Archive for the ‘humor’ Category

Information Does Not Exist

Friday, January 18th, 2008

“We proffer an epistemological, ontological, and ecumenical analysis of the informatics zeitgeist surrounding librarians and so-called information scientists. A fuzzy systems tautomerism and transformative hermeneutic lexiae with stemming metadata shows that behind an axiometric normalization of mutually reinforcing moieties, institutionalized metaphors, and naïve liturgical dogmas lies nothing more than gormandized aphorisms and pseudoscientific quanta. This endemic helix permeates the koans of nacirema determinates and quidditative paradigms alike. The operationalized gestalt is collapsed, as with its photonic counterpart, via an interaction among the cromulent a priori of epiphenomenal knowledge management and the parsimonious lorem ipsum of atomistic artificial intelligence and its ilk. Neither the nascent yet positivist hyperliteracy movement nor the transactive pedagogical convergence of jingoistic multiliteracies possess the constituent wherewithal for explicating the existence of information per se or affirming the verstehende of contemporary librarianship; you can’t eat your cake and have it too. Ramifications for string theory and consciousness studies are also addressed.”

Can anyone provide a citation?

XKCD Keeps Me Laughing

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Sometimes, you need a good laugh. Try XKCD for your humor needs. Here are some good ones, in no particular order:

Yes, I’ve been reading a lot of XKCD tonight. I have no problems with that. My chores are done.

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation

Monday, August 27th, 2007

What if Lincoln used Powerpoint? (file under How Not To Do It)

Of course, if you’re looking for an example of how to do powerpoint presentation right, don’t miss Dick Hardt giving the OSCON 2005 Keynote on Identity 2.0. That’s how you do it.

QOTD

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

We seriously don’t know how you IBM keyboard lovers get any work done when it sounds like Optimus Prime pleasuring himself with a jackhammer.

Code Comment o’ the Day

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Found this little gem in some code I’m working with:

if admin?
logger.info(”i’m admin lol”)

lol indeed.