• (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    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?

    The Thane of Train stays mainly in the plain.

  • Fish Basket Gordo (unregistered) in reply to bobday
    bobday:
    ************************************************************** 
* VER  R012  04JAN94    CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK        1144408  * 
*          GREAT SHOT KID                                    * 
*          DON'T GET COCKY                                   *
**************************************************************

    Mixing Star Trek and Star Wars is definitely one of the seven deadly geek sins.

  • wiregoat (unregistered) in reply to Zygo
    Zygo:
    Foo:
    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.

    Except the order here is a little random. :-(

    Ya canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics! Ya canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim!

    I was a kid when I heard that on the Dr Demento show. Never did figure out who did it or found a copy since. Anyone know where I can find it?

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to wiregoat
    wiregoat:
    Zygo:
    Foo:
    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.

    Except the order here is a little random. :-(

    Ya canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics! Ya canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim!

    I was a kid when I heard that on the Dr Demento show. Never did figure out who did it or found a copy since. Anyone know where I can find it?

    Star Trekkin' by The Firm.

    Or watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    What do you make of this, Number One:

    30NOV93 FIX POSSIBLE ADDRESSING EXCPETION

  • mh (unregistered)

    Good to see that he didn't cling on to the job, anyway.

  • (cs) in reply to dhromed
    dhromed:
    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?
    Obviously, being a PROG ANAL, the proper title would be Rear Admiral James Kirk.
  • AnonCoder (unregistered)

    Worst. CodeSOD. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

  • John Doe (unregistered) in reply to AnonCoder
    AnonCoder:
    Worst. CodeSOD. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Comment. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

  • Travis Harris (trex005) (unregistered) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    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

    and you would have to go to one of those coin sorting places that charge like 8.5% or sell you some gift card....

    that or just put them in your pocket so they can fall into the couch...

    ohh yeah.. great post too... I can so identify... made me chuckle

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to AnonCoder
    AnonCoder:
    Worst. CodeSOD. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    C'mon, people are singing classic Doctor Demento songs in the comments. What more could you ask for?

    There's Kingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim...

  • Nicholas Sherlock (unregistered)

    Reminds me of a box of stock I was unpacking: "Loose 4 ass"

    (4 loose assorted bowls.. :))

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to John Doe
    John Doe:
    AnonCoder:
    Worst. CodeSOD. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Comment. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Reply. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

  • (cs) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...

    Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not an analyst!

  • Foo (unregistered) in reply to bkendig
    bkendig:
    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 like turning smurfs into gold.

  • Poupi (unregistered) in reply to slimey_limey
    slimey_limey:
    What's this I see about 31-Feb-1992? Was 1992 an extraleapyear?
    What exactly is an extra leapy ear ?
  • (cs) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    John Doe:
    AnonCoder:
    Worst. CodeSOD. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Comment. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Reply. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Mini-conversation. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

  • Tom Warner (unregistered)

    Oh My! I actually resemble Emperor James...

  • (cs) in reply to Nicholas Sherlock
    Nicholas Sherlock:
    Reminds me of a box of stock I was unpacking: "Loose 4 ass"

    (4 loose assorted bowls.. :))

    Better than unpacking 4 loose bowels.

  • (cs) in reply to Welbog

    "So we decided that our class was the Order of the Train, and that our professor was King of Train."

    But it's my destiny to be the King of Train...

  • (cs) in reply to PhillS
    PhillS:
    Jon:
    John Doe:
    AnonCoder:
    Worst. CodeSOD. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Comment. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Reply. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Mini-conversation. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

    Worst. Recursive-joke. Ever.

    Lazy, not even mildly amusing, not controversial, not even relevant. Next.

  • Trek Reply Stardate 782692 point 24 (unregistered) in reply to DOA
    DOA:
    If I had a penny for every comment with a trek reference that this post will produce...
    It wouldn't matter, we have replicators now.

    captcha: startrek (not really, but it would have been cool, right?)

  • C-c-c-combo Breaker (unregistered) in reply to Eternal Density

    Tits.

  • foo (unregistered)

    Okay, seriously... he expects a promotion every year? You get modest pay raises every year like 3% ... but ... a promotion every year?

    If that were true the following career would play out in 8 years...

    Programmer Programmer Analyst Senior Programmer Analyst Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Team Lead Systems Architect CTO

    ... clearly there would be something wrong if you could play out an entire career in 8 years. I can understand griping about pay raises but you can't expect a new job title in just a few months. The fact that he worked from programmer to programmer analyst in less than a year should be considered shocking.

  • Baked Scrod (unregistered)

    I was once a Romulan Assistant. I was designing some killer business cards but they promoted me . . .

  • bar (unregistered) in reply to foo
    foo:
    Okay, seriously... he expects a promotion every year? You get modest pay raises every year like 3% ... but ... a promotion every year?

    If that were true the following career would play out in 8 years...

    Programmer Programmer Analyst Senior Programmer Analyst Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Team Lead Systems Architect CTO

    ... clearly there would be something wrong if you could play out an entire career in 8 years. I can understand griping about pay raises but you can't expect a new job title in just a few months. The fact that he worked from programmer to programmer analyst in less than a year should be considered shocking.

    No, He's expecting a promotion. The situation is like: Programmer Still programmer Still programmer Still programmer ...

  • Monkeyboy (unregistered)

    ... As the moths turned into quarters and the quarters into years ... WTF !

  • Manzanita (unregistered) in reply to KattMan

    Thanks, that song is now stuck in my head.

  • tobi (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    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.

  • ELIZA (unregistered) in reply to foo
    foo:
    Okay, seriously... he expects a promotion every year? You get modest pay raises every year like 3% ... but ... a promotion every year?

    If that were true the following career would play out in 8 years...

    Programmer Programmer Analyst Senior Programmer Analyst Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Team Lead Systems Architect CTO

    ... clearly there would be something wrong if you could play out an entire career in 8 years. I can understand griping about pay raises but you can't expect a new job title in just a few months. The fact that he worked from programmer to programmer analyst in less than a year should be considered shocking.

    Depending on how good he is, he might even have merited being brought on as a programmer analyst; by the way, as it happens, in WWII, the average age of RAF bomber squadron captains was twenty-five, and compared to debugging some of the code an old friend of my maternal grandfather worked with, bomber piloting was quite safe, I am told, unless he was exaggerating again, which I am tempted to believe: Even INTERCAL couldn't do that much damage to the human body.

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