--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your "bucket list"? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 7:06 > On 21-Jan-11 3:31 AM, Indrajit Gupta > wrote: > > > Very disappointing. More enthusiasm than evil. Why is > the immediate reaction one of sympathetic concern, a desire > to let the man race past us in a crowded corridor on his > urgent mission to the men's room? Where is that susurrus of > evil, that chill which runs up and down, no, not the same > corridor, the spine. There is a distinct impression of > discomfort. That is not, emphatically not canonical. Our > received and acknowledged villain, the Sir Jaspers, are far > more assured and leisurely in their approach to all things, > mirth included. They know, with absolute conviction, that it > is their earth, that they are the rulers, that all the doors > are locked, the windows barred, and the minions spread out > strategically throughout the cellar, poised to cut off any > hard-hit ball, or perhaps the head of the executioner, > struck off with his own ugly, that there is no escape, that > there can be no escape, that even > > the minions of hell await with subservient brow in the > anteroom, waiting for a break in the torture to discuss > long-term equipment hire leases and technology transfer > MOU's. > > For some reason, reading IG's message reminded me of the > below quote: > > "We've all heard the "herding cats" analogy with regard to > managing > programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a > neighborhood gang of > neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty smack > habits and > opposable thumbs. Oh, and as a manager you're a neurotic > junkie puma > too, only they cut your thumbs off and whereas all the > other pumas get > to drive around on their badass hoverbikes and fire > chainguns at the > marketing department, YOU have to drive a maroon AMC > Gremlin behind them > and hand out Band-Aids and smile a lot, when all you're > REALLY thinking > about is how to get one of them to let you borrow his > hoverbike for a > few minutes so you can show those fools how it's DONE. This > is because > managers are usually people who proved that they were handy > with a > chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs cut > off and their > weapons handed to some punk college hire." > > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) > ((www.digeratus.com))
Rings true.
