his comment. ^^

According to Google, you'd have $36.70

FredSaw:

What, not Captain? Not Admiral?

Because that would be far too obvious.

As the moths turned into quarters...

That would solve two laundry-related problems at once.

akatherder:

The starting job code at my previous employer was "ARCH ASS" (Architecture Associate).

If you were really good you got promoted to "ARCH ANAL" (Architecture Analyst).

I have a fwiend fwom Wome who wowks thewe. His name is Biggus Dickus.

So this is how he passed the Kobayashi Maru test...

This reminds me of something we did for a course in my senior year of university.

The course was called real-time programming and it was about embedded systems. Specifically it dealt with computer-controlled model trains. The course is notoriously difficult and time-consuming and so we figured that passing assignments should count for something grand.

So we decided that our class was the Order of the Train, and that our professor was King of Train. Every time we passed an assignment (seven assignments in all), we got a nobler title. I believe it went something like

Sir
Captain
Count
Duke
Lord
Thane

Or something. The bonus was at the end, once you've passed all assignments and the final project you got to pick your own title. Mine was Supreme 1337 Haxor of Train. My partner's was Supreme Jesus of Train.

The best part of this is in the documentation we wrote we used these titles, including referring to the professor as King of Train. Those were good times.

Perhaps I should clarify:

First he fooled the computer into thinking that he is the emperor (or Klingon Empire, I presume). And than he expanded the simulation for the "new Enterprise project". All plain and simple.

CAPTCHA: gotcha. Exactly.

Welbog:

So we decided that our class was the Order of the Train

You all went on to become engineers after graduation, of course. Except for the music majors; they became conductors.

slimey_limey:

What's this I see about 31-Feb-1992? Was 1992 an extraleapyear?

With 31 days, it would have been leap and beyond

FredSaw:

Welbog:

So we decided that our class was the Order of the Train

You all went on to become engineers after graduation, of course. Except for the music majors; they became conductors.

How did you know that?!

PhreakBert:

Why not "ANAL EMPEROR"?


Captcha: "bathe". OK, OK, I get the hint.


PS. Frist!

The real wtf is that you took 3 minutes writing this.

"As the moths turned into quarters..."

If this were truly the case I'd be rich!


Captcha: dubya

FredSaw:

Control_Alt_Kaboom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

See that link, right above the edit box, that says (BBCode Okay)?

How about reading and using that sucker?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

www.getfirefox.com
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190

Copy/paste it. That's the last time you will need to do so.

Caleb:

"As the moths turned into quarters..."

If this were truly the case I'd be rich!

Welcome to the thread! Better late than never, as they say.

CAPTCHA: darwin. I swear this thing is psychic.

bobday:

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* VER R012 04JAN94 CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK 1144408 *
* GREAT SHOT KID *
* DON'T GET COCKY *
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Wouldn't this be considered sacrilege? Or was he talking to the Klingon who just offed a Red Shirt?

Foobar:

www.getfirefox.com
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190

Copy/paste it. That's the last time you will need to do so.

Eh... everything's IE here at work.

PhreakBert:

Why not "ANAL EMPEROR"?


Captcha: "bathe". OK, OK, I get the hint.


PS. Frist!

I think I can safely say that every single line of your post, including your name, was idiotic and annoying. Please don't ever post again.

KattMan:

Gyske:

It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
Or do we?

We come in peace.
Shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill.

Scotty Beam me up! ;-)

That's such a fun song.

In The Trouble With Tribbles, the Klingons said that Capt. Kirk was "a tin-plated emperor with delusions of godhood" or something like that

How enterprise-y!

(hmm, guess I was a few minutes late to the party...)

If anybody could ever explain the mentality of managers that are so stubborn to recognize star engineers, and are rather eager to replace one star with three dim lightbulbs...

I worked at a company that used three-letter codes to identify the offices where equipment was being hosted. Not too long before I left, they had a big project to change the three-letter code for their Anaheim Logistics center. This required renaming servers, changing documentation, changing backup scripts, etc.

All because some manager got pissed off because all of his server names started with "ANL"

(I wonder if the Walnut Creek office is still "WTC".)

Vlad Patryshev:

If anybody could ever explain the mentality of managers that are so stubborn to recognize star engineers, and are rather eager to replace one star with three dim lightbulbs...

The problem is that, from a great enough distance, three light bulbs can appear to be significantly brighter than a single star...

Tim:

All because some manager got pissed off because all of his server names started with "ANL"

If forced to do something like that, I would feel morally obligated to change the abbreviation from ANaheim Logistics to AnaHeim Logistics. it certainly would have fit the guy's personality, after all. :)

Welbog:

This reminds me of something we did for a course in my senior year of university.

The course was called real-time programming and it was about embedded systems. Specifically it dealt with computer-controlled model trains. The course is notoriously difficult and time-consuming and so we figured that passing assignments should count for something grand.

So we decided that our class was the Order of the Train, and that our professor was King of Train. Every time we passed an assignment (seven assignments in all), we got a nobler title. I believe it went something like

Sir
Captain
Count
Duke
Lord
Thane

Thane of Train?

jkupski:

Tim:

All because some manager got pissed off because all of his server names started with "ANL"

If forced to do something like that, I would feel morally obligated to change the abbreviation from ANaheim Logistics to AnaHeim Logistics. it certainly would have fit the guy's personality, after all. :)

Or Anaheim logiSticS, just to make sure he gets the message.

jkupski:

I would feel morally obligated to change the abbreviation from ANaheim Logistics to AnaHeim Logistics. it certainly would have fit the guy's personality, after all. :)

Speaking of abbreviations... we hired a guy a while back (no longer here now) named Bill H. Smith (name changed, but initials the same). On our team we already had a Bill, so to avoid confusion we started calling the new guy B.S. Of course, he objected to this.

"Don't call me B.S.", he said. "That's just begging for trouble. Use my middle initial instead... B.H."

So we obliged, and he became known as "Biatch".