People that claim they are using facts to argue their side usually don’t understand that facts almost never exist alone in the head of a person – they are almost always accompanied by an interpretation. So, the argument is not about facts, but about interpretations of facts. And those come in as many flavors as there are people there to interpret.
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Levels of system maturity
The following is a list of system maturity levels:
- Pre-conceptual – no idea, no system, not even an idea that a system is needed.
- Conceptual – an idea that a system is needed, nothing developed.
- Customer: We need a system that does X.
- Management: What they really say they need is a system that does Y.
- Developer: What is most technically feasible is a system that does Z.
- Not working – a system that doesn’t work, at all.
- Customer/management: We have no system.
- Developer: We’re working on a system!
- Almost not working – a system that works, kind of.
- Management: We have a system!!!
- Customer: We wish we had a system…
- Developer: Hey! We’re not done yet!
- Support: Take the system out back and shot it, for the sake of pity and mercy!
- Almost working – a system that works, in principle.
- Management: Didn’t we finish this system months ago?
- Customer: We have a system! On sunny days…
- Developer: Just let us…
- Support: Oh no! Not another update!
- Working – a system that works.
- Management: That was long before my time…
- Customer: Oh, yeah, I remember that system… didn’t it use to do Z back in the days?
- Developer: Done!
- Support: Hands off our legacy system… or seas will turn red with blood and dogs will sleep with cats (or is it lions with lambs… whatever!) Hands off our system!
Linguistic irony
Linguistic irony: when someone tries to correct your grammar and spells it “grammer”!
Neighbors
– Neighbors, can’t live with them, can’t blow them up…
– Why not?
– Because they live next doors, how would you like it if someone set off a bomb where you lived?
Header image from Pixabay
Chest nut
– He is a chest nut!
– A chestnut?
– Yes, he always go for the chick with the biggest boobs.
Batman vs Superman in 69 words or less
Superman: I have a kilty smother!
Batman: Why? You! *Growl*
2 hours of Crash! Bang! Bom! KA-POOOW! Ouch! F*ck! Grrrowl!
Batman: Sorry! I thought you said, “I have killed his mother!”
Superman: My mother’s name is Martha…
Batman: Cool! Mine too!
Superman: Well, Errr…. my adoptive mother…
Batman: Grrrrowl!
Superman: But hey, let’s hang?
Batman: Ummm… OK!
Martha: Dinneeeee-eeeeer time!
Superman: Mom’s calling…
Batman: That’s my mom!
Superman: It’s not!
Batman: Is too!
Or, as the NerdNewsNetwork pointed out… why is this movie longer than 5 seconds (and why is the script longer than 69 words?):
Featured image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Comic_Con_2015_-_Batman_vs_Superman_(21443756843).jpg
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I can’t put it down.
Colors and Color Dictionaries
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/ is a page about different types of computer generated color schemes. There is also a page with Color Name Dictionaries. Great tools for creating applications or web pages using colors that look good together and/or are distinct enough for tag-colors and the same.
Why SETI haven’t found alien radio signals…
Here are a few suggestions that doesn’t require the Fermi Paradox to be true, or, for that matter, the theory that we’re the only intelligent or living creatures out there (The Fermi Paradox is in short; since we haven’t heard from any aliens, they’re all dead):
- Because radio is too slow – communicating over the vast distances of space via radio is like taking your bike to your overseas vacation. If radio is the only way to communicate aliens have given up doing it a long time ago.
- Because distances in space are huge, vast, enormous – the first radio signal from earth that could leave the solar system (the radio transmission form the Berlin 1936 Olympiad) has today covered about 1 / 20 000 000 000 of the volume of the Milky Way.
- Because the time we’ve been listening for radio signals, and the fraction of time we’ve sent them out in the universe is about 40 to 80 divided by 15 billion.
- The search for extraterrestrial radio signals (the SETI-program) does not cover the whole sky at the same time, in fact, very little of the sky has been covered. With today’s technology, we don’t even know what the Milky Way looks like on the other side of the galaxy center, because we can’t really observe it (since the galaxy center is in the way…)
Header image from Pixabay.
Every precaution
We’ve taken every precaution… (we can afford…)
Talkwards 