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It's a Monday kind of day when the milk comes out in chunks. The up side to this is (yes, there is an up side), the chunks go straight to the bottom of the cup and you can siphon off the top half into another cup because the milk hasn't distributed through the tea.
Seen in a shop window: purses (handbags) that look like 1. A shiny black patent leather laced up corset, an outline of a bat, a black coffin shape with bright red templar cross on it, bags with bright red roses and smiling skulls.
And for programmers and techical geeks everywhere, i offer you the following theories and laws, most of them true:
Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
Bilb's Laws of Unreliability:
1. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
2. Any system that depends upon human reliablity is unreliable.
3. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
4. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probably cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: there's always one more bug. (koff. True)
Troutman's Postulate (which seems to have been written some time ago)
1. Profanity is the one language understood by all programmers. (*koff*)
2. Not until a program has been in production for six months will the most harmful error be discovered.
3. Job control cards (!) that positively cannot be arranged in improper order, will be. (I haven't used these for years!!!!)
4. Interchangeable tapes won't. (we do use tapes for server backup, I think)
5. If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it. (Oh god yes)
6. If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.
Seen in a shop window: purses (handbags) that look like 1. A shiny black patent leather laced up corset, an outline of a bat, a black coffin shape with bright red templar cross on it, bags with bright red roses and smiling skulls.
And for programmers and techical geeks everywhere, i offer you the following theories and laws, most of them true:
Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
Bilb's Laws of Unreliability:
1. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
2. Any system that depends upon human reliablity is unreliable.
3. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
4. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probably cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: there's always one more bug. (koff. True)
Troutman's Postulate (which seems to have been written some time ago)
1. Profanity is the one language understood by all programmers. (*koff*)
2. Not until a program has been in production for six months will the most harmful error be discovered.
3. Job control cards (!) that positively cannot be arranged in improper order, will be. (I haven't used these for years!!!!)
4. Interchangeable tapes won't. (we do use tapes for server backup, I think)
5. If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it. (Oh god yes)
6. If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.