On Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:33:22 walt did opine thusly: > On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are > >>> usually active? > >>> > >>> In UTC, if possible :) > >>> > >>> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) > >> > >> I'd like to commission a survey of, say, MS, google, and > >> Oracle, to see who is wearing a wrist-watch, and who isn't -- > >> and then sort them by job description. > >> > >> I predict that the ones with no wrist-watch are the one who > >> are....well, I'll wait for the survey to be done before I > >> announce my prediction.> > > /me wonders where you are going with this... > > Downhill fast, probably :) Back in the day before cellphones, you > needed to look a clock or wrist-watch to know what time it is. > > Back then I was surrounded by genuine programmer geeks, and I > noticed that none of them wore a wrist-watch. I asked one of the > geeks why he didn't have a watch and he replied "Why would I want > to know what time it is? I can tell what time it is by how fast > the mainframe responds when I hit carriage return." > > Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When > asked why he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?" > > Well, I still can't answer his question...
I've got a bunch of those of my own :-) Q: Alan, why do you wear those great big motorcycle boots and protective trousers all day in the office, even to meetings? A: It's cold. Q: What are your working hours? A: 12 per day on average. No guarantees on *which* 12 Q: Holy shit, I can't believe you just sent that mail to ALL users. Legal will be all over us now having hissy fits. Have you got a god complex or something???? A: [beams with genuine pride] why, thank you! I reckon my head is just wired different to most folks <shrug> -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
