From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:49:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2867196.F4Ur85cDia@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j0sh2o$ntu$1@dough.gmane.org>
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 <w41ter@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-28 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 1:07 [gentoo-user] IRC active time? Pandu Poluan
2011-07-27 1:12 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-28 1:23 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-28 5:19 ` Mike Gilbert
2011-07-28 20:33 ` walt
2011-07-28 20:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-28 20:49 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-07-29 14:41 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-29 15:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-07-28 21:09 ` Alex Schuster
2011-07-29 15:04 ` Pandu Poluan
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